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Hi,
I only make useable items in my Robox. But I have to say it creates weird tool paths, does silly things and makes the print not as good as it should be. Take a simple thin wall square model where it could simply go around in a square loop, but no it does it some of the time, then other times its jumping around restarting on different sides! I have another model where I was making a 90 thin walled duct, so it has a curved tool path. What does it do but breaks the the 90 degree in to segments instead of one long curve and hence the print doesn’t come out well with all the unnecessary path changes!
I have used the Skeinforge slicer on before on another printer, not saying its better, definitely slow but at least it didn’t do this weird tool path thing!!
The Robox has a lot of good attributes, the biggest annoyances for me are the slicer and the blobbing, otherwise a good printer
Love to hear others thoughts on this.
I noticed that strange tool path too when i printed a simple ball with 0,5 mm wall thickness. In my opinion the problem with robox is not the hardware but the software which mostly reduces printing quality.
Sorry for my poor English
now you mentipn it I thought the same when printing some rings which are just cylindrical but at times it does a tiny bit here and there then larger parts rather than just a constant circular path. but also from watching other prints it does seem to do some very random and in efficient paths but guess that is just the work of slicer?
It could also be due to the tessellation resolution on your stl file @datman. There’s options in Solidworks to adjust the linear accuracy and circular accuracy of the outputted stl, and if its low you will see square sides to the rounded surfaces.
@Rob, good point. I am now testing that. It has made a difference on the 90 duct, still running the print, but much better so far. But the square thin wall model doesn’t have curves. But I will try a few more tests on it.
I have done some more prints and testing. Slicer does weird stuff!! I am not happy with the tool paths!! Maybe I will try a later version of slicer.
Tried a new version of slicer, the tool paths are much improved, improved prints :).
Left one Slicer 1.1.5, right Slicer 1.1.7.
@Ian I’m going to assume you’ve got those backwards 😉
Also, looks like I should update my Slic3r…
ooopppsss your right @physicsmajor
Easy to update.
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