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    • NexxCatundefined
      NexxCat
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      Quick question for anyone who feels like chipping in their thoughts 🙂

      I'm working on a project which currently can do the following:

      • Full automatic calibration of an extruder steps/mm value
      • Check for extruder consistency
      • Calculate the maximum volumetric flow for the hot end

      This is all achieved using a small piece of hardware I've designed (and which will all be open source when it's done), plus a GUI application written in Python and Qt.

      One person said that is would be an excellent tool for calibrating non-linear extrusion, and adding it wouldn't be too difficult (once I get my head around the formula), but it seems no firmware other than RRF supports the feature. Further, it doesn't seem very well documented on how to calculate the A, B & L values from a given set of data (feed rate vs over / under extrusion).

      From my data and tests, I see a maximum of 2% under-extrusion when really pushing the filament, but by that point the quality of the plastic coming out of the nozzle has degraded greatly. By the time I see 4-5% under-extrusion, the BMG extruder is skipping.

      Do people still use it? Is it one of those features that RRF will eventually drop for extra code space?

      Thanks for reading!
      Simon

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      • Phaedruxundefined
        Phaedrux Moderator
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        In my opinion, no, it's not worth it. I think if you're fighting that much back pressure you're likely exceeding the melt rate of the hotend in the first place.

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        • NexxCatundefined
          NexxCat @Phaedrux
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          @phaedrux Thank you, that's kind of what I figured from the data I got when calculating maximum volumetric flow.

          Appreciate the input, I'll drop the idea of adding it 🙂

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          • dc42undefined
            dc42 administrators @NexxCat
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            @nexxcat said in Is non-linear extrusion worth bothering with?:

            From my data and tests, I see a maximum of 2% under-extrusion when really pushing the filament, but by that point the quality of the plastic coming out of the nozzle has degraded greatly. By the time I see 4-5% under-extrusion, the BMG extruder is skipping.

            IMO, 2% under extrusion at the maximum flow rate you want to use is not worth worrying about. If it was 10%, then nonlinear extrusion might provide some benefit.

            It seems likely to me that dual-drive extruders may exhibit less nonlinearity than single drive extruders.

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            • droftartsundefined
              droftarts administrators @NexxCat
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              @nexxcat the guy who designed the Orbiter extruder did some volumetric flow tests with different filaments at different speeds. See halfway down the page, here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4725897

              Ian

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              • NexxCatundefined
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                @dc42 said in Is non-linear extrusion worth bothering with?:

                @nexxcat said in Is non-linear extrusion worth bothering with?:

                From my data and tests, I see a maximum of 2% under-extrusion when really pushing the filament, but by that point the quality of the plastic coming out of the nozzle has degraded greatly. By the time I see 4-5% under-extrusion, the BMG extruder is skipping.

                IMO, 2% under extrusion at the maximum flow rate you want to use is not worth worrying about. If it was 10%, then nonlinear extrusion might provide some benefit.

                It seems likely to me that dual-drive extruders may exhibit less nonlinearity than single drive extruders.

                Yeah, that pretty much matches my data, but thank you for taking the time to give your thoughts @dc42, I know you are very busy 🙂

                @droftarts said in Is non-linear extrusion worth bothering with?:

                @nexxcat the guy who designed the Orbiter extruder did some volumetric flow tests with different filaments at different speeds. See halfway down the page, here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4725897

                Ian

                That is a super useful link. Thank you very much @droftarts. Again, it matches my data, so I know what I've done is correct!

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