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    Retract Tests: Can't Change Retraction Distance + Speed settings, also not visible?

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted · Edited by Cuq

    Unfortunately the RetractTower script does not work with the UM2 on the standard configuration.   By default these machines use the firmware Retract code (G10/G11) so the values are not modified by the script and are only driven by the parameters set on the machine. I don't have this machine but maybe if you disable the firmware control in the cura parameters it will work.

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    https://github.com/5axes/Calibration-Shapes/wiki/Retract-Tower#note

     

     

    Printing small letters

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted · Edited by Cuq

    11 hours ago, RayW said:

    When you print 2mm tall text, what's the width of the stroke and the line with? How are you printing narrow lines like that with a .4mm nozzle? Are there other slicer adjustments required (speed, retractions, feed rate)?

     

    As mentionned in the wiki page I've designed this Font to be print with the 5.0 release of Cura . 2 mm is the minimum for a 0.4 nozzle and in this case the width is equal to 0.4 or closed to 0.4, and you will have just one wall.  But I don't recommend this size, with this nozzle size.  It can be used just to indicate something but you will not get a clean text.

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    4mm (0.8 width) is a prefered choice in this case.

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    Printing small letters

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted

    35 minutes ago, RayW said:

    @Cuq


    I like that font. From everything that's been discussed here, it looks like it has the right attributes. I assume it's not yet available as a .ttf file. When you print 2mm tall text, what's the width of the stroke and the line with? How are you printing narrow lines like that with a .4mm nozzle? Are there other slicer adjustments required (speed, retractions, feed rate)?

    The ttf file is available under the indicate link, as well as the project file if you want to modify the font

    Printing small letters

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted

    Interesting discussion that I had already asked on other forum without real definitive solution and which concerned the best Fonts for 3D FFF printing. 

     

    Preferably : Sans Serif, Bold, Rounded 

     

    Finally I decided to create my own font that would give me the best results. But the project is still in progress.  And for a 0.4 nozzle the minimum size seems to be 2 mm.  For 1,5 you have to use 0.2 as indicated by @GregValiant.

     

    A link : https://github.com/5axes/NameIt/wiki/New-Font-:-NameIt-Rounded-Bold

     

    The initial requirements :

    • Printing a single outer contour,
    • No interior infill
    • Continuous and rounded motion  that minimizes letter wraping when printing the first layer

     

    Need help with a Post Processing Script

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted

    1 hour ago, gr5 said:

    Looks good.  Interesting that you have to subtract 1 TWICE from layer_number.  I'm guessing that the last layer or two are not actually layer information but are instead like the finishing up stuff and final gcodes and comments at the bottom.

    Yes you are right,if I'm remember correctly the first layer it's  the first general informations , the second one it's the start Gcode. And the third it's the first layer. But in python as the list index start a 0  :

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    1 start Gcode

    2 First layer -> 2-1=1  Layer number 1 

    note in the Gcode first layer it's layer 0  

    plugin solidworks

    in Français

    Posted

    Ce que veux dire L'ambassadeur, c'est que le plugin n'a pas été mis à jour pour le passage à la V5 . Donc pas disponible jusqu'à que quelqu'un veuille faire la mise à jour, puisque le développeur du plugin visiblement n'a pas prévu de faire ce travail.

     

    Donc 4.X  ou Export STL en attendant.

     

    Bon courage,

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    Cura, How to get profiles automatically updated to the settings from the materials profiles

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted · Edited by Cuq

    If you have some values in your profile for these parameters they automaticaly overwrite the material profile values.  So you need to be sure to remove from your profile specific parameters like printing temps, retractions, etc 

     

    It's not an easy job to do because as soon as you have modify/change one of these parameters it's too late, there is no function to go back.  In the Ultimaker world it's easy because profile are validate and created by Ultimaker; for the other people you must have a very good knowledge of the uses of the Cura stacked profile system and of the parameters in the profiles. A good start  https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/wiki/Profiles-&-Settings

     

    I use a specific plugin to clean up troublesome settings but the nature of the operation and the level of Cura users concerning these knowleges do not allow a general use of this tool.

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    Cura 5.1 and Siemens NX plugin

    in UltiMaker Cura

    Posted · Edited by Cuq

    The NX interface was (is using) a NX Vb script to detect the last Cura Release . And this script is searching in the registry key 

    Const strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall"  

     

     but Cura 5.X doesn't use anymore this WOW6432Node  folder. Have you try to modify "SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall"  into "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" ?

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