I have some trouble printing parts with a gentle slope on my reprap. The top solid layer does not print well. Slic3r ignores the number of top solid shells completely, it always just prints 2 shells. I tried Cura but it failed as well.
I made a simple model to recreate my problem and uploaded it to thingiverse:
Can someone print this small model to check if it works on your printer ?
Any hints what is wrong ?
This is an old problem with slicer. The issue is that a slanted top surface isn’t a top surface as far as it’s concerned, it’s a slanted wall, so what you get is the appropriate number of perimeters. In old versions sometimes they wouldn’t even connect, leaving big gaps in the top layers.
Maybe a different slicer is in order for this? More specifically, SkeinForge annoys me by treating non top surfaces as top surfaces, putting in fills where I don’t want it!
@Joseph_Chiu@Sparr_Risher Thanks for the hint. I will try if skeinforge is doing a better job.
Independent from the fact that only 2 top layers are generated, I also have the problem that these 2 layers do not stick to the infill layer below. I tried with different temperatures and speeds (30-70,mm/s) but without success.