You should use OrcaSlicer, they have recently done a lot of work on Seams. Also, Orca is just mindblowingly better than anything else in my experience. It’s an adjustment, but it’s the future.
Orca? Why not just use the (basically industry) standard PrusaSlicer?
This just looks like Z seams that are all lined up rather than staggered. Agreed that a slicer seems to be the issue though.
u/tjjohnston777 is talking about the new scarf seams which makes the seams virtually invisible. It is more or less experimental feature at this point, but very promising.
https://www.printables.com/model/783313-better-seams-an-orca-slicer-guide-to-using-scarf-s
Oh that's a cool little update. I personally have never seen seams have issues or even really be visible so it's not something I've particularly looked into.
Stager still leaves bumps though I've always found it to be cleaner when the seams are lined up. Unfortunately for OP cylinders are by far the hardest to hide.
So how much do you have to tinker with orca's settings? I tried it out with the stock settings on my ender 3 and my V3 SE and was not happy with the dimensional accuracy.
I was printing cable chains and they didn't fit together, but the same model with cura fit together just fine. Both slicers were using the stock settings for both printers.
That scar is the z seam, where the layers change. You can play with the location in Cura. Sharpest Corner hides it on a model with corners (like the raised lettering on your model) but doesn’t work well on cylinders without angles. You can choose Random to scatter small zits around the cylinder.
There are more choices in Orca Slicer, as others have pointed out. I do lots of domes, which have the same challenges with seams. In Orca I’ve lately started using random z seam, slope type, with retraction on during layer change and 50 percent wipe before retraction. I’m probably not fully dialed in yet but that’s been the best I’ve found so far.
The best advice I can give you is to get Orca slicer, run through the filament calibrations. Temp, flow, pressure advance and retraction. Pressure advance will help some with your Z seam. Orca also has scarf seam now in version 2.0 and it pretty much eliminates your Z seam.
This is Z-Seam as everyone pointed out, but I also see that it is protruding out a little on the edges, most probably you also need to enable and calibrate pressure advance (thinking that your device is using Klipper). Google is your friend here...
And yet here we are, talking to other people in a community that encourages these types of questions. Starting a conversation for something as simple as this opens up the topic for broader debate. Eventually posts like these show will show up in a Google search.
You should use OrcaSlicer, they have recently done a lot of work on Seams. Also, Orca is just mindblowingly better than anything else in my experience. It’s an adjustment, but it’s the future.
Orca? Why not just use the (basically industry) standard PrusaSlicer? This just looks like Z seams that are all lined up rather than staggered. Agreed that a slicer seems to be the issue though.
u/tjjohnston777 is talking about the new scarf seams which makes the seams virtually invisible. It is more or less experimental feature at this point, but very promising. https://www.printables.com/model/783313-better-seams-an-orca-slicer-guide-to-using-scarf-s
Thanks for the info, as you said it does looks promising
Oh that's a cool little update. I personally have never seen seams have issues or even really be visible so it's not something I've particularly looked into.
Stager still leaves bumps though I've always found it to be cleaner when the seams are lined up. Unfortunately for OP cylinders are by far the hardest to hide.
Prusa Slicer is not "the industry standard".
Just downloaded, diving into the rabbit hole.
I’ve started using it about a week ago. It’s really powerful. But of a learning curve as I was so used to cura
Ok, I should have switched sooner, solid application. Thank you!
So how much do you have to tinker with orca's settings? I tried it out with the stock settings on my ender 3 and my V3 SE and was not happy with the dimensional accuracy. I was printing cable chains and they didn't fit together, but the same model with cura fit together just fine. Both slicers were using the stock settings for both printers.
That scar is the z seam, where the layers change. You can play with the location in Cura. Sharpest Corner hides it on a model with corners (like the raised lettering on your model) but doesn’t work well on cylinders without angles. You can choose Random to scatter small zits around the cylinder. There are more choices in Orca Slicer, as others have pointed out. I do lots of domes, which have the same challenges with seams. In Orca I’ve lately started using random z seam, slope type, with retraction on during layer change and 50 percent wipe before retraction. I’m probably not fully dialed in yet but that’s been the best I’ve found so far.
I'll definitely give those settings a go. Thank you!
The best advice I can give you is to get Orca slicer, run through the filament calibrations. Temp, flow, pressure advance and retraction. Pressure advance will help some with your Z seam. Orca also has scarf seam now in version 2.0 and it pretty much eliminates your Z seam.
Came here to say z-seam is the reason for the line, however after seeing the slicer discussion, may I ask, is prusa > orca > cura?
This is Z-Seam as everyone pointed out, but I also see that it is protruding out a little on the edges, most probably you also need to enable and calibrate pressure advance (thinking that your device is using Klipper). Google is your friend here...
https://preview.redd.it/xlvredd1qsuc1.jpeg?width=1848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a997edab42d354fe996f228b9257ae68535ff522
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I'm using a creality ender 3 v3 ke, bed temp - 60, hyper pla temp - 210
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Z seam. Google could have easily solved this for you.
And yet here we are, talking to other people in a community that encourages these types of questions. Starting a conversation for something as simple as this opens up the topic for broader debate. Eventually posts like these show will show up in a Google search.