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Hello Greg, Thank for your detailed reply. The fact I have print this small cube with 0.6 nozzle and that layer height/width combination is because this is how I have printed it in S3D. The goal was to have a one to one comparison with Cura quality. For the "Outer Wall Wipe Distance", that the one setting where default Cura value (sub millimeter) was miles away from what I had in S3D, I have set it as in S3D without having really any clue on the impact to be honest 🙂 I will give a try at unchecking "Avoid printed part". I guest depending on the model, it can make it better or worse. About my printer definition I don't really know, BLV has nothing to do with a Anet3D, probably the guy who created the Cura profile has use it as a random base. BLV has been entirely designed by Ben Levi, it's really a great printer (I don't know if you have google it or if you already know it). 95% of what I print are mechanical parts in PETG with my 0.6mm nozzle. So where I am with my XYZ cube quality at the moment it's quite good enough. My print are generally at least 5-6 times the volume of that cube. I am now benching a bit the stringing with that small two-towers model. I have a lot of it ATM compared to S3D, I will dig a bit in retraction and coasting.

Thank you, Wall order is correct but I have made another change in wall parameter that improved the quality. Instead of using only one outer wall like I was doing in S3D, I used 2 and reduced the infill overlap from 15% to 10%. I have a lot less deformations on my wall now. I will try to turn off retract settings you're talking about. But for coasting I have more doubts because it has helped a lot with the quality when I have activate it. I should have specify that my printer is a bowed extruder. Here is my project file so far. BLVMGNC300_xyzCalibration_cube.3mf EDIT : I unchecked "Retract between layers" and "Retract before outer wall" was already unchecked. It has again increased my print quality. I am almost there 🙂 I still have a bit of blob inside the "X" and the bridging is still a bit flappy. But honestly, picture is worse than reality. For bridging I don't know what I could do more, I have already set fan at 100% for bridging. I will make another attempt by reducing a bit coasting amount.

Hello all, I would like to switch from Simplify3D to Cura but I struggling to find correct settings to get my print quality back. My printer is based on a BLV MGN Cube and I print with a Volcano hotend + 0.6mm nozzle. So far, I have try to transpose all my S3D parameters to Cura, most of them look straight forward but I feel that they are not .. There is a lot more parameters in Cura than in S3D, I feel like S3D is hiding a lot of stuffs behind the scene. So far I have : - Set my layers height and width the same. - Set my temperatures the same. - Set my speed a bit slower than in S3D because S3D seem to print slower than expected while Cura respect the entered speed. - Set my retraction settings exactly the same. - Set my fans settings the same also. - Tried to mimic "wipe nozzle" + "only wipe on outer-most perimeers" S3D setting by using "outer wall wipe distance" of Cura. - Enabled coasting and convert my 0.2mm in S3D to 0.26mm3 in Cura. - All theses changes has each time increased my print quality (initials one with the default BLV MGN profil were catastrophics). Now, I am getting a perfect first layer (better than S3D) and an nearly equivalent top layer. But, for the outer wall, it's really worse. I am pretty sure Cura should be able to output the same quality but I need a bit of help with potentials problems I have here 🙂 Here is where I am so far : - I have small holes here and there in my walls. - Blobs on tiny sport. - And most importantly, my layers looks all jaggy and non-uniform. Any tips ? Thank you.