Another Neat Feature in Cura

Ever since version 3.5, Cura has had a nice layer adapting feature which I found out about earlier today.
Watch this video and read the article for an overview:
https://3duniverse.org/2018/04/06/ultimaker-cura-adaptive-layers-tutorial/

I had a curved model which was going to take around 16+ hours to print at a fixed layer height. After watching the video at the link, I selected a low quality profile and enabled the adaptive layer feature. The print time dropped to 5+ hours.

At the time of this writing, I'm waiting on the print to finish ( Hopeful! )

 

Follow up:

Surprisingly the layer lines were minimized better than expected. I printed the model in wood PLA filament on the C2 printer. You can see "voids" - probably caused by the coarseness of the wood PLA. Some post-processing with wood putty and some sanding should fix the voids.

I'll have to change the filament for a different version and retry on my R2 printer.

 

Update: The same model, printed in plain PLA, was free of voids. The adaptive layers option works very well.