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  1. Hello @spencerdiniz. I don't know what undefined means in the above project summary, I get the same for my printer (a Kossel delta) so I wouldn't worry about that. I printed a couple of the hooks on my machine and they came out fine. With parts like this, cooling is the key to success as they tend to overheat due to the small area so I am using 100% fan.

     

    The picture shows the part cooling nozzle pointing right at the (naked) hotend heater block which is not going to help at all as it will be cooling the hotend. Is that why you are using such a high temp (225 for PLA?) I am currently printing PLA at 200 with the bed at 45 and get very good results.

     

    Looking at your project, I wonder whether you are over-retracting? I think your printer has a direct drive extruder (not Bowden) and 4mm of retraction sounds an awful lot. I'm using 4mm of retraction with my Kossel's Bowden extruder and another printer I have which isn't Bowden is using 2mm of retraction.

     

    Hope this helps!

  2. Hi @phantom, the answer to this little mystery is that setting the slicing tolerance to exclusive had the effect of changing the bottom layer. Setting the slicing tolerance to middle shows the missing layer which is indeed shrunk as you can see from the image.

     

    This looks like a bug to me because I would have thought that the first layer horizontal expansion should not be influenced by the slicing tolerance.

     

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  3. Hi @klaus_kraemer, I sliced the top (narrow) part of your model and it printed very nicely using a 0.4mm nozzle and 0.5mm wide lines. Layer height was 0.1mm. I wonder if your print is suffering from overheating. You're actually printing very slowly (4mm/S) and maybe the nozzle is heating the model too much and so you are getting poor definition?

     

    If you do try using a smaller nozzle and 0.5mm wide lines be sure to enable the overlap compensation and also set the Mininum Wall Flow quite high (I used 80%) as this will stop a lot of extra travel and tiny extrusions that would otherwise happen. Hope this helps.

     

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  4. Hello @phantom, in those two files, the settings at the end of each of those files do not contain a value for xy_offset_layer_0 which is what the Initial Layer Horizontal Expansion setting is called internally. So, for some reason, you are not setting that to a non-zero value. Can you please attach the project file (.3mf). Thanks.

  5. 31 minutes ago, phantom said:

    I've come upon a bug in "Initial Layer Horizontal Expansion"

     

    Printed a couple of calibration cubes with setting going from -0.52mm to 0.52mm and there was absolutely no change in measurement in the cubes elephant foot, whilst this isn't a small difference ?

     

     

     

    Please create a new thread about this and attach sample gcode files. Thanks.

  6. H @jens3, thanks for the project file. OK, things you can do to improve this are:

     

    1 - Enable the Optimise Wall Printing Order.

     

    2 - Set a User Specified z-seam alignment with x/y values that position the seam where you want it.

     

    3 - Set the Seam Corner preference to None.

     

    4 - Set the Max Comb Distance With No Retract to 10.

     

    5 - Reduce infill density, 70% is OTT for gyroid.

     

    Hope this helps!

     

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  7. Hello @neotko, it's not the fact that it combs on the infill when you use that mode that is the problem. The problem with that mode is that it is unaware of where the part's walls and skins are and so will happily cross a skin region (dribbling as it goes).

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