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@braddock: I got it when I bought my printer from the imakr store. http://www.imakr.com/product/view/pla-3mm-filament It did't have a brand or lable on other than heat setting and diameter. @Osgar: Settings were 0.1 layer height, 35mm/sec, 0% infill, 197C. I actually didn't mean to print it at 0.1 layer height but it seems to have turned out ok. I also had one support for the nose as the tip is at a negative angle from the rest of the body. I cant wait for the dual extruder to be released, so excited about soluble support structures.

just done one more test with the cheep white PLA and I'm really pleased with the results. This guy is tiny. So far nothing beats this material

@Martin: Thanks man. That hanger is really cool and it looks like it printed really well. Think I may have to get one my self

@fabskill: Awesome

@Skint: Cheers mate. @Aaron: Thanks man. I designed it in Zbrush. I'm glad you like slightly more realistic style, it was really fun to make. No support material used and other than the wisp of PLA from the top of his head there was no clean up. @Didier: Thanks mate. Love the octopus plant pot. The UM natural looks like it held up quite well on the overhangs. I wonder if having pure PLA with no coloring makes a difference. I got my fabberdashery samples yesterday and did a test with earl gray. Again it was a bit rough on the overhangs but still held up quite well. The layer quality is great with this material, I guess that's down to the consistent diameter of the filament. Still nothing beats the cheap white stuff so far but I will keep testing.

Seriously awesome work from everyone in here. There is so much its hard to keep up. Great stuff everyone So it was my mums birthday yesterday and I made her a laughing buddha to go with her colection. Printed at 35mm/sec, 0.08mm layer height, 9cm height, 197C, 0%infill, 8 hours

@braddock: Just awesome!! @Takei: Very cool

Awesome! This is going to save me sooooo much time.

Awesome work. Really glad that you got it sorted. I cant believe how much time you saved its insane. I noticed in one of your images it looks like yo are printing with no infill, is that right?

Crazy good man. Mind blowing stuff. Well done!

@ Lennart: Thanks man. @braddok: Dude that sucks. I hope you find a solution. Other than the shift it looks awesome.

Awesome

Still very impressive none the less. so here are my final tests for now between colorfabb, UM blue and cheepo white stuff. all printed at 20mm/sec, 0.06mm, 190C, 60C bed temp, 20% infill and 10 sec layer cool time with cool head lift at the end. All of three materials did a great job especially at such a small scale (7cm including antenna). The antenna had problems printing because of the small size and because the cool head lift function caused a lot of mess that interfered with the print. Other than that The results look great (the pictures don't do these prints justice). You can see in the last image that there is a bit of roughness and layer sagging on the ears and underside of chin. Again the cheep white stuff came out on top in this regard. I also like the matte finish it has to it as opposed to that streaky shine that you normally get with these kind of prints. I have ordered a couple of samples of faberdashery PLA so I'll look forward to trying that out soon.

Wow! The mesh must have been crazy to print

@Didier: Nice prints. I had the same problem with the Ieyo model. I fixed it though by reducing the speed from 30mm/sec to 20mm/sec and turning up the minimum layer cool time to 10 seconds. I also lowered the temperature to 190. Its now printing and looks much better. I will post some pics soon. @Calimero: Nice model and the print looks nice and clean. @braddock: So excited to see the finished piece.

@cor3ys: Awesome work man!

Thanks man. Thoses last prints were done at 0.06mm, 20mm/sec and are about 4cm in height. I tried reduing the flow by 2&1% but the results were very ugly. I'll post a photo when I get home from work later.

Hey guys thanks for all your feedback its been really helpful. I tried printing the small alien head again at 185C and got better results. I then tried printing with some cheap no name white PLA that I bought with my printer and was pleasantly surprised. Here are some comparisons. As you can see all three filaments capture the detail quite well. The cheap white PLA actually seems to handle the overhangs better than the UM blue and the colorfabb but has slightly more wispy strings than the UM blue(really not a problem though). The colorfabb has a slight edge in the quality of layer adhesion giving it a slightly smoother finish in some areas but it doesn't hold up nearly as well as the other 2 when it comes to overhangs. Over all I think that at £20 per kg the white PLA comes out on top. @ulbie: I think you could be right about the polygons of the mesh. All of the artifacts and roughness in the small grinner prints occur in the same areas as it does in the larger one and I think that its due to the unnecessary skin detail from the original zbrush sculpt. I'm feeling a lot better about the colorfabb material after testing it on different models. @braddok: I'll give the faster speed setting a go and see what happens. Also I think I'm going to give your Ieyo bust a go in colorfabb and the cheap white stuff to see how they compare. Once again thanks to everyone in these forums for all the help and advice

Although having said all of this I know I have seen awesome prints from various people using colorfabb and I'm confused as to why I cant get as good quality as I've seen other people get?

Hey ulbie thanks for the reply, I really appreciate honest feedback. I havn't uploaded these guys to thingiverse or youmagine. I'm using an Ultimaker 2. My first prints that I did of these guys where with Ultimaker blue and were much better quality. The grinner I originaly printed was 150mm and had supports on the overhangs which helped a bit I think. The smaller version only had one support on the nose and didnt print well. original prints: bit of sanding on the last image

Colorfabb print was at 195C and Ultimaker blue was at 210C. Both had a bed temp of 60C and were printed at 20mm/sec with a layer height of 0.06mm. I went for a lower temperature with the colorfabb because I found that it produced better results and a smoother finish as can be seen in the image below. Left 195C, Right 210C Its clear from the first comparison images that the colorfabb material is a lot rougher on the over hangs and noisy areas but it does seem to have a very slightly smoother surface in areas of low noise. Over all though it appears that I'm getting far superior results with the Ultimaker material. I'm currently printing the small alien head above in Ultimaker blue and I can already see that It is far better in quality than the colorfabb prints. I will post the results later tonight when I get home from work. I also printed the alien creature again from the same Gcode as before, this time in colorfabb. I wanted to see how the quality improved on larger prints. The results weren't bad but there was a problem when printing the supports as can be seen below. Unfortunately I wasn't in the room when it happened so I cant be sure as to what caused it. I think that the colorfabb did a good job of capturing a lot of the detail but as you can see in the images below it also has a much rougher surface than what I got previously from Ultimaker blue. In summery I think I'm going to stick with Ultimaker filiments as I feel that I'm getting an over all better quality print with it. I will continue to do some testing with it in the future but for now I want to concentrate on making more stuff to print.

@ Aaron: Cool flashlight. So I've been doing a bit more testing with the colorfabb filament and this time I'm using the bluegrey that I purchased. I've done some comparison prints between colorfabb and ultimaker blue filament. Colorfabb on the left, Ultimaker blue on the right. Colorfabb print was at 195C and Ultimaker blue was at 210C. Both had a bed temp of 60C and were printed at 20mm/sec with a layer height of 0.06mm. I went for a lower temperature with the colorfabb because I found that it produced better results and a smoother finish as can be seen in the image below.

Woah Valcrow that is Awesome work. Loving that paint job dude.

@braddock: Thanks for the info man, I'll give this a try soon. The form 1 print looks really nice but I have heard that there are still a lot of teething issues with this printer so don't be too hung up. Also when the dual extruder comes out we will be able to print solid beds of dissolvable supports and have perfect overhangs... I hope :grin:

Thanks for the link. I only went down that far just to see how it came out but on other test prints I have done with 0.06/ 0.1 and 0 infill speed I still had crappy results. I remain positive as I have seen some really nice prints done in colorfabb so I'm sure its just a learning curve.