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Hi. Any chances to implement also this very useful method of slicing/printing?

I dismissed it since its prime appearance, but it still keep popping out.

Hi. I'm in Cura 3.4.1 and I don't want to pass to the latest version for now. I've unchecked the "send anonymous print info" checkbox in preferences, but I still receive the message "cura collects anonymized usage stats" popup. What's up with that?

@gr5 sorry I didn't understood. Thanks. I have to install it in a notebook, but I doubt that I can manage the printer, 'cause time ago I had it dongled to a pc but it wasn't recognized. Though, I remember that in the pdf which came in the cd of the machine there was pronterface mentioned. I never understood why the machine wasn't recognized: but I had the card, so I moved ahead. @ahoeben tried both 0,2 and 03, same. Due the culprit cannot be Cura, I begin to suspect that the problem is given by the steppers, which cannot get along with the correct height of the model, and raise the height of the extruder at a half or so of the correct height of the model.

I'd already done it, but I cannot afford it right now. And I don't know how and when I'll be able to do it. Anyway it's an option. though, now I'm involved with solving this: I've used this machine since 3 ys and it didn't gave any probs so far. Neither gave Cura.

Hi gr5: infacts, I'm not sure either that it would be caused by Cura, having specified that the problem is replicated also with another slicer. The only motivation for I alleged something about Cura, is that reddened box, that's all. I trust Cura and I want to use only it, and I'm never sure that upgrading may come to a malfunction of the machine: infacts, time ago I posted a post about another kind of problem alleging that the problem would be given by some issues of the machine and in only last instance given by a newer Cura version (which btw worked anyway after I adjusted the printer...). Could some sudden shutting of the printer have messed with the machine firmware, causing some axes' malfunction? Ok: I've not the printer dongled to a pc: I use just the card, to print. I didn't tried to move the axis 'cause simply I dunno how to do it. The plugs wasn't either moved/removed. I've seen in the lcd menu that there's something about axes, lemme see and I'll report. TY. @cloak nope, no firmware upgraded. Still the same as from outbox.

Ok I reverted back until the 2.5: nothing changes. The printer prints just until a half or so. I even tried to use a 0,3 value instead of 0.4 and selected the "z-hop when retracted".

I update the previous statement: the model went 2,5 mm high also with the other slicer. Albeit now the overall quality of the print looked better.

Well, but I hope anyway that the coders would aknowledge that sometimes newer versions may have issues, such as the one I'm on. The fact is also that it is very uneasy for somebody to downgrade whilst the most of people upgrades without any problems.

Well, but if it were too high, it should be anyway good and better that a lower value. Otherwise, what would be the sense to allow a 0.4 preset for a 0,4 nozzle, if it shouldn't match its very own height? Btw, previously the machine worked well with that setting, which didn't sported any reddening. Besides, if I use a 0.2 preset, the reddening it is not present in the 0,2 box, but each subsequent layer will furrow upon the previous one anyway, cutting it in half as the 0.4 one. I confirm that somewhat would be investigated with some specifics of the software, 'cause I'm tring a test to print the same model with another slicer (I'm sad to use competitor's stuff, but it's for the sake of the investigation: I was and I would still like to remain faithful to Cura, 'cause I deem it more precise specially with the cleanness of the trail, besides many other advantages which it haves) and it is coming out decently with a 0.4 setting.

Hi. As you see, the filament is 1,75, the flow is 100%, the temp is 180, and the nozzle in the setting is 0,4mm, for an i3 profile. This problem has surfaced after I installed the latest 3.4.1: previously so far Cura worked well. The threaded shafts looks like they don't receive the instruction to twist up and raise of 0,4mm for every each new layer, so the nozzle furrows upon the previously printed trails: so for example I get a 1cm high object printed as it were just 0,5cm. And, I do not see any evident raising of the threaded rods, throughout the whole printing process (although I guess that somewhat it must happen, probably imperceptibly, if being just a half of what expected). Perhaps that reddened 0.4mm layer height box is highlighting some problems with that, but I cannot figure it out what. And I didn't modified nothing on that sequence (except from the wall thickness, just for a test: but the reddened thing was already there before): that reddened thing appears by default that way when I select the coarse quality 0.4mm setting from the dropdown.

Hi. I'm getting like the printer (i3 mk8, 0,4 nozzle) doesn't raise goodly the printhead, and the nozzle acts such as engraving upon the previous trail. Some details are also missed. Googling I've stumbled upon a similar problem herein, but not identical: someone suggested that it might be a software prob. I'm with Cura 3.4.1 printing with default 0.4 values (plus retraction) (curiosly, the 0.4 layer height box appears orange). I changed the old threaded shafts (standard 8mm) and put a new stepper on the right column (the one looking to the machine).

Thanks.

Oh well: life's a matter of benefiting and being polite even with whom who may not need or deserve it, if there's a sincere motivation to do it... Otherwise, I guess that you hadn't got any motivation to add to your list the printers of other competitors, instead of leaving Cura just for Ultimaker machines. Btw, the settings which you feature in your list so far, was they provided to you by the makers by their own initiative, or it is you the ones who go first to them, asking if they wish to cooperate with you, with providing to you the data for their printers to be putted into your list? Though, if the problem isn't given by any missing settings for a specific variant version, then no discussions at all (as perhaps my machine may be intended as a variant of a Prusa i3 B: which isn't listed anyway, but I guess that it shouldn't be so different from a i3). Indeed, instead of returning back to what I said in the snip you selectively quoted, I think that the focus of the problem was "what causes the issue I was experimenting". Anyway, let's drop this, 'cause it leads us nowhere: sterile quarrels has been enough. Rather, now I would take the occasion to ask you what does it means that, when saving a project, I get this (and I already setted as 0,4 the nozzle in the specs): Is this normal, or maybe it may be yet some clue for what its happening with my prints? Thanks. Regards...

Does this mean other slicers showed you similar defects on your print? If that is the case, the common denominator in this is your hardware. Perhaps it is worth considering to troubleshoot or calibrate your hardware. A slicer / gcode can only tell your motors to do 'X steps', if the hardware is failing to execute them for some reason, there is no point to point fingers at the software (just a hypothesis). Infacts, I'm not pointing the finger to the software... And, yes: other slicers (two of them, actually: the most famous...) showed up similar problems, besides other ones (such as misalignment on the platform, crazy speeds and so on). I changed the nozzle 3 months ago, believing that the older one (which came mounted on the printer by default) were broken, 'cause it had begun to ooze and to fail in printing. Another issue I experimented was a "chocking" when trying to extrude the filament, which I addressed to an hardened nozzle problem. So I changed the nozzle, thinking it was a problem caused by clogged nozzle. But although I changed it, the problem was not removed: so I thought that the stepper had been broken, then I decided to buy a new stepper. Once arrived, I mounted just one of the steppers (I actually bought a bundle of two steppers for double nozzle printing: it is the "infamous" Biqu dual head extruder, which I'm not exactly sure if it is perfectly compatible with my brand's printer, or even with a Prusa I3: though, I did found it in the search results as a printhead for my Geeetech, and I took it), 'cause their double holder was not so good to be attached to the rails... Interestingly (I guess it could be interesting, methink), when I connected the single head to the board using its own cable, it gave strange outputs: then I attached it with the cable of the former stepper, and it gave better results, although now I'm experimenting such issues. So, could it be an hardware issue really?

Hi SandervG, nice to meet you (finally an admin...). Indeed, since I passed to Cura 3, after starting from 2.4 from version to version, I remember no more whether I used a custom configuration (changing just some details in the customization page) or a prefab one, such as the Prusa I3 (as being eventually the spawner from which my chinese variant was built upon). Infacts, I currently setted Prusa I3, after having tried a "custom" config, leaving just basic settings (for the sake of leaving it easier): but it fails to replicate the former results. I actually tried also other slicers, in order to test even the eventuality that the culprit would be given to the app: but also other softwares failed... I do not see any motivation to use another software instead of Cura, also 'cause I found it so far the most user-friendly around: I don't want to put off any easy comparisons, but other slicers gave me results which appeared awkwarder than Cura's... So, I hope rather than my cases may be of any help in order to ascertain from your side what could be issues that may eventually happen to other people, who update to the latest versions and do not want to downgrade. Indeed, when I used Cura 2.4/2.5, the layers appeared smoother than now, and without going until 0.06 height: perhaps now the culprit is the shape, or even the different brand spool. I don't know whether the new stepper motor could affect the result: for nobody told me that even such an hypothesis could be probable too. In former times I even wrote to your team, in order to know whether you were able to insert in the list my printer (which is very very common around!), but I received the answer to write down to Geeetech and get from them the firmware of my printer, then transmit it to you and you had inserted it in the list... I guess that's not a common procedure: besides, I did what you asked, but they didn't answered me at all... Perhaps they expect that a private guy couldn't have more voice to ask than a company. Last, no need to ban anyone, methink: I guess that there are many other ways in order to achieve order. All the best.

"Perhaps" you read badly and in a hurry, so you skipped over some points I highlighted in the previous answers of mine. When the update alert of a software tells you "there's a new version", the user doesn't think "and what if it will be flawed and will ruin my prints?". And he doesn't think that just because one doesn't know in advance how a newer version will behave, until he got it installed: and one should install newer versions, 'cause logic (true one, not one fuzzyful selective by purpose...) commands to think that newer versions should be more powerful, more precise, more packed with features and more stable. It isn't always the case, and I know this (as I highlighted it in my prime reply to you): but progress goes forward, not backward: otherwise, coders wouldn't have any need to improve their software, and they will remain behind with both their software and their printer, whilst others' printers progress and will become embettered more and more. Keeping uttering the contrary as you sturdly do, btw it is also offensive towards the one who code it and keep it free for all us. The finality of testing the software when it comes to issues like mine, it is also that to give to the developers some hints in case of such issues. Btw, in case of problems, one could always revert to previous version: so, what's the drama you are rising about? It seems that you have problems in grasping these simple details, or "perhaps" you cannot cope with accepting the evidence that you are wrong, so you keep beating over and over upon the software point, although you has been filled with contrary evidences. And it seems also that you are skipping to read the lines of my hypothesis about what could be the real culprit, due now it is broadly clear that it cannot be in any ways caused by some software nags, being clearly stated that I also tried to print with 2.5 (nay, also with 2.4) versions, which I used in the prime times when I begun to print, but the results was still busted. Ok? The culprit could be many other things: included material, stepper, nozzle and even the kind of model! So, either it is a selective case of my printer (e.g firmware of Cura or not complete compatibility with it: compatibility which shouldn't be appearing from the blue with this Cura version, but eventually due to some changes I made to the printer), or I don't know what: but surely it isn't a software issue. Otherwise, many people who tried the model with 3.0 hadn't got it printed very well. Second: one could accept "help" only if it is gladly given and specially gladly received... Otherwise, it is customary in a civil society that one stops "giving help" if the received doesn't like the way it is "offered". Last, fear not: in case of real problems, I get rid of everybody just ignoring him/her, if blacklists are missing. No need to have somebody banned: he may still be amusing or at least somewhat useful for whom who may find at ease with him as being one of their own kind. I'm not a "joyful" guy by nature, and I'm happy with this: and I cannot bear people who wouldn't cope with being serious, specially when it is right to behave like that.

For whom it may be of any real interest (excluded some), perhaps I found some progresses in the meanwile. Probably the factor is the stepper, the filament brand or the scale reduction after exportation in stl. Maybe it may be of any help for anybody whom may fall in similar issues.

It is there a black list or similar here?

Yes, sure: you are "free" to reply to me, into a thread opened by me, until I ask you to avoid any further answers to me, specially in the case they are useless, pointless and loathsome to the originator of the thread (that is, still me). And they ARE: surely much more of those of others who gave some REAL help, and without pretending to roll back to a previous version. For I already told you that I already went back to the previous version, with same settings, but nothing changed: thus, either you cannot read your own language, or it's me the one unable to correctly write in a foreigner one. I'm also an "advocate" of "the less complex, the better": so, what do you think to pretend to be, the only one who thinks like that? And sticking to older versions is NOT always the rule to solve problems: otherwise, the purpose of progress is missed. We must rather put on place any issues in order to help the coders to solve them and to keep pace with newer versions. So, hope that that "promise" to dismiss answering over and over (apropos of frustration) from now on will be mantained: for it would be a liberation to me that you finally be silent, for the antipathy you suscitated unto me until the prime post you made. Be sure that the only thing that's really frustrating for me here, is your continous, unwanted attempt to interact with me, notwithstanding my continous requests to dismiss doing that. So, unless you decide to embetter your attitude, it will be better for the sake of a factive discussion if you'll be muted. Farewell, or whatever.

Ah I see.

Hi Bex. What are the default settings?

I tried to print it also with a 2.5 Cura, which remained installed into a notebook, and with almost the same settings, but IT FAILED too. Thus, your "theory" of "not upgrading" is as FLAWED as BOTHERING. Then, just dismiss answering, I'm not interested in your constant, offensive, ranting and fanatical intrusion. Just take care of your own business and do not mess with others': or at least do not mess with mine.

Hi. No problem due to temperature. I always printed with sustained temps so far.

If someone need codes/models to test, please pm me.