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- Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion and Tips
- Topic: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
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Re: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
Trying out a designed support now. Surface finish is 10x better with a designed support vs S3D. I was able to print my support part at 5% infill, 2 bottom layers, 2 perimeters, and 4 top layers. Takes a little extra time in design. If the auto align feature worked in S3d, that would help a ton. Gue...
- Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Tips
- Topic: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
- Replies: 11
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Re: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
You don't have to make it so complicated. Both the Zortrax and UP/Afinia printers use a raft on top of support before the object and both of these printers are class leaders in this department. Zortrax having copied the UP. Works fine on all sorts of irregular shaped prints. Leave support the way i...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Tips
- Topic: S3D Successful Prints
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Re: S3D Successful Prints
Finally I thought I would put my new ToyBuilderLabs Glow-In-the-Dark PLA to test! You really start crossing your fingers towards the end of a 32 hour print, especially when the filament is $50 a roll! I had previously printed a small version but it has been confiscated by my 18 month old daughter! ...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Tips
- Topic: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
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Re: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
Or I guess I could make my own support model? That way I can choose the infill, and it will have a nice outside layer to print on. Little bit of extra work up front, but could be faster print, use less filament, quicker to dissolve, and hopefully easier to breakaway.
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Tips
- Topic: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
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Re: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
100% Support? What a waste of material and time. Even if I did the same material, how are people getting anything usable for a surface finish? I can't imagine it would change much using ABS for everything?
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion and Tips
- Topic: Tips for surface finish on top of support?
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Tips for surface finish on top of support?
My parts usually require quite a bit of dis-solvable support. Right now surfaces printed on top of support are always messy and droopy. To help fight this I use 45 and 135 degree supports to make a checkered pattern and 0 separation. Parts still do not come out nearly as well as my Zortrax printer. ...
- Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:45 pm
- Forum: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports
- Topic: Wrong extruder
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Re: Wrong extruder
I'm having a similar issue when trying dual material prints. Set right extruder as primary, and left for support but everything prints out of the right extruder. Does you bed at least heat up with your FF? Mine won't even do that.
