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gwhite

Also, if your filament has been sitting around or the packaging leaked, moisture can make stringing much worse. Try drying it and see if that helps.

gwhite

It's called "stringing", and it can be affected by lots of things. Here's the trouble-shooting guide on the subject: https://www.simplify3d.com/resources/print-quality-troubleshooting/stringing-or-oozing/ I've had stringing problems with older filament, especially if it has absorbed moistu...

gwhite

+1

Bambu has it, Orca has it. Prusa is working on it...

gwhite

Unless I want to spend a lot of time optimizing the top layer (which will require a separate process) for every different filament I have, ironing is pretty useful.

I've never seen any posts on how to optimize the top layer to the point where ironing would be superfluous.

gwhite

I just used ironing for the first time last night, using PrusaSlicer. I would have been using ironing for a lot of things I used to print with S3D, had it been available. I was VERY disappointed to find that it wasn't included in Ver. 5 after waiting years for its release, and seeing constant reques...

gwhite

What printer are you using? Are you printing from the SD card? That's definitely the more reliable method for long prints. Custom CR-10S. I print via USB from S3D v4.1.2; my laptop is in the garage next to my printer, so that's I use that version. Windows will occasionally probe or shut down a USB ...

gwhite

I think this is related to the problem I ran into with the default retraction speed. It switches back to a setting that is way too high every time I use it. In V4, the control panel opens up using the last settings. I don't consider this a feature request. It worked fine in V4, and therefore is expe...

gwhite

Have you calibrated your extrusion multiplier?

If that is all set, you can set up a process for the first layer with a higher extrusion multiplier to fill things in a bit better.

gwhite

PETG is very "oozy" material. It gets worse the hotter you run it so operating at a low temperature should help. I haven't used the Overture filament, but I run PETG at ~ 240C. I still get occasional strings, but it's not bad. If you just use standard retraction, it pulls the filament back...

gwhite

What I don't understand is why they messed with the Control Panel in the first place. It worked really well, and people were used to it. I don't recall seeing any feature requests for it. Instead, they clearly wasted a lot of time & energy messing it up, instead of focusing on getting the import...

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