And I believe the fight is going well, though not so much due to any direct action on my part. From what I hear through the grapevine, my adversaries have been in the process of destroying themselves through sheer incompetence, dishonesty, and greed for awhile now, and are very nearly done.

Just an aside, we’ve been super busy with 3D printing and purchased a makerbot 2X dual head printer. All I have to say is don’t waste your money. I may have gotten one or two decent prints out of the POS. I’m not knocking MB2X to be mean, just thought I’d give some (hopefully) helpful advice to someone that gave me some great advice.

Speaking of, I used your leveling advice and have been getting spectacular prints out of our UM2. I’ll use your print settings and let you know how those go.

Hope all is well with your fight.

In terms of the settings I use in Cura, if I want to get a decent-quality print I use:

Basic options
0.12mm Layer height
0.8mm Shell thickness
0.84mm Bottom/top thickness
0.24mm Initial layer thickness
10% Fill density (or more if I need a stronger part, or set of 0 if the part is printable with no infill)

Speed(s)
20mm/sec Bottom layer speed
35mm/sec Print speed
75mm/sec Infill speed
200mm/sec Travel speed

Expert
Fans 100% at 0.5mm
0.1mm Z hop when retracting
0.02mm Minimal extrusion before retracting
1.5mm Minimum travel (Retraction)

Material Settings (on printer)
220C Printhead temp
65C Buildplate temp

In general I try to keep all horizontal-settings (shell thickness, etc.) defined in even multiples of the nozzle diameter (which is 0.4mm on an Ultimaker 2), and all vertical settings (Bottom/top thickness, etc.) an even multiple of the layer height. And if a print looks like it might be having problems, I’ll dial down the speed on the printer, usually to around 75%.