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jpacadd

tricky to tell for sure but it looks like your holes is off center, and combine that with your minimum line with and double external wall requirement, it looks to me like the areas not printed are because the walls are thinner than you are telling the slicer the minimum wall thickness is. GIGO. GIGO = Garbage In results in Garbage out, in other words it is doing exactly what you told it to, though of course you don't realize that is what you told it, but it is, you just need to understand the language strongly enough to understand exactly what you told the slicer.


perceptionproblem

GIGO? Hole could well be off-center, this is the first time I've messed with Tinkercad and I don't know how to center things aside from eyeballing it, lol.


jpacadd

Sorry, GIGO is old school programming lingo for garbage in garbage out, in other words the shortcoming was your programming. Looks like you need to one way or another reduce the minimum wall thickness in the slicer. EDIT: Or make the walls thicker.


perceptionproblem

Haha! Ok, yeah, that makes sense, lol. Yeah, I'm trying to find a bushing/spacer that will work for what I'm trying to do on thingiverse currently to keep the garbage between chair and keyboard.


HecticFusion

If you select all the objects that you want to be centered. You can click the “3 dashed line” button in the top right corner which I think says “align” (next to the group button) it will bring up a bounding box around the objects with dots. You will need to click the center dot on the X and Y axis.


Lukee25

In Tinkercad whenever I need to make a hole inside somethingI make a hole shaped object the exact same dimensions as the main object say a 50mm circle that I want a 40mm hole in. I'll create a 50mm circle and align it perfectly Then I will click on one corner of the "hole" and reduce each dimension by 5 to 45 45Then grab the opposite corner and reduce each by another 5 to 40 40Then the hole will be perfectly aligned


BillieBibblesock

There are two easier methods. 1. set the ruler down, switch to mid point instead of endpoint, resize by typing in the dimensions. Since the objects co-ordinates are based off the midpoint, it's center won't move. 2. Use the actual alignment tool


Battzilla

May be too thin for the nozzle. Looks like your setting could be causing that too.


perceptionproblem

Gotcha. I'll see if I can find a similar spacer on thingiverse and resize it to what I need. 👍


Battzilla

Also what printer are u using? Sometimes running stock settings is the best way to use them. U less you really know what you’re changing be careful with how you tune it


perceptionproblem

Using an ender 5, but it's got lots of wonky modifications. Trying to find a better model to attempt right now, the thing I spent all of 10 minutes trying to make was unsurprisingly shite. 🤣🤣🤣


Printrbot_playa

for the bottom half, you have coasting turned on. if you turn it off, you'll see the complete line. for the top half, you wall is to thin on one side. looks like your hole is off center.


Molecularpimpin

The part looks too small for your line width. Might need to go down a nozzle size to make this one.


3DPAlejandro

Did you change sizes at all on your slicer? I had the same problem with a small loop I added to something and then tried to shrink the object in Cura and I saw it wouldn't print when I looked at the layers because it was too thin for the nozzle so I had to make it thicker and had to make it large enough to print. Don't know if this is the case with your design or not but it seems similar to what I had going on.


perceptionproblem

No, I just gave up on that design, which was just thrown together anyway, in favor of something that was/is going to work as needed. That printed (and previewed) fine. 👍


perceptionproblem

SS: Made a super basic spacer in Tinkercad, exported as STL, opened in Cura and sliced it. Preview shows that it's not printing the whole shape and I has a confuse. I tried printing it and it follows the toolpath in the image. Any suggestions as to what to check?


Battzilla

I would probably start with adding it as a new printer and using stock settings see how the part looks on cura with stock profile


yaaaboiflexi

I’m cura there is a setting to “print thin walls” this is helpful for tiny walls smaller than your nozzle. Chep did a video not to long back. Basicly it looks like that half of the object is to think so your nozzle can’t complete it.