Follow up to the my question from this morning. these two are printed with the same slicer settings using octoprint on a pi. the left one was sliced with slic3r and the right one with cura. the flash makes it look like it has more z wobble than it does, but the artifacts are gone and I finally figured out that the warts on the back of the left one actually say make:
It’s likely because Slic3r does this thing where, if you have multiple towers, it’ll do them in 1, 2, 3, [next layer], 3, 2, 1, [next layer], 1…
This means that towers 1 and 3 get 2 layers printed one right after the other.
I think the current cura does this, too (printing on the same island twice). Old versions based on Skeinforge didn’t. Never had trouble with that new order, though.
@ThantiK yeah, it means that even though the print may be faster because there is less travel, the towers get goopy from being heated from the extruder for too long.
I’m trying Cura for the first time today because of this post. Hope it turns out well. I used to look at ultimaker software a lot but it was priced a while back so I lost interest. Only now do I realize that it’s free! Thanks!
I didn’t even pay attention which way slic3r and cura did the three towers . but even on the single body slic3r had artifacts and you couldn’t make out the word on the back at all
I got opposite results
@Jonathan_Haberman
Actually Cura was an open source project from the beginning, you can only really call it “Ultimaker Software” now that they hired the developer. But despite the new Ultimaker branding the software is still open source and Daid is very responsive and sometimes doing improvements for other printers, too.
@Martin_Renold okay, I guess the software ultimaker used to have wasn’t cura but something else