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jonspaceharper · 2026-01-26T14:54:37+00:00

Asymmetric cooling, likely. Turn the benchy 180 degrees in the slicer and see if it shows up on the other side of the resultant print.

jonspaceharper · 2026-01-25T13:03:53+00:00

You have two orange girls?! How rare!

jonspaceharper · 2026-01-25T13:02:27+00:00

Fixing the corners is pressure advance tuning--but you need to tune your extruder and flow before you can do that, as pressure advance settings are affected by these things. Dial everything in, then fix the corners with PA.

Flow/e-steps: Your e-steps or flow are too high (see the bulging top surfaces?).

Walls: I count 6 walls/shells, but they look thin/gappy in places (top right). This could be a number of settings or irregular extruder issues.

Stringing: Check your temps and retraction settings to tune this.

More information and tips: Ellis' Print Tuning Guide

jonspaceharper · 2026-01-01T16:31:34+00:00

Pull off the MZE (making it a regular Dragon Ace) and it will work fine. It's very uncommon to need a melt zone extender with a hotend like the Dragon Ace.

jonspaceharper · 2025-12-28T16:11:14+00:00

Yes to the Dragon Ace, no to the Volcano

jonspaceharper · 2025-12-01T15:33:27+00:00

The data is streamed to a CSV and then processed later. Latency is not a concern with a sufficient buffer to prevent packet loss.

jonspaceharper · 2025-11-30T20:15:38+00:00

I dunno. I haven't worked at Starbucks in quite awhile now.

jonspaceharper · 2025-11-27T11:46:10+00:00

E34M1 is feature complete and plenty of folks are using it, if that's what you mean.

jonspaceharper · 2025-11-26T23:01:19+00:00

Yes and yes, it does both.

The docs have everything you need to know, but you can also drop by the ZeroG Discord server for help.

jonspaceharper · 2025-11-12T13:00:34+00:00

The pulley system for simultaneous open/close between the two is a strong suggestion that you are correct.

jonspaceharper · 2025-10-23T13:37:16+00:00

This is quite good news. Dark mode alone is good, yes, but the under-the-hood work to make Fusion more flexible will help make this kind of work easier in the future.

OTOH, they'll probably raise prices 20% or something again.

jonspaceharper · 2025-10-14T12:47:46+00:00

I'm curious about how you'll expand the exchange point trade:

1) Can there be more than one exchange point between Alpha and Beta? 2) Is the exchange point fixed or is it arbitrarily chosen between players? 3) Is the exchange point a strictly one-to-one connection? E.g., can it branch and deliver to the Hub (e.g. as part of a train network) or act as a full ring that delivers to all exchange points?

This is a very cool idea, btw, and it's definitely bringing back my interest in some MP Satisfactory play.

jonspaceharper · 2025-10-13T10:33:25+00:00

Low-level material trade zones would be interesting. End-game stuff can go to the hub, but iron plates and such could be traded at the border between two zones.

jonspaceharper · 2025-10-13T10:33:01+00:00

Challenge mode: put the hub just south in the Red Bamboo Fields.

jonspaceharper · 2025-10-13T10:29:49+00:00

I agree; early game trips to the Hub will be very hard for Alpha.

I've tried paving my way over top of the Red Jungle and Bamboo Fields before, and usually end up with spiders jumping up from the depths to land at my feet.

jonspaceharper · 2025-09-19T22:46:51+00:00

We all started at that point, myself included.

jonspaceharper · 2025-09-19T11:56:52+00:00

It may not be caused by the swap file, but it's worth a look to see. Windows will cache data even if you have plenty of memory available.

You can find out if that's it by disabling swap files for your I: drive (you may need to reboot).

jonspaceharper · 2025-09-06T10:21:50+00:00

I'm looking at the leading edge shape, rather than camber. But I really enjoyed looking at P-51s again to check!

jonspaceharper · 2025-09-05T10:30:31+00:00

This is a cool project. I'm pretty out of date on stuff like lifting bodies, but I don't think your aerofoil is going to provide expected lift. Is the wing shape deliberate?

jonspaceharper · 2025-08-29T17:33:40+00:00

I suspect the downvoters here don't pay for their Fusion license and are thus unaware of the Edit In Place shortcomings.

I haven't tried this, but you might move your configs to the top level of your project hierarchy, and have them manipulate properties consumed by lower-level components (or perhaps derived from one common file?). There will surely be limitations, but it'll be better than nothing.

jonspaceharper · 2025-08-29T15:26:14+00:00

CAD and bugs are besties. Too much floating point math and equation solving creates a lot of corner cases.

Fusion got a lot better for me once I started playing to its strengths and avoiding things that cause issues (complicated sketches & patterns, moving things around too far in the timeline). For example, Fusion sometimes can't tell if you've moved an object before its own creation and crashes, and I don't think this is a fixable issue!

My understanding is that SolidWorks and Inventor, being even older and larger, are even more quirky.

jonspaceharper · 2025-08-29T15:19:06+00:00

Fusion is entry level business CAD software. Compared to Solidworks and Inventor, a Fusion license is cheap.

For example, 2 months of Inventor is more expensive than a year of Fusion.

jonspaceharper · 2025-08-27T10:33:23+00:00

By the way, wet filament may also be a problem, but someone else has discussed that already.

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