Timeline for What's the purpose of the "outlines" around prints?
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| Apr 20, 2020 at 18:14 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | @KlaymenDK: Indeed, I find a prime line along the very edge of the bed far better than skirts. Every time I've tried enabling skirt, the inconsistent extrusion at the very beginning (from the nozzle not being primed yet) causes some material not to adhere right and get dragged around, and in some cases this actually messes up the beginning of the actual print! Doing priming as nothing but a straight line ensures that nothing can get pulled around before it starts adhering. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 12:25 | comment | added | Tom van der Zanden | It's also a good check of whether the print bed is level/at the correct height. I frequently make small Z babystepping adjustments while the skirt is being printed so it's in the exact right position when printing starts. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 11:52 | comment | added | Stuggi | Exactly, the idea is that the printer purging line handles most of the purging of the "bad" plastic, and the outline is just handles the "temperature stabilisation", which scales with the model for probably no other reason than that the slicer doesn't have to figure out where it can put the purging lines (since there's never going to be a print outside the models on the bed). | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 11:43 | comment | added | KlaymenDK | Aha, so based on your first paragraph, it might as well be shaped as a squiggle in some corner of the bed, yes? The way it is usually presented means the amount of purging depends on the area of the base of the model. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 11:39 | history | answered | Stuggi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |