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Glad you got it working.

I had a similar issue and found "Make Overhangs Printable" was ticked in the experimental section in Cura. If it's ticked, untick it, and hopefully that will fix your issue.

Hi All, I have an Ender 5 S1 and my understanding is the best retraction distance is around 0.8 mm and 30 mm/s. I'm just trying out one of the Auto Towers in the Auto Towers Plugin in Cura. The Retract Tower 1-6 specifically. I'm just trying to work out where it's programmed to change the retraction settings at the specific layer? What I put in Cura is obviously for the entire print, but in the Modify GCode section there are no settings to indicate things change at a specific layer etc. I assume the Gcode is somehow embeded in the plugin for that Auto Tower??? I want to try the 0.8 mm at 30 mm/s. Can anyone suggest a way of modifying one of the towers so that it just tries my settings, and doesn't change them. I just want to see if my settings work. Or alternatively, can anyone suggest a model for testing the retraction that i've dialled in is working so that I don't have to design my own. I just want to find a good test model of my specific settings. Thanks Geoff

I've resolved this. I ended up doing a factory reset of the Sonic Pad, and then doing another re-levelling. This solved the issues. It must have been something within the Sonic Pad because I did 3 other levellings and those didn't fix the issue. I don't use the Sonic Pad for anything other than remotely watching the print via the camera, and remotely sending print jobs to it, and remotely monitoring it. So it wasn't a configuration issue. Oh well, at least the Factory Reset fixed the issue. Back to doing a 3D print.

Hi All, I'm at my wits end here. Everything was working great up until yesterday. I'm not sure if this is an adhesion issue, levelling issue, filament issue, etc. Basically, when I print something, the first little bit looks fine, but after a couple of minutes, the print starts deteriorating. See this image.. This is just printing the Brim. I hadn't changed anything in Cura, in fact, here's everything I've tried so far. - Changed the Filament - Replaced the Nozzle - Cleaned the extruder with the metal prod that came with the printer - Slowed down the Printing to 15mm/s for the Brim - Put Cura back to default settings - Went to an earlier version of Cura - Checked the belts and they seem tight to me - Re-Levelled the bed both Manually, and Auto Bed Levelling. The bed levelling looks like it has a minor dip in the middle, but is mostly fine, and is pretty well the same as what it was when everything was working. See below. - Updated the firmware of the Sonic Pad, but was having the issue before the upgrade. My hardware is a Creality Ender 5 S1, Sonic Pad, and i'm using eSun PLA+ filament. I'm at a loss what else could be causing this when it was working great the other day. I thought maybe it's moisture, but then, i've tried two filaments, and both start off fine, but then go to crap a couple of minutes in. Any ideas what I can check next? Thanks Geoff

Update. I just found an old 3mf, and STL that it was doing it with, and went through all the settings to see the difference because when I loaded the project, it loaded all the overides with it as opposed to the STL loading with whatever profile you're using. It turns out the setting "make overhangs printable" was ticked, and as a result, it was just adding the bottom skin. I unticked it, and then re-sliced, and it seems to have fixed the issue.

Thanks for that. I put it back to default settings, and after slicing it worked. I have no idea what setting I had because I generally don't just willy nilly change settings without finding out what they do first. Anyway, seems to be working now. Thanks for your help.

Hi all, I'm running Cura 5.3.0 and pretty new to 3D printing so excuse the newbie question. I have an STL file that has geometry on the bottom of the model i.e. holes, and cut outs. When I slice the file and print it, the bottom layer covers the holes and cut outs. I have tried making the bottom layer 0, but it doesn't seem to work. I then just get the infill pattern I've also ensured Remove all holes is not ticked. Am I missing something? All my prints have the bottom layer covering any geometry. Here's an example of what I did. I opened Tinkercad and added a square. I then added another smaller square and made it into a hole and when I slice this in Cura, it shows the hole just fine on the bottom. However, if I create a hole that's only half way through the model on the bottom like this, the bottom layer prints over the hollow bit. This is what the slicer shows. As you can see, the cut out hollow bit gets covered up by the bottom layer. Is is just a setting I need to change in Cura to ensure all hollow cutouts are kept hollow? Note: I realise this example won't print very well because of the bridge. I'm just using this as an example of what it's doing. It's not even trying to add supports if necessary, it just covers up the hole completely. I have a real stl that has only minor thin cutouts which I would think would print easily, but I can't get past the bottom layer. I assume it's a newbie error, so any help would be great. Thanks Geoff