In today's episode we're going to take a look at cura 4.8. They've made a few improvements
but one really interesting one that surprised me. I'll explain it all on today's Filament Friday.
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of these patreon supporters. Cura 4.8 was released a little while ago and I've been playing with it
and it's really just some improvements like arrange module features. Let me show you that
one. So if I multiply this CHEP cube by 14, it'll arrange it like this. But look at how close they
are. They're now very very close you can really pack them in. In 4.7.1 the same operation,
look at the gaps. So this is the improvement. Now I wish it would have arranged it a little better
because I like to put them all like an order. It seems like it should print faster this way
but it really, it's not any different. But it took like four moves to get these guys arranged maybe
it's just my OCD but I like how this is arranged, four moves. Where if I did the same thing in 4.7.1
it only took two moves. So I don't know what the algorithm does to decide how to arrange these guys
but I wish 4.8 would do it kind of like 4.7.1. But then put them closer and once I had them arranged
if I ever click arrange all models it jumps right back to that other arrangement. So overall though
this is good. Parts are a lot closer. Another new feature involves dropping a part below the bed.
Here in cure 4.7.1 when I drop it below because I only want to print the top section,
it just looks the same. But in 4.8 they clarify it by making anything below the bed a different
color. In this case blue. So this is kind of nice when you're only printing part of a print.
Some people reported on curved prints that they would see little bumps show up in 4.7.1 on 4.8.
I guess they fixed it now. Here's a mic clip that I tried. I have never seen those bumps show up in
4.7 but I got to tell you 4.8 definitely prints a little smoother than what I'm getting with 4.7.1.
And this led me to a discovery within the standard profiles within Cura. Now I've made my own
profiles. I did it again here. And I was testing them but I tested them against their profiles
and I was shocked to find that their profiles weren't much different than mine.
I went through item by item just kind of comparing. It was really minor differences
and differences that didn't make a big difference in the print quality. And when I compared the two
I found that their profiles were working just as good as mine. The only difference was as I enable
acceleration and jerk control they don't. But let me show you the difference. Mine is on the left
theirs is on the right and the print quality I'm getting out of their stock profiles are just as
good as what I'm getting out of mine. So there's almost no reason for me to keep creating profiles
for Cura when their profiles are working this good. The only time I
saw differences were around the z. There's a gap. But overall their profiles are working fantastic.
When I started making my profiles they weren't even using magic numbers in Cura. Now they are and
they've evolved to the point where I am and we're both getting good prints with our profiles. Now
I'm not saying they copied me, that's not what I'm implying at all. It's just that it's evolved to
the point where their stock profiles are getting just as good of prints as I am so why keep making
my profiles if their stock profiles are going to work. It's easier for everybody. Just download
Cura and then use their stock profiles. So I'll keep using mine. I will release my 4.8.
But going forward I'm probably going to use theirs more and just to see
how good they are. Maybe they'll find ways to make it better and it will all have even better
profiles. So I think it's great news. That was the surprise I got out of 4.8. In 4.7 I had tried it,
I still was getting better results with mine. But now I love the profiles that they include in
Cura. If you like what I'm doing here maybe check out some of the videos popping up. And if nothing
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