DivingDuck

... and an attached log file is a minimum requirement for theses kind of problems too, isn't it? Saving Ultimaker Cura logs

Guess, Ultimaker should put available resource information's more prominent in forum too. I recognize these kind of questions are popping up quite often. Maybe a sticky post in the forum can help to find available resources too. Not to mention the famous Settings guide plugin from @ghostkeeper

Yea, some behaviors are funny. Well, I should say I'm recording energy consumption for my printers since more than two years. I would say conservatively >30% lower energy consumption isn't really minor (well known, that this is only one part of the calculation), especially if you use to have beds with 600W (and for my big one two of them). My printing duration's are usually >20 hours and for the big one usually in a range of 48 to 80 hours for bigger prints. For me it was quite interesting to recognize how big the difference in reality is and how easy and cheap e.g. a 10mm cork plate can reduce the power waste with nearly no big effort. In addition I don't have heat under the plates, what is a huge plus too. 🙂

I still wonder why most of printers today do not have isolated heated beds. User often buy / use big printers w/o having a need for it and also waste so much energy for their hobby. Bigger is better are the argument they tell all the time and anywhere. Same people are often telling that they are "green" in mind and always take care of their environment. Well, they obviously don't. My printers all have isolated beds. This reduce a lot of energy consumption for me.

It's not only this. In addition you will change also the distance between nozzle and bed (misalignment of the build plate could come also in place). In the end you will see this in the print optical and dimensional.

@paddymcgowan, glad to help.

optimize wall printing order = on z seam alignment = shortest

Nee, aller guten Dinge sind 3: nochmal bitte 🙂 Der Weg: Cura geöffnet mit deiner Datei und den von Dir getroffenen Einstellungen -->Datei --> Projekt speichern --> Dateityp: Cura-Projekt 3MF-Datei (*.3mf). Z.B.: UM3E_z-naht-test.3mf Ein kleiner Exkurs: Zur Überprüfung des Inhaltes kannst du die Datei zum Test mit .zip erweitern (z.B.: UM3E_z-naht-test.3mf.zip) und dir dann den Inhalt anzeigen lassen. Die folgende Struktur sollte in der Zip-Datei, wenn alles richtig gelaufen ist, enthalten sein: _rels\ 3D\ Cura\ [Content_Types].xml Der Ordner Cura enthält deine Einstellungen.

Nein, das ist keine vollständige Projektdatei. Da fehlen alle Einstellungen...

Welche Einstellungen hast du denn getroffen? Leider ist dein Anhang keine Projektdatei, vielleicht kannst du diese mal erstellen und neu anhängen. Retract ist wahrscheinlich die falsche Baustelle. Zu 4.7, eine unendliche Geschichte von UM und mit jeder Version von neuem. Du kannst v 4.7 auch parallel installieren ohne deine bisherige Installation zu gefährden ( ... solange du sie nicht beim Update löschen läßt). ;)

Ich benutze hauptsächlich die englische Version, das sollte aber in Deutsch auch funktionieren: Einstellungen durchsuchen: Z oder Naht eingeben und suchen lassen.

Stimmt, damit ist dieser Weg zu.

@Smithy, ich hatte angenommen, dass das Plugin von ahoeben auch für den UM3 funktioniert. War dann wohl eine falsche Annahme von mir. Danke für die Korrektur.

@Produktdesigner, eine andere und sehr gut funktionierende Möglichkeit wäre Octoprint mit mit dem Plugin Octolabs. Damit klappt es dann sowohl mit Webcam als auch anderen Gerätschaften. Octoprint soll ja auch mit UM funktionieren. Google mal nach "OctoPrint Octolapse". Es gibt viele gute Anleitungen zu dem Thema im Netz.

Well, I thought the solution is variable layer hight, but I was wrong.

Up to the point that you have to print a part with different levels in Z that are not following an divisor of a layer hight 😉

Quick feedback, the plugin works perfect. I'm using the beta version of Cura during the last 7 day's and your plugin seems to work good too.

Hi Sander, Thanks for your answer. Correct, nothing was responding anymore and I recognize this when hitting the submit button and nothing happen. I'm guess I hit the button central right in the middle and try to do it more than one time. I will look closer to this when it happen again. Today it didn't happen so fare. I was a little bit busy the last days with other work including tests with the actual beta version 🙂

Well, in my case the problem isn't the printer, for me it is Cura and how to deal with software quality. I really don't want to complain anyone, but I too like expect, that a 3D printer software is capable to have a accurate dimensional calculation w/o the need to do discussions about. It shouldn't be a user who have to do the math to recalculate matching layer height's. At least Cura need to inform a user if there is an dimension that is not achievable with given settings. They have the dimensions for the print and do the slicing. And also, if errors like this happen once it have to be fixed immediately with an interim release and not some when with other features. This is something what I expect from an ISO certificated company. To be clear on this, I don't deal with shrinkage of filament (as this is something a designer/engineer have to deal with), but things like this example with variable layer hight (what is a bit different to your problem): https://community.ultimaker.com/topic/32356-cura-461-calculation-of-body-height-with-use-adaptive-layers-wrong/?tab=comments#comment-264247

E.g. companies that want to use 3D prints for the daily work. They usually have not a 3D expert in the production / tool shop and usually use variants of existing parts where only a dimension like a hight need to be adjust to fit real world dimensions (e.g. like 3 dimensional spacers).

@ahoeben, Today is my Cura Beta Test day and your update is quite in time. 🙂 Looks good so fare and is working as expected.

Maybe worth to look at: https://support.ultimaker.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012607079-Infill-settings In addition the plugin Cura Settings Guide (actual v2.4) also have a good section about supported infills.

Size of Print setting panel. The panel window covers the Action panel when the main window isn't full size. There is an adjustment in high but it looks like you forgot to subtract the hight for the Action panel. Maybe worth to correct before releasing the official version. Edit: I just recognize, it's possible to adjust this manual. Maybe worth having this adjusted automatically.

A look on your photo in detail: Your parts are both not round. The right one indicate warping or bad adhesion or too fast print speed. The first one looks like the hight isn't even. The parts seems to be very small. What print speed's have you chosen for this print? It is maybe a good idea to attache your project file (*.3mf) as w/o knowing your print setup it is impossible to give you useful help. The project file include all necessary information.

Glad you found it. Check your speed and acceleration settings for Cura and your firmware. Cura's default settings are in general fare away from everything you want for successful prints. In your case I would look for travel speed and acceleration in general first. For Cura it is maybe a good idea to limit all the different speeds to one slow speed for first tests, e.g. 40mm/s. An other useful setup parameter can be Equalize Filament Flow in combination with Maximum Speed for Flow Equalization.