Hey everyone,
has anyone ever experienced this Skirt-issue?
Skirt height and loops are set to 1 - but the extruder loops a total of 8 TIMES at the same height - creating somewhat of a mess (but still without creating any further disaster)
I’m on Github right know opening a ticket for this but the issue is… I can not reproduce the error.
I saved the file as 3mf - reopened and the error is gone.
Can anyone explain this? Thx in advance
I had similar slicer glitches last year with the previous version. In particular with memory intensive projects. Occasionally, Studio would fuse different lines into the same location, in particular multi-color, or create empty layers. Usually, closing and opening Studio resolved these issues (albeit temporarily with complex multi-plate, multi-color projects).
This was my first glitch in Studio. Usually things just don’t work, but this was VERY strange. I made the report at Github but I don’t think that will do anything as I myself can’t recreate the case… At least I’m not alone XD
I can relate. I had the missing layer first. Kinda weird when your beautiful print suddenly has a .2mm gap in layer 450 
Oh man… what a mess. I usually do smaller prints but trying to get everything as perfect as possible… and well… it would be so easy just accepting that 3D printing will never be perfect, but still I’m aiming for it and get frustrated all the time.
PD: NO idea how you could actually read my post above, had to correct it first 
Can someone educate me on why skirts are necessary on a Bambu Lab printer? I thought the only reason why that was in the slicer was to maintain backward compatibility with Cura and support other printers that did not produce the initial purge or calibration line.
What am I missing?
No way!! I’ll have a jump into that chat. Thanks a lot 
Sure.
Usually you don’t need skirts BUT in certain scenarios it comes in handy, especially when printing “by object”.
I’m printing Geeetetch color-tags and didn’t want to print just one color, I wanted 4 of each. As with the usual function “print by layer” I would have had a million color changes, I wanted them to be printed in groups of 4.
Therefore I filled up the build-plate, checked the “by object” setting, made space for the extruder to move, assembled each group of 4 tags (so they get seen as one object) , selected the colors and hit print.
BUT… that resulted in one bad tag in each color except for the first one which had been printed after the purge-line (blue in this case)
Rechecking in the slicer I found out that all fails where the first tag to be printed of each group. So to mitigate the lack of filament after each color change (as there is no purge-block) I added a skirt. Which by the way (except that one fail I described earlier) works perfectly.
Hope that makes sense and helped.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. That’s a use-case I did not anticipate and makes total sense.
This is a great example of shared-knowledge where someone has unique knowledge that they share that someone like me wouldn’t have otherwise come across. 
