Solved How to Print a "Test" Line Before Print Starts

Hello all. Want to start off by saying you guys are extremely helpful and I thank you for that. Now my question is that I want to print a "test" line away from my actual part to make sure that my filament and nozzle are correct before it starts to actually print my part. I know I can print raft which I can then check to make sure everything looks good. I don't want to print any raft because it's a pain to remove from my clear PLA parts. Is there a setting for this in Cura? I had an UP mini before I bought my ROBO 3D (only had it for like a week before I realized the build platform was just to small) and it would print a test line before it moved on to the actual print. Any ideas? Extrudeing my PLA at 230 and bed temp at 40. Not sure if that is a reason the raft is hard to remove. My cheap PLA doesn't like any temps lower than that. It won't extrude if I go lower.

 

How do I do that in Cura. Still learning a lot.

 

Expert > Open Expert Settings

Set these to a value you are happy with. If you are printing something really big you might only want 1 loop.

 

Let me see if I get this right. The "skirt" is the test line that will be around my part but not actually attached to it correct? Raft is a few layers under the part and a brim is a few layers attached to the part but just on the outside bottom.

 

Awesome. Thank you very much. You guys are life savers.

 

You could also do a test line like this:

after homing(G28), and after extruder at temp (M109), use this G-Code

G1 F10000; SET FEEDRATE FAST
G1 Z2; RAISE Z-AXIS TO 2MM
G1 X20 Y20; MOVE CLOSE TO HOME
G1 Z.1; LOWER Z-AXIS TO .1MM
G1 F1500; SET FEEDRATE SLOW
G1 X200 E10; CLEAR FILLAMENT
G92 E0; ZERO EXTRUDER
G1 F{travel_speed}; START AT TRAVEL SPEED

This will print a line in front of the bed and the start