Animation Speed

[XYZDesignPro 70]

Is there any way to speed and / or slow down the animation in Cura?  All I can see is Start / Stop, and layer.  I'd like to be able to speed up the animation.

[Graphillusions 0]

Yes, I have the same issue. It would be really nice to have that feature. So far I've found only a possibility to change it, by messing around with some file, which is described here:
https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues/3120

 

Maybe there is nobody doing anything about it, because this is more a feature request than an issue. However it makes the animation for larger prints unusable, so that may be seen as an issue.

[gr5 2,172]

Well you can drag the horizontal bar as fast as you want.  Does that help?

[SteveBaker 2]

Manually moving the slider helps - but it's not ideal.  A "10x" button would probably be OK - but a general speed control would be most useful.

[XYZDesignPro 70]

WOW, I originally posted this 2½ years ago.  Still looking for this animation upgrade.  When I used Simplify3D, it looked like this:

 

[3D4DfifD6D7D 0]

Well I have to wonder how many folks interested in meaningfull preview speeds have or will give up on Cura if this is as good as it is going to get... I'm a 3D printing noob, and I will be lookingh at other slicers now.  At this point, my disappointment is 100% based on the slow previews.  Thanks all for providing guidance herein!

[BlondieSL 0]

I know that this is an older topic, but I still see this same question about the animation (pen) speed thing, even now.

 

While the file is easy enough to modify to make it fast, I just don't understand why Ultimaker Devs won't just add an option for speed.

Even if a Right Click on the "pen" and then have a speed control (slider), would be great.

 

It's not difficult to code that.

 

Just a thought. 

[XYZDesignPro 70]

Four years have gone by since my original post.  More new versions of CURA than I can count.  Still no interest from the developers, or the community overall, in this topic.

 

Simplify3D made it look so elegant. Or, dare I say "Simple".🙃

[jhbmw007 0]

Another year later, is this still not an option?  Was trying to figure out how to increase playback speed and came across this thread.  Dragging the horizontal bar is not ideal and will only let you (manually) "speed up" one layer at a time, you have to drag the vertical bar to get to the next layer!  

[Slashee_the_Cow 266]

The "edit configuration file" that Graphillusions posted approach still works, you just have to know where to look.

 

For me (running Cura 5.4.0) it's:

C:\Program Files\UltiMaker Cura 5.4.0\share\cura\plugins\SimulationView\SimulationViewMainComponent.qml

on line 139, below

id:simulationTimer

is

interval: 100

Lower the interval number to increase the speed. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support floating point numbers (which breaks the UI by not even showing the layer selector or playback bar) so your dreams of animation at warp speed will have to stop at 1.