Why does the printer need to travel ?
In order to remove surface defects when printing with silk PLA, I try to reduce the number of travels and retractions as much as possible. One idea is to have a solid part and set the infill to 0% So that there is a constant number of perimeters on the outside, with no gaps to fill (so no need for the nozzle to travel to fill the gaps). Now something strange happens when printing a tube with fins: the slicer has the nozzle travel when doing the seaming. (see picture). Is there a way to force the slicer to do the seaming "on the spot" to avoid the travel and retraction? I see no reason in the geometry of the part why this would not be possible.
RE: Why does the printer need to travel ?
That might be deliberate, historically there's always some overextrusion at Z-seams and this could be to mitigate the additive error from several seams in the same location.
RE: Why does the printer need to travel ?
This does not happen if the part is cylindrical. Why would you need to travel only when there is a specific geometry? (In this case the fin)
RE: Why does the printer need to travel ?
I removed the fillet between the fin and the tube, to see how the slicer reacts. And reacting it does, but now how I would like...
With the seaming set to "rear", from the base of the tube I have a nice vertical seaming. Then when the fins get longer the nozzle starts to jump to the other side when doing the seaming. Is there a logic behind this behavior?
