5.71 Not slicing

[DazP 0]

Hey All

 

I have just updated it to the latest release, but it will not slice anymore. It just hangs. I tried a few different models, but it has the same result.

I still have 5.4, and it slices, not a problem.

Any help is much appreciated.

[GregValiant 1,409]

If you are on a Windows system - right-click on the desktop icon and select "Run as Administrator".  That seems to work in some cases.

[Slashee_the_Cow 479]

Try disabling automatic slicing and then just slice manually when you change settings - sometimes it can get caught up on one.

 

Also, if you could share an example of a Cura project (.3mf, in Cura set it up then go to File > Save Project) that works in 5.4 but not in 5.7.1, that could help us diagnose the problem.

[DazP 0]

Thanks all, run as admin worked.

[jestertoo 0]

Run as Admin does not work for me. Eternally slicing, occasionally ending in a non-specific error. GPU goes to about 20% and CPU about the same. 
 Downgrading to 5.4 works fine for me and slices so fast it's not even a blip. 

I noticed that the models, even when not sliced, are dark grey like the original poster's picture without the red X. Not yellow as expected. When placed in invalid location they are yellow/lightgrey striped as expected. 
 

frank_telescope_filter_holder-cap.3mf

Edited May 21 by jestertoo

[Slashee_the_Cow 479]

5 hours ago, jestertoo said:

I noticed that the models, even when not sliced, are dark grey like the original poster's picture without the red X. Not yellow as expected. When placed in invalid location they are yellow/lightgrey striped as expected. 

The colour the models are shown in in Prepare mode is based on the material you have selected. "Generic PLA" is yellow but you have a black filament selected (it shows dark grey because completely black would make it hard to see details). If I switch to a purple filament:

The dark grey in the centre is just part of Cura's shadow which displays the space it takes up on the build plate and not part of the model.

 

5 hours ago, jestertoo said:

Run as Admin does not work for me. Eternally slicing, occasionally ending in a non-specific error. GPU goes to about 20% and CPU about the same. 
 Downgrading to 5.4 works fine for me and slices so fast it's not even a blip. 

If you can try slicing it in a newer version, preferably getting it to end in a non-specific error, could you please do that and post the cura.log file from the configuration folder (just go to Help > Show Configuration Folder) then we can see if there's anything which can be figured out (and I'll be perfectly honest: don't count on a solution being in the log file, but small chance of seeing problem in log > not seeing log).

[jestertoo 0]

Thanks. I undertand now changing the material changes the color of the model. Neat. In 7 years of using Cura I had never changed the material before 5.7.1

I opened 5.7.1 again to try to generate the error and it successfully sliced the same model. Slicing took roughly 3x as long as 5.4. 

[jestertoo 0]

Here's the logfile from the timeframe today where I was having problems. 

cura.log

[DazP 0]

Not printed for a while now even with admin rights its not slicing again, 5.4 working fine. No error with auto slicing turned off auto then got error I have attached log file.

cura.log

Edited June 11 by DazP

[GregValiant 1,409]

"2024-06-11 12:18:07,413 - WARNING - [MainThread] CuraEngineBackend.CuraEngineBackend._onStartSliceCompleted [499]: Unable to slice with the current settings. The following settings have errors: " 

But it doesn't list what settings might have errors.

 

In that first log file is this line:

"2024-05-21 21:16:11,785 - WARNING - [JobQueueWorker [4]] UM.Settings.SettingFunction.__call__ [124]: Exception: An exception occurred in inherit function =fill_density: name 'fill_density' is not defined

 

I have no idea where that would come from.  The setting is "infill_sparse_density".

Did you have a plugin or post-processor active for that slice?  Is "fill_density" mentioned in your StartUp gcode?