Reality Thread - What printers can Actually do

[Martin_au]

Aside from Prusaslicer settings can you please post up a screenshot of your Marlin movement settings. And not steps but speed. Because the actual movement of our printer is gonna be the lesser of the Marlin settings vs. the slicer settings. That is both sets of numbers are limiters that say no more than so we can have real high numbers in our slicer but actual movement of the robot might be much less because of restricting firmware settings. So for control we need to see both.

Also can you tell us about the filament you used? What type, brand, and/or the amount spent on the 1kg or 2.2lb spool. Again for control. Cheap filament is cheap filament and we will work to make it print nice. Expensive filament just prints nice and makes our rigs look better than the cheap filaments will. The same can be said for PLA vs. PETG or other filament types.

And I will try to get one printed out at some point today and share all of my settings as well. Then we can try printing with each others settings and see what we get. Under an hr. is good time for a working iris box.

My marlin settings match the slicer settings pretty closely. Slicer estimate was 57mins. Time taken was 59 mins. I’ll add some pics to this post shortly.

Filament was 3d fillies pla+, transparent grey. ~$27 AUD/kg (one of the cheaper filaments we can buy here, similar price to eSun).

The larger one was 3d fillies pla-steel in copper (no longer available) and the white micro one was some trash pla sample that came with the tronxy.