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Hi all
i'm a french student in electronical engineering and for my tutorship project i have to print a reflectarray (telecommunication)
this project needs extreme printing accuracy and i have trouble finding the right settings. Also i'm working on a ultimaker S5 with ultimaker PVA and generic PLA
so the main probleme i have is when printing with pla (AA 0.4) and pva (BB 0.4) to support my structure.
What's happening is that when the printer is changing materials lets say from PLA to PVA ,a bit of PLA is still coming out of the extruder, so when changing again from pva to pla it puts too much materials. I've tried the setting "retract at layer change" but didn't get good results
here is some picture so you can understand better
So this is a print whith PLA support and i'm pretty satisfied with the quality but wasn't able to remove my structure from the support (it's very thin so it must have melted together)
so i've tried with PVA but this is when the probleme of overextrusion occured
as you can see there is some overextrusion when changing material so when changing materiel it create a sort of blobs on the sructure
here is the strucure after dissolving pva as you can see the quality is far from the first print when using just one extruder
I've thought about using pla from ultimaker or change the support for breakaway anyways i'm gonna continue to test with different setting but maybe you guys can help me
Thank you for your helps
Cédric
overextrusion using 2 extruders (pla with pva)
in Improve your 3D prints
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hi,
Sorry for the late answer i was really busy with exams this weeks and thanks a lot for your advices !
I've tried with the prime tower and it was exellent. I'm printing with a 0.4 AA i'm not sure i have a 0.25 available at my lab but will definitely ask.
I didn't know you could place the prime tower near the printed object so i will try to cut some print time maybe ?
I've noticed that i'm almost hitting the object when the nuzzle is going to the prime tower so i thought about checking the z-hope when retracted parameter or the z hope after extruder switch.
Your idea of printing the model downward could be very nice the tricks is that my part is similar to a plate so what coold be the best for printing a plate upward or downward ?
Thank you again for your concerns
Cédric,
PS: i'm gonna post photos of my project so you guys can follow my advancement