I want to give a shot at Cura on my PrintrBot,

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I want to give a shot at Cura on my PrintrBot, anyone got some known working settings I can start with ?

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Isn’t Printrbot in the drop down?

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It is but I somewhat doubt the values as it set’s the print area to 150mm x 150mm x 150mm

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@Brook_Drumm here is what is in the Printrbot.ini file:

[machine]
machine_name = PrintrBot
machine_type = RepRap
machine_width = 150
machine_depth = 150
machine_height = 150
machine_center_is_zero = False
has_heated_bed = True
gcode_flavor = RepRap (Marlin/Sprinter)
extruder_amount = 1

[profile]
filament_diameter = 2.85
nozzle_size = 0.5
layer_height = 0.2
fill_density = 10
print_speed = 30
print_temperature = 240
travel_speed = 150

To me at least the machine_width, machine_depth, machine_height, nozzle_size and filament_diameter look bad.

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Yeah, some of that is wrong. ;(

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.4 nozzle
1.75 filament ymmv
Size is relative to machine
Speed… Also a choice, but I print at 60
Heated bed is relative to machine

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@Brook_Drumm Thanks, I’ll give that a shot tonight.
BTW keep up the great work, The Printrbot Simple (got the late 2013 model) is just amazing !
Just need to fine tune mine a bit more as the fishing line was missing from my kit (got some through your support team) so I was using whatever I believed was closest and I could get locally. (what is the spec of that fishing line anyway ?)

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Thanks! Will do. We use 200lb test Kevlar but it’s probably overkill.

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Yikes, that’s going to be hard to find here local on the south shore of Montreal !

Thanks for the info.

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@Andre_Courchesne1 you can get that type of Kevlar from kite shops.

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@Brook_Drumm FYI a PrintrbotSimple.ini file was added in the git repo for Cura following a ticket I filled:

https://github.com/daid/Cura/issues/735

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Ok, well, I thing I’ll stick with Repetier. Cura prints faster but I’m having first layer adherence issues.