I've done some experimenting, and it seems Cura leaves some of the acceleration settings up to the printer if you don't manually set them, which could be what you're noticing. This update was mostly a quality of life and quality of print update, because it added dark mode (which I consider necessary, as I work mostly at night), the save files play better with other programs, tools have hotkeys, and such. Nothing to speed up prints was added. The next update is set to have a few time saving features. www.dropbox.com/sh/s43vqzmi4d2bqe2/AAADdYdSu9iwcKa0Knqgurm4a?dl=0 will let you get the "master" build. once it's installed it'll give you the "master" version right next to the others. manually run the curacli.exe and the best feature is gyroid infill. it makes a continuous 3D infill that is much stronger than the rest, with no directional bias, and because it uses slowly transforming curves, your printer doesn't need to slow down when printing infill- and you get to print less because it's really freaking strong infill.
No what I have found is that Cura generates extra wasted non printing movements, and doubles back. I have searched around and there seems to be a long standing issue. There is a lot of things I like about Cura. I have actually had two STL files that upset Slic3r, and heaps more that upset Simplify3D, but Cura is the most wasteful on inactive moves from many prints that I have done. Thank you for the link, I will check it out. Cheers, Michael.
here's an image showing my tests i.postimg.cc/pLrmNRfh/curavsslic3r.png you can bring in a gcode file from other programs to view them in cura. you can't filter them quite as much, but you can see travels. you might be surprised how mush is normal. after all, you've got at least 6-12 layers per millimeter. a centimeter high print of a cube with some infill will probably have at least 500 travels
That depends on how much as a percentage of printing tracks it is. I have found it to be nearly 50% on a few of my prints. The total penalty I have had was approaching 30%. I am often printing ducting components withe a 2.5mm wall thickness, the tip size is 0.6mm, so not many tracks, but often and awkward infill as a taper occurs. What bakes my noodle is that these parts are often circular, so regardless of the number of tracks, they finish where they start, and yet Cura generates a path the longest way round (360deg) rather than a tiny .5mm or so step.
I've done some experimenting, and it seems Cura leaves some of the acceleration settings up to the printer if you don't manually set them, which could be what you're noticing. This update was mostly a quality of life and quality of print update, because it added dark mode (which I consider necessary, as I work mostly at night), the save files play better with other programs, tools have hotkeys, and such. Nothing to speed up prints was added. The next update is set to have a few time saving features. www.dropbox.com/sh/s43vqzmi4d2bqe2/AAADdYdSu9iwcKa0Knqgurm4a?dl=0 will let you get the "master" build. once it's installed it'll give you the "master" version right next to the others. manually run the curacli.exe and the best feature is gyroid infill. it makes a continuous 3D infill that is much stronger than the rest, with no directional bias, and because it uses slowly transforming curves, your printer doesn't need to slow down when printing infill- and you get to print less because it's really freaking strong infill.
No what I have found is that Cura generates extra wasted non printing movements, and doubles back.
I have searched around and there seems to be a long standing issue.
There is a lot of things I like about Cura.
I have actually had two STL files that upset Slic3r, and heaps more that upset Simplify3D, but Cura is the most wasteful on inactive moves from many prints that I have done.
Thank you for the link, I will check it out.
Cheers, Michael.
I just had a play with the version you sent me, and I have a screen shot of what I mean.
Is there some way I can get a screenshot to you?
This is what I mean, buckets, and buckets of travel.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9_lc9feEKFvSVQ2dkdvVHh0NzA
here's an image showing my tests i.postimg.cc/pLrmNRfh/curavsslic3r.png
you can bring in a gcode file from other programs to view them in cura. you can't filter them quite as much, but you can see travels. you might be surprised how mush is normal. after all, you've got at least 6-12 layers per millimeter. a centimeter high print of a cube with some infill will probably have at least 500 travels
That depends on how much as a percentage of printing tracks it is.
I have found it to be nearly 50% on a few of my prints.
The total penalty I have had was approaching 30%.
I am often printing ducting components withe a 2.5mm wall thickness, the tip size is 0.6mm, so not many tracks, but often and awkward infill as a taper occurs.
What bakes my noodle is that these parts are often circular, so regardless of the number of tracks, they finish where they start, and yet Cura generates a path the longest way round (360deg) rather than a tiny .5mm or so step.