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Hello, Im new to 3d printing and am hoping people can offer some advice on how to improve. Im printing jewellery using a copper PLA blend filament on the ultimaker 2. I have also used a Brass PLA filament. The result is ok, but the top layers are not complete in parts, and the infill does not meet the walls so you send up seeing gaps.
top layers not printing / joining
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Hello, Im new to 3d printing and am hoping people can offer some advice on how to improve. Im printing jewellery using a copper PLA blend filament on the ultimaker 2. I have also used a Brass PLA filament. The result is ok, but the top layers are not complete in parts, and the infill does not meet the walls so you send up seeing gaps.
Any suggestions to improve greatly appreciated!
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Heres a picture and my settings are below:
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Rhino3d export settings:
Tolerance: 0.001
Max distance, edge to surface: 0.001
Min initial Quads: 16
Everything else:0
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Cura settings:
Nozzle dia:0.4
Layer height:0.2
Initial layer height:0.4
Line width: 0.4
Wall Thickness:0.8
wall line count:2
Top layer thickness:0.2
Top layers:4
Bottom layer thickness: 0.8
Top bottom pattern: lines
Ignore small Z gaps
Infill density:50%
Infill wipe distance: 0.1
Infill layer thickness:0.1
Infill before walls
speed 30mm/s
outer wall speed 15mm/s
inner wall speed 30mm/s
top/bottom speed 15
Travel speed 150
cooling fans on, min layer time 5sec
union overlapping volumes
material brass PLA at 210 degrees
Also tried copper PLA at 210 degrees