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Any reason you didn't take the RetractWhileCombing plugin for that purpose? (Writing your own plugin is certainly a good reason... )
Any reason you didn't take the RetractWhileCombing plugin for that purpose? (Writing your own plugin is certainly a good reason... )
hum, not really I didn't knew that there is any such plugin (it's the first plugin i ever used) - anyway, coding is fun and I will add some more options in near future
Not sure I agree with what you said about starting higher. If your layer height is say.300 then for the 2nd layer the bed will move .300 so there will be a .300 gap between the 1st layer and the 2nd layer - as required.
I will accept, although I have not tried, if your bed to nozzle distance is so way out, it might take a few layers to get it stabilised. The answer to that though is get the distance sorted!
I do like the idea of retraction though ; it pees me off that Cura does not do this on layer 1 - that should be a major bug fix not an add-in. The 1st layer is not always the 1st layer in use, i.e. you cannot assume the 1st layer is the base and will be hidden in use.
In theory you are right I think, that's why I wrote that...
but in practice it doesn't work for me and many others - don't know exactly why but if I start at this height without the plugin, it comes to overly visible lines at the second layer at my printer.
It's not a bad idea to have more material on the first layer without too much pressure I think.
With this method you just shift it to the second layer, where in general is less resistence.
But hey, if you don't have the problems mentioned above you will surely not need it (the plugin)
Oh if it stops line so layer by implementing retraction I do need it
Your plugin seems very interesting!
However, it is not really intuitive.
Can you give a summary of the options?
How do you manage the pressure? By handling the nozzle-height, or by handling the feed rate?
About the options "use at [inner walls/outer walls/skins]": use what?
The description "offers some options for the first layer" is not really descriptive. Try to be more concise!
I'm most interested about extra pressure on the outer walls; perhaps I will include that option in Cura.
Bagel Orb - I suggest you just read the code. As a programmer I have learned that reading other people's code may be a little frustrating at first but you may learn some tricks and also you will understand exactly what the plugin does and you can decide if it's useful at all.
A very nice feature in Cura would be for it to make more perfect bottom and top surfaces. So "hop on move" for surface layers and "retract on move" for surface layers might be nice (not all layers - just the outer most layers).
hey! oh no please don't read the code - it's really ugly, quick 'n dirty and without any object-orientation :???: :-P
i rewrite it at the moment, it's now 720 lines long and it cannot do anything xD (well... it does "understand" the GCODE now and creates some tool objects)
the extra pressure is provided by a bed-movement in direction of the nozzle so far, but I will think about "the feedrate".
1) - 3) are self-explaining i think
4) allows to deactivate hopping on some parts of the first layer, i.e. the inner/outer-wall or the skin (infill)
5) - 6) self explaining
7) - 8) moves the bed towards/away from the nozzle. in my case that results in a good adhesion where it is necessary (the walls) and does not produce to much pressure in the nozzle while you print the skin (infill)
I'm still working on it
This is how it looks now:
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updated, more will follow...
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