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IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Late to the party, but…
How well tuned is your printer? This whole print is a torture test with lots of retractions and thin walls. For things to go well you will have needed to dial in flow rate, print temperature, cooling, and retraction. As someone else said, if the nozzle catches on an unsupported lever arm (aka one of the vertical pieces before a horizontal bridge has been completed) it can/will break it off.
If your printer has never pulled off this type of print before I suggest running through some basic tuning tests before worrying about potentially wet filament unless you live in a very humid environment. I live in a temperate climate where it doesn’t generally get that humid. My printer and filament live in my basement, which has a dehumidifier in it. I’ve never dried a role of filament and I leave spools unfinished for 6+ months. That’s not to say that you never should dry your filament or that doing so won’t improve print quality. I’m just trying to say that I have not experienced a higher rate of print failure with older spools.
pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Thanks! I’m a beginner, got the printer about two months back. I didn’t do any special tuning apart from auto leveling the bed.
I printed a temp tower with this filament, and it was okay from my viewpoint. Long overhangs were droopy on lower temperatures, and it had stringing from pointy ends on higher temps. I printed a few PETG prints before, but nothing with such fine details as this hexagonal thing.
Can you point me to some good source of info about tuning? For a noob like me it is hard to tell good resource from slop-compiled one…
IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is a very easy to follow guide that walks you through everything but temperature towers in a sequential order: ellis3dp.com/Print-Tuning-Guide/