Stringing is one of biggest frustrations in 3D printing. In these notes, I’ll summarize simple steps to reduce stringing by calibrating slicer retraction settings.
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Fighting fine stringing is one of the most frustrating problems to pin down, and our slicers provide numerous work-arounds to help us deal with this problem:
Cura 4.4 has no profile for the Artillery Sidewinder X1. Before I can print, I must first add the printer and then import the Artillery factory profile. To add the 3D printer, I click the drop-down icon and selected “Add printer”. My passport tm. This opens a big list of available printers but there is no Sidewinder X1. If you have a V.1-V.3 Sidewinder then adjusting is as simple as loosening the screw and sliding it up or down. If you have a V.4 or newer Sidewinder / Genius then your sensor is bolted to the extrusion. To be able to adjust it, you want to replace the original M3 screw with a shorter one and add a t-nut to the end.
- retraction and de-retraction length
- retract/de-retract filament speeds
- wiping
- z-lift or z-hop
- coasting (Cura)
Unfortunately, the testing process can be a long and tedious process. It is particularly frustrating to test individual small prints with different printer settings such as retraction.
Important
Be sure you’ve calibrated your slicer filament settings before trying to find the perfect retraction settings. Retraction and related settings are work-arounds for imperfect extrusion results. Calibrate your filament settings first to match your slicer extrusion settings to your real-world printer and filament settings first to reduce the number of work-arounds required to get good results.
One trick is to use a “virtual multi-extruder” printer profile to create a multi-part single print with unique hardware settings for each part.
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Note
These notes are based on my experiences with the Prusa i3 Mk3 and Artillery/Evnovo Sidewinder X1 printers. If you are using a different printer, please verify the hardware details are similar.
The idea is to create a printer profile with multiple extruders and enter different settings for each extruder. Assign each part to a different extruder and you can (with a bit of patience) generate several tests with a single print as shown below.
It’s a little cumbersome, but it beats trying to track multiple tiny prints. Here’s an example showing several retraction setting modifications:
- Retraction length is set to 0.2mm
- Lift Z is set to 0mm
- Retraction speed is set to 50mm/s
- Deretraction speed is set to 25mm/s
Fig. 98 Extruder settings¶
Provided each part is small enough, you can produce a single print that compares multiple settings.
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You can download a project file for testing PETG with a 0.60mm nozzle
here
. (Fixed nozzle size. Thanks @ido.d)I use the following retraction settings as a starting point:
- 0.2-0.4mm retraction
- 0-0.2mm z-lift
- 50mm/s retract speed
- 25mm/s de-retract speeds
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See also
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You can find me on the Prusa support forums or Reddit where I lurk in many of the 3D printing-related subreddits. I occasionally drop into the Official Prusa 3D discord server where I can be reached as bobstro (bobstro#9830). You can email me directly at projects@ttlexceeded.com.
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Last edited on Mar 08, 2021. Last build on Mar 11, 2021.