Generally great print quality except this curve?
I redone my belts with the GATS system tensioning my belts equally across all 4 of them to approximately 4kg, and made the belts equal size. The belt tension feel's lower than I'd of done it to manually. Whilst doing this I re-squared my gantry too which has improved my VAOC results. Overall my machine moves as smooth as it ever has but..
I'm getting this bumpy, wavy wall on what should be a smooth curve though?
Any help greatly appreciated
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What happens if you print a cylinder? Looks like belt teeth so thinking the is some kind of conflict but haven't seen such a dramatic effect like that
I can try that tomorrow. It's currently printing the same part but instead of the standard export in fusion 360 that I've always done, i changed the refinement settings to as fine as they go. Here's the before and after wireframe in fusion.
So far it seems better, when its finished i'll post a picture. Would arc of avoided this?
It looks aligned with the pattern on the print i thought.
Not sure that's it but who knows
Yeah i thought it was weird too.
I'll take a picture of the print in progress in about an hour when I get back by it.
I need the part for a test fit and that corner quality isn't important at the moment so was worth trying.
Rest of the print is really great imo.
Other than it slowing lifting off the bed
I will post updated pictures of the finished print later
Again it was peeling off the bed slightly on that corner but overall better. Faintly see it in person. Searching for 'arc' on here i found someone with something similar and the solution was to print as a step file instead i think it said. Will try that next.
stl vs step in orca
I use STEP files for my exports now that it is supported in most slicers. From what I have read, arc gcode is not supported by RatOS, but importing the STEP into the slicer makes a noticeable difference.