bman

I am looking for away to assign different z offsets or starting layer heights, to each nozzle / toolhead. I am using an IDEX printer and this feature would be very useful when doing two material prints like PETG and PLA. PETG does not like to be squished on the first layer nut PLA does. THis could also be very useful to fine tune the height two different heads. Presently both of these items are available for the to extruders but they a linked together so you cannot change one without changing the other. THank you Bernie

I have been using Cura for awhile and I like many of its features and add-ons. However, when doing manual support placement, the background image of the printer bed, becomes a pain. It would be great if the image could be toggled on or off as needed. This way manual supports could be placed easily on the underside of the model without the bed image graying out the model. Thank you

Is there away to add custom supports for internal features inside a model? I have a box , that is to be printed in one piece, that needs supports inside for the last mechanism only. If I use autosupports the whole inside gets unnecessary supports and not just the latch. The two problem is using the existing tools, but being able to move the camera inside the box model to add a support where I need it. Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thank you Bernie

Is there away to randomize the starting point of new layers in Cura 4.7+? I have been trying to print a small part with delicate overhangs using Peth. The part prints well except the overhang seems to be at the start / endpoint of the layers and as such the hotend stays on it too long melting it is there away to start at another point so this area can have a chance to cool? I am printing slow, have tried the fan on low speed, and used z hop. They help alittle. Thank you

I am trying to add a placeholder for my dual extruder printer in the start guide without success. I want my unused nozzle, only printing with one nozzle, to preheat to 190. I have tried using the tag for material_print_temperatre,0. It works but I have no idea where it's getting the temperature from as it does not appear to be any that is shown in the active profile. Is there a list of placeholders for version 4.6? Thank you Bernie

I have a duel extruder printer and I sometime print with only one extruder. In order to reduce dragging, on my print, I set the unused nozzle to a temperature around 175 for PLA. I set this in the material profile for the unused nozzle. However Cura does not heat this extruder at all because nothing in the model uses it. Shouldn't the standby temperature be used as the default regardless of of the nozzle printing or not?

I am using 4.4.1 and there seems to be a big in the brim on outside only feature. Even with it enabled the brim is being printed on the inside and outside of my model.

I have noticed a continuing problem with Cura with regards to third party dual extruder printers. I f you use your printer without enabling the prime tower or ooze shield everything works fine, i.e. no crashes. If you enable the prime tower or ooze shield, and don't look at the prime tower location, it could be defaulted off the print bed. This results in a crash. Cura does not earn you that the tower is out of bounds and slices the print without warnings. This happens with either the prime tower or ooze shield enabled. If you expose the prime tower location it is red, signifying and error, but only if it's visible. Cura should warn users and prevent slicing if the print head goes to the beyond the safe travel area as setup in the machine settings. This way user's know there is a problem and what is the cause. Thank you Bernie

Those profile was added by the manufacturer. It works fine inversion 3, and does work in version 4 once you select a new printer and get past the wizard.

Here you go. I tried to remove the old cura folders but that did not seem to help. Thank you Bernie cura.log

I have been using version 4.3 and have imported my configurations from previous versions. Most of the time when I start my computer and open Cura I am prompted by the initial screens and license. I am then walked through the printer selection wizard. The wizard does not show my profiled printers, but asks for new ones to be added. Once I add a new printer Cura takes me to the main screen where I can select all of my already installed printers and profiles.

I think I understand what you are suggesting but how will this allow me to use the PVA only for the interface layers? From what I can see this will allow me to make all of the support structure out of PVA or the main material. Is it not the slicer that determines which support layers are to be printed with which material?

Doing in CAD is possible but then I can not choose a separate material for the support interface layers, i.e. PVA. I have a dual extruder system. Maybe it is something the developers could add in the future. Thank you

I would like a method to provide supports for tall thin objects, like long bolts, where a support structure could be provided along side the model. The supports should be customizable in size and with branches connecting, to the model, a defined intervals. This would look similar to a support tower used on rocket launch pad to support the rocket. Thank you

I have been trying to print some very tall thin models ( 10mm wide, 229mm long and 190mm tall). I have had little sucess with this. I have tried large brims, reduced speed, blue tape, glue stick etc. All f which have failed near the top of these 11+ hour prints. I am looking for away to add a custom support along the sides of the model to provide stability as the model grows taller. Maybe a removable support that angles from the bottom up to the top. I do not seen anyway to add a custom support like this to Cura. Does this feature exist in Cura 3.5 and if so how do I use it? If not, do I need to do a custom support in something like meshmixer? Thank you