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08-23-2014, 04:52 PM #7
wel one thing I can say - you'll get better results with the same material in different colours than different materials.
Given that pla sticks to cold beds and abs to hot beds - don't mix the two. No matter what settings you use one or the other won't stick !
speed wise I tend to do most things at 70/100
As geoff says - anything much above 80 and the machine appears to be shaking itself apart on the infill.
Food saver disc stl attached - I think :-)
I printed it fine at: 3 shells, 0.3, 5% infill, 70/100 speed.
Takes about 21 minutes.
I really should look at those examples again :-)
Found the dragon - think I'll do it one colour, hollow and .4 see how quick I can knock one out.
I need something to balance the hollow yoda that's sitting on geraldine's left back corner.
I did read that stepper motors work in 0.04mm increments. So layer heights that are divisible by 4 work better than ones that aren't.
Not sure if it's true for the ff steppers - but it sort of makes sense.
I'll have to try .28 instead of .3
Actually another way to avoid parts warping is to print with NO infill. 0%.
You get a hollow model, which means there is a lot less plastic to shrink and pull the edges up. Fo stronger models Use shells instead of infills.
3 usually works great for hollow models.
I've seen people go up to 5 shells for watertight things.Last edited by curious aardvark; 08-23-2014 at 05:51 PM.
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