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I see you haven't read my rant regarding single and double wall calibration cubes.
In the Marketplace you will find a plugin called Printer Settings. Load it and restart Cura. One of the settings in there is Diameter. Measure your filament diameter with a decent caliper and enter the number into Cura in that box. (My filament from Matter Hacker is a very consistent 1.72 diameter and not 1.75). Calibrate the E-steps of the printer and you are all done. The prints will show you if you are over or under extruding. Ya just gotta look.
Walls are not a particularly good check of over-under extruding. Infill and skins give a much better visual.
Flow is the ratio of: Volume of Filament to Volume of Extrusion. When that ratio is 1:1 the flow is 100%. The thickness of a wall that consists of extrusions that are unconstrained on both sides just doesn't come into it.
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I see you haven't read my rant regarding single and double wall calibration cubes.
In the Marketplace you will find a plugin called Printer Settings. Load it and restart Cura. One of the settings in there is Diameter. Measure your filament diameter with a decent caliper and enter the number into Cura in that box. (My filament from Matter Hacker is a very consistent 1.72 diameter and not 1.75). Calibrate the E-steps of the printer and you are all done. The prints will show you if you are over or under extruding. Ya just gotta look.
Walls are not a particularly good check of over-under extruding. Infill and skins give a much better visual.
Flow is the ratio of: Volume of Filament to Volume of Extrusion. When that ratio is 1:1 the flow is 100%. The thickness of a wall that consists of extrusions that are unconstrained on both sides just doesn't come into it.
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