dtose

Had the freezes as well (especially on filesystem access). V5.0.0 final solved that.

Thanks a lot. I hadn't noticed that. For the rest of the addon problems. I did reinstall all of the plugins. I'd like to thank you once again for your work. These add-ons really make things a lot easier for me. Maybe it was because I had all versions back to 4.10 still installed. After I removed them, everything seems to work. Cheers

I'm sorry if this issue got already solved and I overlooked the solution. Whenever I open a dialog for filesystem operations (import/export, load model) my entire system collapses. Waiting a ridiculous long time sometimes works, sometimes it doesn't. Tested on a standalone PC and Lifebook U Series. Changing from beta to v5.0.0 final solved that. On a sidenote since fieldOfView is quite active here: I can't seem to get z-offset and material plugin to work properly. I use material profiles from 4.13.1 since the import/export in 5.0 just doesn't work for me. I don't an entry for material-settings in add-ons and configured z-offset settings from 4.13.1 won't be used. Cheers

@GregValiant - That was exactly what I was looking for, since I got poor corner quality on a test cube and suspected the speed during changes of direction to be the reason. To be honest I was more than surprised of that value. But as it turns out I was wrong - I should have paid attention to the units... M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z100.00 E500.00 ; set accelerations (mm/s^2) M203 X9000.00 Y9000.00 Z1000.00 E3600.00 ; set maximum speeds (mm/min) M204 P500.0 T500.0 ; set print and travel accelerations (mm(s^2) M566 X480.00 Y480.00 Z48.00 E300.00 ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min) So it is 8 mm/s... @ahoeben At least from my experience adjusting the setting changes the qualtiy of the edges on a test cube. Setting it to 10 mm/s causes all corners to get round and draw inwards while 60 mm/s result in nice sharp corners. My best guess is that the slow movement of the hot nozzle (255°C in my case) leads to warping. At least I witnessed a significant increase of warping on slow (40mm) print speeds. Do you see a chance to include the machine_max_jerk_xy value in the really much appreciated material settings plugin? Some of the printer settings values are available there, jerk isn't. My first approach was to use jerk control of cura - bad idea. I got terribly ghosted prints. All of the above is related to Redline ABS. Unfortunately I threw away all the slow jerk prints. I'll print a new one with 8 mm/s and post pictures of both results. Thanks for the infos, dtose

Hi ahoeben, once again thanks for your good work. Can you tell me what the value "default x-y jerk" actually means? At least or me it is set to 10 mm/s by default which is way to low for my printer printing ABS (70 mm/s works better for me). According to my config.g (Duet2) the max value for x-y jerk seems to be 480 mm/s. Will cura always go for 480mm/s if I set the "default" value or is it some kind of maximum? I can't find any M566 in the gcode but the setting seems to affect the jerk nevertheless. Thanks, dtose

Thank you very much! 🙂

Hi everyone, I have been struggeling with 3d party material profiles for the S5 with material station for the past weeks. One point I'm not quite certain about is the relationship between the material profile on the printer and the one in Cura. I am wondering in particular about how the material settings are processed regarding the Z-offset? Do offset settings in the printer and cura profile add up? Is only one used - if so which one and why would I need the printer side profile in the first place? Do I have to create the initial profile without offset have Cura send it to the printer and then alter the setting afterwards? If that is the case shouldn't Cura update the printer side material? Oh, I forgot: Thank you very much for the z-offset Plugin fieldOfView! Thanks for any hints dtose

Hi gobluejd, I ran into the same issue on an UM S5 with a market place material profile (ASA Extrafill). The quality settings of the material limit the printing profile to "fine - 1.0 mm" (I guess that is, what fieldOfView just wrote). My solution was to copy the fine profile into a user profile and then adapt to my desired settings. Cheers

Once again, thank you very much for your work and help. That plugin is a real help for me. That doesn't work for me if I set a value in curas print settings. But now I only have to create the printing profile once and can adjust with your plugin 👍 Thanks!

Hello ahoeben, thank you for your help. As with your octoprint-plugin, this plugin seems pretty helpful to me. Would it be possible to include initial layer flow in this plugin? I like to change flowrates for the first layer. So if I were able to adjust all the material related settings in the material tab / your plugin, it would be a very comfortable solution. Maybe I didn't state my intent very good. What I meant was: Is there some way to get the previously saved 75° back to the variable it was at the beginning (linked to build plate temperature). It might seem like a minor thing, but I'm pretty new to printing and still experiment a lot with the settings. So it happens to me from time to time that I forget to revert changes before saving the profile. That results in having to create an entirely new one to get the links to other settings back. Oh, and what I wrote in my first post isn't entirely correct. Just quitting Cura won't save the changes finally. I can revert from there. Best regards, dtose

Hello everyone, I tried to figure this out myself but wasn't able to. So please excuse me, if I overlooked a solution to this on the board. When I set up my materials from a default printing template I have for example printing temperature as a varibale for what I set in my material template. Now if I create a copy of that printing template and just once alter that value to whatever temperature I think of and close Cura (or save the template forgetting I changed that value), I can't get it back to this variable. Is there a way to do that? In addition - is there a way to set build plate temperature initial layer relative to build plate temperature (e.g. 1st layer 10° lower than normal build plate temperature)? Regards, dtose

Guten Abend, ich bin zwar relativ neu beim Drucken und Cura, aber ich vermute die Antworten zu kennen: Der Unterschied dürfte hier sein, dass sich die "Geschwindigkeit obere/untere Schicht" auf alle Schichten mit diesem Bezeichner beziehen (unter Gehäuse ist ja einstellbar, wie viele Schichten zur oberen und unteren Dicke gehören - vermute mal, dass das damit gemeint ist und es eher ein Übersetzungsfehler ist). In meinem Fall (jeweils vier Schichten oben und unten) würde also die erste Schicht in einer anderen Geschwindigkeit gefahren werden, als die restlichen sieben. Ich vermute, dass die drei Parameter für besonders parametrierfreudige Benuter ist. Da man ja alle dieser Punkte verbergen kann, dürfte für den Standardanwender nur "Geschwindigkeit der ersten Schicht" gedacht sein. "Druckgeschwindigkeit für die erste Schicht" ist der gleiche Wert, es sei denn, man ändert ihn nachträglich und "Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit für die erste Schicht" wird aus mehreren Parametern (u.a. "Geschwindigkeit der ersten Schicht") errechnet. Wem diese Parameterübernahme nicht recht ist, der kann dann bei den zwei letzten Punkten noch selbst Hand anlegen. Ich hoffe, dass das a) hilft und b) stimmt. Grüße dtose

Hallo UM and community, I'm new both to 3d printing and Cura. Looking for a decent slicer my present test is with Cura. Having tried KISSlicer and Prusaslicer so far, I like Cura but have a question I just can't answer myself: The internet is full of questions and help on seamhiding and mostly the answer is: you can try but you won't really get rid of them (especially on round objects). Now KISSlicer has a seamhandling using gap and depth that even for me as a total beginner solved the problem in my test prints (using a 50mm disc at 2mm height). Why is it, that none of the big players doesn't include anything like that? I can't believe they don't know about this technique. Is it because of copyright or something like that? I think that many people would appreciate such a feature. Cheers, dtose