Printing fine details without the tool crossing the part?

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Printing fine details without the tool crossing the part? - sh.itjust.works

I’m trying to print a small 1-walled part with fine details. If I just model and print it in PrusaSlicer, the travel moves cross through the middle of the part and leave strings. “Avoid crossing perimeters” does not help: [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/404344d9-241a-40bc-aed7-dd3b329bc496.png] I’m playing with a really hacky solution, where I model the desired tool path in vase mode, and post-process the gcode to disable extrusion for straight walls at particular angles in the x-y plane. Here is the result: [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/7f57daea-7544-42d7-8da7-fcb8a6dd0ff1.png] This is effectively “vase mode with gaps” but my implementation is hideous. Does anyone know of a better way to prevent travel moves from crossing the part? Perhaps a different slicer or settings?

It’s been a little while since I’ve printed anything that needed specific settings like this, but I’m pretty sure that Cura’s combing/ avoid printed areas settings will do this for you. Though I don’t have any experience with one wall thickness parts and this setting.

Interesting, Cura does successfully avoid running into the part by default:

If I disable “Avoid Printed Parts When Traveling”, the result looks similar to PrusaSlicer.