Some infill not reaching walls ?
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What would cause some infill to reach the model just fine (with overlap)
and other infill lines stop well before reaching the wall ?
Could this be pressure advance gone wrong ?
This may be a poor example because of the number of infill lines not reaching the wall and because of the low infill rate.
1 mm wide lines, 0.4mm high -
Yes it could be a symptom of pressure advance. You may need to increase the infill overlap percentage, or whatever your slicer calls it, it get a better connection.
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went from 10% overlap to 50% overlap, no apparent change
The infill seems to deliberately stop at almost 5mm before it would reach the wall with only a thin wisp of filament dragging to the wall (stringing). So the nozzle takes the path it's supposed to take but filament delivery stops well short (and consistent on the walls where it does that) . -
Nozzle size? 1mm wide lines is pretty intense.
Slicer?
Filament type?
Speed?
Infill pattern?
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@Phaedrux said in Some infill not reaching walls ?:
Nozzle size? 1mm wide lines is pretty intense.
0.8 mm
Slicer?
Cura 4.3
Filament type?
PLA
Speed?
60 mm/sec but it never actually gets to that speed
Infill pattern?
linesDone a bunch more tests and the missing infill happens at the beginning of an infill line.
I even went so far as to double (from 0.4 to 0.8) the pressure advance but it didn't seem to matter. There is a very distinct lag between the nozzle starting the infill line and material being extruded.
I will try connecting the infill lines and see if that gets me anywhere.Thanks for your help !
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Connecting infill lines doesn't help ... well it sort of does in that a connected line is a good line but wherever the line starts there is that delay again.
Changed to zig zag infill - same issue in that wherever the line starts there is that delay. It is as if it is supposed to be there -
Changed to Gyroid infill and the issue is much less pronounced the infill line follows the outside wall line at the beginning but if you wait long enough for an infill line to start at the edge without following the outside wall you can see it's still there.
Removed 'gradual infill' option - same issue.
Removed infill wipe and removed 'infill before wall' option - still acting weird.I think I have adjusted all the possible options relating to infill and the issue is still there. I think I am left with the conclusion that somehow the slicer can't properly calculate all the moves. Maybe this is an issue that isn't visible until you print ginormous lines ?
I will post on the Cura forum to see if there is anything that somebody might suggest.
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0.8 nozzle with 1mm lines is already starting to get outside the realm of "normal" printing and print settings and expected behaviour goes out the window.
Since it's at the start of a print line I wonder if it's retraction related. If you load the gcode in a gcode viewer that shows retractions and travels etc you may get a glimpse at what is happening.
Do you have retract on layer change enabled? Are you using combing? What is your minimum travel distance before retraction is used? How fast are your travels? Is retraction tuned already? Temperature?
Have you tried using Curas fine grained speed controls to reduce the acceleration and jerk for infill?
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@Phaedrux said in Some infill not reaching walls ?:
Since it's at the start of a print line I wonder if it's retraction related. If you load the gcode in a gcode viewer that shows retractions and travels etc you may get a glimpse at what is happening.
I have only checked with the Cura preview system - can you suggest a Linux compatible gcode viewer ?
Do you have retract on layer change enabled? Are you using combing? What is your minimum travel distance before retraction is used? How fast are your travels? Is retraction tuned already? Temperature?
Retraction at layer change is off, combing is off, minimum extrusion distance window is 6.5 mm, travel speed is 120 mm/sec, not sure what you mean re retraction being tuned ... it is very limited because otherwise I get clogs. Print temperature is 210C
Have you tried using Curas fine grained speed controls to reduce the acceleration and jerk for infill?
No, I have not tried that. Currently infill acceleration is the same as print acceleration and the same with jerk.
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Since the issues do not happen to print walls, tops or bottoms, why would speed/acceleration and jerk affect infill but not walls ?
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@jens55 said in Some infill not reaching walls ?:
can you suggest a Linux compatible gcode viewer ?
I've only every used the slicers viewer or online web viewers. There's a few out there to choose from. I usually just google gcode viewer and try a few.
Retraction at layer change is off, combing is off, minimum extrusion distance window is 6.5 mm
Turn on retraction at layer change. With infill first, and no retraction between layers, it would make sense that there's not enough pressure in the nozzle at the start of the infill line. For non structural parts this isn't really an issue since it's all internal. I'd also reduce the window from 6.5 to 2mm as it would seem you're losing pressure on your travels.
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Turned on retraction at layer change, minimum extrusion window 2 mm, infill speed reduced to 30 mm/s, infill jerk reduced from 20 to 10, infill acceleration reduced from 3000 to 1000 and here is the result
The infill lines are cleaner and more defined as would be expected with the changes but you can see the big gap of wall to infill line
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@jens55 said in Some infill not reaching walls ?:
big gap of wall to infill line
Can you post a saved .3mf from cura somewhere so I can see the entire cura settings and gcode preview?
Such a gap would seem to me that the infill overlap would need to be increased even further.
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I may have a smoking gun here but not sure.
My bowden tube comes out of the extruder through a pneumatic connector, goes a while until it goes into a bowden connector /joiner (two pneumatic connectors back to back) and it then goes to the hot end.
Despite having little tube lock rings, there is noticeable movement of the bowden tube in the pneumatic connectors (three of the 4, no movement at the hot end). I'd say there is maybe close to 3 mm total movement between the three pneumatic connectors that move.
For some reason I think that pressure advance should take care of that situation but apparently it might not.
It is a good possibility that this issue also caused surface pockets that I previously posted about.
Question : Should pressure advance take care of issues with bowden tubes sliding in and out of pneumatic connectors to the tune of a mm for each connector ?
Bonus question: Are there specific pneumatic connectors that are known to hold the bowden tube rock steady ? (I am using cheap Chinese pneumatic connectors) -
@Phaedrux said in Some infill not reaching walls ?:
@jens55 said in Some infill not reaching walls ?:
big gap of wall to infill line
Can you post a saved .3mf from cura somewhere so I can see the entire cura settings and gcode preview?
Such a gap would seem to me that the infill overlap would need to be increased even further.
We cross-posted ... I think I should deal with the sliding bowden tube issue before bothering you with the .3mf file. What do you think ?
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I have found some couplers in my spare parts stash that ought to work ... more news tomorrow when I have the couplers replaced and have tried if this fixes anything.
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I'm not sure how PA would cope with the sliding. I suspect it would simply act as though the tube were longer than it actually is. But it could also mess with the timing of when pressure starts to build in the print head.
Getting that sorted out definitely couldn't hurt the situation.
Cheap chinesium stuff has its issues. Rarely get what you pay for imo.
If it doesn't help, post the .3mf. And your config.g for the complete picture.
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Will do. Just printing another sample. The tubing slides a LOT less but still slides a bit. I might be forced to take the joiner out.
There seems to stil be a bit of a delay but I will try to tune it out with pressure advance.
As to how PA could (or should) help, it accounts for the filament compressing and relaxing as well as the tube movement as pressure is applied or removed.If nothing else, it's been an excellent learning situation and if I can't sort it out then it will be a good reason to abandon Bowden in preference of direct extrusion (after all, it's only money
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Yes I see what you're saying about PA accounting for it, but to me it feels like the slop for the slidinging coupler is different than just the fixed length of the tube and the compliance in that otherwise fixed system. I think it would be difficult to account for.
Have you tuned for PA at all? If so, it's obviously not having the intended effect.
I've heard people say good things about the capricorn tubing kits that come with their own couplers. So maybe that's a good quality option.
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I use Capricorn but buy the tube in bulk without couplers because of the length I need.
I have tuned PA but it's obviously not doing it for me so will have to redo it ... especially now with the different couplers.It just ocurred to me that I had adjusted PA with a width of 0.8 mm and it is quite sensetive to the extruded width so it likely was way off. A job for tomorrow ...
