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What are the speed's you normally run on making your prints? Low, medium, and higher quality print speeds. I just started using a Raft to get things to stick and warp less. Which is working great, but the raft's are starting to leave a residue left on my build plate I cant seem to get off. I'm thinking I will need to change the tape soon. But yeah, just curious if I'm printing too fast. I'd say the normal I have been using is Extrude 70 mm/s and travel 100 mm/s
hi, what material you printing with abs, pla, pva, nylon etc
im curently using pla, my settings are as follows
headed bed at 60
nozzle at 195/200
extrude at 40
travel at 70
this is my settings for all qualitys
Ah sorry, I'm stuck using only ABS until Payday :P So if you extrude at 40, maybe me using 70 is tad too fast? I also use the nozzle at 235, bed at 115.
I was stuck with ABS for long time, so it's all I used for at least the first 6 months I had my machine...
With ABS on the Flashforge, running at 230c and HB at 110c, the following seem to be pretty standard for me..
Printing at 0.3mm layer height - 70ms feed, 120ms travel
Printing at 0.2mm layer height - 60ms feed, 110ms travel
Printing at 0.1mm layer height - 50ms feed, 90ms travel.
Re: changing tape, its pretty easy, I use a credit card to smooth out any air bubbles as I lay it down.
Ok so I'm not too far off from my settings then. I'm currently printing something bigger at .2mm layer height, 70ms feed, 100 travel. Will see how that turns out when I get home from work.
I did buy a nice size roll of tape with my machine ($45 >.<) Should have got it off FF website instead. What about fill %, what is your "default" fill for things you make usually. I just made it 50% for this thing I'm printing now. 2 Shells, it seem's that is about the normal for shells. Does more shells = thicker product?
I generally print with one stepper removed and almost always at .2mm layer height. I am never successful at printing .3mm layers and they always look like wicker basket crap anyway.
My standard speed with S3D is 6000mm/m feedrate and 7200 travel. This equates to 100mm/s feed rate and 120 travel. First layer is at 60% speed.
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So you print at a pretty fast rate then. Does makerware have a option to print at a % speed for the first layers?
Yes, it is in the xml file or use profitweak.
Actually now that I think of it, the settings are held in Javascript. These aren't directly editable in Makerware but with Profitweak you can customize profiles.
I really recommend spending the $140 for Simplify3d. Things are just laid out in a logical manner and if you are printing more than one object you can set a custom extrusion profile for each. Maybe one model needs support and the other one doesn't. Simplify3d handles this. It is incredibly fast. For things that take up to a minute to slice/process in Makerware, these take seconds or less in Simplfy3d.
Yeah I really have been looking into Simplify3D, at the moment I can't spend the $140 on it, but maybe in a month or so it might be a option. I do hear good things about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jfkansas
Any trick to getting it to extrude properly at that rate? if I go that fast, it will miss lines in the solid infill, the walls seem ok - but the infill basically has gaps in it every few lines. The absolute fastest I can seem to go without screwing with acceleration is about 85msQuote:
Originally Posted by jfkansas
Generally the only thing I care about is the shells and they do print a a lower speed set by a percentage of the max speed. I don't see why it would be skipping completely unless they are short lines and the filament is over retracted. Infill is just that infill, it isn't really seen after printing.
Fast speeds comes down to a highly calibrated extrusion mulitplier with 100% filled 20mm calibration cubes. In S3d even a .01 change in multiplier makes a diffference. I am trying to get some ABS/Nylon alloy to come out better so I printed 6 cubes all at once each with different filament multipliers. 1.02, 1.01, 1, .99, .98 and .97. The .97 came out with the smoothest top but still looked to be over extruding slightly so I am goint to go with .96 for now. The last part I printed didn't come out so well and it was ran at 1.02. Now I see why.
This is what I am printing. :-) Steering wheel for an RC car transmitter. It also has a rubber grip.
https://myhub.autodesk360.com/ue29cb...02ec346b45b137