Sovol SV06 ACE Improvements

[liberodark]

Description

• Improvements
• Add New Nozzle Support
• Add New Profile Support
• Fix inconsistencies with SV06 (Plus) ACE profiles, and pull in start G-code fix from Sovol #8035 by @bcat
• Fix Configuration issue

List of improvements :

• "sparse_infill_pattern": "grid" to "crosshatch"
• "precise_outer_wall": "1"
• "skirt_loops": "1" to "0"
• "skirt_distance": "0" to "5"

List of issues :

// Incorrect :
"retract_before_wipe": [ "100", "100" ],
// Correct :
"retract_before_wipe": [ "100%" ],

// Incorrect :
"z_hop": [ "0.4", "0.4" ],
// Correct :
"z_hop": [ "0.4" ],

// Incorrect :
"wipe_distance": [ "2", "2" ],
// Correct :
"wipe_distance": [ "2" ],

Screenshots/Recordings/Graphs

Tests

Need users want to test for help me.

[bcat]

Thanks again for doing this! I wish I could help test the new profiles, but I only have an 0.4 nozzle so far. :)

BTW, I think you want to remove the - official suffix from default_print_profile in Sovol SV06 Plus ACE 0.4 nozzle.json too.

[liberodark]

Hi,
Have finish the PR @SoftFever if you have time to look.

Best Regards

[bcat]

I've started trying out these changes on my SV06 ACE (not plus). Sovol hasn't sent the nozzle pack I ordered yet, so I can only test the 0.4 nozzle profiles at this time. :) Some thoughts (but no real issues):

• The 0.20mm layer height profile seems good to me. No obvious print quality or time regressions vs. Sovol's own profile. And the fixes for the bugs in the current profile all appear reasonable, IMO. (Thank you for switching away from grid infill to something more sensible!)
• The only thing I wasn't sure about was setting "precise_outer_wall": "1", simply because I am not familiar with it or its tradeoffs. I haven't noticed any obvious problems it causes, though.
• I did not test the different layer heights yet. I can probably try the 0.12mm and 0.28mm heights later this week. (Not sure about 0.08mm, 0.30mm, or 0.40mm... those may be a bit out of the ideal range for my 0.4 nozzle.)
• A couple other tweaks that might be worth considering:
  • "skirt_distance": 5 so that if the user does want to enable the skirt, it doesn't just become a tiny, annoying brim :)
  • "brim_object_gap": 0.24, for easier brim removal (but this one of course varies with line width, and as well as Z offset/flow, so maybe it's not so good to set by default, or at least a more conservative value like 0.2 may be better?)

Anyway, thanks for your change, looking quite good so far!

[liberodark]

Hi,

I am myself in the process of chaining the tests.
But I have not received anything from my sovol orders yet I am still waiting.

Best Regards

[Noisyfox]

I'm worried about renaming existing profiles as this could break users with profiles that are inherited from these profiles.

[liberodark]

I'm worried about renaming existing profiles as this could break users with profiles that are inherited from these profiles.

Hello,

I understand perfectly but they are badly named and above all we are talking about a printer that has not been released and one that has just been released.
Moreover, they are no longer the official ones because they have changed.

Best Regards

[Noisyfox]

I see. That make sence and I could merge this PR, but that will break any further build until the profile validator is updated, which I currently don't know how to do. I'll contact @SoftFever and will merge this as soon as I sorted that out.

[bcat]

I am not familiar with the profile lifecycle, and I don't have any skin in this game really (other than being a user of this printer who would also prefer the more uniform naming), but I don't think any stable OrcaSlicer releases have gone out with the current names. (IIRC, OrcaSlicer 2.2.0 didn't have any SV06 ACE profiles; I had to download them manually.) Does that make renaming easier/safer now vs. later?

[Noisyfox]

LGTM, thanks

[bcat]

Thanks again for this! Just wanted to confirm the 0.28mm (fast) and 0.12mm (quality) profiles seem to work well an 0.4 nozzle. (My other nozzles are still in China the moment, slowly making their way here.)

I also tried the 0.08mm (high quality) preset with the 0.4 nozzle, but this one has some odd scarring/artfiacts on overhangs (e.g., the tail of the Cali-Dragon model) that wasn't present at 0.12mm or bigger layer heights. I'm not sure why.... I tried decreasing the overhang threshold for additional cooling, and also switching the wall order to Inner/Outer, but neither seemed to make a significant difference.

Other than that, all looks good... just writing this down here in case folks have thoughts for future tweaks.

[bcat]

I also noted that the profile Sovol supplied with the printer sets Inner/Outer/Inner wall order, but only two perimeters... so effectively it's Outer/Inner unless you manually increase the wall count from the default. I'm not sure what their reasoning was there, but it seems like a slightly odd choice to me.