Can 'pressure advance' cause negative filament feed ?
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@jens55 I talked too early. Layers ~64-77 are just retracting indefinitely on my printer without losing many steps...
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@edgars-batna said in Can 'pressure advance' cause negative filament feed ?:
@jens55 Well, I tried this print. I'm definitely hearing those loud "click" sounds as I usually do when losing steps on the extruder. On my printer it happens when the head is doing the top and bottom fill with the back-and-forth moves. But, having discussed this thing multiple times and implementing dirty hacks in the firmware already, I don't know what to think of it.
The infill looks borked, but it's probably just the unfitting 0.4 nozzle.
Have you tried scaling the model up 5x or 10x to see if the issue changes?
Something is amiss here .... first of, you are talking about a 0.4 mm nozzle - I am using a 0.2 mm nozzle.
I also don't understand how you could get over feeding on a nozzle that is twice the size this print was made for.
I can only guess that when I recreated the gcode file (I didn't have the original any more), I messed up someplace.
The model prints fine here (actually not just fine but perfect) until I get to the little teeth on the top. Even those print fine with no pressure advance. With 0.4 pressure advance the teeth start printing for maybe one layer and then stop as the extruder starts going backwards. If I recall, it doesn't go backwards continuously but I don't think I ever watched it well enough to be sure about that. All I know for sure is that the print works with no pressure advance but doesn't with 0.4 pressure advance. I also know that the when the print is finished the filament is no longer in the nozzle. I can disengage the pressure on the feed wheel and manually advance the filament an inch or two before it hits the nozzle area. -
Oh, the model started out about twice the size and the teeth reached further towards the center of the model. I printed it with a 0.4 mm nozzle and 0.08 mm layer height and it was a bit of a mess. The mess part was caused by a bit of a stringing issue on this printer that I am still fighting but also because the resolution with the larger nozzle. I decided that the model was too large for it's purpose and scaled it down and altered the teeth. This was when I switched to the 0.2 mm nozzle and 0.08 layers. As I indicated though, the model prints fine until the printer gets to the teeth.
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I decided to print the gcode I posted here and so far (I am at layer 18) all is looking good .... but that is with a 0.2mm nozzle.
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So it seems I have a bit of egg on my face here ....
First attempt at printing with pressure advance failed about 3/4 the way up the main section.
Attempt two, without pressure advance, printed fine until it got to the teeth and then the RETRACTION screwed up. The extruder went back and forth but the NET effect was a negative filament feed. Something I had previously attributed to pressure advance. I should point out that I believe I changed retraction from 1.5 mm to 2 mm somewhere very recently and this may have affected the outcome because I did in fact print the model fine without pressure advance before. Maybe some unknown interaction, maybe something I am doing .... who knows. I don't want to re-slice the model for fear of introducing some other oddity. I did verify that the E count went up in the gcode so going backwards is not supposed to happen.
Next attempt, again without pressure advance, I have increased E steps from 128 to 256 microsteps to see if that makes a difference.
Update ... still turning backwards in this configuration.
A couple of odd observations not verified yet .... at level 57, the extruder drive numbers gradually go down but later on the numbers inexplicably gradually go up. By the time the print finishes, the extruder number shows about the same as they were on level 57. Lastly, the web interface tells me it is at level 57 out of 77 when the print is finished. It also shows 166 mm out of 166 mm of filament used. I have no idea what this means or why it is happening ..... -
Looks like besides having egg on my face, I need to eat some crow
I just re-sliced the model and discovered that Cura had a negative 'retraction extra prime amount' set up for the current profile. I have no idea if that was there when I originally recreated the gcode file.
I will now crawl in my hole and keep my head low until I can maybe get something right -
Can you export a .3MF from Cura so we can see your cura settings as well?
Do you have wipe enabled? In the gcode preview in Cura is appears there is a slowdown at the ends of some lines.
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@jens55 said in Can 'pressure advance' cause negative filament feed ?:
I have increased E steps from 128 to 256 microsteps
128x microstepping may already be too high for your retraction speed which may be losing steps. If you send M122 after the print has finished, do you see a number of hiccups reported?
It sounds like you're using absolute extrusion. You should be using relative extrusion. The setting can be found in Cura under the special moves menu. It may be hidden by default.
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@jens55 said in Can 'pressure advance' cause negative filament feed ?:
Looks like besides having egg on my face, I need to eat some crow
I just re-sliced the model and discovered that Cura had a negative 'retraction extra prime amount' set up for the current profile. I have no idea if that was there when I originally recreated the gcode file.
I will now crawl in my hole and keep my head low until I can maybe get something rightI missed this before I made my previous replies.....
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Sticking my head out ever so carefully ....
I have done two prints with a pressure advance of 0.4 - both failed at the teeth. The failure is slightly different in that the net extrusion is positive but it is well below what is required for the teeth to be printed (virtual zero extrusion). The counter for the extruder 'seems' to report correct amounts but what I see as far as the extruder turning is concerned it is quite a bit short of what the extruder counter reports. The result is that the teeth do not print because there is not enough filament.
I have printed one print so far with the pressure advance turned off and the teeth printed just fine (although not as nice as I had hoped for).
I am in the process of printing the second model without pressure advance.So, it would appear that my initial issue was valid - pressure advance causes extrusion issues.
I will attach the corrected gcode file as well as the .3mf file.
Yes, I am using absolute extrusion. I have not tried relative extrusion because I do not know enough about how to set that up yet.
M122 reports no hiccups but this is after I started the new print so I am not sure if the hiccups number is correct.0_1566272573372_CFFFP_reduced hirth.gcode [0_1566272599436_CFFFP_reduced hirth.3mf](Uploading 100%) -
hmmmm, not sure if the upload worked so I am re-doing it
The gcode:
0_1566272710536_CFFFP_reduced hirth.gcodethe .3mf file: ..... I had to stick on a .txt in order for the system to accept the .3mf file
[0_1566272789447_CFFFP_reduced hirth.3mf](Uploading 100%) 0_1566272850068_CFFFP_reduced hirth.3mf.txt -
Cura appears to be doing some awful things to the teeth. I would suggest trying to slice it in Prusa Slicer for a sanity check.
Also, I don't think that .3mf worked quite right. It's still just the sliced gcode.
I may have misled you by saying Export. To get the proper 3mf simply go to File, Save in Cura to produce a .3mf archive of the entire platter including STL, printer settings, and print settings.
And yes you'll have to change the extension to post it to the forum.
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M122 reports no hiccups, the print completed just fine.
I have a wipe of 0.1 mm for the outer wall and 0.0575 on the infill
Here is the 'saved' version of the 3mf file:
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Ok that one worked properly. I can see your printer setup and print settings as well as the STL. It slices ok and the gcode preview looks acceptable now.
@jens55 said in Can 'pressure advance' cause negative filament feed ?:
I have a wipe of 0.1 mm for the outer wall and 0.0575 on the infill
I would recommend disabling wipe and coast when using pressure advance. They can interact in strange ways. Wipe and coast are basically the slicer attempting to do what pressure advance is meant to do, so use one or the other.
0.4 is quite a large amount of pressure advance. I'm not sure how well the model functions at that range. Things may start to break down? I'm not sure. How did you arrive at 0.4? Have you tested less?
Can you post your config.g as well so we can see what your overall setup is?
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I am working with a bowden tube that is approximately 650 mm long so pressure advance will be a bit on the high side. Having said that, with this particular configuration of nozzle, speed and temperature I can easily go to zero on pressure advance. I have used numbers as high as 1.0. At this point it is more about trying to find out if there is a bug in pressure advance or if things are working as they should.
config. g:
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@jens55 Your instantaneous speed change (jerk) for the extruder is set to 120mm/min (2mm/sec). This will play havoc with pressure advance (and likely slow down all your print moves). I use 3,000 but that's with a geared extruder. Even so, try it or at least use 1,000. And for now, put you extruder steps per mm back to 16X with interpolation.
BTW, if you M350 after your M92, the firmware will re- calculate the steps per mm for you. It's a useful way of trying different micro-stepping because you can then change it "on the fly" and not have to worry about re-calculating the steps per mm.
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Thank you, I have changed extruder jerk to 1000 and switched M350 and M92 (I was going to investigate why I had to recalculate ... but you solved that for me). I also went back to 16X microstepping with interpolation.
The next print was a mess with all kinds of over extrusion and weird periods of more extrusions than normal. I went back to 256 microsteps and the over extrusion issues went away. The interesting thing .... the reverse feed for the teeth issue seems to have been masked by the over extrusion but was back when I reverted to 256 microsteps on the extruder. -
@jens55 when you swtiched back to x16 microstepping did you also change your steps per mm to match?
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@phaedrux said in Can 'pressure advance' cause negative filament feed ?:
@jens55 when you swtiched back to x16 microstepping did you also change your steps per mm to match?
Yes. Looking at what was happening, it appeared like the extruder was taking larger steps which was reflected in occasional periods of over extrusion.
I don't quite understand the business with 16X and interpolation .... but it seemed to behave as if it was doing the 16 steps business. Does interpolation mean 256 steps or does it do 16 steps and only calculate at 256 steps ? -
It means the cpu calculates steps at x16 and the drive takes those steps and sends x256 pulses to the motorsfor smoother quieter motion.
