Thanks gents for all the responses, I'll try to digest it and make modifications.
I'd just like to say I really appreciate you both taking the time and effort and help me here.
I forgot to mention that I've been into 3D printing for a whole of 2 weeks at this point, so a lot of things are still 'alien'.
For one thing the profile I'm using as a base is someone else's creation to combat stringing (which it does), which maybe messing with the vase mode.
Edit: love that wife comment with the gold 🙂 Yeah it does happen here already, too.
Edited by widden
Recommended Posts
tinkergnome 927
Feedrates in the gcode file are matching your description.
But it seems like the model has a very high resolution - and your printer can't handle so many instructions per second.
Take a look at "Maximum Resolution" / "Maximum Deviation" in Cura (increasing these values will decrease the file size).
Link to post
Share on other sites
GregValiant 1,342
I responded to your post on reddit as well. It's as Tinkergnome said. The high resolution is causing stuttering. The 2500 Accel setting and the 80mm/sec print speed is causing issues as well as the printer is struggling to read all the gcode and the buffer is running dry causing the printer to have to wait for another instruction to show up.
I started to print your gcode file and made it about 150 layers before aborting it. It did not look good as there were a lot of surface defects. The one on the left is my slice at 75mm/sec and 500 Accel 8 Jerk. Print time was 1:45. The yellow circles are surface defects from the nozzle hesitating. I cut the feedrate to 70% (at about the red line) and it finished really well. (I cut it off in the image but the point printed quite well too.)
Here the gold one is at 35mm/sec, Maximum Resolution at 0.5, and I cut the temperature down to 200 at layer 435 to help the top, but really, the blue one came out pretty good at 210 all the way up. (I had to print it in gold because the wife walked by while I was printing the blue one. "That won't match"..."What color would you like dear?")
Link to post
Share on other sites