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spencyg

One thing I find especially interesting about the 3D printing community, and more specifically the resolution of problems within 3d printing forums is that for every question there are at least 2 conflicting answers. Some people say always do it this way, while others say never do it this way, do it...

spencyg

I'm printing the model right now with a 0.4mm width setting and a heavier extrusion multiplier and I can already tell I'm over extruding but still have some wall gaps. I did a thin wall test before printing and my 0.4mm width was printing at 0.45mm. Clearly, just adding material isn't fixing the pro...

spencyg

I just tried using the outline overlap percentage setting on the infill tab. It doesn't appear to affect the perimeter shell at all, only the overlap between the inner most shell and the mating infill geometry. As I go wider on extrusion width the print preview window basically just shows the lines ...

spencyg

I've tried that with limited success. Everything I've read suggests that once you have the extruder laying down the exact width that is set within the line width setting in S3D than this should't happen. To start adding back material via the multiplier just leads to extruding a line that is wider th...

spencyg

I've been an S3D user for about 8 months now and have been generally happy with the program. I have been having an issue lately which I can't seem to find an answer to using the search function of this forum. I've got perimeter layer gaps. The gaps aren't consistent around the perimeter and seem to ...

spencyg

Joe,

That fixed it. I'm clearly still wallowing in the basics.

Now comes the fun of tuning this thing (and having the settings actually do something!)

Thanks for the assistance!

SG

spencyg

Oh, and the .ini file is basically a copy from the link above. The gpx executable and ini file are in their own folder on the harddrive. It didn't work at all with the gpx executable in the S3D folder, presumably due to path character size limitations.

SG

spencyg

Bingo. I had the setting within the CAD program very coarse. Setting it much finer solved the faceted faces. Thanks!!!

SG

spencyg

So I've got the GPX file working with a custom .ini file. Unfortunately, modifications to the .ini settings for steps per mm don't seem to effect my print. I disabled the default create .x3g setting in S3D and put the correct file path in the additional terminal commands box. This line is exactly wh...

spencyg

You should do a search for "steps per mm". There are MANY topics that answer this already. For example, they just posted a tip of the week about it (http://forum.simplify3d.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1937) Believe me...I have done LOTS of searches and still I'm left confused. The answer ...

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