Cura v5.4 - Improved Tree Supports & Easy Breakaway Brims
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ส.ค. 2023
- Chuck shows you the new features in Cura V5.4 including improved tree supports and easy breakaway brims. He also shares a new profile on this week's Filament Friday.
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I found a few errors in my video yesterday so I updated it and released it here.
I find it amazing that Cura is a free tool that gets updated so often. Not complaining 😅
CHEP - you were so right about the support breaking away cleaner now. Thanks for the free knowledge!
Thanks a bunch for all the info, Chuck! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Loving these videos, super informative
I've had my printer for 2 weeks have wasted almost 250g of filament trying to get things to print now that ive found your videos ive been able to solve a ton of my issues. thanks for your cura profiles hoping this solves all my issues now!!
Great improvements, thanks!
I am somewhat worried about the usefulness of the brim. If it is that easy to remove by hand, then how would it help with preventing warping and peeling, arguably the reason why it exists in the first place?
I downloaded your .16 Profile and tried it. Test it on a few cubes and other simple shapes. Didn't change any settings and came out pretty awesome. My printer is a snapmaker 350 FYI. I love all the videos and they are extremely helpful as I'm about 6 months into 3D printing and new to the sector. Keep up the great work💪🇺🇲
Helpfull; thank you!
Not private anymore! Thank you!
Thanks for the video!
Thanks CHEP.
Good video Chuck!
thanks Chuck. The 5.4 profiles came right on time. I was getting some weird issues using the 5.3 o the 5.4. Strange and not every time so maybe it was something else. Anyway thanks as always
Thanks chep you are my 3d printing god since I started 1 years ago
Thank you for your guidance. I have a question for you. Has the print quality improved in the new version compared to version 5.2? For me, the quality of the surface is very important. Thank you for answering my question🙏
So it’s Support Saturday!?!?
I've stumbled on a problem with 5.4. It seems to have issues printing some vertical wall. It will not print a PLA temp tower, and a couple of stls I've tried to print will not work because of this issue. Any ideas, or have you seen this issue yet?
Hey Chep!
Are you planning to make a video for the Ender 3 V3 SE?
That Printer looks quiet nice.
How does the "smart brim" actually work? 1) Is it printing the brim in a different order? (maybe partly from inside to outside that I'd expect would result in better line positioning) 2) Is it reducing the flow? 3) Maybe reversing brim print direction? 4) Did they just increase the brim distance?
Answers, as I've now looked at "Standard Quality" profile in Cura 5.4:
1) Yes. It still starts printing the brim from outside line towards innermost line (which ensures complete purging and consistent flow). The only difference is that at the the end it swaps the order so that it prints the innermost line right before the second innermost line.
2) No. 3) No.
4) No. However, for an even cleaner break than in this video, I'd strongly recommend adding a 0.1-0.3mm "Brim Distance" in your own profiles.
Finally, 20 brim lines is so overkill that you could easily reduce that to ~8. I have success with 4 brim lines but that's admittedly on the low side and I have an ok PEI bed.
I just have horrible under extrusion when I started using cura 5.x , mostly at the zseam.
Corners are also "fuzzy"/ don't print nicely
On the topic of ease of breakaway and supports, I've been having a lot of success printing with normal supports and setting 0 for the number of wall lines. While tree supports can be nice, I prefer printing normal supports without walls with the zig zag pattern for consistent support removal. It can take longer to remove the supports as they dont always breakaway in one piece, but I'm able to get my needlenose between the walls of the zig zag pattern and have a great grip when removing support material without having to worry about breaking the rest of the print. I can really yank on them without worry.
I don't think I've seen you talk about the idea before, might be something interesting for you to try.
how do I load your profiles in Cura 5.4? Importing the .3mf doesn't seem to change any setting ??
Not all of bit some of the tree supports fail and break away during printing. This was on the beta version. Any ideas on how fix this?
For some reason the .12 profile wont (even ask to) load as a project. Just loads a model
Hey Chep. Do you have an easy remove supports for anycubic Chiron ? I’m having a nightmare with very hard supports fused to the pieces
Thank you for all of your work! I'm going to try the profiles, I updated to Cura 5.4, the profiles for Cura 5.0 are good for this version? Greetings from Chile!
They are a good place to start.
Good video, but I've somehow left Cura behind since I've been getting along better with OrcaSlicer. 🤔😅
need help have a neptune 3 plus had it good but the nozzle would scrap the print so was told to turn on z hop then strings made more changes and still bad should i go to cure or is there a way to stay on purse slicer i dont care as long as prints are good oh and my prints are stuck together when there not supposed to
Ive been running v5.4 for a while now and like it, but I have to wonder if the easier to remove brims are at a cost of less bed adhesion for delicate parts of the model/part.
Not that I’ve noticed.
Hello, i am looking for some aid in resolving a strange issue between Cura, tree supports, and settings? Its a basic issue. On standing objects using Tree supports on build plate, there are small missing segments in the layers when moving from the tree support, back to printed part, during operation.
Im not sure where to look, or how to best explain this issue, but ive watched MANY of your vids, and enjoy the in-depth and detailed instructions. Weve only been at it a few months, and have been VERY satisfied with our modded ender 3, and very nice prints. There is only an issue when using the trees? They are best for our use cases. Any help would be genuinely, dearly appreciated. Thank you, and keep up the spectacular content!!!❤
man I was having a heck of a time printing some mini figures for someone, the fine details kept breaking when removing supports no matter what I tried. Finally at the 11th hour, I see the notification for Cura 5.4 with "improved supports" and wouldn't you know, it saved the day. Not sure specifically "what" it was, but seemed like previously some areas just didn't get supports that clearly needed it, or they just wouldn't stick or there would be so much "cocoon" to remove I would eventually knock off something. but the supports 5.4 used were less intrusive and easier to remove (and placed where needed)
Great feedback. Thanks.
Thanks for the updated profiles. I’ve moved over to a Sonic Pad to control my Ender 3 S1, so is there anything I should change in the profile to suit that?
I haven’t tested other on there. Try them and let me know.
Anyway I can adjust the tree supports in a way that cover more area? I’ll do tree support on some files and it’s not supporting areas that obviously need it no matter what overhang angle I use
Not sure why changing angle doesn’t fix that. It should.
5.4 is pretty broken for me. 5.3.1 was okay, but 5.4 stalls when slicing every time at around 45% to 50% of the way through, so I’ve had to go back to 5.3.1, though today I’m using the Prusa slicer which is seeming to give better results than Cura.
Shame because I like Cura, and it uploads nicely to the Sonic Pad, but for now I’ll stick with Prusa and uploading manually to the pad I guess.
Great functional video Chuck, but disagree on skirts - I use them quite effectively to prevent warping, especially for long skinny prints. Not as effective on tall large prints - an enclosed printer will be better. That's why I'm looking hard at the K1 max as the successor to my highly modded original CR-10.
I ❤ you Chep your like the Bob Villa of 3D printing... (No offense) Bless your channel!
Thank You.
I've got version 5.3.1 when I add the best profile 012 it installs properly just like the extra fast and the hyperfast not a problem but when I try to load the better 0.16 this comes up( failed to import profile from... unable to add this profile). can someone shed any light on this please thank you
I’ve wondered about energy saving by reducing the bed temp once the first layers are done. At least for PLA has anybody else tried this? What reduced bed temp worked best?
You won’t save much and you risk the print popping off during upper layers.
I've actually had to go back to 5.4 from 5.5 due to the huge number of random bug errors 5.5 has been throwing at me when trying to slice. I have one model that simply will not slice in 5.5 no matter what I do. 5.4 though has no problem with it. The main reason I didn't want to go back to 5.4 was that since installing 5.5 I had setup a couple new printers and I really didn't want to have to do it all over again with 5.4. Maybe I missed something but I couldn't see any way to export a printer profile from 5.5 to import into 5.4.
I tried prusaslicer 2.7, and while I eventually did get it to slice for me, I REALLY don't like the logic they used for it's setup. I also think I have a bug or some sort of corruption as once I slice a model I cannot alter the support settings (ie increase/decrease support density). The option is greyed out and unresponsive so I have to abandon the whole project, close and relaunch and start all over again. A MASSIVE pain in the backside. Since I do not like the overall setup and layout of prusaslicer I can't justify troubleshooting further.
I'm so frustrated but I can't get tree support option to show... I'm sure it's something silly I am not doing. BUT...also...even if used regular supports...why do they not show up on my buildplate picture? Again, I'm sure it's probably something dumb I'm missing.. I also just upgraded to the 5.6 today...thinking that was my problem...
@CHEP are you working on cura k1 profiles yet?
Yes
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Hi !
Could you help me finding how to make the top bar menu with the printers selection, and the filament material reappear ?
I use 5.4, and I don't have that feature...
Maybe reinstall it.
At this time I can't use the newer Cura system as I am still using windows 7 Pro. But I hoping to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro soon!
W10 is about to go out of support too. If your system supports it (CPU age, tpm present) might as well go to win11. Maybe get in as an insider so you don't have to pay.
Just burn the image with Rufus and select the options to remove the restrictions and windows 11 works on all then.
@@TechieNI I'll have to try that. Got a few machines that have nothing wrong but are just barely too old to officially run w11
Hey mate. Will you review the Ender 3 v3 soon?
Maybe. I’m waiting to get more details.
Tree Supports in a hole in the bottom of the 3D print... any easy way to remove?
Support blocker.
i try to inport the profile but i got an error saying can't open files of that type. ive imported your old profiles without issues so i am not sure what is going on with this profile.
figured out why i cant import the profile, my nozzle was set at 0.6, i changed it to .4 and the profile imported. that is so dumb. people use multiple profiles and nozzles.
I'm using Cura 5.5 and I STILL have a hard trim removing brims. Is there a setting I'm missing?
I am relatively new to 3D Printing myself but one potential reason could be a wrong Z-layer off set. Look up some videos for correct calibration, if its too low the lines might merge all together thus -- instead of creating a removable brim -- creating a full on base. hope this helps.
I tried it and the tree supports start on layer 2. I'll wait for a better version...
Had the same issue. Switched to using Prusa Slicer, works way better.
Looking at the two brims, the 5.4 version looks somewhat more transparent - I'll bet if you check under Materials, the Skirt/Brim Flow will be something like 50% in 5.4, but 100% in 5.3.
Did you delete and re-upload this?
He did. There were a couple mistakes in the first one.
Yep
I know your profiles are popular and all, but can you work out something with Thangs so their front page isn't absolutely flooded with your profiles whenever you update them?
I’ll see what I can do.
i gave tree supports a go and i have 10hrs of wasted time and material. 3 prints fail after a few hrs, back to normal supports.
You definitely have something set up wrong then. Either your printer isn't dialed in or you made a change from default that isn't working well. Tree supports won't cause prints to fail if set up correctly.
Thanks for the update, but it's still annoying! 😂
I went from 5.2 to 5.3 and version 5.3 was junk. I went back to 5.2 and am very hesitant to go any further.
I have 5.0 5.2 5.3 I didn't even know 5.4 was out