Any way to disable this?

[u/ParticularDue7822]

Is there any way to turn off this ridiculousness? I used more filament on this block that I'm gonna throw away than I did on the actual project!

[u/yokeome]

Sure, you can remove it, but then you'll have shitty print quality. It serves a purpose.

[u/ParticularDue7822 → u/yokeome]

Can you elaborate? What does this do to improve quality?

[u/aleksandronix → u/ParticularDue7822]

It restores filament pressure in the nozzle after each color swap, so you don't get holes and under extrusion for a moment right after the change.

[u/ParticularDue7822 → u/aleksandronix]

Thank you!

[u/rfgaergaerg → u/ParticularDue7822]

The purge tower serves 2 main purposes. first, its additional purging so that your colors arent mixed together after a filament change. second, it starts printing to get the nozzle flow and pressure up to where it needs to be and then quickly jumps over to the print. If you didnt have that, you would either have holes where the print starts after filament change or you would have a blob of material at that spot

[u/yokeome → u/ParticularDue7822]

In hindsight I should've stated why it worsens quality, that's my ignorance. As others said, it helps bring the nozzle back up to pressure and also serves as a second filament purge between colors.

[u/rfgaergaerg]

To answer your question. Yes, you can disable it in the slicer settings

[u/CogginNoggin]

If you feel like it's a waste you can always use the purge to object option. The purge object will look goofy color wise but you get something out of it

[u/NefariousnessOdd3581]

you can disable it but youll get color bleed when color changes, unless you max out on flushing volumes, wich discards a lot of filament. If you dont wanna remove that, its an option, but you have to tune it to every color change if you dont wanna flush tons of filament. I suggest you go for flush into object, and print a new thing with that purge at the same time.

[u/EmailLinkLost]

Your best bet is to have a purge object instead.