Oh c'mon !!!! First Print!

[anon4321 16]

First print, no tweaking, barely know what I'm doing.... C'mon that's not bad:

Looks worse in the photos. Looks much better in the real world.

Meant to note that the underextrusion on the base was because I didn't "prime" the filament feed.

 

[illuminarti 18]

Yes, very nice!! Welcome to the owners' club!!

 

[ian 32]

welcome to the world of printing what you think ! ;-)

Ian :-)

 

[skint 61]

Nice job anon

 

[DidierKlein 729]

Looks pretty good for a first print better that my Ultimaker Robot great job enjoy the fantastic machine

 

[anon4321 16]

I think I had the temp too low. There were some chunks missing on the back. I lower the default to 180 from 210.

I printed some calibration cubes at 100%, 150% and 200%. Even at 2x they came out OK.

 

[gr5 2,167]

180C is too cold for that color filament. Unless you slow to maybe 10mm/sec which will take hours to print that robot. Also if it accidentally goes below 170C Marlin doesn't let the extruder move.

 

[gr5 2,167]

Printing slower will improve quality more than printing colder. 210 is already an excellent temp. But this quality that you show is good enough for me personally.

 

[jonathan-gueron 0]

Looks really nice !

here is my second print of the ultirobot

 

[anon4321 16]

Jonathon, that looks real good.

Gr5, I picked 180 just because that is what I thought was the right temp for PLA. For some reason, I thought 210 was more appropriate for ABS.

In general, I think pictures make the prints look worse than they are. When the robot was done, I really thought it looked nearly molded.

 

[illuminarti 18]

No, 240-250 or more is typical for ABS.

180 is definitely low for PLA - for most things you should be able to print quite nicely in the 210-230 range. For most things it doesn't make much difference, provided the plastic is liquid enough to flow sufficiently fast for the speed and layer height that you are printing.