Get Rid of That Silly Stringing With Retraction 

Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it. It makes doing these videos worth the effort! Thanks for watching!

Thanks, it sometimes makes the videos longer but I hoping my method helps as much as possible. Thanks for watching and the feedback! I really do appreciate it!

Thanks for watching and for the kind words. I'm glad you found this information useful! Keep on printing!

Thanks for the great words and thanks for watching!

Awesome! Thank you and thanks for watching!

@@pushingplastic7445 no problem, watching your video and re calibrating my E steps i am not getting the best prints.

Thank you, I hope the information helped & thanks for watching!

Awesome! I'm glad you're finding this information helpful. As for your question, Direct drives like less retraction than a bowden tube setup. I would set my Starting value to 0.5 and my increment value to .5 so that it is printing retraction tests at 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5. would write those values down so that you know section 1 = 0.5, section 2 = 1.0 , section 3 = 1.5 and so on. If you aren't happy with those results, then set you starting values to 0.25 and increment to 0.25. But 0.5 is probably a great starting point. Thanks for watching and good luck!

@@pushingplastic7445 Thankyou very much, I will try those out 👍

Wow! You asked the million-dollar question! The quick and easy answer would be that Cura Marketplace has a free plugin called Barbarian Units that enables users to convert models from inches to metric. I've never tried it so I can't speak for how good it is. From what I read a while back, the Cura developers found it to be difficult to support multiple measuring systems. Although the most common file type we use for printing models is STL, Cura actually likes the 3MF format better. That format defines the unit. STL's on the other hand carry no unit of measure so Cura assumes it to be metric. I probably added more confusion to the question than the original question! I can say that my daytime job is as a mechanical designer where I use the imperial system all day long, then come home and try to jump into metric mode. Some days it's tough to make the mental leap! Thanks for watching!

Thank you for your timely reply, I'll take a look into Cura but would dwell on it. I always can interpolate.

If you are experiencing stringing at the different quality profiles then you'll probably want to. When I set mine, I do it with the standard profile. I also save that profile under a new name that includes the filament Brand & type in the name & layer height Std for 0.20. For example, HatchBox_PLA+_Std. I save my temperature settings, flow rate, retraction and support settings to that profile. I hope I answered your question, if not just reply and I'll try to do better! Thanks for watching!

@@pushingplastic7445 absolutely perfectly, thank you kindly for taking the time to make these tutorials. These have helped me a lot this past few days. Excellent explained without making the assumptions that people know what your talking about. If we did we wouldn't be searching for help 😬

@@bandyleg2285 Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad these are helping! Your reply was the very inspiration behind this channel!

lol, It was an attempt to demonstrate retraction. Once toothpaste leaves the tube, it's not going back in. The same is true about melted filament and the nozzle. I wanted a semi-humorous way to start the conversation.

It wasn’t available when the video was recorded. Also the reason why I have 2 ways of doing the temperature towers. Thanks for watching!

@@pushingplastic7445 I saw the temp tower one, that's why I asked. Thanks for the videos