Fine tune your retraction settings in Orca Slicer

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8 ай бұрын

Lets look at the simply process for setting up and running your retraction settings to fine tune your results and get of those hairy prints.

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@JingleStic 3 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!! Ive watched a couple other calibration videos for orca and they did not mention the seam or turing off zhop. THUMBS UP!!!

@cpk001 Ай бұрын

Very helpful, short and sweet, and to the point. Much appreciated.

@peekpt 3 ай бұрын

That override feature is one of my favorites in Orca,. It's so useful to tune between different filaments, even on the same brand sometimes colors need that extra tune.

@JuanManuel-ml1uu Ай бұрын

Thank you! Of all the videos I watched to solve my thread and gap problem, your video was the one that helped me the most. I started using Orcaslicer but at the same time I changed the mouthpiece and other things, a big mistake of making many modifications together... I couldn't adjust the retraction because it didn't disable the z-hop. I subscribed to your channel, greetings!

@xcloudx01alt Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your tutorials! You explain everything very clearly. Definitely helping me get up to speed with Orca Slicer, thanks!

@StevenKelley 6 ай бұрын

Well I was using the retraction test completely wrong. Thanks! Way more useful now!

@One_Stale_Donut 5 ай бұрын

really useful, going through your videos on orca now, thanks for them

@IndigenousCreatures-3DPrintz 8 ай бұрын

Its deffiently helps. Thanks a bunch. Have a great week.

@protector7886 8 ай бұрын

this was incredibly helpful Thank you.

@airheadbit1984 5 ай бұрын

The seam painting got me, now I know what my results have been all over the place, Thanks! I'll be at it awhile with my Ender 3V2 Neo, it has been making things fuzzy.

@fischer3d 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the note. If you're still struggling with stringing, double check a couple of items for the offending filament. I've got a couple of rolls that string with default temps. Dropping temps by 5 or 10 degrees seems to help calm down the fuzz, also if it's a part that has lots of hops/travel moves maybe see if you can turn off z-hop. z-hop typically promotes stringing.

@RossLugasi 5 ай бұрын

I could not for the life of me figure out where to set it in the filament settings as haven't had to mess with it until I started printing in TPU. Thanks for the assist! Great video.

@boboscurse4130 8 ай бұрын

Holy cow! "Seam painting?!?" I had no idea. I will be using that!

@0x187 7 ай бұрын

you telling me lol things i did not know

@Beakerzor 7 ай бұрын

thank you for this video!

@ZloWarTTV 4 ай бұрын

tky its a really good video!!!

@stuzza76 6 ай бұрын

On this test it is easier to just set "seam position" to "aligned" as this will make the seams face each other, no need to paint it.

@tristanw8865 6 ай бұрын

From my experience, I have to paint it because 'aligned' positions the seam on the left post as a spiral that wraps around while the right post has all the seams in a line.

@RossLugasi 5 ай бұрын

This is the way

@teknostructures4629 24 күн бұрын

So this test is only to check for strings between the two towers? It has nothing to do with the print quality of the actual towers?

@feaseytony 7 ай бұрын

Just rebuilt an ageing cr10s pro v2 with a new 4.2.7 board with a lot of help from Victor Bared's great video but was really struggling the get the stringing under control I run a BMG direct drive (clone) which was producing good quality prints prior to the rebuild. Just ran the retraction test and bingo string cured!! Many thanks for great tips - looks like I will have to go back to school on this new slicer. Are you intending to do a series of Orca yt's

@fischer3d 7 ай бұрын

Glad it helped. I've got several on orca out there already. I have a playlist for orca under my channel if you're looking for more.

@feaseytony 7 ай бұрын

I didn’t notice that at the time I replied I will go take a look thanks again

@scodavis 3 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if you are going to see this question at this point, but first, thank you for the video. My question, however, is at what point you recommend doing this calibration. Should it be before the flow rate? After? Or better yet, is there a best recommended order of operations for all of the recommended calibrations?

@venko3211 6 ай бұрын

if possible to use .8 Nozzle? if possible Please upload video how to do full configuration .8 Nozzle setup

@Mr_Gadge 6 ай бұрын

Nice video, thanks for the extra tips ! Could do with louder audio next time please. Liked and sub already :)

@Sebastian-wm5es Ай бұрын

The retraction count is missing in that slicer and this could be a problem.

@halfcaf1105 21 күн бұрын

What if my results were opposite? I have little to no stringing on the bottom of the towers but a lot up top.

@quasimongo410 4 ай бұрын

I do not have the Extruder Tab in Orca... 🙁

@artemgoncharenko646 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for such short and informative videos. lts always pleasure to watch. Can I ask to explain another topic wich is how to cut big models? There are planty of videos on internet but they all talking about "fat" models like statue. In my case, I modeling a lightbox, that is shalow box with 2 mm wall. How to cut on 2-3 pieces in a way it will most unnoticed on the face. Thanks.

@fischer3d 8 ай бұрын

Sure thing. I'll give it a shot. What program are you using to model the lightbox?

@artemgoncharenko646 8 ай бұрын

@@fischer3d Fusion.

@artemgoncharenko646 8 ай бұрын

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xt8gCDDlG00_lFFUksgebDY9zKYpp_7B?usp=sharing

@fischer3d 8 ай бұрын

Great. Thanks. What model printer do you have?

@artemgoncharenko646 8 ай бұрын

@@fischer3d :) I dont have it yet. Dreaming about Bamboo lab x1c. :)

@biggboysouth 5 ай бұрын

Do you happen to know if the Bambi studio version of this yes works in reverses? I thought it was a direct copy but of orca but it looks like it does the retraction setting in reverses (starts at highest retraction and ends on lowest). I’m a bit lost

@fischer3d 5 ай бұрын

Which version of BS are you running? I'm not seeing it at all in my version, but can update and test on my end.

@biggboysouth 5 ай бұрын

@@fischer3d Thank you for the reply. I re did the test with different settings and it looks to have worked correctly this time? The orca github calibration docs specified to start at 1mm for bowden tube setups but it seems my machine doesn't string between 1mm - 3mm of retraction but will string horribly at anything above that which threw me off because it looked to be working opposite of the documentation. I thought more retraction would leave incomplete seams rather than blobs and stringing?

@fischer3d 5 ай бұрын

That does sound a little weird to me. If you're running a bowden setup typically less retraction = more stringing. Are you running too hot? is z-hop distance too much? maybe a couple of other things to look at.

@davidromo2914 Ай бұрын

hello and thanks for your video, im new at this, a week ago i bought an ender 3 v3 es ,and i am about to quit and sell it, please help me, ive done lots of tests, including this one, and i got the same ammount of strings on every single level, is there anything you can tell me to fix this please.

@fischer3d 27 күн бұрын

sure thing. I'll do my best. Do you have z-hop turned on? What temperature are you printing at? What is your standard retraction distance?

@boboscurse4130 8 ай бұрын

What's the effect of too much retraction? How does that manifest in a print?

@fischer3d 8 ай бұрын

Too much retraction could potentially cause under extrusion and clogging. If the filament is retracted too far inside the nozzle for too long you risk the filament cooling a bit and clogging the nozzle. In my opinion, retraction should be looked as reducing pressure in nozzle during travel moves. Since the plastic in the nozzle is already melted you aren't really retracting what's already melted, rather relieving pressure pressure from the feeding filament in the extruder.

@boboscurse4130 8 ай бұрын

@@fischer3d Gotcha. Thanks! I have a day of tuning coming up. I have way too many brands. That has to change.

@BobPulgino 18 күн бұрын

So I’m breaking in a new extruder and the stringing is bad, and when I run this, the stringing gets worse as the retraction increases. Can’t imagine why or how that happens.

@fischer3d 17 күн бұрын

strange. This is the second comment i've seen like this in the last couple of days. I'm wondering if there is a bug in the retraction test introduced in one of the latest releases. What version of orca are you running? also... what temp is your nozzle and is z-hop on or off?

@chomppyy 6 ай бұрын

i cannot get this tuned in, i have muliple test at different retract speeds to but still stringing

@fischer3d 6 ай бұрын

what kind of printer are you running?

@chomppyy 6 ай бұрын

@@fischer3d I am running an Ender 5 pro

@fischer3d 6 ай бұрын

Gotcha. What are your retraction min/max settings for the test? also, do you have z-hop enabled? You likely want to make sure z-hop is off for that test on that machine.

@chomppyy 6 ай бұрын

@@fischer3d i have done two test, first one was . Start - 0 End - 6 with step being 2mm then second test was start - 2 end - 10 with step 2. Had thick stringing on both , z-hop has been set to normal

@fischer3d 6 ай бұрын

I would suggest setting your z-hop distance to 0 and rerun the test.

@jasonbrinkley2292 2 ай бұрын

Just ignore the model errors, it will be fine! This is why we can't have nice things, or trust things you say.

@Kaos10101001 15 күн бұрын

No matter how much retracton i put still hairy very frustrating

@fischer3d 15 күн бұрын

so strange. you're like the 3rd or 4th person this week to mention it. what version of orca are you running? what type of printer? I'm wondering if the latest release has a bug in the test print. conversely, i just reran the test and have 0 stringing even at 0 retraction. my spider-sense says something in the sw is broken.

@Kaos10101001 15 күн бұрын

@@fischer3d latest version and anycubic vyper I'm thinking I might have to clean hotend was happening with bambu studio as well. Thought it was the filament it's MH silk

@fischer3d 14 күн бұрын

hmm. ok, please let me know how it goes. i'm looking through the gcode generated by the test to see if i can notice anything. i've noticed orca likes to bump default temps pretty high too while printing. excess heat can contribute to stringing.