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Posted · Anybody using a textured build plate?

I've also heard WhamBam should be good and since they're selling sizes for the S5 I (perhaps foolishly) assumed that it'll work fine. And if memory serves PAX even should be able to handle higher temperatures than PEI.

 

Anyway, thank you, if the plates end up being in too bad a shape I'll ask my boss to try Filafarm. He prints a bit as well and came to appreciate the ease of removing large rigid prints from a flexplate system.

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    Posted · Anybody using a textured build plate?

    I tried the WhamBam smooth plate and even with PLA, the hot nozzle damaged the PEI on bed level probing. I tried their textured plate next and that one works a treat. It makes a nice texture on the bottom of the part and doesn't seem to be suffering any damage from the bed leveling. I do tend to use a bit of Z offset (with the Cura plugin) to increase the squish a bit, typically about 1/2 the thickness of the initial layer, and I run the bed around 80-85C; but otherwise, it's plug and play, and very useful for PLA and maybe ABS. I don't use it on anything hotter than that though.

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