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

@ce4276

Жыл бұрын

Thank you I think that's why I just clogged my Neptune 3 Plus' nozzle

@philz9835

8 ай бұрын

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.

@comando8919

8 ай бұрын

Sprite pro kit started acting up after this. Lol

@richardsimmons6470

8 ай бұрын

VERY INTERESTING - My Ender Bowden Cable Is OK My AnyCubics are Not so YOU ARE right

@adnanabdull4h

8 ай бұрын

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.

Watched your entire series. Very good info. It clarified a number of the settings I tune for different spools of filament. Much appreciated.

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

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😁

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

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!

The man in the moustache speaks gold.

@ItsMeaDMaDe

10 ай бұрын

😂🤣😂

@stickboyfpv4742

10 ай бұрын

I mustache you a questionnn?!😂 Nah nvm😂

@gabrielpaparotti

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 true

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 👍

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 👍👍

@ItsMeaDMaDe

6 ай бұрын

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.

Appreciated I've seen the whole video, and had helped me a lot with my cura configs.

Hell yeah, man! These videos are a lifesaver! Subscribed! Thank you!

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

That’s great! I was hoping they would help people

You are the GOAT of 3d Printing.....Period.

Love your videos man, thanks for making these!

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!

I was having a HUGE issue with stringing .. Thank you for this

amazing video as always my dude!

Friend.. you are a jedi master, thank you for so much wisdom. You gain a subscriber and a follower.

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

I’ll teach you the ways young Padawan. 😂

Best video ever this explains everything!

Great informative video as always and I have to say side note::::::love that Punisher in the background lol

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Rob! Yeah I am too that’s why he was back there. 😅

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!

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

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

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

That’s great! I’m glad I could help you out!

Awesome info. Looking at all the vids. I got and Ender 3 V2 Neo and has been lots of fun playing around with.

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

Thanks glad you liked it. How do you like the neo?? I’ve considered getting one (not that I need another printer)

@Slipz2357

Жыл бұрын

Me 2 same printer. Best time of my life. Besides that thermistor. Cool yo learn what it is. Annoying to have to maintain

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Amazing. Thank you

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)

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.

@ItsMeaDMaDe

3 ай бұрын

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. 😄

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

Awesome glad the videos are helping. Stringing can be tricky sometimes. Depends on the filament.

@katoracle

Жыл бұрын

@@ItsMeaDMaDe Yes, it's been particularly frustrating. Seems most tower levels appear the same for the most part

great video

Tô maratonando os vídeos pra conseguir o melhor desempenho da minha Ender 3 S1, já tô sentindo grandes mudanças e espero chegar lá!

love your vid it was so helpfull thanks

Now That I Am Caught Up!!! The Next Upgrade Has Been Released!!!! Just My Luck!!!! Great Video!!!! Thanks Chris!!!!🤢😛😅👍💯😎LOL!!!

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.

you mad lad, you got the leaking to stop!

that plugin is siiiiick thanks

You’re the best.

I think I may have another look at Cura. Lately I had been using Orca Slicer, but had been having issues with stringing.

Subscribed 👍 I just now spent many hoursfor calibration new filament 😅 and now is time to go sleep 🙈, no time for printing part

YOU ARE THE GOAT

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

@polycrystallinecandy

Жыл бұрын

There is a custom retract tower option

@WhereNerdyisCool

Жыл бұрын

@@polycrystallinecandy try it. It gives me a scad error and crashes

@polycrystallinecandy

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@WhereNerdyisCool

Жыл бұрын

@@polycrystallinecandy yeah it won’t on my two computers.

@polycrystallinecandy

Жыл бұрын

@@WhereNerdyisCool Do other custom towers work? What's the error? Can it not find OpenSCAD or does the generation script error out?

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?

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.

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!

Wow, I've never ran Cura but after this video I just might. I'm also running a Spider V3.

@ItsMeaDMaDe

8 ай бұрын

Go for it! There are a ton of awesome features

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?

Retraction tower from 1 to 6mm Retraction tower from 7 to 12mm. Stringing always in every setting. Ender 3. PLA 3NMAX at 200 degrees.

thank you thank you thank you

@ItsMeaDMaDe

8 ай бұрын

Your welcome

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

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.

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?

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

The order I recommend to do the tests are temp tower, flow tower, retraction last.

@DivineDragoonXD

9 ай бұрын

Esteps before everything...

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?

@x415xSLAUGHT3Rx

7 ай бұрын

I’m having the same problem, did you get a solution?

@traywayle

2 ай бұрын

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

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 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

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.

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 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

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?

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.

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

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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

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

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??

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

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 ?

Doesn't that mustache tickle? lol great video

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha. No not really. You get use to it.

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!

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

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.

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

@ItsMeaDMaDe

6 ай бұрын

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?

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

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

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.

These help so much. However, I've made changes and have messed up somewhere. Can i revert to a default setting to start over?

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

That’s a very good question. I don’t know. Let me do some digging and I’ll let you know.

@garcmol1

Жыл бұрын

@ItsMeaDMaDe found it. Right next to profile under print settings drop down is a reset to default icon. Thanks for answering. Great series!

@ItsMeaDMaDe

Жыл бұрын

@@garcmol1 awesome. If figured there had to be something. Best of luck with your prints!

so we better put that z-hop on for every printing?

i working on it im new in 3D printing looking for the sweet spot:)

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 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

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

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?

so u have to set the retraction distance on 4 mm?

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

What is the opposite of retraction. My lines sometimes don't start where they should

What about for Octolapse?

I love you

How does flow affect retraction?

I did that retraction tower and had not one string. Printed some files and stringing like crazy. Don't get it.

Love you I keep knock off my supports I hope this helps

@ItsMeaDMaDe

9 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Well I hope it does

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.

@MarcoPietersen

9 ай бұрын

Did you perhaps enable the travel view?

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

@ItsMeaDMaDe

10 ай бұрын

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.

@MorrWorm8

10 ай бұрын

@@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

anybody have any clue why i still have stringing at 100mm anycubic korbra neo, .6mm nozzle, elegoo pla

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 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?

@lachlankirk7710

5 ай бұрын

I"m printing on a CR-10S Pro

I cant even get the tower to stick to the bed. I've cleaned it multiple time Help!!!!!! Im a newbie!!!

doctor Johns wher is the medallion

Also my retraction test stops after certain number why is this?

I try this and instead of retracting back it just stop

lmao, whatever the retraction settings is, i keep getting those angel hairs, no way to get rid of it. PLus, at 1 mm i have LESS strings than higher settings, idk what to to.