My Creality CR-30 PrintMill and all the other consumer belt printers I've ever seen work this way:įor reference: the observation point (the user) is in front of the printer. Looking forward to enjoying to use your fine slicer on my newest printer too in the future. Maybe you could integrate this properly by switching your already available first layer functions from Z=0 to Y=0 when the option "Belt Printer" is activated in "Printer Settings / Advanced". But this old software doesn't work anymore on the current macOS 11 Big Sur of my main computer, so I wanted to use IdeaMaker for my new Creality CR-30 PrintMill, as I don't want to be forced to use a Windows laptop just for that. But this is just a hack because the belt printer handling there is done by a plugin. The current but 3 years old default slicer for belt printers "CrealityBelt" (aka BlackBelt, a Cura 3.6.0 OEM) has the option to treat the „walls“ touching the belt separately which fixes exactly that problem. The "Platform Additions" Raft / Skirt and Brim also don't work at all for the same reason: referring to the wrong axis. As opposed to Z=0 for the whole Y length of a normal 3D printer. So belt adhesion is a gamble, because the settings that you provide to optimize it just don't work on a belt printer because the first layer starts at Y=0 for the whole Z length. The settings for the first layer in the tab "Speed", "First Layer Speed" and "Slow Down First Few Layers", don't work for the belt printer, because a belt printers first layer is not at Z=0 but at Y=0.Īlso in "Layer" all the options under "First Layer Settings" only apply to the very first printed line (or vertical wall) along the X-axis which is at Z=0, but for a belt printer this also has to be at Y=0. In the following paragraphs I refer to the lowest position on Y and Z as 0, even if it rather is the layer height, just for better readability. Some more problems / enhancement requests concerning belt printers:
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