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terrypin

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  1. 1 hour ago, FSarndrone said:

    Are you signed in in Cura? I found that to be the problem when I tried what you said; This method works if you are not signed in: you just press the marketplace button up in the top right and search for and install it.

    Thanks. I tried both when signed in and not. I'll have another attempt shortly. 

  2. Thanks, but that doesn't square with what happens here. I manually change to the folder where I want to save the file. Cura duly saves it. But the next time I start a save, whenever that is, the folder that appears as the default is once again

    C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 4.12.1

     

    What happens on your PC?

     

     

  3. I'm testing some small text labels, typically a 30 x 12 x 2 mm rectangular base holding 6 to 8 characters. So there needs to be some thin support to keep the individual characters from lifting off the bed. I tried the Support > Raft option, which worked fine. However it's rather wasteful of time and PLA, as it extends for the full interior of my usual skirt. Is there a setting I've missed that will let me reduce it please?

     

    If instead I decide to just add a small support rectangle myself, in my model, is it possible to make its infill different to the text, so that it will completely come off easily?

     

    HollowOff-On-Raft.thumb.jpg.b32cf1c5c36ccaa0b83f2b84dd9f45c9.jpg

  4. Thank you, understood. I'd not tried 'Post Processing' as I'd wrongly assumed that was irrelevant to pausing during a print.

     

    I'm still at the novice stage so... While using Cura's excellent Preview mode, how can I determine the layer ('height') that I should use for ''Pause at height'  please?

     

    For background, I will be trying to print white text on a black base. To postpone studying the obscure art of g-code, marlin, etc I'd like to try simply using the Pause button. So need to know roughly when to be poised to do that.

     

     

     

  5. Cura slices a file named say 'xyz.stl' and gives it a default name of 'CE3PRO_xyz'. Is there a setting I've not yet found making it possible to omit the printer prefix? I only have one printer and I know its name! That would avoid editing it every time before I save the geo-code.

     

    The Creality Ender 3 V2 (and I think most printers?) displays so few characters anyway that it's already hard to select the wanted file name. This seven character prefix just makes it almost impossible.

  6. Couple of months since I last fired up my Ender 3 Pro and tried to slice in Cura. But dismayed to get message that something had gone wrong. (Duly sent report 30 mins ago.) Took the 'backup and reset option' but had to specify printer and so assume I've now lost all my settings? Is there some way to recover them please?

     

    The good news is that I am now printing from Cura's output. However I got a message about 4.11.1 which I've downloaded. When I install that will I get offered an opportunity to restore my settings please?

     

    Terry

  7. I added these four 'printers' after buying my Ender 3 V2, as there wasn't a V2 in Cura's list (still isn't). My intention was to change the profile experimentally for each.


    Was that the right approach? Or should there only be a SINGLE entry, matching my single physical printer?

    That might explain why the first is the only one to give access to Machine Settings? (And also the only one in italics?)

     

    But if so, why would Cura allow me to add these 'virtual' printers?

     

    PrinterSettingsPuzzle.jpg

  8. Thanks, understood.

     

    But two successive failures at what seems the same place/time seems fairly conclusive to me! So don't want to risk trying another print. As you saw, I have now already finished the project so after the 3d Builder fix. Took a total of about 3 hours for the two parts. And about 5 hours of research and experiment!

     

     

     

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