Skirt Speed

[Brotron]

If you have a mostly vertical print you could use a second process on the model with the horizontal size compensation "Other Tab" offset with no infill. Then the skirt gets treated like a model and you can control the shell width, speed, and stop it at any hight. Of course it will follow the contours of your model, so overhangs could get wonky. I use this to print a base flange and it works awesome.

[slavka012]

I too ran into this problem. Skirt was printing too fast and was not adhering properly.

Yes, "First layer underspeed" does apply to the skirt, but in the end skirt is still printing faster than everything, because model is subject to two other speed reductions, "outline underspeed" and "infill underspeed". Theoretically you could create a separate process for the first layer in which you set "outline underspeed" and "infill underspeed" to 100% and use sufficiently small "first layer underspeed". But that is kind of hassle.

I created a Perl script that parses the the gcode and changes the printing speed of skirt to the specified one.

In the Script tab, "additional terminal commands for post processing" add the following line:

cmd /c D:\work\bin\FixSkirtSpeed.pl "[output_filepath]"

Feel free to use!

[S3D-Jake]

I too ran into this problem. Skirt was printing too fast and was not adhering properly.

Yes, "First layer underspeed" does apply to the skirt, but in the end skirt is still printing faster than everything, because model is subject to two other speed reductions, "outline underspeed" and "infill underspeed". Theoretically you could create a separate process for the first layer in which you set "outline underspeed" and "infill underspeed" to 100% and use sufficiently small "first layer underspeed". But that is kind of hassle.

I created a Perl script that parses the the gcode and changes the printing speed of skirt to the specified one.

In the Script tab, "additional terminal commands for post processing" add the following line:

cmd /c D:\work\bin\FixSkirtSpeed.pl "[output_filepath]"

Feel free to use!

Thanks for sharing your elegant solution with the users of our forum. I'll be monitoring this thread to gauge interest in a separate skirt speed setting for the GUI in the future.

[rodrigorozario]

I had to do this manually additing the gcode file. My printed parts looks even better now.