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mgg4

I have taken it upon myself to create an unofficial, user-sponsored wiki for Simplify3D. You can find this wiki here: https://simplify3dwiki.com/w/index.php/Main_Page. If you would like to participate, read the rules (there are currently only 5), register for an account, confirm your email, and star...

mgg4

+1, but given the length of time this request has been open, it is not likely to see any action.

mgg4

I'll have a go at explaining these settings for you.... 1) Retreaction - this is reversing the feed of the filament in order to reduce the pressure behind the nozzle...and is the distance by which the filament is retracted. 2) Extra Restart Distance - the above setting winds the filament back by th...

mgg4

My understanding is RETRACTs affect the extruder (feeding of the filament), not the X-Y-Z position of the nozzle tip. If I'm wrong, please let me know; I'm always willing to learn. That is wrong! The Z-Position is mouved when retracting, its a additional function that can be set also to zero >>> LI...

mgg4

That doesn't make this a bug though, as the current behaviour is by design. It's just that it might be suboptimal. According to what I've learned in my near 40-year career as an engineer in IT and development, any sub-optimal behavior is, by definition, a bug. It may be a bug in the design, but it ...

mgg4

If you try the same by using RETRACTs it may have a better result. My understanding is RETRACTs affect the extruder (feeding of the filament), not the X-Y-Z position of the nozzle tip. If I'm wrong, please let me know; I'm always willing to learn. And if you want, you can attache your FACTORY-file....

mgg4

A follow-up. I sliced the same job with Cura by Dagoma (provided slicer for the Neva). I see a very different result. G1 F480 X-30.763 Y27.437 E8288.72242 G0 F6000 X-28.871 Y27.674 G1 F480 X-31.242 Y25.303 E8288.80606 ;LAYER:800 G0 F6000 X-29.633 Y24.170 Z120.260 ;TYPE:WALL-INNER G1 F480 X-29.143 Y2...

mgg4

I think I've found a potential bug in the way S3D generates the gcode around a layer change. Instead of raising the Z axis to the new level first, the gcode produced seems to perform the rapid movement to the location of the next extrusion, and THEN raise the z-axis to the appropriate level. This se...

mgg4

would it be better to move in the X or Y axis instead ? That's not a bad idea, but it could lead to stringing. I think KeyboardWarrior has the right idea - just lift and pause in place, then continue. I'm not sure about the values, though. It depends on whether the layer change code is called befor...

mgg4

I have a Neva profile just about ready to go. Been using S3D exclusively with my Neva for the past 2 weeks. A couple more tests to perform to finish dialing in the first layer settings and I'll be publishing it back to Simplify3D.

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