Just got my Flashforge Creator Dual and here are my first prints

[curious aardvark]

ah ha pics up - try the same print with same settings and a raft.

Think you'll find it prints out perfectly.

Love that dragon !

Hell man I haven't even got as far as tw colour prints yet - let alone two colour two material prints without a raft !

You're way ahead of me :-)
I'm just having fun inventing things :-))

where'd you get the dragon and egg stl ?
And how long did that take to print and what resolution did you use ?

[Dargonfly]

ah ha pics up - try the same print with same settings and a raft.

Think you'll find it prints out perfectly.

Love that dragon !

Hell man I haven't even got as far as tw colour prints yet - let alone two colour two material prints without a raft !

You're way ahead of me :-)
I'm just having fun inventing things :-))

where'd you get the dragon and egg stl ?
And how long did that take to print and what resolution did you use ?

When you use a raft; what do you do with the temperature of the heat bed?

Aww.. you're making me blush
But it probably was beginners luck :-)

The 'dragon and egg' is actually a dragon with a heart (thought it was an egg too before printing it.) but it came as a dual extrusion example with Makerbot.
Looked it up for you and found it here:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:17204
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29088
(if you search for 'pet monster valentine' you'll find some other comparable dragons)

The print took was estimated at 5 hours by Makerbot but only took 3.5 hours. (Which I find really acceptable since I cannot produce nice 3D models faster than this thing can print them!!)
(0.18mm layer height, 20% infill, 2 shells, speeds: 40 / 70)
Probably can go a lot faster as suggested by Repmap; will do some tests tomorrow to find out optimum quality / speed/ material / strength.

Thanks again for the kind words and good advice; will also do testing with rafts! And what you said about using larger layer height for overhanging parts makes a lot of sense!
Also that food saver idea is quite clever.