This video is perfect! It explains very well and gives hints and tips in a short explanation! Very well made, mate!

Fantastic video, really helped me understand what the monotonic feature does. Monotonic ironing is really an impressive feature!

I have waited years for this feature to be available. Finally. Well done!

Cost of monotonic ordering is any additional time spent executing a suboptimal sequence of travel moves. You confirm that this additional time is very short - and that makes perfect sense because executing travel moves is an order of magnitude faster than depositing filament. Great demonstration and visuals!

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you as always

Nice video. I think you said you had been using Prusa Slicer on your Mac lately, if you dont already have monotonic as your top fill pattern, you should. You can also set it as your bottom fill pattern too if you want, but you can find it in the infill settings.

When I do Ironing, I always do concentric since it's more appealing looking. But this monotonic thing is nice and I will actually update cura to try it out!

Thanks for doin all this testing. Will really help us all out!!

Now try my smooth profiles on your prints without ironing and compare. I’m curious about your results.

Thanks for making this video. I'm going to switch on the monotonics, now.

I would love to see you vapor smooth those parts. Showing if the new ironing feature has any effect on he surface finish of that process.

Very good video. CHEP covered this a few days ago and his test prints didn’t seem to show any improvement. Granted he only did a cube while you did a much bigger part. Thanks

Love these kind of videos thanks!!!

awesome comparison .. TY for sharing

Prusaslicer has had this for while. Very useful especially when the object has a hole etc.

I’ve been using it so far I like it not a huge time increase.

Is there a option to make the top layer walls also smaller? Like the holes have a large padding/different direction. If they would make the top layer walls only a single pass and then iron the rest as the gaps it would look even better.

Nice step up in surface finish.

If you do any more videos, could you do one on how to make a smooth bottom layer? My bottom layers look like crap

I'm using Bambu studio. I was still getting the streaks/ridges with Monotonic Line. I switched it to Monotonic and got better results. What's Monotonic Line?

Thank you.

Do you have any tutorials on how to improve bridging performance?

if I have embossed letters on a flat panel, that become the top surface. Will the ironing just iron the embossed letters as that is the top layers or all top surface including the flat surface of the panel without the raised letters?

What is floating around over there to your right on the shelf?

Prusa slicer has had this for a long time.

Tks for info

Seems, in regular print, a bit of over extrusión... When do you use ironing /monotonic, its recommened these over extrusión?

I'm just breaking into 3D printing and have seen many smoothing methods discussed, praised, or criticized. Monitonic Ironing, Acetone Smoothing, Manual Sanding - how about taking it to that level of comparison?

I think you miss what is monotonic . The filling direction is all the same (example: from bottom left to top right). The cause of imperfections is that nozzles are not perpendicular and it will a little play when changing directions. The base plane of the tip of nozzle is not parallel to the x/y plane. So you will be printing leaning to one direction and filament will behavior differently when handling other directions.

Did you ever consider using your resin printer to make parts for the voron printer? I think you should do a video about resin printing regarding which is better since we know resin looks better but is it better for mechanical or structural parts like the voron?

Hamburger menu! 😁 I'm going to use that from now on...

I'd like to see if ironing affects dimensionally critical parts.

What happens if the ironing just ignores holes? No jumping around at all, just pass over the hole? Would it mess up the side of the holes or would it just remove all these likes completely? :)

Do you recommend cura slicer for the ender3v2 in general or for specific features like this.

Why do some of the prints have huge gouges in them and look so rough around the edges?

Chep have made a great video about this issue 🙂 Oh, Hi chep I still prefer the PrusaSlicer thou Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀

i am having problems with my top layers. it tends to expand

When are you going to finally make a video WITH "further ado"? Keep up the great work!

Would the z-hop option prevent you ironing from damaging your prints?

Semi-unrelated: i can't see hardly any people using zig-zag pattern for top and bottom surfaces, how come? I found out it looks basically the same but sometimes print time is significantly shorter. So far it has served me well as a nice trick to save quite a bit of time on prints

...and it's another like from me!

Seems like it should be a default if ironing is turned on

What kind of fancy extruder you printing down there ??;)

No link to Cura?

Does it produce better results than Prusa Slicer's ironing?

Nice voron in yhe background lol

What are the time difference's between all prints?

@MODBOT - In your testing would you say it's necessary to do the monotonic top/bottom order and ironing & monotonic Ironing order together or would the normal monotopic ironing order be enough for a decent print on its own?

Have a link for the utility belt mod?

A) the differences between regular and monotonic top layer, looks almost identical to me. it takes the same amount of time it seems to 'jump back' to those gaps, of which you seem to say doesn't exist, but was very obviously there int he video.. it does one side, then 'jumps back' to the side it left behind.. the only real difference is that it starts it at the same 'direction'. B) it also looks like you are over extruding for your top layers in general... those are so insanely smooshed lines there bud... may want to check your settings, then rerun your tests to see if you got the same results.. because I will promise you that without that over extrusion, the monotonic will look EXACTLY the same as the regular. Not in ironing, but in just creating the top fill. and with that, you may not even want to do ironing anymore, cause the top layers will look amazing once you're not over extruding :D

I think I'd leave monotonic on. I see the benefits, but the only downside being some gap bridging and more time? I don't even know if those are true. It seems like a no-brainer here.

Take a shot every time he says ironing

Voron build update ?

am i the only one with crashing upon file uploading to the plate?

Guess I'm updating my cura...lol

It's over extruded slightly. Imo. Looks good though.

Print it with slicer see the difference

Вы видите разницу? И я не вижу, а она есть.😅

Please, reduce the flow about 3-5%. You are overextruding.

your using version 4.11 and i have version 4.8 either i have a future version or are they forgetting 0.8 is a higher number than 0.11. shouldn't my version be 4.08? apparently version checking isn't working because 4.8 is a bigger number than 4.11.

when cura is 4.20 ill change to it and when its 4.21 ill go back to prusa

Cura is so yesterday. Prusa Slicer is now king of the hill. This is old news for Prusa Slicer users.

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Dude tell me you’re not printing abs in your bedroom. Lung cancer is in your future.

Wow someone watched chep’S video lol

On 6:50 the monotonic looks actually worse because of this screaming line on the top. Anyway, I do believe Cura developers wasting time on something that not so important instead of real problems, unfortunately.

Cura is shite for so many reasons prusa slicer is much better

I hate the clickbaity titles so much. It's gamechanging in being underwhelming. Jesus Christ.