How to use this plugin ?

[yet-another-average-joe]

Hello,

I'm just testing TabAntiWarping for the first time. I get weird results, maybe I don't use it as it should be...

I get this : a "yellow" grid pattern.

The yellow pattern looking like an infill, I changed the infill density to 100% using the "per model settings". I got this : 2 overlapping objects : the result is not printable.

How do I get a cyan tab, part of the "adhesion gcode", as shown on the plugin homepage ?

Tested with Cura 4.6.2

[cachrisman]

I just tried using this for the first time and I changed the Support Density setting to 100% to get Cura to make solid tabs

[5axes]

works fine for me .. Perhap's an issue with multi-extruder machine ?

[5axes]

To get the right result I'm using the option Enable Support Brim in the Support settings section

[yet-another-average-joe]

Thanks ! Now it works fine.

In think I understand how it works : TabAntriWarping generates one layer support objects.

You should add "Enable Support Brim" in the "How to use" instructions !

[5axes]

https://github.com/5axes/TabAntiWarping/wiki/How-to-use-it

[yet-another-average-joe]

Shouldn't it be also on the home page https://github.com/5axes/TabAntiWarping ?

[dapostol73]

By default Cura has "Enable Support Brim" set to False, unless using Tree style supports, for the regular FDM prints definition, seems some definitions set this to true by default. Is there a way we could set "Enable Support Brim" to True in the python script? Then it should work by default.

"support_brim_enable": { "label": "Enable Support Brim", "description": "Generate a brim within the support infill regions of the first layer. This brim is printed underneath the support, not around it. Enabling this setting increases the adhesion of support to the build plate.", "type": "bool", "default_value": false, "value": "support_structure == 'tree'", "enabled": "support_enable or support_meshes_present", "limit_to_extruder": "support_infill_extruder_nr", "settable_per_mesh": false, "settable_per_extruder": true }

[5axes]

Thank you for this idea. But it's not so obvious, as support_brim_enable is settable per extruder , how to manage this ? fix the value for every extruder ?

[dapostol73]

My initial thought would be that if their is only 1 extruder, it does it automatically with a notification. If there is more than one, it would prompt the user with a dialog box that would ask them which extruder they would like it applied, extruder0, extruder1, etc. with an option for All for the first tab they place, then all others would follow the same logic.

[fvgennip]

Hi, I just installed the plugin on my mac (Big Sur, v11.4), using Cura 4.9.1. I do see the option to select a Tab, I'm also able to change settings, but I cannot add a Tab to my design. After selecting an object in Cura, I can press "I" or select the option from the menu bar in the left, but clicking on my model doesn't do anything (except unselecting the selected object...). Any hints? Tips?

Thanks.

[5axes]

You can find on YouTube some video concerning this plugin, like this one : https://youtu.be/D45eIhoWSyg

[fvgennip]

You can find on YouTube some video concerning this plugin, like this one : https://youtu.be/D45eIhoWSyg

Thanks! I got it working now!

[MattLogue]

Nope. Does not work. Takes 10 minutes to slice this. Maybe I should of tried on something not a 30MB lithophane... any how I can't get it to print the tabs, just shades that area. That's after finding out the secret requirement of using supports and brim, only in this issues, not in instructions.