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Or if you need fine control, Slic3r offers manual control of layer height.

I use fuzzy skin for my product, and would appreciate not having it applied to interior surfaces. Being able to choose the surface elements to randomize would be the best solution for my parts - specifically, I'd like to exclude the center hole.

After noting overheated browning of the board in the area around the drivers, I drilled 3/4" holes in the electronics board shroud - one under each of the driver chips. I also drilled some smaller holes on the sidewalls of the shroud to allow for flow-through ventilation.

Ultimaker really should provide an upgrade manager that converts profiles/materials/etc. when you upgrade versions. The current policy of ignoring most profiles from previous versions is a real PIA, and certainly discourages a lot of people from upgrading.

One-at-a-time mode in Cura is disabled for dual-nozzle printers, for some odd reason that I've never understood.

Windows barely boots in 4GB these days. Add another dozen GB and you will be amazed at how much faster everything runs.

You are looking at posts that are almost a year old. There are very few complaints about unmodified Cura performance these days, and it loads and runs noticeably faster with current versions. Try Cura 3.4.

Sorry Sander, but having designed surveys professionally, this one was not very well done. The questions do not permit unexpected answers, and are not phrased well.

It also forgets the target directory last used, so you have to re-select it all over again. Annoying.

"...unfortunately, an inevitable technical 'flaw'. " Not if the survey were designed by someone competent at it, which the questions make plain it wasn't.

https://reprap.org/wiki/G-code#M106:_Fan_On M106: Fan On Parameters Pnnn Fan number (optional, defaults to 0)2 Snnn Fan speed (0 to 255; RepRapFirmware also accepts 0.0 to 1.0)) Extra Parameters Innn Invert signal, or disable fan1 Fnnn Set fan PWM frequency, in Hz1 Lnnn Set minimum fan speed (0 to 255 or 0.0 to 1.0)1 Bnnn Blip time - fan will be run at full PWM for this number of seconds when started from standstill1

I'm selling my UM2. It has Bondtech extruder, Olssen-block hot-end with 40W heater, and PEI/glass buildplates. In excellent condition. Includes lots of filament of all sorts, spare nozzles, and other spare parts to spare. Available for local pickup in Portland, Oregon. Make offer to r w z e h r @ g m a i l . c o m

Excellent!

You can already print thicker infill in Slic3r or Kisslicer.

Fuzzy skin works well for items that require great grip. I use it for my fencing pommels. http://stores.thefencingpost.com/pommel-epee-french-grip-melting-pommel-version-2-0/

Why are you asking for help on a Monoprice printer in an Ultimaker Cura forum? Several forums for your printer exist - google "monoprice printer forum" to find people who are more likely to have an answer.

No, and top/bottom aren't infill, they are walls, so they get the same extrusion as other walls, although you can separately set the number of top and bottom layers. Slowing down the speed should work for what you are asking, and for top layers, you might look at the Ironing settings for even better top quality.

Frequent versions would be far less of a PIA if Cura didn't wipe out machine settings and profiles from one drop to the next.

Printing the solid infill at 90-95% fill will correct issues with overextrusion by giving any excess material somewhere to go.

Now perhaps you could turn your attention to writing something that would carry Machine settings forward from one version of Cura to the next? It is infuriating to have to recreate all the Machine settings every time Cura drops a new version, which seems to be at least monthly lately. I can't believe that the Cura team keeps propagating this stupid "feature" after many years.

I must be missing something: using Moment of Inspiration (moi3d.com) I created a cube and a smaller sphere. I centered the sphere inside the cube and used Boolean Diff to hollow out the cube with the sphere. Saved as STL file (attached), and opened it in Cura 15.04, where the Layers view showed clearly that the cube had a hollow spherical center hole. So the answer is that Yes, you can indeed create custom supports inside an object by making inner holes and printing the object mostly solid otherwise. You might also want to try the ability to use Concentric with a large value of Number of Walls, to make the "grain" of the printing follow the outline of your internal supports. hollow.stl

a )If the wall 1.2mm thickness is important, consider using a .6mm nozzle. It will print twice as much plastic vs. a .4mm, and you can print the piece with two walls instead of three. b) Or, try specifying a large number of walls, to force solid concentric-pattern printing with no infill. c) Also, try varying the line width by tenths of a mm or so - both up and down - experiment with it, along with Equalize Filament Flow and Compensate Wall Overlaps, you should be able to get higher density.

For some unknown reason, Cura has shown this wretched behavior for years. Why they can't copy over the settings that old and new versions have in common is beyond me, and I've been a SW developer.

It would be nice for Cura settings to use consistent terminology...

Don't overlook Moment of Inspiration: moi3d.com It is excellent.