BobFrakes

Turns out that the two rods that the print head slides on were loose and one even came out of its bracket. Once I tightened them the loss of steps seemed to disappear.

With the latest version of Cura it includes the gyroid slicing model that I really like. It speeds up the printing on my rather slow 3d printer pretty well. I found it recently and started using it but lately I may have found an issue. I created a part that I wanted to print and it printed very quickly using the gyroid on 25 fill. Since I was prototyping the part i did not include any through holes for mounting the part to another object. I then added two mounting holes with a counterbore to recess the mounting screws. The printer stared losing steps as it got to the hole. At the same time I wanted it to print faster so I reduce the infill to 10 percent. I then reset the infill to 25 percent the reprinted, The same happened only worse. The last print I change back to cubic infill and the part printed normally with no step loss. I've fine tuned this printer very excessively and it does not normally lose steps. I really don't know if this is a bug in the gyroid code but it seems to be a weird interaction with the stepper motors. Is anyone having this issue?

I was wanting to move Cura to my Intel NUC running Windows 10 and it will load ok but when I tried to start it, the icon spins for a few seconds and it does nothing else. I've update Windows 10 with all the latest patches and update the NUC with all the Intel updates and still nothing. I tried uninstalling Cura and reinstalling and still no luck. Ideas?