Super_paulie

so.... a job from my library, printed a hundred times before, went though and seemed to be ok. Then i came back and printer had claimed it had finished the job and the bed had dropped however it was missing the last like 10/20 layers. But according to the printer it did the whole thing? what the hell is this, i just upgraded to the new S5 firmware so maybe related. 6hrs wasted today however. Can i show the log to anyone who could maybe tell me what is going on? im reluctant to run a overnight 12hr job incase it happens again. Cheers

youre going to have to remove the feeder and its cover. Its not difficult and you should be able to get the filament out that way.

hi guys. Further to this, ive been in discussions with other users and they also agree that this feature would be of a great benefit. Not for the same reason as my own, but so that they can schedule a print to run during the evening when people in the household are in bed and dont have to sit with a printer while they are with the family. Just a thought, seems like it would surely be quite easy to implement.

further to this, the material station is frankly pathetic... almost every time it does a change over i lose the job and there is simply no recovery. For example today it changed over and the material didnt make it to the head but the printer started "printing" again. No matter what you do at that point its non-recoverable. Even if you pull the material out, the station then states "Material Empty" but the printer still attempts to print. You cant select to switch it over to a new spool, nothing. Honestly, the its an absolute disaster... Even an option to pause the print, and then a button to click to "Change to Spool B" for example, that would be 100% better than "sorry but im going to continue with these spools anyways, whether its jammed or even if you like it or not". Im literally losing more jobs than i have ever had with any other printer.

In real terms, Cura 5 on the left, Cura 4 on the right. Gaps and extra "blobbing" from Cura 5.

hi guys, i assume this is a variable line width issue? Cura 4 on the right, Cura 5 on the left. Same model. Cura 5 is leaving all sorts of seams where it didnt before and i assume from the preview it is the variable line width. Is there a way to tune this out of basically turn it off? i always want to work with the latest releases but not at the detriment of the model finish. I obviously dont understand this correctly as i cant find a way to fix this. Cheers

If I were ultimaker id stop miss-selling the material station, that package cost me 10 grand and the lost time it creates, countless thousands more...

The only use I have for my material station is holding a very limited selection of spools that actually physically fit in it. My regular spools sit outside it and feed in but like you when it retracts it's just spaghetti-city outside the machine, it's borderline totally useless to be fair. The delays it causes in the prints is simply unacceptable, it's been a real waste of money. Looked great in the adverts though, but it was an expensive mistake...

Any chance of anything on this? As much as I enjoy standing waiting for half an hour every other print, it's getting to the point that the machine is so frustrating that I am debating getting rid of it to save my sanity. Surely an option such as "print aborted - skip cool down and retry?" would work. Also at a nozzle probe failure. Ok so it fails, but why should I be forced to stand there like an idiot while it cools down only for me to immediately click retry. It's absolutely maddening. "remove part"? It never even started... If it's to stop damage to the machine then it's not going to help when I smash it to bits out of sheer frustration, which I have been tempted to do. Hours and hours a week wasted on this.

Yep, my version 5 is frankly awful compared to 4.13... like going back to the early days.

Same. It's really messing up that initial layer and its obviously higher from the bed than it used to be for some reason.

has anyone noticed since the firmware update on the S5 that the nozzle is now higher than previously...? its causing me failures on the exact same file where the first layer isnt going down right and it is visually different as well when you look at the surface. Gaps etc which are the symptoms of being too far off the bed.

ABS. The bed-facing surface is the surface on display as a finished product. Have tried all of the above and the finish requires us to do post-production to get it in a state we are happy with. With kapton there is no post-production, its ready to go straight off the bed. Actually i havent tried Dimafix. I did on my U2+E and it was ok, but the cost was quite prohibitive for bulk work.

This random thing is really really annoying. If i close Cura and then re-slice the file and then try to save to the factory again, it works. This has been driving me crazy all week as i have had to go into every single model in our library to adjust out changes Cura 5.0 enforced on us which wrecked the print quality. So i have had to go into the models, make the changes, save to disk. Close Cura, re-open it and then save to factory. Like 50 times... Im not one to hold back on progress, i understand that, but having errors like this below are awful. Im logged in etc, literally nothing else i can do but restart the program and re-slice and try again.

same issue here. I Have to manually create the shortcut to it.

yes, that helped significantly, thanks for the tip.

i cant today as i dont have time to run the model but i will test that out tomorrow and report back.

Old Cura left, Cura 5 on the right. Might not look a lot, but the quality isn't good enough for my product so back to Cura 4.13 for me!

Same project file. Cura 4.13 on the left, Cura 5 on the right.

@GregValiant ive made some changes to the project and am running it again this morning. Several settings change when you open up the file created in 4.13 within 5.0.0. so ive reverted those settings back to what they were in 4.13 to see if that changes things back to how i need them.

Not sure why, but the top surface on my model is a lot rougher in Cura 5.0.0...

@Josnoww let me know what logs you need to help diagnose, thanks!

Because I've found that by leaving the job on the plate, when it cools over a long period it peels up the kapton tape with it, shortening the life of the kapton covering. If I remove a job immediately upon completion the tape remains firmly attached. Timing the job so I'm there at the time of completion would eliminate that, so I could schedule a 6hr job to start at 3am and then I'll be there in person at 9am to remove it. Might be a niche market for this, I understand. Would just be a nice feature to implement. Cheers.

Hi Jos, i have the logs, which one would it be that you need? this is in regards to the nozzle probe failure which happens at least a few times a day. when it fails there is a small blob of material directly underneath the probe as it comes out of the nozzle on the first probe which them bombs out the second. thanks

i agree. As i have to have my material outside of the material station (due to spool diameter) and feed it in, when it retracts fully out of the bowden tube its just a spaghetti junction that i need to re-wind back to the spool again. Id absolutely love it if it just retracted from the core and stood there ready. Honestly, the list would be a mile long for potential ideas and "fixes" as this thing is so good and do bad in equal measures!