Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle
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In a way, I do hope it's a pressure advance thing - it'd be good to know that I'm not the only one who has problems with it (starting to get paranoid
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@deckingman said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
In a way, I do hope it's a pressure advance thing - it'd be good to know that I'm not the only one who has problems with it (starting to get paranoid
).Ian, I have abandon pressure advance for now myself. I just never got it working as good as I would like on all area's of my prints.
Disclaimer, I'm not saying pressure advance is bad, just saying it's not for me in my setup.
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@timcurtis67 said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
@deckingman said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
In a way, I do hope it's a pressure advance thing - it'd be good to know that I'm not the only one who has problems with it (starting to get paranoid
).Ian, I have abandon pressure advance for now myself. I just never got it working as good as I would like on all area's of my prints.
Disclaimer, I'm not saying pressure advance is bad, just saying it's not for me in my setup.
Likewise. For anything other than slow prints (less than 60mm/sec) , it really helps cleaning up the over/under extrusion that I get at the start and end of each (longish) move. But for whatever reason, my Diamond hot ends need a lot of it - like 0.4 to 0.5. However, this causes havoc for me when doing circles or arcs. It used to be just with multiple extruders but since about Jan of this year, it's been causing havoc using just a single extruder. So I've had to turn it off (and print slow). But this is all the subject of a different (and very long) thread.
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I've created a simplified gcode file to demonstrate the problem. Be aware that this does set non-linear extrusion & pressure advance in this file. It also uses volumetric extrusion and firmware advance & retract.
Interesting dive through the gcode there and noticed a few things. It's using the support settings for the outer skirt and the jumps between perimeters are done at travel speed which explains the stutter between the contours but not the judder on the faster perimeters. I'm guessing (/hoping) there is a setting somewhere to avoid attempting a travel speed jump between perimeters. Ideally I'd like it to set a maximum speed for the move which is attainable for a proportion of the move rather than flat out accelerate and decelerate with no steady state...
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...and here's a video from the original build:
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Did you try it without pressure advance? Also without volumetric extrusion?
I would try it without either one (one at a time) to see which has the biggest effect.
I don't believe Acceleration or jerk settings will make much difference here. I never tried volumetric extrusion so I'm not sure how that would/wound not factor in but I'll bet Ian (@deckingman) was right with it having to do with pressure advance at the higher speeds.
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@timcurtis67 Not tried either yet. The last couple of posts were sharing a cut down version of the problem file and a video of the problem. I'm working from home today & tomorrow, but will be in to check it out further early next week. I've got a gut feeling that it's a poor slice file issue that's colliding with the something like the pressure advance/jerk/speed settings/etc.
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@doctrucker said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
@timcurtis67 Not tried either yet. The last couple of posts were sharing a cut down version of the problem file and a video of the problem. I'm working from home today & tomorrow, but will be in to check it out further early next week. I've got a gut feeling that it's a poor slice file issue that's colliding with the something like the pressure advance/jerk/speed settings/etc.
What I get with Slic3r is that it seemingly randomly generates differing segment lengths for circles and arcs. What I also get is that seemingly randomly, pressure advance triggers multiple times during circles and arcs, causing the print head to jerk, stutter, and generally misbehave. I can't help thinking that two are related (I hate coincidences).
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@deckingman That certainly makes sense yes.
I've potentially added a poor STL file to this pile of challenging situations. As you follow the anti-clockwise perimeter where there should be all left hand turns there's a few rights with sharper lefts after them rattling the head about a bit creating the situation where pressure advance becomes active, and potentially exacerbates my problem.
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@deckingman said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
@doctrucker said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
@timcurtis67 Not tried either yet. The last couple of posts were sharing a cut down version of the problem file and a video of the problem. I'm working from home today & tomorrow, but will be in to check it out further early next week. I've got a gut feeling that it's a poor slice file issue that's colliding with the something like the pressure advance/jerk/speed settings/etc.
What I get with Slic3r is that it seemingly randomly generates differing segment lengths for circles and arcs.
Ian, do you think that slicing with a different slicer would produce different results? It may be worth testing.
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@timcurtis67 said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
@deckingman said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
@doctrucker said in Core XY Judder & Slowdown on Circle:
@timcurtis67 Not tried either yet. The last couple of posts were sharing a cut down version of the problem file and a video of the problem. I'm working from home today & tomorrow, but will be in to check it out further early next week. I've got a gut feeling that it's a poor slice file issue that's colliding with the something like the pressure advance/jerk/speed settings/etc.
What I get with Slic3r is that it seemingly randomly generates differing segment lengths for circles and arcs.
Ian, do you think that slicing with a different slicer would produce different results? It may be worth testing.
Let's just not go down that road Tim. It might well be a solution but I've tried them all and none would be any good to me. I need support for 5 extruders minimum. I need to be able to easily switch between different machine profiles (3 extruders, 5 extruders, a single extruder) any or all of which could have different nozzle sizes, and I need to be able to switch between those machine profiles without having to set up filament parameters and print settings (speeds and so forth) for each machine profile. I also need firmware retraction. I need to easily be able to assign different extruders (tools) to different parts of a model (to print in multiple colours). Slic3r is the only one that'll give me that. So although another slicer might help with the pressure advance issue, I won't be able to print the things that I want to print for a number of reasons.
Plus I don't think anyone wants the situation where the firmware only works with certain slicers. Slic3R has it's faults but so does every other slicer.
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@deckingman Agreed.
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I had another crack at this today. I changed my jerk speed from 450 to 900 in x and y amd things improved a lot. Tried with and without pressure advance and with old and new jerk settings. In this instance increasing the jerk smoothened things out a lot. I can't say if with or without pressure advance had much of an effect, but certainly not as much as increasing jerk.
In summary I think the rough path from the poor stl file caused the angle to increase between some of the bectors to the point where the head needed todo a full stop rather than applying jerk.
