You are right about the more surface area the better sticking... that's just how it works...let the bed cool completely and they should pop right off. If the taller prints are coming off due to the printhead moving back and forth 'rubbing' then off then you need to calibrate your extruder flow rate... ---> http://www.soliwiki.com/Main_Page#Calibrations and -->
http://solidoodletips.wordpress.com/201 … flow-rate/
If you set SDTemp at 230 or higher you will attempt to burn out the hotend... because 230+30=260C and 260 is plenty enough to start melting the PEEK part of the hotend if the overtemp protection of the firmware does not catch it soon enough... and that happens quite a lot unfortunately.

The best way is to try experimenting at different temps to see what works best for your machine and current roll of filament as there are tons of variables that affect how 3d printing works, I would try as low of temps as possible and still get good layer adhesion and flow rates because higher temps introduce more problems like shrinkage, sticking issues, layer cracking...

What settings do you find best that I could start from? In repetier host I have set 195/95 which is what solidoodle recommends but they also said in a video somewhere that it actually runs about 20 degrees hotter than what repetier host reports and raising it higher may burn out the extruder which I don't want to do!

What's a good low temp for extruder and bed to start from with ABS? And what type of shapes and size model is good for testing this? I'm finding that flat objects with lots of surface area I have trouble getting off the bed when it's done. But tall, thiner objects come right off the bed when printing and move around.

This is the current filament I'm using:
https://www.matterhackers.com/store/3d- … green-1-kg
It says recommended temp 230-240c but I read 230c is enough to burn out the extruder on the SD3.

What should I do???

I could be wrong here, but if your solidoodle is new those temperatures should actually be 215 and 105.
At least that's what the solidoodle people told me on their google groups forum.

not sure, I'm using what the website says. (195/95).  The site says it actually runs at 225 when the host software says 195.

What temperatures are you printing at?
Also yeah, make some abs slurry and wipe a bit over the bed, solved 99% of my stick problems.

195 and 95. Green abs from matter hackers. Their spool didnfit on the holder so i had to chisel the hole bigger on the spool. Is not very smooth so the spool doesn't glide nicely as the filament is being pulled. I bet if i could find a way to make it more round i wouldv get better prints too.

i noticed the solidoodle filament settings you download set the extrusion multiplier to .7 by default. since i calibrated it using the firmware method, i can set that back to 1.00 right?

all I did was level the bed and calibrate the extruder. not sure what's going on.

trying to figure this one out