Pressure Advance Calibration

dc42

Yes, that's the same model as assumed by the pressure advance algorithm.

Have you tried repeating the measurements with pressure advance of about 0.2sec applied?

DigitalVision

@dc42 said in Pressure Advance Calibration:

Yes, that's the same model as assumed by the pressure advance algorithm.

Cool. Thanks for confirming!

Have you tried repeating the measurements with pressure advance of about 0.2sec applied?

Yes, but in short it doesn't work. Pressure advance doesn't seem to be applied when doing extruder feedrate-only changes like I do here. E.g.

G1 X40.000 Y100.000
G1 X140.000 Y100.000 E2.4945 F3600
G1 X200.000 Y100.000 E3.4923 F3600
G1 X260.000 Y100.000 E1.4967 F3600

Outside of this test – running pressure advance with a time constant of 0.2 leads to severe under-extrusion during deceleration moves. It is a direct drive non-bowden extruder where I get best results with pressure advance of around 0.08s.

Here's another more precise measurement with a corresponding linear model fit. 0_1541041730586_678c21bc-b37f-417b-b7db-59d53d123116-image.png

The lagging extrusion compared to the model on the last positive impulse is curious and consistently repeatable. My only hypothesis so far is that the extruder melt pool cools down during the high rate impulses sufficiently to increase the viscosity and slow down the response – but that's far fetched. It shouldn't be related to deceleration since the acceleration ramp should be much much shorter (0.03 s) than the scale here.

dc42

I'm sorry, I forgot that pressure advance won't be applied to changing extrusion feed rates, if the change in feed rate is within the extruder jerk setting so no deceleration and acceleration is needed. This is because applying pressure advance would need an instantaneous movement of the extruder stepper motor. Changes in extrusion per unit travel without a speed change are fortunately not usual when 3D printing.

Can you do a similar test with the extrusion amount per XY distance moved kept constant but the speed changed? That will cause normal acceleration/deceleration profiles to be used and pressure advance to be applied.

I am surprised that your model appears to show an extruder time constant of about 0.2sec, when 0.08sec works better with your printer (and is a more reasonable value to use with a non-Bowden extruder). Are you sure you have computed the time scale correctly?

garis

@lhelge Re Zesty Nimble: Yes!

The E acceleration and jerk settings are an issue, perhaps other settings.

No words of wisdom to help except I am in an endless loop of iterations of tuning !! (Variations of) the advance_cal.py script is proving useful to me for testing other settings including Zesty jerk and acceleration and my PETG prints have crossed the threshold of being acceptable. My settings are for a Volcano 0.6mm and are possibly not transferrable.

LHelge

@garis Would be interesting to se your settings, both slicer and config.g

I also use a Zesty Nimble with 0.6 mm Volcano right now. Around 0.01 seems to be a quite good value for PETG, not even close to resulting in any jerk/acceleration issues.

garis

@lhelge Yesterday's tests got me to Jerk E200 as ok, with 250 to 300 causing blobbing. E acceleration seemed insensitive to wide changes up to 2000. I arbitrarily have it at 1000 (my print accelerations M204 Pnnn are either 2500 or 4000 and both seem ok ). E max speed is 2400 which is only useful for retractions as I understand it.

Pressure advance is 0.11 secs from the calibration wall with speeds of 25 and 75 and did not seem to be too dependent on temperature in the 240 to 250 range. I was thinking to test some lower PA settings on actual parts as I guess the lowest PA setting that works is preferable and possibly near 0.08 might be ok

In the context is everything is dependent on everything else, Temp is 250 for PETG and Bed 70 though bed surface will be less (temp gradient over 2 layers of 4mm glass) so I will wind that temp up soon. I am trying to juggle getting to good settings vs printing real parts for the upgrade to my printers so at the moment good enough is where I am and perfection later.

Re slicer setting - I have been using Cura 3.5 for the last 2 weeks that I don't sufficiently understand yet. I have been through every setting but what happens under the hood is a mystery. I like Slic3r, the idea of KISSlicer (that I bought the Pro license for) but at the moment practising with Cura: What settings are you interested in - there are a large number - I guess it might have a "Share Settings" somewhere?

brunofporto

@digitalvision said in Pressure Advance Calibration:

Here are measurements from three different step functions in extrusion rates:

How did you measure that?

minim

Where do I set the retraction in this script? I can't see it retracting at all and with a 85cm bowden tube I get massive overextrusion without retraction.

Edit: nvm I just needed high settings. I had to go all the way up to 0.7-0.9 to get good results.

imqqmi

Thanks for the script! Please note, to use the gcode you should use relative extrusions using M83, otherwise nothing is extruded. I think slic3r uses absolute extrusion M82. If you copy/paste startup gcode this could affect the print.

deckingman

@imqqmi said in Pressure Advance Calibration:

Thanks for the script! Please note, to use the gcode you should use relative extrusions using M83, otherwise nothing is extruded. I think slic3r uses absolute extrusion M82. If you copy/paste startup gcode this could affect the print.

Slic3R can produce gcode with either relative or absolute extrusion. There is a check box under "Printer Settings". The important thing is that the slicer setting (and any other scripts) should match whatever the Duet is set to expect, which can be either relative or absolute.

garyd9

@digitalvision I just wanted to post a quick reply thanking you for this script. I wanted to try out pressure advance, but really had no clue whatsoever how to start calibrating it. With this script (and illustrated instructions), I was able to find that my direct drive titan extruder + e3dV6 benefits from a pressure advance setting of 0.09.

I thought that the number was a bit high for a V6 attached to the titan extruder (via a precision piezo orion), but I have to admit that the resulting improvement is easily visible.

thank you!

Edgars Batna

Also found out about this script a few days ago and, man, was I wrong about the values I used. Turned out my Bowden setup runs best at 0.85, whereas I was using 0.2.

Rightly noted that under-extrusion should be compensated by nonlinear extrusion, not presure advance. These two features in combination doubled my print speeds while keeping the quality.

briskspirit

How should I choose min and max speed for calibration script? Max speed is the overal speed(70mm/s for me) or outline speed? (42mm/s). Min speed correlates with jerk speed or ..? Thanks!

gnydick

Where is the link to the pressure advance test file?

briskspirit

@gnydick https://forum.duet3d.com/assets/uploads/files/1535998759071-advance_cal.py.txt

gnydick

How do I read this result?

wilriker

@gnydick I would say that the range of PA values you used is still too low because it looks like none of the layers is continuously one thickness.

gnydick

@wilriker ok, thanks. Strange I need so much. I have a direct extruder with zero slack.

JamesM

How do you run the pressure advance test file? I see it's in python..Does it work similar to the linear advance website Marlin has where we can change the settings and it creates a .gcode file?

gnydick

@jamesm

It's nearly identical. Instead of building up vertically, the linear advance creates a single extrusion on the bed for each setting and labels it.

You have to run the python program to generate the output.