Snoopster

Thanks for your response. Apologies for the delay, I only received a notification for it today. You are spot on, it was the slicer retraction settings that were preventing the printer from bothering to retract. Altering Retraction min travel down to 0.5mm began to show improvements but then the scale numbers quality started to degrade. I am using an Ender3 pro V2, so as you say maybe i was pushing the bowden tube extruder beyond its limits. I decided to change the scale design to join the tops and bottoms of the graduations..... a bit of a cop out.

Can anyone help? Have a design to printout that has a graduated angular scale. The design was created in Tinkercad and sent to Ultimaker Cura and printed by Creality Ender 3 V2 PRO. Problem is the graduations on the scale are being joined together by the printer to create a 'wavy line' of graduations, whereas the design has discrete graduation lines that are not joined together. Is there some setting in Ultimaker Cura one can use to get the printer to behave itself? I think this is somehow related to the positioning of the white start points shown in the Cura file. If the next start point is close to the preceding finish point the printer just joins them together.