GregValiant 1,305
I was Detrimental? I try not to do that. Instrumental is more what I aim for.
Skirts get the flow going and that's about it so on a large part 1 is good. Small parts might need 2 or 3.
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GregValiant 1,305
The model has some errors in it. They look minor to me but you never know. The screenshot below is from Mesh Mixer and the 4 balls indicate errors. I didn't have any trouble slicing it as received.
I'm attaching a repaired model. Load it into Cura and get Cura ready to slice and then use the "File | Save Project" command and post the 3mf file here. It will contain your settings and your printer.
There are a couple of things you can check:
If it is a dual extruder printer then make sure you haven't disabled one that was set to print the skirt or support.
If the model barely fits on your build plate then try using a 1 loop skirt with the Skirt Distance set to 1mm.
When you are in "Custom" settings mode - to the right of the Settings Search box is an icon with three lines on it. Click on it and set the visibility to "All".
G17 P80_fixed.stl
Here is the report on your model from https://formware.co/OnlineStlRepair. Not bad. There was a "Crystal Dragon" model on Github and it wouldn't slice. It had 400,000 errors in it. The term "DUUUHHH!" comes to mind.
--> 9 Naked edges (?)
--> 3 Planar holes (?)
--> 0 Non-planar holes (?)
--> 1 Non-manifold edges (?)
--> 2 Inverted faces (?)
--> 0 Degenerate faces (?)
--> 2 Duplicate faces (?)
--> 0 Disjoint shells (?)
-> Repairing: 100.00%
----- Repair completed in 15591ms ------
-> Vertex count changed from 29326 to 31838 (+2512)
-> Triangle count changed from 58697 to 65672 (+6975)
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FreedomFireArms 0
Thank you SO MUCH for your help Greg, I really really appreciate it and you were detrimental to my first ever print!! I did what you said in terms of skirt settings and that was exactly the issue, I was able to slice it easily as soon as I changed it to 0.5mm-- is that okay or is it too small?
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