I'm working on some more getting started with 3d printing videos but while I was
doing this cura 4.5 beta was released so I wanted to test it out with my
profiles I did make some minor modifications and I'm releasing those
I'll show you that plus I have a lot of people ask me for profiles for version
3.6 they still want to use that and then there's some people like me who like the
look of 3.6 but want to use the latest Cura I'll show you the plug-in that does
that I've shown it before but I'll give you an update because I tested it on 4.5
I'll show you all this on today's Filament Friday Filament friday is brought
to you by these patreon supporters I do keep a version of cura 3.6 on my
computer so yes I do go back and tweak the settings from
time to time so I do have a new set of profiles and these profiles I try to
match as much as I can to what I learn in version 4 and put it into these so
now I have four I have renamed them to CHEP I got rid of the magic there's the
best there's a medium there's a rough and then there's one designated for
round no seam and then of course the ninjaflex
if you want to get a hold of these the link is at the bottom of the picture
here just go down and download them and then expand them it's a zip file and
then you can go here to manage profiles go up to import and then one by one
bring those profiles in and that should get you going with 3.6 try them out let
me know here's some of the results I got from testing I'm really happy with the
results I'm getting with 3.6 so now let's take a look at cura version 4.5
beta they're asking us to test it and I did I tested my profiles on it and I did
make some minor changes I also added some profiles I now have a round no seam
I have a 0.16 layer height and a 0.24 renamed them all CHEP got rid of the
magic and gave a reference for people getting started so they know which one
to select now within these there are some like I said some minor changes one
of the changes I made is I allow the top and bottom layers to adjust per the
layer height there were some issues by leaving it where it was and I also the
bottom initial layer I liked concentric a lot of you
complained about that so I changed it back to lines you can always change it
if you want the biggest one is the Z seam alignment I had them all at random
before I'm getting good results some people weren't so I put it back to
sharpest corner and then I made that round one that will have a random in it
so you can choose what you want here but if you want a really good print with no
seam this is the profile I use to make my CHEP pawn come out with no seam and
really smooth using random so you can try that out if you want I'm not
doing that for 0.2 or 0.28 to many complaints other than that I made some
minor changes but the results I'm getting really good prints just like
before in fact maybe slightly better so I'm really happy with it if you want to
try these out same page on my CHEP club site download them and give it a try
Cura has a long list of improvements one stuck out to me right away fuzzy
skin outside only if you go back to where I made a video I showed you how to
use fuzzy skin I did it on a handle this is the new feature fuzzy skin outside
only before without that you would make it like this fuzzy on the outside but it
also be fuzzy on the inside where it slid on to my paper cutter the
workaround was to use the per model settings put a block around it and tell
it don't use fuzzy skin there and that way I could trick it into not doing on
the inside but with this new feature you just checked the box slice it with fuzzy
skin enabled and then it'll do fuzzy skin on the outside but not on the
inside so a simple little thing man I love this. a bug fix that caught my eye is a
retraction minimum travel was broken since version 4.0 and that's been fixed
and when I did a 30% benchy with 4.5 oh my god this is the best one I've gotten
yet there's still some improvement obviously but this is incredibly clean
compared to what I was getting with the previous versions of cura it appears
that it's mostly bug fixes and performance improvements not a lot of
feature improvements that I can see here then we're going to go through it and
see if any of it can improve my profiles and now let me show you this plugin that
I just absolutely love it makes 4.5 look like 3.6 but still gives me all the
features so one of the features I always enable and I really like within Cura
under preferences there's the center camera when item is selected so you click
on it and it centers to the screen now in version 4.0 and later the screen is
bigger so you can see and then you have the drop-down for all the settings but
the two overlap so I always move the model to the left so I can see it
especially in preview mode not just prepare but as soon as I click on it
again it shifts back over it's so frustrating so that was my main driver
in doing this and there's this sidebar GUI plugin you can install it accept it
then you have to quit Cura and restart it and then it'll make the whole thing
look like this this is like 3.6 and when you click on the model it
centers to the open window now and so that I can do all my different things to
it the profile settings are always on to the right of the model and the scroll
bar for preview is now moved over to the window so it's a little easier to work
with and all the other features that were in 4.5 are just moved up to a new
location you can get to any of these things including the nozzle sizes that's
here is a little drop-down just click on the arrow and then your material and your
nozzle so everything is still there it's just all contained on the one side just
like it is in 3.6 but you have all the features of version 4.5 so this is
something I really love and I still have all the flow settings that I don't have
in 3.6 this is one of the features I like about version 4 so it's just
something to play with I really love it so that's where they're at right now so