Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
you're extrusion width is 0.8 !

Wow. that's pretty extreme.

Next time you load some filament. take your digital calipers and measure the extruded plastic's diameter.
That's what your extrusion width should be set to. With a 0.4mm nozzle it's usually between 0.4 - 0.55.
0.8 is just serious over extrusion.
That's what I was wondering. So to ask the question here, since we are on the subject:

Is the extrusion width the width after it mushes out during deposition, or the raw width. I would assume it's the former, which would make sense in order to accurately estimate the finished size. On that logic, .8 would mean .2mm of "mush" on either side, and that doesn't seem extreme....


Buttt I know better, and actual results should be a function of travel/print head speed, extrusion speed, layer height, nozzle diameter, and filament diameter, correct? If I am missing a variable, please fill me in.