[How do I make top layers independent of embossing?]

Sorry, I did not change the rules, I think you either misunderstood me or I wasn't clear enough. 

 

Regardless, we are done here. Thank you for your time. :) 

[How do I make top layers independent of embossing?]

I asked somewhere else and they gave me the answer I wanted straight away.

 

I just needed to play around with Skin Expand Distance.

 

It was that simple, guys.

Test3.3mf

[How do I make top layers independent of embossing?]

Sorry, what?

 

I don't need horizontal expansion here, on the contrary, enabling it makes some tildes not print at all. I usually print everything with -0.1 and removed it specifically for this job as it was not printing some small tildes.

 

I don't understand why are we fixating on unrelated stuff when I just want more complete top layers. Am I not explaining myself clearly enough?

[How do I make top layers independent of embossing?]

Yes but we are fixating on the ironing, when what I want to do is have 3 complete top layers (18-19-20) on the plaque ignoring the 3 top layers where the letters are (21-22-23). Please let's ignore ironing for now.

[How do I make top layers independent of embossing?]

Hi @Torgeir. Funny enough my print quality looks better without ironing than with it enabled, as it's only ironing around the logos and letters, ironing in an uneven (non-monotonic??) order and making odd shades depending on how the light shines.

 

To aid in what I want to achieve, I separated the logo and letters and the plaque to different models and then put it together in CURA.

 

That results in what I want to do, but it's rather cumbersome to do.

Test2.3mf

[How do I make top layers independent of embossing?]

Yes, I know all that.

 

Now, how do I make what I want to achieve, if at all possible?

 

I don't want to print 4 top layers just to have 1 real complete layer under the logo and waste time doing 4 layers on the rest of the plaque.

[How do I make top layers independent of embossing?]

Hi, I want to make some plaques, and I have to EMboss some text, but that obviously counts as top layers ruining the finish of the plaque a little bit.

 

 

I don't want to just have 6 top layers because that would make 6 top layers on some places and 3 on others, and then the 3 layers of embossing. I want 3 top layers of plaque and then 3 layers of embossing. How do i do that?

 

Project file attached. :)

Test.3mf

[Small circle is printing with a weird movement]

3 hours ago, maht said:

Yeah there's a known issue with gap filling. There's a discussion about it here: https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues/7366

 

Right, good to know!

So far I've fixed my issue by modifying the model so it's thicker and there's any gap.

 

Thank you for the help!

[Small circle is printing with a weird movement]

5 minutes ago, Framar said:

Cura wants to fille the tiny gaps between the wall lines. This is because the wall thickness of the 3D model is not a multiplier of the line width. You can change the "fill gaps between walls" setting to Nowhere or change the line width...

 

Oh I see... with that option disabled it doesn't print anything so the best approach here would be to make that part a little bit thicker so it can print a full wall, right? I'm going to do that now.

 

Thank you very much!

[Small circle is printing with a weird movement]

Hi!

 

I have a small circular feature with a hole in the middle for a M3 screw to screw on, and I was checking the preview and found that it was following a weird movement pattern. I have a wall thickness of 1.2 (3 walls with a 0.4 nozzle) and these features are 1.88 mm thick, so they should be printing in a solid block...

 

How do I make so it prints in a circular motion rather than that jerky mess?

 

Here's a video of my issue for more clarity and below is a picture of the meaning of each color:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qjmnpsbwkwyl6qr/video_2020-05-13_04-51-32 compressed.mp4?dl=0