Line width half that expected
I am trying to print a fine part, carefully crafted with walls a tiny bit larger than twice the nozzle size. (Width 0.85mm, nozzle size 0.4mm)
Cura slices these (as expected) with two outer walls, one each side.
Prusa Slicer slices these with 2x External Perimeter AND 2x Perimeter i.e. 4 walls.
Can anyone explain why Prusa Slicer does this and how it actually prints with line-width half of the nozzle size?
RE: Line width half that expected
I should add that this is how it appears in the Pruse Slicer preview window.
I have a feeling that it is actually printing only two perimeters for each wall rather than the 4 shown in the preview window.
RE: Line width half that expected
Have you tried toggling Print Settings->Layers and perimeters->Quality->Detect thin walls?
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RE: Line width half that expected
Yes. I have Detect Thin Walls ticked.
I will try to attach photos tomorrow.
RE: Line width half that expected
All images are of the same object sliced with nozzle-size = line-width = 0.4mm.
e.g. the vertical bars of the outside of the O are .85mm wide.
Here is the Cura slicing:
Here is the Prusa Slicer slicing:
And here is the gCode produced by Prusa Slicer, imported into Cura Preview so that we can see whether the gCode matches the Prusa Slicer Preview (which it does).
Looking at the actual print, the filament is (as you would hope) melted and fused together and difficult to determine precisely what was printed, but it looks like 2 or 3 lines not 4, so I wonder whether Prusa Slicer is printing 4 lines, some of which are extruding zero filament.
Here is the gCode file (zipped) if that helps: HBR_logo_v3 prusa.gcode