Flashforge Creator Pro vs PowerSpec 3d Pro??

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Hi All,

I use an Ultimaker 2 at work along with a very high end Stratasys. I purchased a PowerSpec Pro for home after reading this post (and others). I did get the great $799 sale price at Microcenter. The machine gave me much troubles with PLA, which in the end was due mostly to the lack of cooling fan, once I started printing ABS I fell in love with this machine. I upgraded the fan using http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:537918 this one fit best with the PowerSpec Pro trapezoid shaped x-slide. This is the only way to print PLA and it works awesome with ABS too.

I had been using Cura for artistic models and slic3r for mechanical parts, but after reading this article http://www.3duniverse.org/2014/01/05.../#comment-6403 and updating the g-code posts I find that slic3r gives very good quality prints. This is due to slic3r allowing me to set extrusion width as a percent of layer thickness. Setting some values to 100% or less forces the extruder to extrude smaller widths than the 0.4mm nozzle which leads to smooth surfaces.

Regards,