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Posted by Bill Clark 
Spikes?
November 21, 2015 11:28PM
Sorry if you have answered this before but what causes these spike anomalies? attached is a snapshot from the Repetier 3D view screen

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Re: Spikes?
November 22, 2015 04:17AM
They come if you have a very big angle change > 90° and get bigger until a cutoff. Normally a slicer will not produce these direction changes since it would extruder over old extrusion. But if it happens you see such spikes in preview. Print will normally be still ok. Some overlap often happens.


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