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Custom cooling settings for overhangs

Open Tobrabo opened this issue 8 months ago • 1 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Overhangs can get very blooby or saggy at some point.

Describe the solution you'd like

Like the cooling for Bridges, a custom cooling setting for overhangs over a set angle would be advantageous.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Custom overhang temperatures? but this would probably be to slow to react.

Affected users and/or printers

Affects all users and printers

Additional information & file uploads

No response

Tobrabo avatar May 12 '25 07:05 Tobrabo

"Custom overhang temperatures? but this would probably be to slow to react." I wrote a post-processor that does that for bridges and yes, it is slow to react (and was quite annoying). Layer cooling fans don't react bang-bang either. The @smartavionics branch does have this feature "Overhanging Wall Fan Speed" in the Experimental section.

The Cura post processor Advanced Cooling Fan Control can be configured "By Feature" and the "Support-Interface" can have it's own fan setting. That's kind of working from the bottom, but without the model available (in post process), it isn't possible to anticipate when a wall is an "overhanging wall". When the print speed is high and the overhanging wall is short, the fan doesn't have a chance to spin up to speed before it shuts off again.

GregValiant avatar May 12 '25 13:05 GregValiant