A strange one, never had this before…
Add a model to the build plate… slicer is set to 0.2mm layers, both initial and the rest also
It is 55mm tall so it should be 275 layers, for some reason better known to itself I end up with 350+ layers, some are 0.05 or similar
Very strange behaviour, everything else I slice has 0.2mm layers
It’s a section of a car amplifier heatsink, it says 4.5hrs to print it with 20% infill
I’ll post a pic of the sliced model to see if anyone can spot what’s up
Is it a Makerworld model? It could very well be that the print profile contains individual layer definitions per object. Or that adaptive layer height was used.
No, it’s literally something I’ve drawn up and imported as a step file from fusion 360
All my other models have the correct 0.2mm layer height consistently
I have even tried turning on adaptive layer height to see if it reduces the print time somewhat as it’s time sensitive for this piece
Ok. That is weird. Usually, a fresh import and direct slice follows the layer height. So unless layer height was accidentally overidden in the quality tab, it is a bit of a puzzler.
I haven’t had this for a while, but in the past, there was a memory bug in Studio which could cause missing layers and layer offsets. Closing and re-starting helped most of the time. But as I said, I have not experienced this in the last 6 months.
Hi @DumdumSQ,
Welcome to the forum.
This almost seems like a riddle.
So, without seeing the model, the only way I could conceive this is that the model length or width is larger than the height, and it is positioned in the bed with the length or width parallel to the z-axis.
so this is how its laid out, within boundarys, it is indeed longer than it is tall… i did wonder if it was some limitation of how big its layers were, but the biggest layer is the bottom which it prints at 0.2… 2nd is 0.2, third is 0.08, 0.12,0.16, 0.04,0.2, 0.03 and onwards… yet every other model ive exported has been at 0.2 as per slicer instructions
i have removed the slanted end from it for the below .3mf file and have only one piece on the build plate
amp section.3mf (59.1 KB)
This is the saved .3mf from it, if i slice it i get 368 layers of varying thickness
It slices OK for me straight from your file.
0.2mm everywhere except the support due to the “independent support layer height” being checked. So layer 1 at 0.2mm for all (1st layer set), layer 2 at 0.4mm, layer 3 at 0.48mm (support only), layer 4 at 0.6mm, layer 5 at 0.76mm (support only).
Looks good and in line with the slicer settings. It is just that the support layer height is set to independent from the model layer height. Saves a few support specific moves in the print.
