jnygaard

I was planning to look for the G0 travel move and if more than xx mm, then do the stacking. And to make it more versatile/robust, probably run through all the G1 lines in the (2) blocks for each features and find the 2 closest points. Would be needed, if the travel is not the shortest path. So what you are says is put it in a separate "app"? PS. Sorry for the late reply. I though I would get a email notification, when someone posted... PPS. I don't have space nor money for 6 more printers....

Hi folks. I'm new here, so not sure if this is the right place to ask.... I have an idea I'd like to run by you. A feature/setting or tool to allow printing separate distinct features/parts of a model, xx numbers of layers at a time, rather than print one layers at a time. A bit similar to the "Print sequence" setting of "all at once", but within the same part/model and with a configurable number of layers, equal to 4-5 mm or how ever much ones nozzle/hot-end allows. I need to print at ton of items, similar to a big german beer mug. And while printing the middle part where the handle is 25-30 mm away from the main body, it would be more efficient to print say 15-20 layers at each location, before doing the travel/retract. Not so much to reduce travel/print time, but mostly to reduce stringing and the subsequent cleaning of the parts. My first thought was to just whip up some quick and dirty code in C# to modify the .gcode from cura, but then thought there might be others that could benefit from this? So a couple of questions: 1) Is it even feasible to print like this? Or would it mess up layer adhesion or something? Not super worried about being able to see the groups of layers. Mechanical properties are main concern. 2) if yes, what is the best way to do this? Can it be done with a plug in?? Or better to go directly in the heart of cure? I guess it could also be done with an online tool that modifies the code, but I have a feeling there might be tweaks to be done with fan speed and maybe even print speed for first layers of a block and the it quickly becomes cumbersome to do it afterwards.

Hi David, Did you ever find a good way to do this?? Seems to me the Materials->Print setting is missing bunch of settings... See

Hi, This might be a newbie question, but why aren't ALL the setting from the materials tab/section in normal "print setting" found in the print setting under manage material??? I'd think at least the main "Flow" (multiplier) should be there. But also the initial temp's, so you can select a material and a print profile and be good to go. And not have to go chase the "orange values" for stuff that wasn't updated. Other places in cura, you can select which settings to show. In the main settings, in the "per model" setting etc., so why not in the materials->print setting. There might be some speed setting and other things you want to modify based on material. Or is the materials setting dead and we should all just use profiles?? And ONLY profiles these days?? But it adds up to a huge matrix of profiles if material and profiles are not properly separated. This ties somewhat into this:

The lightning support looks great. Testing as I write... But it would be nice if the was an option to set a numbers (distance in mm and/or mm2) for how big a wall can be, before it would get a cross-brace and be connected to the wall on the other side. Big items gets squizzy on the side, if the walls are not supported. And big parts are the once that would benefit the most from lightning support, so it would be a shame if we can't use it here. I don't see any way to put something in the CAD model to make this, without creating a hole in the wall. But maybe someone smarter than me can show how??

Have you considered adding the "lightning" support concept to the external ones too??? Should probably have a setting deciding weather the support is allowed to touch the outer walls. This in order to have support point (anchors) at X numbers of layers, in order to sort of lean onto the walls for support. Just like you do with anchors on a scaffolding on the outside of a house. There could even be an option to have the support grow of the side of the wall, just like lightning does internally, but with fewer points to allow breaking it off. When I first discovered "tree" support, I actually thought that it did like lightning, but it don't seem to cut down on material and print time that much. Imagine how many tons of wasted plastic could be saved each year, with clever support structure. Not to mention print time, which is my biggest reason for writing this....