Yeah, I reviewed the spec sheet from Ultimaker and saw that it listed The temp range as 235 to 250.
The settings I used were just what the lab supervisor tells everyone to use as the default. Also, I’ve only used copolyester and I assume that’s all that’s been used, but it is a bank of 30 odd printers at a large public university.
I think im going to drop the layer height to .15mm, slow the speed down to 30mmps and raise the temp to 250C.
Im curious if there is a better infill than trianglular or grid. Grid is what the wiki project recommends, but I plan on using these parts for assembling another 3D printer, so I want things like gear drives to have good structural integrity (I’ll obviously use higher infill percents for those as well).
This is the project I’m working on: http://reprap.org/wiki/Snappy_3
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print temp is supposed to be 250. That's the default. That's what I print CPE at. I mean there are like 3 or 4 printing temperatures but that's the main one.
Infill by default is printed much faster than walls so that is probably why infill looks like crap. I would probably set all my printing speeds to around 30mm/sec.
Defaults are 60/45/35 (infill/outer wall/ inner wall). I like 30/30/30.
Basically either print hotter, or slower, or both. I have only done a few dozen CPE prints (although several recently) so I just left the printing temps to the defaults and slowed it down a bit. Have you ever printed glowfill or carbon fill with this printer?
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