Comment on Preparations for halloween with my biggest print yet

iconic_admin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mostly purge and to make sure the bed is level. I don’t bother with it personally. I will use a brim on occasion is i’m printing something significantly taller than it is wide

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I find skirts useful to make sure I’ve got consistent flow before it starts printing the object.

    This way there isn’t oozing or a delay from a previous retraction. A good purge, as you say, to get primed and ready to go.

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• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mostly it just gives me a chance to change the z-offset before it starts printing the model. 9/10 times I don’t have to change anything though. I purge and prime the nozzle before this.

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  • iconic_admin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Gotcha. So you watch the first layer go down and use this to see if it needs to be adjusted.

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It prints the skirt first, but yes.

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