Good speeds?

[Bassna]

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

[Ghosty]

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

[Bassna]

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.

[Geoff]

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.

[Bassna]

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?

[jfkansas]

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.

[Bassna]

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.

So you print at a pretty fast rate then. Does makerware have a option to print at a % speed for the first layers?

[jfkansas]

Yes, it is in the xml file or use profitweak.

[jfkansas]

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.

[Bassna]

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.