A 'new' type of 'Build Plate Adhesion' for Cura

I heard from a friend that he had encountered ticks already (Late May) this season. This looks like they will probably be pretty prolific this year. I had also seen a product that someone suggested and figured - somebody has probably already done this for 3D printing and I was right.

There are a few variants but the one I decided to try out is at: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:909271 and is called Tick Twister. I printed one and thought I better use a raft since the area touching the bed is kind of small. The result wasn't quite what I expected and I'll have to do some sanding to clean off the bottom of the part. Not a terrible issue but I prefer to make cleanup easy.

I also didn't like the size tapering up as large as it did so I decided to do a little work with Meshmixer to replace the top part with just a straight cylinder.

Then I got to thinking about what to do about the raft. I could probably tweak some of the settings but it would still be a raft. A brim would probably do just fine but a brim wants to fill in the notch on the bottom and that needs to stay clear. A skirt would be just the right thing but it would be too far away from the part to really help out.

Enter the idea of the 'Tight Skirt' - make the skirt 10 lines wide and set the distance to 0.2 mm. This has most of the holding power of a brim but without intruding into the slot of the part. That seemed to work pretty well and I now have a profile named 'E3 Dynamic Quality - Tight Skirt'.