Anyone have tips for printing artsy pieces? Small, thin wall, or requiring support. Specifically, has anyone tried out the raft / interface layer on a well dialed in printer and care to comment on interface pattern spacing?
And print speeds - I’ve made almost nothing but big heavy-duty parts for more functional applications that I have my default speeds set probably higher then proper for this stuff
Thanks. I’d love to get a second extruder going on my Mendel90, for split color / material prints. If you have any parts / designs in mind and want to collaborate, let me know - I’d be happy to give an opinion if nothing else.
It usually helps to slow things down a bit on really intricate prints. As far as wall thickness, it generally depends on the model, but most fancy things I’ve printed were 1 shell and about 10-20% infill (if slic3r didn’t automatically make part of it solid)
@Sanjay - agreed about the temperature. I printed my latest model at 240C and fine resolution (0.15, I think) and it stuck much more firmly to the support than the previous ones. I did manage to get most of it off eventually but it was a lot more difficult. Unfortunately, I had one minor delamination though and I would be worried that lowering the hot end temp could make this worse.
I’ll definitely try increasing the support gap too - I have been using the default setting of 0.5 mm.