Strange artifact in brim/skirt Hi, Does anyone know why i'm getting this strange artifact in the skirt brim of any object I slice? It's like there is an extra object there but there isn't! Not a big problem usually but very large objects make this appear out of the bed area which causes issues. Thanks adavidm https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423145#msg-423145 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:45:43 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,424015#msg-424015 Re: Strange artifact in brim/skirt https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,424015#msg-424015
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justcurious
Read the Cura manual and see that for dual extruders you have an option named wipetower and oozeshield that may cause this pattern..:-D

Read the manual, are you mad?!

But, yes, you are correct of course. The option appears to be on by default but isn't triggered unless repetier is configured for multiple extruders. I'd forgotten that i'd done this during one of my chocolate extruder experiments.

Anyway, thanks a million, I can get on with printing now, and lesson learnt regards manuals!

adavidm]]> adavidm Repetier Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:19:35 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423572#msg-423572 Re: Strange artifact in brim/skirt https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423572#msg-423572 justcurious Repetier Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:57:44 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423563#msg-423563 Re: Strange artifact in brim/skirt https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423563#msg-423563
It doesn't matter what object is used, every single STL sliced by Cura shows the same articfact, offset 'North' and 'West' of the object to be sliced. If you switch brim and skirt off you get no artifact.

I'm going to create a cura profile from scratch and see if that has the same effect.

adavidm]]> adavidm Repetier Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:46:52 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423493#msg-423493 Re: Strange artifact in brim/skirt https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423493#msg-423493
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adavidm
Hi,

Does anyone know why i'm getting this strange artifact in the skirt brim of any object I slice? It's like there is an extra object there but there isn't!

Not a big problem usually but very large objects make this appear out of the bed area which causes issues.

Thanks

adavidm

Actually I had this very thing happen to me the other day and couldn't figure it out and it wasn't anything to do with the stl's either as I put 6 copies down and only one had it also moving them around made no difference either the artefact stayed in the same place very strange but didn't spend to much time trying to sort it.

Doug]]> dougal1957 Repetier Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:37:29 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423310#msg-423310 Re: Strange artifact in brim/skirt https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423310#msg-423310
I would almost consider you have an additional object with zero hight in your deck. Like a cube of (5, 5, 0), ready to be rotate-extruded, but not yet done so...
(However, this sounds a bit silly ?)

Can you upload the STL for one of those? I will slice it to see what happens

Thomas]]> Replace Repetier Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:30:32 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423145#msg-423145 Strange artifact in brim/skirt https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?267,423145,423145#msg-423145
Does anyone know why i'm getting this strange artifact in the skirt brim of any object I slice? It's like there is an extra object there but there isn't!

Not a big problem usually but very large objects make this appear out of the bed area which causes issues.

Thanks

adavidm]]> adavidm Repetier Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:27:00 -0400