… discovering the value of the cool setting in skienforge…
There’s no reason, ever, that anyone should be using skeinforge anymore.
I can think of one reason… two actually!
You might have stumbled across an outdated post telling you all about how to get good prints and skeinforge is the subject…
OR
You might feel all that extra control is worthwhile.
I don’t see any issues with using it - hell, slic3r only succesfully slices 2/3 times for me… and Cura / sfact are based on it, but have less control over the print…
Wouldn’t use it myself, but I imagine it gets love from some users…
@ThantiK I am trying skienforge because I print on Linux and have had incredibly poor results with slic3r (bad top surfaces, inability to scale holes correctly, z-ribbing etc.) I know how to calibrate my machine, as I am getting perfect results with skienforge… so must blame slic3r. Are there any other options on Linux?
@Jarred_Baines It is actually sfact I’m using, which I thought was just skienforge with sensible defaults… Is there more to it than?
@Rob_Antonishen , Cura. KISSslicer. Both of which will slice 1000x faster than skeinforge.
And @Jarred_Baines Cura no longer is based off of Skeinforge/SFACT. Daid is using his own engine now.
+1 for kisslicer… GOD I wish they would update it with a brim… I’d never update my slicer again if I had kisslicer with a brim!
I didn’t realise cura was using its own engine now… I had a go with mostly default settings just the other day and had a print which just would not work… Prematurely gave up on it, but once my machine’s dialed in again (just upgraded) I’ll give it a whirl 
@John_Ridley I know lots who have no issues with slic3r… I’m just not one of them. I agree with others that there is an issue in the math that just causes bad prints for some hot end/extruder combinations…
If you end up having something wrong with Cura, Slic3r, and KISS - having to modify a ton of settings in order to get them to work, then you’ll know that you’ve got something set wrong elsewhere. Right now, you simply have a bunch of fiddly knobs that you can kind of tweak to mask the problem, but slic3r doesn’t have “bad prints for some hot end/extruder combinations”…that’s a huge hint that something is wrong elsewhere, and not the slicer. The accurate holes thing - that’s a known slicer issue. But the rest, not so much.
Skeinforge has horrible defaults. Which is why I started Cura. But Cura evolved beyond the Skeinforge roots a year ago, with a C++ engine, which is between 60x and 100x faster. It does not have all the features that Skeinforge has, because I do not think that more features is always better.
Skeinforge is just suffering from a lack of love. For its vintage it is a great program but others have overtaken it in some areas. I still use it for 90%, or more, of my printing because of the flexibility it offers.
The only gripe I have with the printrun suite in general (and other 3D printing technology) is the choice of Python for the implementation.