3D Printing Discussions, Questions and Debugging

Just use the formula calculator for esteps. You can search for that online…

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Yeah why?

I know the smell of ASA didn’t expect it to be that smelly :joy:

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did and came up with 550

at 550 esteps it prints out 100mm for 100mm extruded

but does it make sense or does it mean i have setup something wrong

Oh yeah. Definitely crack a window at the least. Pla smells so good after smelling that stuff.

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What have submarines and Windows in common? :thinking:
My basement room has windows, so cracking shouldn’t be a problem.
And ASA sticks very well to smooth PEI sheets. Too well.

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Anyone know what’s causing this

Pla at 200c and bed at 50c

80mm/s max inner and 40mm/s outer walls

Outer layers are ok inside is messy

Think it might be a speed issue
Does that make sense

Or could be retraction settings

What do you recommend for Titan aero?
Currently at 0.5

I’d like to get a 3D printer more for model printing rather than esk8 specific, but it’ll be used for that aswell. I’m curious to know what printers people would recommend when on a budget? I don’t want to spend £1000 or whatever because I won’t justify the use.

Btw, all I know atm is that 3D printing is cool and theres loads of cool stuff on thingiverse that I want to print. Otherwise I’m a massive noob.

Slide into my DMs pls xxxxxxxx

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Creality Ender 3, Creality CR-10, Artillery Sidewinder X1

There’s some pretty decent printers for cheap nowadays

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Same recommendation. Resin printers are great if you are looking into making high finish parts, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

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I’ve seen these style printers and was hoping they would be okay. I know they’re on the cheaper end but surely it can’t be awful? What would I need to do in order to get going?

I saw a video about resin printers and the finish looks incredible but I think it’s a fair bit of hassle to set up? You can’t really print something randomly, can you…?

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All three of them are capable of top tier quality with a little tinkering and tuning.

My Artillery has been printing great so far.

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If you can assemble an esk8, you can tweak one of those printers above enough to be fine.

Even out of the box, 3 out of 4 of my ender 3s printed perfectly. One just needed an hour with a straight edge and L square to figure out the issue.

How small and detailed will the models be?

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That’s pretty high infill printing speed! You print the walls at which speed?

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:grin:
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Oh hell no, not the walls. Just the infill and solid infill. It’s Prusa xD

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for anyone who is interested i bought the printbite+ bed like @RedBaron recommended and it is insane
used on pla and got the most perfect first layer i have ever had (shiny enough that i can see my reflection in it, looks proper glossy)
came off easily and no issues
gonna try with abs today

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2 inches high up to something like 8 inches? I want to use it for all sorts of stuff tho.

I want something that has a big enough size and doesn’t limit me to just doing models

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Yeah those options are all perfectly fine for what you’re after then.

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That’s pretty fast for infill imo. Prusa default used to be 170mm/sec

That’s their fast preset xD