anybody knows about the Jet Wiper in CubeX? (for multi-color printing)

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looks great if printing multi-color.

anyone tried this before?

Here's an video of an old Stratasys FDM2000 that uses a purge/wipe cycle between switching nozzles, but they use brass brushes for the wiping:

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Here's a video of a Rostock take on the wipe feature:

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And finally, the reprappro multi color kit has its software build a hollow cylinder (which they call a 'shield') next to the part on the print bed, which it purges into and wipes on the edge of the shield. I was curious if any of the major opensource slicers have something similar, or if they have any plans to add such a feature? I'm going to be printing with 3 heads, so I'd love this type of feature to be implemented in some of the other opensource slicer solutions.

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And finally, the reprappro multi color kit has its software build a hollow cylinder (which they call a 'shield') next to the part on the print bed, which it purges into and wipes on the edge of the shield. I was curious if any of the major opensource slicers have something similar, or if they have any plans to add such a feature?

KISSlicer already does this. AFAIK the best workaround for Slic3r is to set the skirt to be the full height of the object.

@superfan: nozzle wiping isn't something 3DS came up with for these printers, it's been around since the first dual head FDM machines.

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> KISSlicer already does this.

Ah, glad to hear. I'm a relative noob experience-wise, but I've read enough to fill a lifetime ha. I'll have to check out KISSlicer more.