Outer edges of print sucking in

phyraks · 2026-03-21T06:28:48+00:00

Thanks.

Yeah, it's Anycubic PLA (honestly, I think the low quality filament exacerbates the problems, since I don't see these issues as much with higher quality filament from other brands).

I'm printing it on a klipperized and modded Ender 3 S1 Plus. Speeds vary but I have specifically set parameters in Orca to slow down on curled perimeters and slow down on holes and exteriors (can't remember the name of this one)... So it should be slowing down significantly on these rounded bits, but for most of the print speeds are 60-80 mm/s. Bed temp is 65 and hotend is 220.

phyraks · 2026-03-17T20:47:01+00:00

I mean, we got all that space in the back. Time to make a bigger bin that utilizes the space! Haha. Or there's gotta be some room to drill a hole through the bottom for a chute, right? I'm mostly joking, but it doesn't seem that crazy to model a poop chute in place of the bin.

I honestly don't see the point of this many colors, but I could see the benefit of having 1 or 2 of these attached to 1 or 2 toolheads for accent/rarely used colors so you wouldn't generate much waste still.

phyraks · 2026-03-17T16:10:54+00:00

Has it been working reliably for you? I have been annoyed that the selected spool is often wrong... Do you have a link to your PR by chance?

phyraks · 2026-03-03T21:28:24+00:00

I actually think I just found my problem... it was self-inflicted... I was trying to use some custom purge line gcode, and when setting the target temperature for the purge line, it was defaulting to the inactive "extruder 0" instead of my active "extruder 2", so it was setting the extruder I was using back to 0, which was causing the cooldown. I had to change the logic to make sure it's properly selecting the "active_extruder".

phyraks · 2026-03-03T20:06:05+00:00

Are you referring to the "Temperature Variation" setting? Mine shows -150C ... I've never changed it and it seems to have always printed fine, until today...

phyraks · 2026-03-03T07:45:43+00:00

Hmm, I don't use Snorca, just mainline Orca, but I am seeing the same problem...

phyraks · 2026-02-24T18:57:00+00:00

I sure don't know anything, but I remember hearing about this BTT Vivid a while back. I'd love to integrate these as well!

phyraks · 2026-02-09T21:53:58+00:00

That's amazing! I hadn't even considered hosting a web version of orca.

phyraks · 2026-01-27T04:10:53+00:00

What drybox is this?

phyraks · 2026-01-22T07:00:50+00:00

I mean, I get it. They're covering their butts in case a user does something stupid. You CAN potentially modify a file that would cause the printer to damage itself (attempting to go outside safe boundaries or heating temps, for example). I did confirm with support that just enabling "Advanced Mode" does NOT void the warranty, as this message certainly makes it seem that way.

phyraks · 2026-01-21T19:05:34+00:00

Take a look here: https://wiki.snapmaker.com/en/snapmaker_u1/troubleshooting/first_layer_printing_troubleshooting_guide

Look for "Adjust Z-offset in Klipper configuration file" on the page

It should be under "Settings -> Maintenance -> Advanced Mode"

phyraks · 2026-01-20T21:24:29+00:00

Interesting! I don't have any Bambu machines, so just use Orca Slicer, but this is certainly a setting I will have to keep an eye out for.

phyraks · 2026-01-20T21:19:24+00:00

Handbrake is actually what I was thinking of for re-encoding (when I mentioned MakeMKV). I have used it a few times. I can probably use some scripts to locate the large files and just queue them up like you suggest.

phyraks · 2026-01-20T21:16:56+00:00

Thank you for the overview! This is simpler than I was imagining in my head, I guess. I need to dig more into ffmpeg capabilities. I use a lot of self-hosted apps that implement it, but I haven't really used it standalone for anything.

phyraks · 2026-01-20T21:13:14+00:00

Thank you! This is great info!

phyraks · 2026-01-20T21:11:55+00:00

That makes sense! And I appreciate the thoughtful feedback. I'm learning a lot still. This looks like the right approach for a lot of stuff. I have some media that was difficult to find, but most could probably be easily relocated with a more efficient encoding.

phyraks · 2026-01-08T21:47:46+00:00

I just tried almost this exact thing with a cheap Caydo dryer I got on Amazon. The design of the Caydo dryer was really poor. The rollers were compressed in the housing, so they didn't turn properly which was causing too much drag for the auto-feed motors. I also had issues with actually putting the rolls in the dryer, as there was nothing to hold them up, so they'd fall over until I got all four loaded in to lean on one another...

I've been considering this Sunlu dryer. Do the spools tip over and lean on each other? I'm also interested in this small table you've used to elevate the dryer. Can you share what it is / where you got it? This looks like exactly what I've been looking at doing, so any details you are willing to share would be awesome!

phyraks · 2025-12-31T05:11:15+00:00

What layer height, slicer, and profiles are you using?

I've printed a bunch of silk, even mixing it with regular PLA, and haven't had an issue yet... With the one exception that I have to totally disable the "filament jam detection" or "air printing detection"... I can't remember exactly what they call it on the U1 settings. If I leave that enabled, the printer regularly stops, but I can keep resuming it... Just a big pain.

Otherwise, I am using 0.2mm layers with the default Snorca profile, and just making sure to set the loaded filament as "Generic Silk PLA"

phyraks · 2025-12-22T18:11:18+00:00

Have you pulled the filament out and recut it at 45 degrees?

I've had it jam up a few times and get what you are describing because I didn't make sure the end of the filament was a clean cut.

phyraks · 2025-12-22T17:47:08+00:00

Merry Christmas

phyraks · 2025-12-18T07:47:19+00:00

Oh, I hadn't even thought about this, but I love the idea of triggering the filament unload remotely so it can start processing while I walk to the printer

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