i3v Cura settings

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...The retract parameters are based on comments somewhere about here. Temperature is from experiment with MakerFarm vendor glow in the dark green ABS. To help deal with curling of the finished piece, I've been using a brim. The travel speed is probably too low at 100 mm/s. Bottom layer is slow (20mm/s) and fat. Infill is roughed out at 100 mm/s and most printing occurs at 70 mm/s (mostly based on ideas from printbus)

I just think the neighborhood of 70mm/s is a good compromise between speed and printer noise/print quality. Simple flat surfaces and boxes I do print up to 100mm/sec.

I think we have work to do to optimize the retraction settings; retraction_minimal_extrusion in particular. I've had to turn retraction off on some prints in order to keep repeated retraction from grinding into the filament. Their default of 0.02mm for retraction_minimal_extrusion seems awfully small; I'm currently trying 0.5mm. Likewise, I've increased retraction_min_travel from 1.5mm to 5mm to reduce the number of retractions. I'm also following their field comment and run retraction_hop set to 0.075mm to minimize ooze smearing across a print during a move.

It'll be interesting to eventually prove whether layer0_width_factor does anything. I had mine set to 250% to mimic my slic3r settings. Skimming through forums before I adopted Cura, the Cura developer was steadfast against implementing the slic3r-like setting, but he was under a lot of pressure to do so. I remember a post where he basically said "fine, it's in the gui. But people are going to have to write their own script for it". Coincidentally or not, this is the one standalone Cura setting that doesn't appear to be accessible in Repetier-Host.

I know you're running with brim, but I set the skirt_line_count to 2. That usually gives me enough time to tweak thumbwheels on the Y-bed if I want to after seeing how the skirt is turning out.

It wasn't really clear to me what the "fix horrible" settings are trying to do. I've only ran with them all set to false.

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Overall, I've grown to like how Repetier-Host handles the settings for Cura. With standalone Cura, I seemed to always be befuddled on where to find settings. "Maybe basic. Well, I don't see it. Advanced? Nah. Must be in the expert settings - oh yeah, I have to go to the top menu to pull those up. Nope. Must have missed it on one of the other two groupings..." The functional groupings RH has makes more sense to me. For print speeds, configuration details allow you to set up min and max values for all the speeds. In the main slicing pane, you then have a short set of obvious stuff to set - sort of like your checklist. Pick the bed adhesion between brim/raft/none (none will give you skirt). Pick from the predefined print quality options you set up (I only have 0.2mm set up). Set support to none/touching everywhere/touching bed. Drag a slider to set the basic print speed from the range you've defined. Check/uncheck print cooling management. Drag a slider to set the infill percentage. Pick from the predefined filament profiles you set up. Slice. Start Print.

I do have a downside to RH - with Slic3r and standalone Cura, I used to always grab a copy of the ini file to archive with the print stl and gcode files. RH has multiple ini files that reflect the detailed configuration setup, but I haven't seen a way to archive the final selections actually made on that slicing pane.