[BFW-5879] [FEATURE REQUEST] Preheat should set printer state to Ready / Change Preheat menu to be "Set Ready" specific

[murk-sy]

Printer model

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Describe the feature

Generally preheat (as is currently implemented) is used in the following situations (as I understand it):

• Print sheet and nozzle are clean
• The correct filament is loaded
• The user will (within a few minutes) start a print with the machine as is

Which is very close or equal to the situation where a user would select Set Ready.

As such, I think Set Ready and Preheat should be mashed together somewhat to optimise processes where it actually matters.

Related:

• [BFW-5879] [ENHANCEMENT] Improve Preheat menu usability #1795
• [FEATURE REQUEST] <Filament unload automatically trigger cooldown> #3691 (comment) regarding keeping things heated unnecessarily

Since moving "Set ready" and possibly changing the whole intent of the preheat menu may be a bit extreme compared to existing plans, I made a new issue rather than updating the preheat menu one.

Expected functionality

Since the preheat menu is planned to be overhauled (see PR #3709), I see 2 main options of implementing this:

Add "Set ready" as optional behaviour on preheat

If enabled in settings, "Preheat for printing" (as opposed for cleaning nozzle preheat or other options) would also automatically set the printer as ready. This way, especially in an environment with multiples of the same printer, the user can immediately see which printer has had preheat started in the slicer, even if a different operator started the preheat.

Completely rebrand the preheat menu as "Set ready" specific

This way, the "heat only nozzle" and "heat only bed" would be moved out of the proposed preheat menu and into a submenu of the control menu, dedicated to maintenance. Likewise, the "Set ready" option would be moved into the new "Ready"/"Connect"/"Prepare" menu.

This menu would roughly have the following options:

• Set ready - no heating, first choice so it can be confirmed with double press. If a print is waiting for the printer to be set ready (i.e. farm environment), then manually starting a preheat is not really necessary anyway.
• Set ready and preheat - with an option of a chamber preheat specifically when available, since that would take by far the longest)
• Maintenance mode - disables remote control, maybe as a replacement for [BFW-4938] [FEATURE REQUEST] Display "automatic start-up" warning symbol when printer is in Connect ready state or about to execute remote commands #3315 ?
• Set not ready - at the bottom so it's easy to scroll to end and confirm
• Cooldown - if heaters aren't turned off immediately after things like load (see heating comment linked above), cooldown should be an option that is quickly available

[CZDanol]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion, I will consider this as part of BFW-5879