Trick for better small part prints
Tesla893 shows off his simple trick for printing quality small parts. When printing very small or narrow parts, the lower layers don’t get enough time to cool and solidify before the next layer is placed down. This causes squishing and sliding of layers. One effective method of reducing this problem is through the use of Skeinforge’s “Cool” setting. The Cool setting allows you to specify a minimum time the printer will spend working on a given layer – ensuring that your small parts have enough time to cool before the next layer is put down.
Tesla893′s trick is to print multiple small parts at once. Sure, you might have a little more stringing between parts to account for, but the printer is forced to spend more time between each individual small area given them all time to cool.
Update: The video appears to be removed for some reason. It would have just shown you that Tesla893 was printing multiple copies at once.
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3 Comments so far
Ryan
I’ve never been able to get cool to work as intended. The ooze starts winding around the part and defeats its purpose. multiple parts work great. A stepper based extruder may make things better.
tesla893
Wow, this is cool! Thanks Makerblock
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Ryan, I am using a stepper extruder. This video was made when I was using Repsnapper, and could not reverse the filament. Since then I have switched to Skeinforge, and now have reversing. It does end most oozing, but due to the liquidy nature of PLA when it heats up, some still escapes.
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