Printing at Sloth Speeds
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I mean, don't get me wrong, I loved the movie 'Zootopia' and the sloth... but not super keen when it comes to my printer speed.
Background... I just finished setting up my Duet2 Wifi on my Ender 5 Plus and have all the wiring done. All axis homes correctly, extruder works, nozzle, bed, everything works. When I home, it moves at my designated speed, nice and fast, but not too fast. Z homes great with the new EZABL Pro, happy days.
SO... I went to print a bed level test of 5 squares, and wow.... When everything heats up, it does a homing sequence and it moves slooooooooowwwwwww.
I let it home, after about 90 seconds.... then it started to print, and again, slooowww! Filament would extrude, it's printing the pieces as they should.. but just at sloth mode.
So I did some searching and saw to check my M556, M203, and M201 E speeds, which I did.
M566 X900.00 Y900.00 Z300.00 E2000.00 ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min) M203 X6000.00 Y6000.00 Z900.00 E6000.00 ; set maximum speeds (mm/min) M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z500.00 E3000.00Did a reset and still in Sloth mode.
I also checked the M201 setting in the gcode and it looked fine as it prints fine on Marlin
M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z100.00 E5000.00 ;Setup machine max accelerationI found a reddit post where the guy said he got it fixed... but the dude didn't post the solution... Just said it had something to do with Cura settings.
This is the start of my cura gcode file
M140 S60 M105 M190 S60 M104 S200 M105 M109 S200 M82 ;absolute extrusion mode M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z100.00 E5000.00 ;Setup machine max acceleration M203 X500.00 Y500.00 Z10.00 E50.00 ;Setup machine max feedrate M204 P500.00 R1000.00 T500.00 ;Setup Print/Retract/Travel acceleration M205 X8.00 Y8.00 Z0.40 E5.00 ;Setup Jerk M220 S100 ;Reset Feedrate M221 S100 ;Reset Flowrate G28 ;Home M420 S1 Z2 ;Enable ABL using saved Mesh and Fade Height G92 E0 ;Reset Extruder G1 Z2.0 F3000 ;Move Z Axis up G1 X10.1 Y20 Z0.28 F5000.0 ;Move to start position G1 X10.1 Y200.0 Z0.28 F1500.0 E15 ;Draw the first line G1 X10.4 Y200.0 Z0.28 F5000.0 ;Move to side a little G1 X10.4 Y20 Z0.28 F1500.0 E30 ;Draw the second line G92 E0 ;Reset Extruder G1 Z2.0 F3000 ;Move Z Axis upAnd because I want to be in-depth, here's my config.g file
; Configuration file for Duet WiFi (firmware version 3) ; executed by the firmware on start-up ; ; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v3.2.3 on Sat Jun 05 2021 07:45:39 GMT+1000 (Australian Eastern Standard Time) ; General preferences G90 ; send absolute coordinates... M83 ; ...but relative extruder moves M550 P"Oneill" ; set printer name ; Network M552 S1 ; enable network M586 P0 S1 ; enable HTTP M586 P1 S0 ; disable FTP M586 P2 S0 ; disable Telnet ; Drives M569 P0 S1 ; physical drive 0 goes forwards M569 P1 S1 ; physical drive 1 goes forwards M569 P2 S1 ; physical drive 2 goes forwards M569 P3 S1 ; physical drive 3 goes forwards M584 X0 Y1 Z2 E3 ; set drive mapping M350 X16 Y16 Z16 E16 I1 ; configure microstepping with interpolation M92 X80.00 Y80.00 Z400.00 E420.00 ; set steps per mm M566 X900.00 Y900.00 Z300.00 E2000.00 ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min) M203 X6000.00 Y6000.00 Z900.00 E6000.00 ; set maximum speeds (mm/min) M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z500.00 E3000.00 ; set accelerations (mm/s^2) M906 X800 Y800 Z800 E800 I30 ; set motor currents (mA) and motor idle factor in per cent M84 S30 ; Set idle timeout ; Axis Limits M208 X0 Y0 Z-2 S1 ; set axis minima M208 X350 Y350 Z400 S0 ; set axis maxima ; Endstops M574 X1 S1 P"xstop" ; configure active-high endstop for low end on X via pin xstop M574 Y1 S1 P"ystop" ; configure active-high endstop for low end on Y via pin ystop M574 Z1 S2 ; configure Z-probe endstop for low end on Z ; Z-Probe ;M558 P1 C"zprobe.in" H5 F120 T6000 ; set Z probe type to unmodulated and the dive height + speeds M558 P5 C"!zprobe.in" H3 F900 T12000 G31 P500 X0 Y0 Z4.80 ; set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger height M557 X15:215 Y15:195 S20 ; define mesh grid ; Heaters M308 S0 P"bedtemp" Y"thermistor" T100000 B4138 ; configure sensor 0 as thermistor on pin bedtemp M950 H0 C"bedheat" T0 ; create bed heater output on bedheat and map it to sensor 0 M307 H0 B0 S1.00 ; disable bang-bang mode for the bed heater and set PWM limit M140 H0 ; map heated bed to heater 0 M143 H0 S120 ; set temperature limit for heater 0 to 120C M308 S1 P"e0temp" Y"thermistor" T100000 B4138 ; configure sensor 1 as thermistor on pin e0temp M950 H1 C"e0heat" T1 ; create nozzle heater output on e0heat and map it to sensor 1 M307 H1 B0 S1.00 ; disable bang-bang mode for heater and set PWM limit M143 H1 S280 ; set temperature limit for heater 1 to 280C ; Fans M950 F0 C"fan0" Q500 ; create fan 0 on pin fan0 and set its frequency M106 P0 S0 H-1 ; set fan 0 value. Thermostatic control is turned off M950 F1 C"fan1" Q500 ; create fan 1 on pin fan1 and set its frequency M106 P1 S1 H1 T45 ; set fan 1 value. Thermostatic control is turned on ; Tools M563 P0 D0 H1 F0 ; define tool 0 G10 P0 X0 Y0 Z0 ; set tool 0 axis offsets G10 P0 R0 S0 ; set initial tool 0 active and standby temperatures to 0C ; Custom settings are not defined ; Filament Runout Sensor M591 D0 P1 C"e0stop" S1 ; TFT Display Config M575 P1 S1 B57600 ; Miscellaneous M501 ; load saved parameters from non-volatile memory M911 S10 R11 P"M913 X0 Y0 G91 M83 G1 Z3 E-5 F1000" ; set voltage thresholds and actions to run on power lossAny help to get out of sloth mode would be very much appreciated!
Thanks!
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Did some more searching and found the problem
Apparently these lines are the culprit... so I removed them and tried printing again...
M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z100.00 E5000.00 ;Setup machine max acceleration M203 X500.00 Y500.00 Z10.00 E50.00 ;Setup machine max feedrate M204 P500.00 R1000.00 T500.00 ;Setup Print/Retract/Travel acceleration M205 X8.00 Y8.00 Z0.40 E5.00 ;Setup Jerk M220 S100 ;Reset Feedrate M221 S100 ;Reset Flowrate -
@infidelprops yup, those looke like old Marling numbers.
FYI, RRF & Marrlin use different units for feedrates & jerk - Marlin uses mm/s whereas RRF uses mm/min, so 500 mm/min would mean it would take ~25s to move across a 200mm bed! Compare the M203 numbers in your config to what you were overriding them with in your start gcode and you'll see the difference
In general you should be able to set up sensible machine limits in your config and not need to change them in slicer, though you can play around with different speeds/accels for different feature types like infill or perimieters if you want.
I would also double check that your slicer is set to RRF flavour and not Marlin
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@engikeneer Thanks mate! After I found the issue, I did check my printer settings in Cura and removed the start code and set it to RR versus Marlin.
Good shout out!
