More skirt than needed?

[rv7charlie 1]

Hi,

'Newbie' here, just started using Cura 5.6, printing on Ender 3 v3 SE. If I've been interpreting info correctly, a skirt is intended primarily to prep the nozzle's flow, and to indicate whether bed adhesion is going well. When I switched from Creality's slicer to Cura, I noticed that the printer will make a couple of runs around to print the skirt, move to the actual build for a bit, then come *back* to the skirt and print another layer. Is this normal behavior? I was able to stop it by changing 'skirt height' from 3 to 2, but I'm wondering why Cura would print skirt material after starting the actual print. 

[GregValiant 1,260]

You will need to switch to "Custom" settings and unhide all the settings.

"Skirt Height" is under the "Bed Adhesion" settings.  Set it to "1".

I find it annoying that when the feature was added the default was made "3".

[rv7charlie 1]

Yeah, I did manage to find the setting, and changed it from '3' to '2'. If '1' works, then I'll tweak it again. 😉

From what you're saying, it's apparently 'not a bug; it's a feature' of the software.

At least we can still repair the feature....

[GregValiant 1,260]

I made up a custom definition file.  I have that in there as an override.  I also don't like Support Horizontal Expansion defaulting to 0.8 so that's in there as well.

[GregValiant 1,260]

Double dip.

 

Edited March 6 by GregValiant

[rv7charlie 1]

What flavor? 

 

😉

[GregValiant 1,260]

"Cherish Chocolate Passion" please.  The Publix house brand.

With some chocolate syrup and a couple of dollops of Smuckers strawberry preserves I'm in heaven.