Is this a good candidate for pressure advance?
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Hmm, well I've done quite a few experiments last night and today, and so far it hasn't been working for me as expected.
At my 60mm/s print speed the pressure advance settings just don't seem to be reducing the corner bulging to any noticeable degree in at least the .1-.8 range or so. By the time I got to S2.0 I saw noticeable improvement in the corner bulging, but something else was going on that caused catastrophic underextrusion on the corner where all my layer changes and direction reversals was taking place. I'm not talking about 90 degree corners, I'm talking where the nozzle got to the corner and reversed direction 180 degrees to go down the adjacent wall at the same layer, or the nozzle moved up in Z to the next layer height and began the wall at the new layer.
With S2.0 I was seeing the extruder just stop extruding as it headed into the corner and coast in like 30 or 40mm, leaving those perimeters catastrophically underextruded.
What I'd see with S2.0 was that at every 90 degree corner the extruder would jerk backwards and then jerk forward again really rapidly as the nozzle approached and then left that corner, except the one corner where all the layer changes happened it would stop extruding completely 30-40mm away from the corner, not jerking back at all, literally just stopping, then simply resume once it hit the corner and made the turn for the next line. No jerking back and forth at all, simply stopping and then resuming.
In the .1-.3 range I saw the extruder jerking back and forth into and out of corners by small amounts, and if my 566 jerk settings were high enough on the extruder setting it would even be a violent and loud event, but it didn't seem to affect the actual corner budging very much.
By S.4 or so I started to see the first signs of underextrusion in the corner where the layer changes happened. By S.8 I saw the first voids appear in the corners immediately around that wall. By S1 to S2 those voids turned into catstrophic 10-30mm sections of massive underextrusion.
I've got the coasting setting in S3D turned off completely in these tests. I can't figure out why the advance pressure setting is causing the nozzle to simply coast into and then resume extruding out of that one corner by such large values.
Here's a pic that shows a wall printed out at 60mm/s all the way up, where every few minutes I changed the S value from .1 all the way up to .8. The .8 value shows the first consistent voids in the lines heading into that corner where all the layer changes happen, due to it coasting for an unreasonable amount of time heading into that corner. The first little bulge you see, around the middle of the Z height going into that wall, happened at S=.4. From S=.1 to S=.3 there wasn't much of a noticeable problem with this corner.
Here's the opposite wall during that same print. The black lines are where I marked the edge of the top layer with a Sharpie after making a new change to the S value of M572. Notice that the corner bulging doesn't appear to have been affected in really any noticeable way.
Here's a view of just around the corner from the corner in the previous photo. This side shows where the nozzle is coming out of that corner and accelerating back into the current line. The .1 value is at the bottom, by the top it's at .8. The corner has actually been subtley altered here, but the bulging is still there, and the real change is that the initial portion of that line appears to be lagging a little in extrusion, so there's a slight dip for the first few milimeters coming out of the corner.
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Oh, here's a view of the corner, on another test print, where the S value of M572 was at 2.0, and the extruder simply stopped a good 40mm or so from the corner and coasted all the way in, and then simply resumed, with no repriming or anything, as it left that corner to print the line.
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I read a comment somewhere where DC42 said that one may have to reduce retraction a little bit if pressure advance is used, but having the extruder completely stop and just coasting for 40+mm before entering a corner seems a little redonkulous to me, assuming that a retraction is to blame for it behaving this way in that corner only. My retraction is currently at 5mm due to the bowden tube.
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I have found that having pressure advance enabled results in layer offsets (likely caused by skipped steps) about once in 50-100 hours of printing. It seems more prevalent on parts with lots of small segments and complex geometry.
Since it's so infrequent it's pretty hard to debug, so I've turned it back off. Which is a shame because it does help sharpen corners up some with long bowden drives.
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I have found that having pressure advance enabled results in layer offsets (likely caused by skipped steps) about once in 50-100 hours of printing. It seems more prevalent on parts with lots of small segments and complex geometry.
Since it's so infrequent it's pretty hard to debug, so I've turned it back off. Which is a shame because it does help sharpen corners up some with long bowden drives.
Which firmware version were you using when that happened?
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Oh, here's a view of the corner, on another test print, where the S value of M572 was at 2.0, and the extruder simply stopped a good 40mm or so from the corner and coasted all the way in, and then simply resumed, with no repriming or anything, as it left that corner to print the line.
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I've same issue with pressure advance, i removed this functionality from my setting. I found my issue was related to jerk setting :
https://www.duet3d.com/forum/thread.php?id=1216Thanks for this well documented thread, i was not able to do what you do ! I hope it will help David to find the problem.
Best regards,
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Which firmware version were you using when that happened?
First noticed on 1.10, but also seen on 1.17-based firmware. But it was a lot less frequent on 1.17.
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I read a comment somewhere where DC42 said that one may have to reduce retraction a little bit if pressure advance is used, but having the extruder completely stop and just coasting for 40+mm before entering a corner seems a little redonkulous to me, assuming that a retraction is to blame for it behaving this way in that corner only. My retraction is currently at 5mm due to the bowden tube.
I'm not surprised at that behaviour, because I've seen in your other post that you were using S2.0 as the pressure advance setting. That is far too high. The optimum value is generally in the range 0.05 to 0.25.
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Which firmware version were you using when that happened?
First noticed on 1.10, but also seen on 1.17-based firmware. But it was a lot less frequent on 1.17.
If you can find a print that reproduces the problem reliably in firmware 1.18.1 then I'll try to work out what is happening. You can help by running M122 after layer shifting occurs and reporting the Step Errors count.
