RepetierHost does a horrible job at showing extrusion widths. I'm not sure what it's doing, but it doesn't use the proper values from each segment. I noticed this because I had a bug in my new engine which caused some segments which huge amount of extrusion. Which you could see in Cura's GCode view, but not in RepetierHost. So be careful when you use Repetier.
Other then that, you are right, it's easy to visualise with Cura. Use the default settings, only set the wall-thickness to 0.7, then you will see that the fills are under-extruded and have gaps.
Funny that nobody noticed before. But good catch! The fix is easy and I will have it out soon.
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ian 32
can i ask ?
last night I designed a tablet box for my girlfriend, it had thin 2mm seperating walls between the different table sectors.
I of course as proud Cura user, gcoded it up and printed it.
The results were very good with clean walls and very accuarte but the seperate walls had nearlly no bonding between the two sides of a wall.
My question is, is this a big problem for all Cura users ?
Is this on the TO DO list for future Cura upgrades ?
Would adjusting the the nozzle size in cura upwards solve this problem ?
Thanks and best wishes.
Ian :smile:
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