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KimBrown
Ew..... 0.24mm
Zombie... DCs 57y... It's normaly sound as a pound, and doesn't have to many Glitches.
I suspect it was me either using Explorer to look at folder, or something minor.
It just went from printing full on, to stopped dead in it's track with no info other than 'Not SD Printing', but I still had control of the machine...
The SD card is a class 10, so should be good.
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PaulHam
I have attached my speeds i use with Cura. I had previously set all to 100 but the extruder couldn't extrude fast enough and kept skipping. How do we get the extruder to throw out filament faster? I saw a video of the ultimaker printing at high speed and its bloody fast!
Re: Speed May 01, 2014 11:50AM |
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dmould
...Slic3r is impractical for large prints - I've waited 2 hours on a big print and it still hadn't finished. Cura sliced the same STL in a couple of seconds...
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dmould
Look at your G file (the one actually on the SD card, not the one you copied it from) with a text editor. Go right to the end and see whether it is complete (ends with your custom end code and filament length comment if you use Slic3r).
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PaulHam
I have attached my speeds i use with Cura. I had previously set all to 100 but the extruder couldn't extrude fast enough and kept skipping. How do we get the extruder to throw out filament faster? I saw a video of the ultimaker printing at high speed and its bloody fast!
The extruder sets the speed limit for me also (in my case at around 70mm/s for 0.2mm layers printing ABS). If you make the layer height smaller you can print faster (because thin layers don't extrude so fast). Obviously that won't make the print take less time in total, but you get a finer layered print without taking twice as long. I upped the extruder current to 1200mA which made a slight improvement. At least it doesn't limit the non-printing moves, which you can make pretty much as fast as you like and rely on the acceleration parameter to limit the speed. That makes a huge difference with some designs that need a lot of non-printing moves.
Dave
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dmould
...Slic3r is impractical for large prints - I've waited 2 hours on a big print and it still hadn't finished. Cura sliced the same STL in a couple of seconds...
First file I sliced with Cura was a single wall test as to get flow rate just right and it did not turn out well, after the bottom layers it just raised to the top and did a vomit all over the bed - it was like Cura was giving me the finger!
Then one day Slic3r repeatedly failed in slicing a file I knew was OK so gave Cura another try and just plugged in the flow rate from Slic3r (0.85/85%), it sliced it in no time and the print came out just great! - then I read that Cura sometime have trouble detecting thin walls...and I know for a fact that Slic3r sometime makes single walls out of what should have been a 1mm wall so now I slice with both and test the print visually on gcode at ws before printing
Erik