DivingDuck

You can try to use different tools for fixing the meshes like Meshmixer, Blender or 3d-Printer for Windows10 user but I think you should better build the objects with little space like 0.1 mm between the individual bodies. You will need them anyway if you want to print your models.

How did you create these models? Check how much bodies Cura recognize as imported objects. It looks like your meshes are overlapping and/or have a much to close fit for individual bodies. Take a look to Menu -->Extensions --> Mesh Tools. There are some additional options for checking your models.

Look for Mesh Fixes -->Remove All Holes Uncheck it if it is checked

Ich habe es gerade geschafft Cura 5 mit deinem Projekt ins Nirwana zu schicken. Das Modell konnte ich jedoch laden und konnte einmalig ähnliche Bewegungen sehen. Danach hatte ich mein normales Profil geladen und die Bewegungen waren weg. Spiel mal mit der Justierung der Z-Naht. Wenn man dort was verändert habe ich schon öfters beobachtet, dass dann aufeinmal die Bewegungen sinnvoller gemacht werden. Warum? Keine Ahnung. Das ist u.A. ein Grund, weshalb ich die Naht lieber manuell passend für ein Projekt einstelle. Vielleicht hilft es ja.

Überprüfe mal ob evtl. ein Z-Offset in der Firmware fest eingestellt ist. Verbinde dazu deinen Drucker via USB mit dem Rechner und benutzte ein Tool wie z.B. Pronterface, Putty etc. G-Code M503 sollte dir die voreingestellten Werte liefern, sofern dort etwas festgelegt wurde. Des weiteren könntest du einen Gegenstand mit genauen Maßen als Referenz nutzen. Fahre die Druckerdüse nach dem Referenzieren auf das Maß + z.b. 5 mm, lege den Messgegenstand unter die Düse und bewege dann die Düse mit Babystepps (oder mit Pronterface, oder per G-Code) nach unten bis sie gerade so den Gegenstand berührt und lasse dir dann vom Drucker mit G-Code M114 sagen, auf welchem Z-Wert er sich befindet. Wenn alles richtig ist, sollte der Drucker die exakte Höhe deines Messgegenstandes anzeigen.

@gr5 👍 Maybe add: 6) open task manager + resource manager and check what happen on your system Beside of Cura internal resource management there is a huge possibility that Windows itself is part of the problem. Namely look for Defender activities and running update tasks. Uh, this predication can quickly lead to spurious relationships (2*0 = 1*0 --> 2 = 1 ) 🙂

Tip: Instead of *.stl and *.gcode file attach the cura project file [strg]+s. It includes all information one need to review print settings from Cura. The file have the extension *.3mf. It will be as well extremely helpful to know what kind of printer are you using and what Cura version you are working with. Good is relative (post 2). I still see a lot of imperfect walls in the last two pictures. Looking to the wall pattern I do think you should do a pid tuning for your bed too. But it can be everything, from print speed, mentioned wrong PID, retract settings, wrong tuned in extruder stepps up to wet filament. Make a print with all (!) speed entries set to 30mm/s (except travel) and 100% flow

@Noobalicious, There is nothing wrong with what you made. This is a problem that happen to all users who made own profiles from scratch. It have to do with default values the developer of Cura made. You need to check the machine settings for your new printer profile and set them to the values your printer uses in the firmware. Install the plugin Printer Settings from Marketplace in Cura. It will give you the freedom to review/change those settings in Cura for your printer profile. These are the value Cura use for calculating the print time. Use a tool like Pronterface or Putty and send the gcode command M503 for reporting those firmware settings. Look for all machine_max_feedrate and _acceleration settings and correct them in your own printer profile. Ideally they should match to what the firmware values are. Also check what values are in the original profile (longer_base.def.json and longer_lk5pro.def.json in c:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 4.13.1\resources\definitions\ ). And don't forgot to save first your profiles before you made changes with the plugin Printer Settings as you can easily screw up a profile with this plugin.

@MagsE8088, I can't open the link. I have no permission to access your linked address. You need to do something like this: and share the password with me. Alternatively you can attach the fusion file or send me as pm. (Export, select Type: Fusion Files (*.f3d)).

Good catch @GregValiant. I turn of Meshtools last week and forgot to reverse that later on and I think too that there is something wrong with how the bodies was build in these Model. @MagsE8088, maybe you want to attach the Fusion360 design file here? I'm sure that this problems can be fixed easily in your model on first place.

This is because those materials are excluded in the machine definitions files of your printer. There are 3 possible ways: You need to contact the creator of these profiles and ask them not to exclude at least the generic materials so that you are able to add the material values to a generic profile that you can use as alternative, or you modify the involved files yourself, or you add/create your own new fdm-printer profile. The first one is by fare the best solution. I never understood why creators of profiles do exclude the generic material profiles by default. Anyway, for reviewing the actual creality printer definitions there exist a file called "creality_base.def.json". For Windows you will find the file at "c:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 4.13.1\resources\definitions\". Look for "exclude_materials" here you can find the material restrictions.

Check for Print Thin Walls.

It works perfect for me. There is a Help entry in the menu for this plugin with comprehensive instructions. There is no need for complaining or "messing with code". A calibration tool needs two things: A shape and a post script. You are missing the step -->Post Processing ->Modify G-Code. For entries in the script follow the documentation. This is an example for PETG:

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I don't know about vokelmaker. One cause for such problems are using more than one tool for showing a thumbnail/icon for a dedicated file extension. An other can be an old thumbnail cache file where those tools save a thumbnail. I use a thumbnail tool called Papa’s Best STL Thumbnails. It is reliable, small, fast and, what is for me most important, works also with file manager tools like Total Commander.

[Alt]+h for Help -> Show configuration folder

Yeah, the shortcut move command, [T] if I remember correct, seems to be broken since quite some time. Select the model with a left mouse click first and then zoom in/out with mouse wheel. This way the model will stay at center of the window as long as it is selected. With [shift] left/right mouse button you can move the print plate and with right mouse button you can tilt/rotate the print plate

Without seeing your project file it is quite difficult to help. In general, your infill pattern do not meet your model. Especially when you look to the shown infill density. You either need to find a better matching pattern and / or change the density. Take also a look for infill support, gradual infill steps and adaptive layers. I had for the lather one in the past often problems with accuracy in z height/dimensions for my models, so this is something you need to inspect when choosing. Edit: I just play a bit with this kind of model, maybe this is interesting for you: Activate Infill support and add some extra meet for supporting the sphere holes with skin edge support layers (e.g. 3...5 additional layers). Also it makes sense to have more than one wall... An other trick/way is to solve this problem is by design. Separate all halve sphere's and move them a little bit up so that there is a non printable gap, let's say by 0.01 mm. Cura then will think, these are individual bodies and print a closed top surface before printing all halve sphere bodies. This is also a way to generate a nice unbroken top surfaces.

Looking at the dates of the file, they are from beginning 2020. You can think about updating your plugin as a first good idea. https://github.com/smartavionics/RawMouse/releases Don't forget to delete the old files before updating as file structure had changed quite some time ago.

This is there. You may want to look for/add "nozzle_disallowed_areas" in your printer definition file. nozzle_disallowed_areas starts at center of the bed ([0,0]), defined by an rectangle with x/y coordinates of 4 point's: [[x,y],[x,y],[x,y],[x,y]] Example: "nozzle_disallowed_areas": { "default_value":[ [ [10, 150], [10, -150], [-10, -150], [-10, 150] ] ] }, This will create a non printable area of 20x300 from front to back in the middle of the bed:

Lach, du packst das Thema falsch an. Wir haben jetzt gelernt, dass die UM's es nicht können. Dies bedeutet im Umkehrschluß jedoch nicht, dass der Rest der Druckwelt das ebenfalls nicht kann 😇 Viele Grüße, DD

This sounds like you have export something different to what you thought to export. The dimensions are totally different with your object. It is impossible to help without seeing what exactly you did. Maybe it is possible to attach your Fusion360 object (f3d) and the Cura project file here? BTW, I did an export directly with all possible export formats (.3mf, .obj, stl (bin) and .stl (ascii)) from Fusion360 to Cura. All models was shown correct in dimension w/o any complain in actual Cura version. For .stl you need to select mm as unit type.

You should be careful to not mess up Cura's configurations files until you really know what you are doing. There are always more than one file in a printer definition involved. Delete the configuration folder for 4.12 and 4.13. Make a backup of these folders (just in case) before doing so. You will find them here: c:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\cura\ where YOUR_USER_NAME is your Windows user name. With the next start of Cura the directory will build new. You may need to do your printer setup in Cura again.

-->Preferences -->Configure Cura -->General -->Interface -->Language