Cura: Wall has gaps

[Dunkc]

Hi All
I am printing a dog.stl from Thingiverse, sliced with Cura but the three shells are not joined together to form a solid wall. I have calibrated the extruder with the same filament but different colour, also checked filament width. There are gaps in the wall shells as I am watching it print. This will end up as a week print, not a big problem for this item but I thought Cura fixed these problems. Any ideas?

[smartavionics]

Can you please post a link to the stl, there's lots of dogs on thingiverse!

[Dunkc]

I am pretty sure this is it. Body wall now seems OK but lower legs sections had problem.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:979368

[Dunkc]

Also noticed strange holes and gaps in support

[smartavionics]

Wow, that's a big dog!
I can't see any problem in the walls, looking at the layer view. Those gaps in the support do look weird. Sorry, I don't have any suggestions as to what's happened there. Hope the print comes out OK.

[Dunkc]

Thanks for looking. Seems to be going OK. I have noticed (or imagined ) that since the last Cura update the models are HUGE and not centred in the build area automatically

Duncan

On 18 Aug 2017, at 8:37 pm, Mark Burton [e-mail] wrote:

Wow, that's a big dog!
I can't see any problem in the walls, looking at the layer view. Those gaps in the support do look weird. Sorry, I don't have any suggestions as to what's happened there. Hope the print comes out OK.

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[smartavionics]

There are settings in Preferences/General that control the automatic scaling of large/small models and shifting them to sit on the build plate. People grumbled about the automatic scaling so I think that's off by default now.

[Dunkc]

Thanks Mark
I'll have a look.
Are you on the development team? If so thanks for the great work.

Duncan

On 18 Aug 2017, at 8:44 pm, Mark Burton [e-mail] wrote:

There are settings in Preferences/General that control the automatic scaling of large/small models and shifting them to sit on the build plate. People grumbled about the automatic scaling so I think that's off by default now.

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[smartavionics]

Are you on the development team? If so thanks for the great work.

Thanks. I'm only a member of the Cura community, I have no connection with Ultimaker (I don't even own one of their printers!) But I look at my prints and think to myself, hmm, this aspect or that aspect could be improved so I like to tinker with the slicer to try and make it better and, of course, I want others to benefit too. That's the beauty of open-source development.

[Dunkc]

👍🏾

Duncan🇦🇺

[BagelOrb]

I advise to use ZigZag support rather then Lines.

I don't really see any problems in your gcode. Can this issue be closed?

[Dunkc]

The print came out really well. Close the case. The lower parts of the rear legs of the dog were definitely printed as a series of non-connected concentric rings but this is a decorative item.

Duncan

On 23 Aug 2017, at 8:55 pm, Tim Kuipers [e-mail] wrote:

I advise to use ZigZag support rather then Lines.

I don't really see any problems in your gcode. Can this issue be closed?

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