Extruder stepper locked during filament change

Running Marlin 2.1.1 on a ender 5 pro with a microswiss DD. I use alot of TPU. I have a filament runout sensor. When the sensor triggers a filament change the extruder stepper is locked. I would like to manually load the filament to make sure the TPU feeds properly. The problem is the stepper is locked. I changed #define disable_E to true but it did not change anything. I set both the load and unload to 100 each and 0 each. All tests result in the same condition. Is there any way to change this or am I stuck the way it is?

Many controller share the stepper enable enable pin with multiple stepper drivers. You need to disable all axis that the enable pin controls.

Eg the Creality V4.2.2 and V4.2.7

#define X_ENABLE_PIN PC3 // Shared
#define Y_ENABLE_PIN X_ENABLE_PIN
#define Z_ENABLE_PIN X_ENABLE_PIN
#define E0_ENABLE_PIN X_ENABLE_PIN

So you would have to disable all stepper to unlock E on this board.

Tried to find #define E0_ENABLE_PIN in config file, no luck. I'm new to this. Does that mean it can't be done without unlocking all steppers at the same time?

Pin definitions are in your controllers boards pin.h file eg Marlin/src/pins/stm32f1/pins_CREALITY_V4.h

But since you have not given any clues as to what controller you using. I cannot say anything definitive

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/13/2022 11:28PM by Dust.