Feature request: Abort or Pause Print on Dashboard or Preform

Feature Requests & Ideas
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Hi

Please give us the option to remotely Abort or pause a print.

I was just checking on a print I quickly started before leaving work to print over night on the Dashboard.
In the preview image I noticed that instead of opening the preform file I imported it. so I had 2 parts sticking in each other. So that meant the print would just be waste. checking how much material would be used I saw that it would be over 100eur worth of resin wasted on a failed print before I would have been back to the office in the morning.

luckily I am living close to the office. so I drove there to cancel the print since there is no option to abort or pause a print remotely :frowning:

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Form 3 how can i cancle print remotly?
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Go home with a primed printer and take your time to start it remotely. :wink:

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Which model are you using ?

Hope little bit useful

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it was a print on our form 2

afaik the form 2 can not be primed

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Remote abort would also be handy for people who set up a camera to watch their print. In the meantime…

Close your eyes, make a wish :stars:, log into Dashboard and go here.

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Hey there @dergel!

Thanks so much for the feature request! I’ve passed this along to the software team so it’s at least on their radar as they look ahead to adding additional features to Dashboard!

As usual we really appreciate folks reaching out to let us know what would make their job a little easier, so please keep them coming!

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Hi Formlabs Team,

Did something happened with this update? I would really like to be able to pause the printer remotely and can’t find the option anywhere

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Hi @verorodz,

Thank you for flagging this for us! While I don’t believe we have implemented this feature yet, I have gone ahead and passed along this feedback once more to our Software team. I agree that this would be a highly convenient option, and I appreciate your patience with this in the meantime.

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Have you heard how the abort from dash board option is coming alone

Really really love to see that

Let’s just say Engineer x stays up 48 hours creating a model and get it done Friday evening. He goes over every Detail buutttt he missed the fact the holes in the part he created were 6mm instead of 5mm.

The moment he is done he sends it off to the printer and leaves the office.
Which is then locked behind him due to the fact he is the last one to leave for the weekend

Now he gets on the plane to go inspect the rest of the components that will be used on the project later that week

Mid flight, fear and panic hit as his brain does it’s 20th alliteration over the events of the day.

Doing a quick google search finding there is no abort in dashboard.

Coming to grips with the fact there is 400 dollars in prints resin going to be wasted.
He garb the nearest drink and settles in for a really rough Monday

Now not saying I am engineer x just saying
Monday is going to be rough :frowning:

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Hi @SewellMD,

Thanks for getting in touch about this. I’m sorry to hear about the mishap you encountered, and I hope your Monday went alright. I don’t have any further updates about this feature, but I will go ahead and submit another product feedback entry about print aborting via Dashboard.

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Bringing this thread back up as I was in in a similar situation to @SewellMD 's. Pushed a print remotely at 1:30AM, realized shortly after that I had forgotten to check an assembly interference, and had no way to stop the print remotely. Popped over to the office to stop it so we wouldn’t waste resin. Any movement on this feature?

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Thanks @dalton and all the folks sharing this feedback!

It’s definitely on the radar of our R+D team and we’re actively considering this feature right now. Stay tuned for more updates…

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I think many would agree that if you have the option to start a print remotely, you should be able to stop it as well. I would even argue that stopping a print remotely is more important than starting one.

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I wanted to up-vote this feature request to remotely abort jobs on my Fuse 1.

Even more so now we can “add to printing job” remotely. GREAT new feature by the way!

Those two working together would be a great option. Abort one print (by simply deleting unprinted layers) and have a new print start 3mm higher.

Right now I have to go to my office, abort a print, wait for it to cool, empty the build chamber, re-prime the printer, and then send a new print.

Mistakes happen, plans change. It would be great if they didn’t ruin my whole night. Go team!

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Thanks for this suggestion, @sgiwiz (and everyone else)! This request. totally makes sense and we’ve passed your feedback along to our Software team.

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well this is awkward, soo about that remote functionality…..?

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Thanks for keeping this on our radar, I’ve sent your note to the software team for further consideration.

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“software team for further consideration” uhuh.
you know I have a smartlife capacitive robot stuck to the screen pressing the buttons so i can remotely pause, stop and resume prints because you guys haven’t implemented in a decade, functionality that even the cheapest FDM printers have.

why not just be honest with the community as say you dont want to and aren’t going to, you dont even have to give a reason!

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@JaredReabow I completely understand your statement. It took years to add the labeling function to PreForm. I do want to let you know that this is one of our most requested features, so it’s not off the table for addition. When we provide customer feedback, it does get looked at, but it could take much longer than we’d like to implement.

Please keep sending us recommendations for upgrades, we’re happy share those with the teams that make the changes. We truly appreciate all of the feedback from our users.

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