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You guys rock. Thank you both for the education. No wonder I enjoy this printing stuff.

Slash and ahoeben, Again, HUGE thanks for your consideration. We've all spent too much time on someone else's improperly made profile. Sorry for that! I've tried most of your suggestions and have gotten nowhere. Meanwhile, I've imported the Voron2 350 machine that CURA has which the Sovol SV08 is based on. Ill start testing this Voron2 350 machine of CURA's to see how this thing responds. I know it won't be 100% but then I've got nothing now anyway! I know I'll be back for more and again gigantic thanks for your efforts. PDC

OK you two, many thanks and I'll give it a go but ....there's always a but....why do I see the word Bowden in some of the words above when the SOVOL is not a "Bowden" reliant extruder? Ok there is a Bowden tube in the machine to guide the filament here there and everywhere but the printer uses a DD extruder pushing straight into the hotend. Regardless, thank you both and I'll see where I get. IF I succeed , you both are brave making that assumption, I will come back and mark this as Solved but until OK to leave it open?

Thanks Slash. I hear your words but they go way over my head so if you get back from deprivation, let me know your thoughts. As you all know by now, I'm pretty darned clueless. Sincerely, PDC

I see that I left the G-Code flavor choice at Marlin when adding the custom machine, SV-08. I changed this to ReRap and I still cannot import files. Don't break my heart and say I need to move to ORCA... I love CURA! But I am trainable. Let me know your thoughts and TY.

Oh wonderful people! After creating a new "custom" printer (Sovol SV-08) to use in CURA 5.8.0, I then went to import some profiles and got the note below for each of the files. (See picture) As a Justin Case... I've copied one of the files here as the file itself may tell you something? Maybe when I created the new printer I missed a selection or two? Thoughts? HUGE thanks as always, PDC Sovol SV08 - ABS.curaprofile

TY Slashee.

Hi folks. By chance is there a "Temperature by Layer" postcript or some such script I can use? Now don't go all smart on me and say "my man, if you'd learn how to use all this 3D printing stuff correctly, you would need this" even if you are right! :-) AI live to tinker and can change things like fan speeds as I print, why not filament temps? And feel free to say "please just go away" as I will understand. Using CURA 5.8.0 Stay well! PDC

Alright, I'm back with the latest results along with the .3mf file. IMO a couple of issues that seemed to cure themselves by simply printing this part by a pair all at once. If you look at the first pictures notice how the layers coming off the bed absolutely stink. I think this is heat related but do not quote me. However this is why I chose to print in pairs. Next, I've lowered the bed temp a bit, as well as I suddenly decided to look at my notes on the ABS filament I use and missed the retract distance and speed. Do I know how this might affect it? Nope but the retract went to the default of my ancient old machine which was a Bowden fed device but long since converted to DD. Thus, less retract is typically used. And, drum roll, I chose to follow the cooling fan by layers suggested by the wizards here. Check out the results. These pictures are as the parts were literally just pulled off the build plate. Nothing has been done much less any of the support material removed. These parts are very small so picts are very enlarged. To anyone's naked eye from any distance (say a foot or more) these parts are perfect. For our use, without question 100% on the money. To all of use worried about moisture, could be as my new filament has not arrived but I baked this ABS for another 7 hours prior to this last print. Did that do the trick? Could well be as there are no bubbles coming out of the top layers. The top is the side with the well for a metal nut to be dropped into. So lets say that perhaps we are looking at a combo of drier filament and the fan-by-layer script with me leaning towards the fan-by-layer as the winner. Regardless, this is a huge success IMO and want to thank the great folks who are always here to help on the CURA forum... once again :-) All the best, no onward and upward!

Hey LePaul, Great question but yes, an actual filament dryer.

Gents, Huge thanks as always. I will purchase another roll of ABS just to see what the heck. Can't lose because a) moisture is the issue and I can then really dry the other roll and b) if not I will use the roll someday so not wasted money. Whilst y'all were considering my plight, I ran off two at once to see if heat was an issue. Best answer is maybe as both of these two parts are usable. Saddest thing is that for some silly reason I flipped the prints so that the visible side of the part would be shiny (from the bed surface) Arrggg. That shiny side needed to be the other side than how I oriented it. Hmm, I'm probably old enough that Sundowners had set in early after noon. Anyway, see the picts below. Meanwhile, what are your thoughts on why the first one (above picts) look so awful as the print rises off the build plate? Mentally I always say "too much heat" but have no reason to say that to myself especially when ABS isn't generally a fan of ...fans. Part of my frustration in all of this is my inability to look at something, like what we speak of here, and say unequivocally "Oh, too much XXX, or not enough YYY" as an example. I just sit back totally lost. I will, as stated above, change filament and continue to mess with the temps and cooling by levels. These last two are danged close to usable as they are. Any more thoughts, please share them with me. You so rock, TY

OK, y'all know I'm often confused but today? More so than ever. Never forget I'm a small time printer but still do it several times a week so more than zero right? After a typical successful run of parts, I needed to switch over to some ABS and this is what happened. What The Heck? All my filament lives in a box that keeps the humidity around 18% day in and day out. Add to that I placed the ABS filament into a typical drying box for 4 hours, acknowledging that ABS usually needs a longer bake, but the point is that the filament lives in a relatively dry place prior to my tossing the roll into a dry box to top it off. This part is small at a little over 30mm long depending on how you measure it, and say 11mm thick. First oddity can be seen on the top surface (where you see a place for a steel nut) that has blister bumps! Next, the lowest first few layers, the ones coming up from the bed, are way confused leaving the whole piece misshapen and useless. Below please find a few pictures along with the .3mf file. I'm using CURA 5.8.0 As I type, I've chosen to start a print 2 of these parts at once in an effort to see if layer time/heat is an issue. I've also ditched the Tree growing out of the bed to support the gap. Maybe that tree trunk causes the rest of the print to be freaked up? I'm reaching here. The settings seen here are ones I've used with this very ABS previously with great success. Lucky I guess. I can say that the other parts were considerably larger in size. Let me know any thoughts as I'm happy to make changes. These are those days that can be discouraging. DR-013 Lock reva.3mf

Thanks for the education which of course is way beyond my pay grade but so appreciated. And if the model isn't sitting flat on the build plate I'm not sure what to say as I tell CURA to put that end of the model on the plate. CURA stands it up vertically (as I've asked it to do) from a laying position. From there, this blind old guy has no clue if it is, or is not, flat. Regardless, not complaining, but thanking you for pointing this out. And BTW, this is a small model of the body for our Bonneville land speed record motorcycle. Each of these models ends up in our small wind tunnel to give us shaping direction before we decide to say OK, lets present this to folks who take $$ to run the profile. The picture below shows a model mounted up in the tunnel . The thing we love about printing is that we can easily make any desired form changes in CAD, slice in CURA, print again ,and run it in the wind tunnel for answers. This cuts way down on time etc. TY CURA! Stay well, PDC

OK TY gents. Not exactly sure how I managed to tweak supports to 15 as I'm not sure where I've ever used that. Oh well. But we all have to agree that the slicer must be on a bender as there is nothing on the model to support at all accept near the curve of the fin sitting on the bed. It's almost as if the slicer goes "well maaaybe we should start a tree trunk here as a just in case somewhere along the way we might have to actually use one" :-) And the your tip on using the "Limit X-Y accel/jerk" is very appreciated. Another lesson in options that without your mentions, would never have me using. Anyway, TY'all VM as I was stumped. And please mark this as "Solved" so feel free to close it up. All the best, PDC

OK folks, I've yet to do anything with this print, but am about to. Having just finished adding a hole to the part in CAD before creating the .stl file used and opened to slice up in CURA 5.8.0 Understand, I've done this same thing for the first model that was without the hole, and that slice had no "growths" seen at the base. I can see no reason for these growths so am dumbfounded. I'm here to ask "why are these put here?" And once we've figured that out (OK, one of you), how do I get the slicer to leave this out? I tried sweat talking the screen but got nothing so any help would be appreciated. I might try putting support blockers there but um...why? I'm reaching of course so I'll be quiet now. Anyway, below is a close up of the base, and I've included the .3mf file. Whl Fair JWM proportion with hole.gcode.3mf