surfrock66@lemmy.world
I’m a bit stumped, and am looking for advice. I have an extremely old (Circa 2015) Craftbot Plus. It’s hardly any parts of the original unit, kept alive with custom parts out of just spite. I use cura as my slicer, and it works fine for my needs. Recently, my kids have wanted to print custom keycaps. This is a difficult FDM print to begin with, and my old hardware isn’t doing me any favors; it might be impossible. That being said, my prints turn out good, except for the tiny details in the actual stem. The picture is attached of various settings; I’ve tried a ton of stuff. I can share a cura profile, but the gist is I’m printing in PLA and have experimented with 195-210 degrees, .1mm layer height, line widths between .175-.2mm, various speeds, minimum speed and minimum layer duration, I’ve disabled ironing, and I’ve played with retraction. I’m kind of stumped, and am wondering if anyone has things I should try.
Can you share a screen cap of the mesh so we can see what it supposed to look like? It is difficult to see what the center is supposed to be.
One thing I can see in your print, it is looks like your hardware struggles with arcs or you’ve configured cura weirdly to not use arcs.
If the center bit is supposed to hold a T-shape (like a philips head screw driver), you probably need to play with the number of walls vs fill (i’d probably make that all walls).
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Drop temp to 180c. The low layer height and line widths are just remelting the plastic.