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Any and all tips and tricks would be gratefully appreciated!
I know this is neither a tip nor trick, but as a general rule, it's quality or speed: pick one. Speed is usually achieved via:
Line width - the wider they are, the fewer it has to print, but you also lose fine details, and the lines themselves can be more visible in the finished product (can be alleviated slightly with ironing, but that's a slow process which defeats the purpose of printing quickly).
Layer height - mostly the same sort of idea: taller layers mean you get to your desired height quicker, but you also lose details that might be visible in a thinner layer, and the layer lines might be more visible. You can help this a bit by turning on Experimental > Use Adaptive Layers. This will print thicker layers where there's not much detail but thin layers where there is.
Printing speed - most filament is only designed to be printed at a certain speed (most will be listed with the recommended minimum and maximum on the spool). There's nothing stopping you (until you reach the limits of your printer, anyway) from making it go faster but then it's not going to set at the intended rate and could end up warping or causing other problems.
You could also increase the acceleration (it is what it sounds like it is) and jerk (how much it can instantly change speed at a corner), but those are sort of like a car: the faster you zoom off the line, the less control you have, or in this case, either pull filament on a travel move because it hasn't had time to retract properly before it zooms off, or just cause vibrations in the machine than can throw the whole thing off and potentially cause layer shift (which is where it starts printing a new layer slightly off centre from the previous one and keeps going up there).
If you can tell us a bit more about the sorts of things you're printing then there might be some advice specific to those sorts of things. But 3D printing is a learning experience, and you can try printing fast and printing slow and see the difference in the quality of the result.
IMO, it's almost always better waiting to get a good quality print, unless something is strictly utilitarian (like I was building a table - poorly - and made some moulds with screw guides for where the corners meet the apron, I don't care how it looks because I'll probably end up destroying it to get it off after the glue is set anyway).
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I know this is neither a tip nor trick, but as a general rule, it's quality or speed: pick one. Speed is usually achieved via:
If you can tell us a bit more about the sorts of things you're printing then there might be some advice specific to those sorts of things. But 3D printing is a learning experience, and you can try printing fast and printing slow and see the difference in the quality of the result.
IMO, it's almost always better waiting to get a good quality print, unless something is strictly utilitarian (like I was building a table - poorly - and made some moulds with screw guides for where the corners meet the apron, I don't care how it looks because I'll probably end up destroying it to get it off after the glue is set anyway).
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