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    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.
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