kmanstudios 1,120
I put a new print on pause to take a few pics. I am having to reprint a model that you can see the aborted print behind it. The print was going quite well. So, why aborted? Well, da clumsy noob stuck his slow, old hands in the buildplate while it was printing to grab something and the printhead slammed into it. That knocked the x-y offset and, well, hasta lumbago to that print. But, you can see what I did. I also did not use a raft to stick it down. I used PVA slurry that I recycle from the prints to brush down. And, I used a PVA brim.
This is a close up of the new print. You can see that the supports are tight on the model by way of a 0.2 horizontal expansion on the supports. In the next pics you can see why it looks so far out from the tank because there are pokey outey things along the sides it is building support for. But the sides are clean and there are the squirrel's nest droppings.
This pic you can see the almost completed tank that I messed up. This has only had the alien snot dissolved off, no post processing on the sides or anything. You can also see how much stuff there is poking out of the sides for the support to grow up to.
Here you can see inside the new print and how the supports are starting on the inside for internal structures that poke out inside the vessel.
This model was/is being printed for my brother. He is a mechanical engineer and designs these type of pressure vessels for all over the world, but mostly the US. These are his files from Inventor I am printing from. That is why, instead of a solid model, it has internal structure with the pipe leads being printed in as if it was a real mini-version of the actual vessel he designed. A solid model would have been much quicker. But it is amazingly strong, clean and shows the workings inside and out should he want a cutaway print.
I printed the material at default temps for the PVA. The PLA was printed at 195°C. No speed changes. These are on the new printer and it is my big shakedown print to see how it does. The materials are the PVA and PLA that comes with the printer.
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kmanstudios 1,120
Over time, I got used to printing without a priming tower. It killed a lot of time and filament and it did get knocked over. Now, I rarely use an ooze shield. One of the setting you may want to check out is under support. Unhide the support settings that are not visible by default by clicking the little arrow on the side. In those settings you can find support horizontal expansion. It defaults to 3mm. That is why your figure got wrapped like a spider yummy.
The UM PVA material is unique in that it makes that silvery, crystalline looking construct. It has always made little squirrel nest parts no matter what I have tried. It also dissolves different from other brands in that it turns into alien snot. The other PVA I use just makes the water milky and dissolves much quicker. But, quicker dissolve means easier to suck the humidity out of the air.
I would also suggest playing with temps a bit. Maybe lower them just a bit.
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