Any plans 'IP detect'
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What's that then ...
What I want is a slicer with half a brain that can handle bridging well, doesn't try to put the top on a round hole using circles (just plain dumb and guaranteed to fail - just bridge the darn thing. Infill that pays attention to part orientation not the orientation to the bed X,Y
Slicers could become a whole new thread
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@Garfield said in Any plans 'IP detect':
doesn't try to put the top on a round hole using circles
ah .. I'm yet to find that one
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@Garfield said in Any plans 'IP detect':
Slicers could become a whole new thread
pardon the OT; it was but a cheap joke - both the slicer and the post.
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No problem with OT, or jokes ... I can print the same part with 3 different slicers and the impact this has on the print quality / finish on the SAME printer is revealing. Slic3r and the Prusa offspring for instance put rubbish little dabs in places where a solid infil would make much more sense - added perimeters to overcome some of this nonsense. Simplify bridging is appalling, CURA lacks some finesse and is proving tricky to set up even using the same numbers from a successful profile in Slic3r ...
Could waffle all evening ... can already see a defect on the surface of a part that's printing - totally temperature related but if you get that bit correct the rest of the print suffers ....
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@Garfield If you're going to give Cura a try I would recommend this build maintained by one of the Cura contributors. He's implemented a lot of features and fixes that the stock Cura lacked. (Many are now part of Cura actually)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s43vqzmi4d2bqe2/AAADdYdSu9iwcKa0Knqgurm4a?dl=0&lst=
Cura is worth the effort if you're willing to go down the rabbit hole to explore and understand the many many options it has to tweak.
Also, for Prusa Slicer, the filaments thing can be worked around I think. The filaments tab is still all there for me. Maybe I'm grandfathered in.
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The Prusa thing happened recently, I have a mk3s so I've been onboard for a couple of years.
When I use the prusa the filaments appear fine, up until the last release I was using the corexy with no issues, when I try to define the corexy part of the wizard asks for bed and filament temps - which are totally irrelevant in a printer definition.
The only thing appearing in the filament drop down has the same name as the printer profile, reported it, it has had no response.
Guess I've been a bit lazy when it comes to figuring out why it is doing what it is ....
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Perhaps look at the Dependencies page under the filaments tab. "Compatible printers" is set to All for me. And in preferences I have "show incompatible print and filament settings" checked.
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Well I'll be .... think of an adjective
This place is full of genius ... works ...
It's official - going senile ....
Still going to try the CURA and the 'modded' version, and ideamaker ....
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@Garfield, the recent release of prusaslicer dropped the filament management support for non whitelisted printer models ('custom'). If all you have is a custom printer, you will not even see the 'filaments' tab in the configurations wizard.
However, you can still define from scratch your own filament profiles and save them. It will allow you to select the desired filament from the ones you defined and saved.
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As mentioned - I have a MK3S - I kind of have it working now, that said if what you say is so then I find it a path down a route that I'd hoped Prusa wouldn't go, the filament library is great, I also add my own to it. To tie the library to 'specific' printers isn't a good idea, filaments are independent of ANY printer - the 'compatible approved printers' thing is the sort of BS I expect from certain major hi tech companies.
