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Well, hello fellow X2 owner. I've had mine for almost 2 years. Still tweaking settings, but I just swapped it over to klipper about 3 months ago. Still not going too fast with outer perimeters running 40mm/s. Inner perimeters at 80-90mm/s. Travel at 200mm/s, supports at 150mm/s. Still have a slight stringing issue with pla with small detail layers. But I'll get you a picture later today of how my seams show up.
But yes, you can assign the position of your seams in most slicers. Basic settings are random, aligned, and back. (Most of the time these are in relation to print bed front/back, not object, so rotating the object can effectively 'move' the seam)
Also, most slicers have an option to paint on the seam.
Ok thank you for the response!
Here is an image of my seam line:
And here shows a bit of stringing between the small layers:
And how do you smooth that part of the print? By melting the plastic with a soldering iron?
I suppose that could be one approach, but i believe most people use sandpaper or a hobby knife (x-acto knife). Commonly followed by other post-processing (e.g. priming, painting)
It's mainly a visual thing on my pieces, one can hardly feel it when your run your finger over it. I would like to get it a bit smoother, but haven't been able to get it smoother with slicer settings yet.