Re: KISSlicer 1.5 Beta 2 - in development
Posted: 01 May 2016, 19:02
Windows7 64bit works fine
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I hope it's a Bowden machine. The hysteresis in the tube (compressibility of filament + friction from tube curvature) makes it necessary to use more aggressive retract settings, so you might well try coasting/pre-retraction on a machine where the extruder is right on top of the hot end and see no difference at all. A lot of Bowden-based 3D printer manufacturers are putting the drive motor at the bottom of the printer, and then routing the Bowden tube to the hot end in a big loop. The increased length and curvature both make retraction worse. Confounding this problem, many of us use E3D hot ends, which - while marvelous in several ways - unfortunately have short heat breaks, meaning that long retracts encourage jamming (especially with PLA).lonesock wrote:@626Pilot: Thanks for working on this! Currently I only have a really old RapMan, and it uses the strange RPM-based extruder control, with only one head and builtin (and non-replaceable) retract / prime, so I have never been able to work on this myself. The good news is that in a couple of months I will have access to a nice new printer, multi-head and direct extruder control (5D-style firmware). I look forward to being able to test this myself!