mrender

Bambu Lab machines don't have ethernet which is annoying and I think the wifi is 2.4ghz only like Ultimaker. I am sure the wifi setup is much more straight forward on Bambu lab though!

The front belt looks very loose could be jumping the pulley.

If the print speed is lower for the first Layer then won't the flow be less?

You should be able to stick with 20% and reduce the distance independently to 2mm

Try reducing infill line distance

Which machine did you decide on in the end?

From experience S5 machines work much more reliably over wired ethernet with reserved IP addresses, wouldn't bother with wifi on these machines especially if you have more than one and use digital factory!

Hi Marimakes I am trying to do the per model brim distance but no matter what distance I enter in there it is ignored and I get the value entered in the main project file settings. I am using Cura 5.4.0, any ideas where I am going wrong? Thanks

Sounds like your "Final Printing Temperature" in Material section setting is too low?

Cura does log out of your account from time to time, which will show the printer grey cloud in cura while the printer shows connected wifi on its screen. Are you sure you don't just need to log back in to digital factory in Cura.

I think tinkering is the right word.

You've got some strange things going on in the corners of the stl which is probably causing this to slice the way it does. Section of a corner attached.

Hi I have had the little connector on the back of the extruder work its way loose a couple of times which as I remember gave this error. More often though it has been the extruder wearing a groove (not always a big obvious groove) in the filament when retracting either lots of times in a small area or because the filament sticks in the core a bit. Also check your front fan is switching on at 40C nozzle temp. Hope this helps

My s5 has developed and under extrusion issue on No 2 core side. The problem seems to have nothing to do with the core, tried other cores in machine, all under extrude and do not under extrude in other s5 machines. Currently to obtain as close to similar results as possible in this machine I need to set flow to 120%, but overall quality is not good still. The machine seems to load material fine and extrusion during this appears identical to other machines. Front fan appears to be working fine and the extruder again seems fine. I wonder if anyone else has had a similar issue or can suggest what is causing this? Thank you

sometimes the cause seems to be a broken wire on the front fan.

This is a know design flaw, the fix is to buy an S7.

sent you a message

P. Slicer seems to be the answer after all.

no sorry

I see, would have to have a look at the native file to have any more thoughts on it.

There are a heck of a lot of them! Shouldn't need that many to define the shape. Have you got the native file? Which CAD package was it created on?

All you can really do with the model you originally wanted to print, is re-mesh or modify the mesh by trial and error until you get something that cura will spiralise as you want it to. Fusion 360 has some good tools for this. Try and aim for the triangles to be fairly uniform sizes and angles. Avoid long slivers and clumps of tiny triangles if you can.

Trouble is the section isn't a continous curve, it is series of hundreds of straight lines without robust constraints on their endpoints because they are projections of hundreds of triangles at alsorts of angles, which themselves aren't particularly constrained to each other.

for exactly the same reason you say..continous geometry. Meshing, shelling/spiraling and interpolation for gcode creates a mess!

A basic problem with your example model is that it doesn't shell well. Intersections occur which create problems with the geometry, meshing compounds this as the aproximations create holes and very close vertices. Presumably the jug model is having similar issues. The models need to be shelled in the modeller before small details are added. Being able to print from a step file would help alot too.