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bernalfernas303
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Clarifying Prusa Slicer Variable Layer height limits and baseline - Windows!

Just starting using the variable layer height and had a few questions about how it is working - perhaps someone can help?

  1. When you activate variable layer height, is the base layer height still the layer height you have set in the current "Print Settings" for that print or does it override that with the maximum variable layer height/Extruder 1 height you have set?

  2. Following from that, In the Windows version, when you are editing the height, does the green line in the middle of the height bar that you start modifying from represent the middle of the height range set for the print or the current base height size in the Extruder 1 settings or something else?

Posted : 23/11/2019 12:11 pm
bobstro
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RE: Clarifying Prusa Slicer Variable Layer height limits and baseline - Windows!

After slicing, go into the preview mode and view by height. You can see a color-coded key indicating which layers are sliced at which height.

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Posted : 23/11/2019 3:59 pm
StoneyLloyd
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RE: Clarifying Prusa Slicer Variable Layer height limits and baseline - Windows!

I am new to Prusa Slicer (i.e. yesterday!) and cannot for the life of me seem to get the "Enable variable layer height feature" in printer settings to make any difference to my slicing.

I have a model that requires this feature but the colour key is all one colour throughout the height range.

I do not have a Prusa printer and have set up for a custom one (Duet and Marlin). So is it possible that this feature is only enabled if a Prusa printer is being used?

I have been using Slic3er up until now and variable layer height (adaptive layers) works fine with it.

Any advice would be gratefully received as I want to use Prusa Slicer with all of it's impressive features but without variable layer height I wouldn't get the smoothness that I am used to.

Posted : 02/12/2019 12:06 pm
Chattel
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RE: Clarifying Prusa Slicer Variable Layer height limits and baseline - Windows!

An answer and a question. @lloydhousley - To enable variable height, you must select one component only on the bed and then the variable layer icon is displayed and working (top, horizontal bar, right hand side). The settings then apply to the selected component only. The other components can likewise be varied also. This is pretty cool, in a way, to be able to set different variable layer heights when printing multiple objects.

My question is how can I set my own limits on the layer height variance? If I have a 'basic' layer height of 0.25 and want to vary between, say, 0.20 and 0.3o, is that possible?

I would like to see a good write up/ video of this feature. Anybody know where I can get one? There are so many questions and knowing how it works in some detail would be very useful.

Posted : 16/12/2019 6:30 pm
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