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hawai
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g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

Hi all,

I am working on a print that will nee the whole width of the print bed. The base design was done in F360 with an exact x of 250mm. I then did some additional sculpting in blender. This somehow blew up x to 250.4mm - too big 🙁

I identified the culprit area on the model and scraped away the offending 0.4mm. The .stl fit exactly.

But after the sclicing there was a "toolpath outside print area" error, including a dramatically red background.

Is there an easy way within slicer to identify the culprit area? Or do I have to go through the g-code and hunt for coordinates outside the area?

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

Cheers

Hansjoerg

Posted : 01/11/2020 10:27 pm
jsw
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RE: g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

If it's a close case, it may be the skirt, which is on by default and adds to the X and Y dimensions.  Set the skirt loops to zero and it will most likely disappear.

Posted : 01/11/2020 10:51 pm
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hawai
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Topic starter answered:
RE: g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

palm - > face!!1

thanks, I should have spotted the tell tale little line

Posted : 01/11/2020 10:53 pm
kennd
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RE: g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

I ran into the same problem trying to print an object 250mm wide some one else in the forum did as well. I had to reduce the width of the object to 249.99mm to print. If you try to 'scale to print volume' you will find it will only scale to a max width of 249.99mm.

I have done some in initial tests where I went into printer settings and tried to tell Prusaslicer that my bed was 252 mm wide, and tried to set my object to 250mm wide but I still got the message. This also happened when I disabled the skirt.  I do not know if anyone has opened a bug report on this or not.

This has come up before:

https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/original-prusa-i3-mk3s-mk3-how-do-i-print-this-printing-help/printing-250mm-wide-a-toolpath-outside-the-print-area-was-detected/#post-197272

Quality is the Journey, not the Destination. My limited prints->

Posted : 01/11/2020 11:13 pm
kennd
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RE: g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

NOTE: I am using PS 2.1.0. Maybe it has been 'fixed'.

Quality is the Journey, not the Destination. My limited prints->

Posted : 01/11/2020 11:17 pm
hawai
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Topic starter answered:
RE: g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

it was in fact the skirt line...

 

Scaling wouldn't have been my preferred option because there is a second part that fits rather snugly into the big part and Wouldn't want to change that part as well.

Posted : 01/11/2020 11:56 pm
Richard R
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RE: g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

Thank you for this information!  After spending several hours on a model this is just what i needed to start the print.

Posted : 03/09/2022 9:14 pm
Brad
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RE: g-code with toolpath outside porinting area - where?

Fantastic - setting skirt loops to zero helped me as well

Posted : 29/12/2023 3:51 am
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