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clear iris
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So. Sorry in advance, looked through so many of the helps for an answer but any that were similar have been closed without solutions I can view.

Specs:
Anycubic Kobra neo 2.0
Silk filament
Bed at 57-65 doesn't effect
Nozzle: at 190-215 doesn't effect
Speed: 50-120mms doesn't effect
Slicer: Anycubic
Perimeter: first or last no change
Seams: nearest and tried random

So I was trying to solve a zit problem and also a stringing issue, running at 50mms helped substantially, but I get these weird growths between supports or any other separate build part. I assume it has to do with retraction distance or retract speed. I'm limited on what factors I can adjust in the anycubic slicer. I've tried cura but it doesn't like to turn my fan on for cooling so I gave up on cura. Any ideas as to what parameters I can adjust to eliminate this defect? Note: It's a silk issue. Using regular or glow filament I don't have the problem. Thanks in advance for you help.

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lost flare
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Use Cura. The cooling fan will not and should not be on at the start.
You need to bake or dry your filament.
Once you dry it to a proper retraction test.

clear iris
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No I agree, but it didn't kick on after the first layer either which was odd. Wish cura had a profile for my printer. I even made sure check that a fan was present and that I had cooling on. A hot box is next on my list of purchases.

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I'll have to try cura again. Going to make a small model that will help me quickly test and retest parameters till i can identify which one has an effect on my issue.

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Was hoping it was a common problem with silks that newer people have when entering the hobby.

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clear iris
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Thanks for your help! Time to shop for a dryer.

clear iris
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Also. I let the print fully run to see if running slow solved the zit problem. The fan did not kick on for the entire print. I must have made it sound like I canceled the print when I noticed the lack of fan.

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clear iris
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I'll check them out. Thanks

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clear iris
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Speed 50mms, Nozzle 205, bed 60. The fan on the print head/extruder didn't turn on at any point.

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My printer isn't a preset in cura, so that might have something to do with it.

lost flare
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Check cooling settings? What printer? Also please get a dryer for silk.

clear iris
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I'll give them another check. It's the anycubic kobra neo 2. Dryer is on order.

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clear iris
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Anycubic's slicer is where I'm having my main issue. The cura slicer didn't communicate with my cooling fan.

lost flare
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See if you can find a machine profile online.

clear iris
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Ok

clear iris
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Yeah no luck on a profile for the neo 2. I'll just stick with the anycubic slicer. I dont trust cura to turn on my fan.

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going to stop printing til the dryer comes in and return with my findings. if the dryer doesnt solve the problem, ill just mess with retract distance and speed until i find the right numbers.

lost flare
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Ill see if I have any luck.

clear iris
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i found a profile digging through anycubic's website, had to download a rar program to uncompress since they didnt use zip, but i was able to get a profile built in cura for the kobra 2 neo. one thing i did notice is that according the instructions it didnt mention anything about adding a value of 1 for the fan. That might have been where i went wrong on my first go of modifying one of the other profiles.

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ill do a test print using this new profile and see if it will activate the fan when needed unlike the last time.

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clear iris
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I put 1 in there on my first go around

lost flare
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Hmm odd. Ok try 0 my bad

clear iris
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It's all good, you didn't know

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Setting it to 0 allowed the fan to work. So I think I'm good with cura now. Thanks for your help with that. Now I can start making adjustments to help with quality

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See if I can improve it some before I get the dryer.

clear iris
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Update: Since the dryer and some tinkering with calibrations and speed/temp/retract settings I was able to get the stringing under control. Thank you all for your help on this. Ultimately i think im expecting too much out of the Kobra 2 Neo. So i will continue to make adjustments to help fine tune as best i can. Ill try not to create too many of these threads. Wish i could contribute to helping the community rather than just taking from it. Wouldnt want to spread misinformation due to a lack of experience.

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clear iris
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wipe settings have been on. believe it was a combo of humidity and retraction.

mild canopy
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gotcha

clear iris
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