Stringing Nightmares: How Cura's Travel Settings Can Save 3D Prints
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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In this video, we'll walk you through all the settings you need to know when it comes to the travel settings panel in Ultimaker Cura. Whether you're new to 3D printing or a seasoned pro, understanding these settings can help you achieve better print quality, reduce print time, and avoid common issues like stringing and oozing.
We'll cover everything from the basic travel speed and retraction settings to more advanced options like combing, z-hop, and wipe. We'll explain what each setting does, how it affects your print, and provide some tips and best practices along the way.
By the end of this video, you'll have a solid understanding of the travel settings panel in Ultimaker Cura and be ready to fine-tune your prints for optimal results. So sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and let's dive into the world of 3D printing travel settings!
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00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Skip ahead?…
00:46 - What is Retraction?
01:13 - What is Combing?
01:28 - Retraction Issues
03:15 - Retraction Tests
03:44 - Display Settings
03:55 - Travel Settings
04:04 - Enable Retraction Settings
04:26 - Retract at Layer Change Setting
05:15 - Retraction Distance Settings
05:24 - 2 Retraction Tests
06:26 - Auto Towers Plug-in
07:56 - MeaD’s Soap Box
08:41 - PRINTED Retraction Tower
10:44 - THANK YOU!
11:31 - String Test
11:39 - Thingiverse
11:59 - Setting Up String Test
16:52 - Retraction Speeds
18:39 - Retract Extra Prime Amount
20:59 - Retraction Minimum Travel
22:39 - Maximum Retraction Count
25:19 - Combing What is it?
26:22 - Combing Settings
29:00 - Max Combing Distance
30:16 - Retract before Outer Wall
30:53 - Avoid Printed Parts When Traveling
31:43 - Avoid Supports When Traveling
32:10 - Travel Avoid Distance
32:47 - Layer Start
33:22 - CLICK’ CLICK’ CLICK’
34:21 - Z Hop when Retracted -
35:42 - Conclusion
36:25 - Settings I check
36:47 - Bloopers- - Розваги
How did I not see this sooner? I see people on other platforms flail when talking about settings that can cause issues, while you not only point out the relevant settings but explain what they do. Unbelievable job, sir.
Don't try 1-6 retract tower with a direct drive. It may lead to clogs especially if you have an all-metal hotend and using a filament with a filler (like wood PLA or CF PLA). Try something like 0.5-2 in 0.5 increments, using the custom retraction tower option. Typically with a direct drive, your optimal setting will be
Thank you I think that's why I just clogged my Neptune 3 Plus' nozzle
I was just trying to determine if a DD behaved differently or not. I will try these settings. I'm glad I found your comments. Thanks.
Sprite pro kit started acting up after this. Lol
VERY INTERESTING - My Ender Bowden Cable Is OK My AnyCubics are Not so YOU ARE right
Thank you so much for this, really needed it
Im rewatching all your cura settings videos all over again because ive tweaked so much over the last year and im starting new profiles based on what ive learned. Great primer for starting off and also for those of us whove made so many tweaks and can't remember what you've actually accomplished. Nobody explains this stuff as well as you do. My favorites are this one and supports. There is no secret sauce to this practice
I've been watching your videos lately, and it has helped me eliminate my failed prints.
Amazing job explaining what a lot of the setting are, and what they do, and what good settings generally are!
There are a couple things that I don't think were mentioned, but maybe I missed it. If your filament has moisture in it, or you have the nozzle too hot, retraction and slicer settings will not stop the stringing or defects.
Dry your filament and do a temperature tower for your filament before starting on this video.
Watched your entire series. Very good info. It clarified a number of the settings I tune for different spools of filament. Much appreciated.
That’s fantastic I’m glad it could clear some stuff for you!
Great video, this will be so useful to everyone. Nobody has explained combing as detailed and easy to understand as in your video. Thank You😁
Thanks! I’m glad I could help!
Great tutorial. .Plain language explanations for things that have until now been so cryptic I had no idea what to adjust or why. Excellent information, well presented. Bravo and THANK YOU!
Appreciated I've seen the whole video, and had helped me a lot with my cura configs.
This guy is a fountain of knowledge, great stuff many thanks for posting this has saved many of us from a mental printing break down 👍
This video was so valuable as I am learning more about my Ender-3 S1 Pro. Z-hop wasn't on and that click click had me worried at first. Thank you!
Truely AWESOME tutorials - honestly can't thank you enough 🙂 ....... delivered in an easy way to follow AND in a manner that makes them easy to watch - which is sooooooo 'refreshing' (.... there are ALOT of tutorials out there that remind me of being back in school with the worlds most boring teacher 🤣🤣🤣🤣 which makes them hard to watch and tedious to follow 🤯🤯)
I'm fairly new to 3D printing but over the past few months i've learned LOADS from your channel ----- sincere "Thank You" for teaching us your skills and helping us improve 👍👍
That’s awesome I’m glad I could help you out. I realize it’s a boring but important thing to learn. I try to make it as easy to follow as I can. Cause it can get confusing. Thanks for the comment.
You are the GOAT of 3d Printing.....Period.
amazing video as always my dude!
Hell yeah, man! These videos are a lifesaver! Subscribed! Thank you!
That’s great! I was hoping they would help people
Superb. Clear, structured and as simple as the subject matter will allow. I did have zero stringing with my bondtech direct drive. However, I needed to mod my z axis movement because the z binding / wobble was driving me spare.
So, I did the belt driven z axis mod and it's brilliant. The quality is so much better.
But for some unknown reason stringing has returned! I also fitted a new nozzle which may not have helped.
Anyways, superb info. I had no idea about retraction towers. I'll set up a custom one that operates within direct drive parameters. I've set combing to all but it really needs work on the actual retraction.
Thanks again!
I was having a HUGE issue with stringing .. Thank you for this
Love your videos man, thanks for making these!
Great informative video as always and I have to say side note::::::love that Punisher in the background lol
Thanks so much Rob! Yeah I am too that’s why he was back there. 😅
Yes i enjoy this video 😊. I recently started 3d print ada looking for a detail explaination in cura settings espcecially because i have this stringing issues to the top😅. Its really helpful
The man in the moustache speaks gold.
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Tô maratonando os vídeos pra conseguir o melhor desempenho da minha Ender 3 S1, já tô sentindo grandes mudanças e espero chegar lá!
Best video ever this explains everything!
Thank you so much for the information. Your videos are so valuable to me as a new learning 3d printer duuuude. So many different things. I have learned to produce better prints for my hobby of interest and Givin in a very easy to understand entertaining way. And you have a badass mustache lol
That’s great! I’m glad I could help you out!
Great tutorial thanks man!
i found your vids helpful. as i am new on 3d printing. as of now i have issues on clogging and grinding. now i saw this might give a try ASAP. TIA. (y)
Friend.. you are a jedi master, thank you for so much wisdom. You gain a subscriber and a follower.
I’ll teach you the ways young Padawan. 😂
Brother i have to say of all ht echannels I have watched you are my go to I have saved your Cura basics play list and if I find issues with prints I review your video on what I suspect the issue may be. Even when rewatching a video I find little bits of information my ADD addled brain might have blocked out on the first watch thank you so much.
That’s awesome I’m glad I could help and be your go too! 😁
I've been enjoying your stuff, find it helpful as well as easily digestable for one who's fairly new to the hobby. Still having stringing issues even on a 4-9 tower, gonna have to mess with more settings it seems. 😄
Awesome glad the videos are helping. Stringing can be tricky sometimes. Depends on the filament.
@@ItsMeaDMaDe Yes, it's been particularly frustrating. Seems most tower levels appear the same for the most part
Awesome info. Looking at all the vids. I got and Ender 3 V2 Neo and has been lots of fun playing around with.
Thanks glad you liked it. How do you like the neo?? I’ve considered getting one (not that I need another printer)
Me 2 same printer. Best time of my life. Besides that thermistor. Cool yo learn what it is. Annoying to have to maintain
@@Slipz2357 that seems the case with any 3D printer. Well if you ever have any questions don’t hesitate to jump on my free discord I’m always there answering questions. Best of luck on your future prints.
love your vid it was so helpfull thanks
Amazing. Thank you
Now That I Am Caught Up!!! The Next Upgrade Has Been Released!!!! Just My Luck!!!! Great Video!!!! Thanks Chris!!!!🤢😛😅👍💯😎LOL!!!
Wow, I've never ran Cura but after this video I just might. I'm also running a Spider V3.
Go for it! There are a ton of awesome features
great video
Thanks for this video, Im struggling with retraction and even through adjusting all these settings I havent been able to get the stringing gone due to the features being so close together and Z hop doesnt seem to do anything. Is there an option to get the nozzel to move to a specific location after every completed section?
Subscribed 👍 I just now spent many hoursfor calibration new filament 😅 and now is time to go sleep 🙈, no time for printing part
This is a great video series. I see so many people on social media begging for print profiles from others and not taking the time to learn how to properly calibrate their settings at all. 3D printers aren't "set it and forget it" machines. If you take the time to test, calibrate and fine tune, the quality of your prints will be much better - and you save a lot of wasted materials in fails! My one grief with the AutoTowers is most of my machines are direct drive, so none of those work with the 0.4 - 1.0 distances I like to test
There is a custom retract tower option
@@polycrystallinecandy try it. It gives me a scad error and crashes
@@WhereNerdyisCool I've used it many times
Edit: just tried it with 0-2, 0.5 steps and it worked fine. What values are you using?
@@polycrystallinecandy yeah it won’t on my two computers.
@@WhereNerdyisCool Do other custom towers work? What's the error? Can it not find OpenSCAD or does the generation script error out?
Retraction tower from 1 to 6mm
Retraction tower from 7 to 12mm.
Stringing always in every setting. Ender 3.
PLA 3NMAX at 200 degrees.
Thanks some useful insights there as having some grinding issues on the infill with a CR-10 Smart Pro, I am not so impressed with the bed levelling on this machine.
I've been playing around with retraction on one of my printers and found what appears to be a golden ratio. 1:10:5. By this i mean for every 1 mm of retraction i set the retraction speed to 10mm/s and prime speed to 5mm/s. The ideal i have set to, which pretty much eliminates stringing and blobbing, is 5mm:50mms:25mms. I find these 3 settings played the biggest difference for me and as long as my filament is good and dry stringing is virtually non-existent.
that plugin is siiiiick thanks
I upgraded from cura 4 to cura 5 and just used the suggested settings for my printer that came with cura 5. Then I tried to set the general travel speed low because i was struggling with layer shifts.
Seems too low travel speed will increase angel hair, since the filament will be allowed to stretch instead of snap. Especially with lower print temperature…
Just a hint. Ymmw.
You’re the best.
Thanks for great video, when printing the articulated dragon for eample the body etc is perfect but when it comes the spikes I get this training and the spikes are rough. How do you get a FDM printer to be able print clean spikes ? Thanks
YOU ARE THE GOAT
you mad lad, you got the leaking to stop!
Good work. I tried the Retraction distance calibration columns with PETG and I was unable to reduce the amount of strings even with a travel distance set at 12!
I am now printing the same sample with PLA filament, and, at the value of 6, I don't see any strings.
Di you experience that different behavior (PETG vs PL) as well? Is it depending on the nozzle temperature or other factors?
Thanks
Claud
I am still a beginner in 3d printing with Cura. Your videos make a hole lot clearer thx. There is only one question and that is my printer Elegoo neptune 4 pro is not supported in Cura. Elegoo seams to have no interest in adding this printer to Cura. Could you help me with that?
For the retraction tower, did you apply a post-script gcode? or does that retraction tower automatically change the retraction as it moves up the tower without adding a post-script??
Appreciate all the clarification on this as I'm fairly new to 3D Printing. Unfortunately, I'm still having massive stringing issues after going through all 3 Retract Distance Towers in AutoTowers. Any suggestions?
I’m having the same problem, did you get a solution?
late response but it could be your temp that you're printing it at too. mostly before you do a retraction test, you should do a temp tower test to see where the stringing can occur based on the temp @@x415xSLAUGHT3Rx
Thank you so much for the information. but I want to ask mine have ender 3 s1 which has direct extruder and retraction towers has higher values than ender 3 s1 recommended 0.8mm should i customized for that
Even for a direct drive you would run the same tests. I would just look at what the recommended is and use that as base to test.
Hey guys! I'm having this problem where if I print with supports the supports ooze and string from them warp around my main model like a spiderweb. This happens only horizontally. Main model prints fine but ooze from the supports stick to it. Any ideas ?
Great video. There is no absolute ideal retraction setting though. 3.75mm may be perfect at a certail room temperature, and certain filament. Change the room temperature by 5 degrees, that setting may not be quite right anymore...... It is definitely one of those things that is tricky to get absolutely perfect, which I guess is why a lot of 3D printing people will accept a very small amount of stringing.
thank you thank you thank you
Your welcome
Doesn't that mustache tickle? lol great video
Ha ha. No not really. You get use to it.
I think I may have another look at Cura. Lately I had been using Orca Slicer, but had been having issues with stringing.
I got quite the stringing and blob issue right after I installed a bi-metal heatbreak on my Ender3 hotend. Couldn't solve it completely yet. It only get's a bit better when Z-hop is disabled, but that's not really what I want.
I love the videos. I just wish you would show your print temps because that effects retraction, as well. As does flow rate. Do you recommend a specific order to do all these different tests?
The order I recommend to do the tests are temp tower, flow tower, retraction last.
Esteps before everything...
I fitted one of those high flow nozzles with the three passages inside, Stringing went through the roof and retraction settings had zero effect. I went upto 7.5 mm at 75mm/s which started spoiling the other way. Trouble is i havent got any new normal ones left as i brough a few of these highflows and zero spare funds for another three weeks.
How does the tower test change the retraction distance you have set in CURA? How during the print is is changing from 1 to 6 if you simply slice?
Isn't it a good idea to do the Temperature Tower before doing the Auto Retraction Distance Tower? When you do the Auto Retraction Distance Tower, what retraction speed is used? I am also curious why you didn't suggest using the Auto Retraction Sped Tower. Thanks for all of your awesome videos - they have helped me immensely!
As a newbie, can I just ask - once these settings are dialled in do they work with any filament? I sometimes swap between PLA and PETG. Thanks
I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my nozzle kept hitting my stringing test print and knocking it off my base plate and then I came across this video and decided to switch from PrusaSlicer to Cura and the difference in my prints was night and day. I went from crazy stringing and printing in mid air to a perfect stringing tower AND retraction tower. Not sure what exact parameters changed between PrusaSlicer to Cura, but it was enough to finally get my PETG to work properly
What’s going on if you have stringing on 1 and 3 but no stringing on 2? I’ve got an Ender 3 V2 with Bowden tube setup. Thanks
Newb here. I'm having a really hard time with this. On the test alone, I keep getting a seaweed look. Does it also depend on the size of the nozzle? I'm utilizing an 0.6 on an Ender 5 plus. I figured this would be a good way to shrink down time with a larger nozzle.
Quaestion I have 2 Ender printers - If they are different I presume i ned to set up Cura each time
ALSE Do we need to run a test for each type of filement
Thanks
I have ender3 v3 se and tested the tower in retraction distance with 1-6 ,also don't have any problem in first step and somewhere I found that the best retract distance can be 0.8 and i think its work for me.. by the way I am new in 3dprinting . but I try to get more pro
my print towers came out horrible, i printed 6 and only 1 made it to the top, for some reason the zits were so over barring it made the nozzle bump into the model, but i did a cube calibration and it was almost perfect, and i still don't know how to fix this
I need help with seam settings alot set it to random but I want to blend this into my print to hide the seam can this be done
Does anyone know why my nozzle grinds across the print it’s making? My first layer is perfect, so I know it’s not my Z. Only during certain maneuvers it grinds against the print and I can’t figure out why. It even knocks supports sometimes.
i am confused now i have a v400 direct drive tried the retraction towers the least amount of stringing i got was on 1 but tried the custom but gives me an error saying something about openscad not installed so cannot try and retraction lower than 1 any help would be great
Help LOL.... I have an Ender 3 V2 for over 2 years and it's worked good up until about a month ago and been using cura as a slicer and some others with the same problem ....the problem I've have is about the first inch or 2 of my print is pretty good but the higher it goes it seems like the worse it gets ... it seems to me it's under extruding and the part is unusable .....I played around with the temperature went from minimum to Max I... l also tried different nozzles... 0.4.. tried different filaments two of them completely new in different brands and I also dried them... fans or all working good.... put an enclosure around it..... tried several different prints and they all do the same thing when it starts getting taller..... replace the Boden tube and installed a dual Drive extruder.... I'm using pla Plus..... I change the retraction from 0.2 all the way up to 0.7...... I've adjusted the flow all the way up to 125%..... I went back to an older version of cura.... I've checked all the v rollers everything is free with no slack.... I have tried several other things with no change this is getting very long so I'll stop it here... Thanks for any help
Wow. You have had some issues. Sorry to hear. Sometimes this hobby can be frustrating. It’s hard to give you a direct answer to your issue. I recommend to join my free discord channel and there me and others might be able to help you. The link to join is in the description.
Do I need to change the print temp?
These help so much. However, I've made changes and have messed up somewhere. Can i revert to a default setting to start over?
That’s a very good question. I don’t know. Let me do some digging and I’ll let you know.
@ItsMeaDMaDe found it. Right next to profile under print settings drop down is a reset to default icon. Thanks for answering. Great series!
@@garcmol1 awesome. If figured there had to be something. Best of luck with your prints!
Im having a problem with to much travel for non print moves. It makes sense if there are 2 objects across the bed. But my designs are solid, and nothing is disconnected. I want my slicer to always travel a path that is printing.
Would retraction be different by filament?
What if when you print the tower and get NO stringing? Ret distance 1.5mm. Also Elegoo Neptune 3 pro
so u have to set the retraction distance on 4 mm?
Good video. But alot more info than needed. For Newbies, need to find best temperature setting and best retraction. This will give you near on 99% quality in most cases. Once you've mastered that, then you can look at all the other setting but cura has it pretty close to perfect anyway.
So imo
1. Temp test for the filament. ( Temp tower provided in plugin described above
2/. Print retraction tower with correct temp
That is 99% of as good as you're going to get with the printer and filament you have.
I guess i need some serious trouble shooting help.
I got "tiny stringing" like you got on your "3mm retraction" all the time. from 4 upwards to beyond 10mm.
it doesn´t get much worse, but it doesn´t get any better either.
Its always tiny stringing.
I printed all 3 preset towers and got stringing ALL THE Time
Machine: Anycubic Vyper
Nozzle 0.4mm
Filament rPLA (recycled PLA from Recycle Fabrik)
CURA 5.7.0
Settings:
Layer hight 0.2
Print Temp 190
printspeed 80mm/s
outer wall speed 45mm/s
inner wall speed 100mm/s
Top/bottom speed 40mm/s
Support speed 80mm/s
Travel speed 120mm/s
Initial layer speed 40mm/s
Z hop speed 10mm/s
Number of slower layers 2
Travel:
Enable Retraction YES
Retract Layer Change YES
Retraction distance 10mm -> still stringing
Retraction Speed 45mm/s
Retraction Retract speed 45mm/s
Combing mode
Not on Outer Surface
Avoid printed parts when traveling YES
Avoid Supports when travelling YES
Travel avoid distance 0.625mm
Z hop when retracted YES
Z hop hight 1mm
Cooling enabled 100%
I´m realy going to get mad!
Help please! I am on cura 5.3.0 and I recently just noticed a problem so after I slice something I can see the stringing on the preview this has never occurred before. Is there any way of fixing this or resolving this? Being how I noticed this on the preview I am afraid of printing because I’m afraid the stringing will occur.
Did you perhaps enable the travel view?
My retraction is set at 10 and its still getting stringing. Im at 40mm a second. I need to get it tuned in because im about to start printing an rc airplane with light weight pla
What is the opposite of retraction. My lines sometimes don't start where they should
I did this and cura said it would take 27 mins and in my ender 3. It took over 1 hour. It keeps doing that all my prints take at least double the time. Please help. Why?
How does flow affect retraction?
A word of caution in printing the various towers suggested in this video. On my printer the extruder was violently janked to the front-left of the bed making an enormous loud noise and banging on the motors and belts. Since using this suggestion I have not been able to get a decent print of my new printer. Please be careful!
so we better put that z-hop on for every printing?
what if I do not see any stringing, confused
i printed 1-6 and 7-12 of the tower plugin files and the stringing is identical on all of them. anyone know what i'm missing?
I"m printing on a CR-10S Pro
i working on it im new in 3D printing looking for the sweet spot:)
At my wits end
Spent the last 4 weeks learning and using my 2 AnyCubic Kobra Neos and one Ender 3
Seen every video by Chris Mead
Ran a Temperature tower test (Down loaded from Cura Market Place) and all i got was STRINGING But it only printed down to 210 and collapsed on Ender
Didnt get passed 220 on Neo
Must be the heating
Is there a similar automatic test that starts at say 180 and works up ~
And i am getting all types of strining issues
I love you
damn, i did the First one, Got to the 3rd tower, 12 was the best one, no stringing but still not great either as it had angel hair on the sides.
I did that retraction tower and had not one string. Printed some files and stringing like crazy. Don't get it.
anybody have any clue why i still have stringing at 100mm anycubic korbra neo, .6mm nozzle, elegoo pla
What about for Octolapse?
Still having problems
Is there a print that starts at 4 and ends at 1 - that would stop n eeding 1-4 and 4-6
Not worried about the filement but time Everything is so slow Where ios Custome tower
I just printed my first ever print. Although it is recognizable & it is functional. It looks like dog doo doo. Trying to figure out how to run it at a higher temp or run a temp tower. I can’t find the temperature setting in cura 5.4
You might still be in basic settings. Make sure you are in the custom settings then it shows everything and there you will find the temperature settings.
@@ItsMeaDMaDe yes I found it after watching more of your videos. I went through all my settings. I’m showing a speed setting of 50 I feel like that maybe to fast by the look of my prints. I don’t know yet. I need to try a print with a few of the settings I’ve changed. I don’t want to change to much as I won’t know which changes have done what
Also my retraction test stops after certain number why is this?