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What are purge lines for? Why can’t the slicers just leave them out? Can they be edited out manually in the code file?

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

They’re part of the start code, you can just remove that bit.

If you’ve started cold, there’ll be some ooze, and some a void. The purge line clears thst and wipes the strand from ooze (with in reason,). The skirt loops kind of serve the same purpose as well as checking g layer height