Dynamic changing of Temperature and Flow Rate

Software Creality Print V5 and Beyond
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I’m new to the forum and to Creality. My old work horse Prusa broke down on Black Friday and low and behold the K1C was on sale and I pulled a hair trigger. :wink: I had a little learning curve on using Creality-Print, but now I’m liking it better than my Cura habit. I’ve really been impressed with the K1C both in speed, and especially in the fire-and-forget print reliability. I’ve tried PLA, ABS, Nylon, and Carbon/Polycarbonate without incident. I also purchased my first roll of LW-PLA to build RC airplanes and have been experimenting with different temperature/Flow rates to see the differences in weight versus strength. Currently I’m printing a 40” wingspan power glider that should come in less than 100 grams (print weight) while all the powered guts will exceed 120 grams. Which brings me to the question…

Is it possible to change the Nozzle temperature and material flow rate during the print?

Why you say? There are portions of a print say like a control horn on a plane’s empennage. During the layers printing the horn, I’d like the temperature at 220C and flowrate at 75%. Once in the main layers for the entire surface, I’d like it to switch to 270C and 40% flowrate.

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I’m pretty new to the hobby and have only printed with PLA so far but I’ve changed both flow and temps while printing. Mostly to eliminate stringing and I’ve found that a few degree difference reduces or eliminates it during printing.
I did the changes mid-print. My guess is you want to be more precise in where you want the temps/flow to change? I would think you could do that in the g-code. I’m too much of a noob to help with that.