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I really would like a way to slow down skirt print speed. It prints faster than everything else in first layer and frequently creates big problems with adhesion to print bed for me. I have to babysit it and pull off skirt as it's start to drag behind the nozzle. This is THE ONLY part of print that doesn't stick when using certain filaments like Armadillo. I can't reduce speed of first layer anymore than it is already because it starts to "boil" filament (can't lower temp as well or it won't extrude).
Bed is leveled perfectly as well (I use dial gauge). I print almost 24/7 with small farm of 5 MakerGear M2s. Issue with skirt adhesion is very noticeable on Buildtak surface that's not brand new.

Thanks for the feature request. This seems to already have it's own thread.

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It's not a pleasant workaround but you can manually modify those lines to reduce the speed in the generated G-code.

To do so simply:
Open the g-code file in a decent text editor like Notepad++
use the search function to find all text "; skirt"
There will only be a handful of lines which set the feedrate and you can manually replace those.
F2000 -> F500 is an example that would apply to my default skirt settings.

To automate the process even further change your printing speeds so that the skirt speed is relatively unique. Then you can use a find and replace to go through the document to locate those sections.

S3D-Jake wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:02 pm Thanks for the feature request. This seems to already have it's own thread.

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Thanks! I hope it gets implemented in next release!

furicks wrote: ↑Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:43 pm It's not a pleasant workaround but you can manually modify those lines to reduce the speed in the generated G-code.

To do so simply:
Open the g-code file in a decent text editor like Notepad++
use the search function to find all text "; skirt"
There will only be a handful of lines which set the feedrate and you can manually replace those.
F2000 -> F500 is an example that would apply to my default skirt settings.

To automate the process even further change your printing speeds so that the skirt speed is relatively unique. Then you can use a find and replace to go through the document to locate those sections.

Man that's brilliant!!! I don't mind editing G-code, this would save me some headaches!

If you're using the find and replace method, you could also use the built in tools for replacing text in your output file. For more on the REPLACE scripting option see the Tip of the Day post on the scripts tab.