<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — 3D Printing Newbie Advice]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/9181/3d-printing-newbie-advice/ Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:23:30 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Newbie Advice]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/78843/#p78843 Raise temp on hot end to about 220, bed to 110. Then slow all speeds down to 40 or less.  Use the manual bed Cal procedures stickied at the top of this section.  Do these then get back to us with results.  Oh and don't try to do .1 layers.  Stock hardware can't do them very well.  As for PLA on your model it would require an entire new print head.  You have a first or maybe second generation model like mine and they cannot do PLA without extensive rework of the head.

]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:23:30 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/78843/#p78843 <![CDATA[3D Printing Newbie Advice]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/78836/#p78836 Hi all,

I'm new to 3D printing and just purchased and set up a DaVinci 1.0 (the model with the separate daughter boards).  I did a few small prints with 3Dware and was less than impressed with the quality.  I reflashed to Repetier 0.92 and installed Repetier Host on my computer.  Print quality has improved slightly.  Some questions for some more experienced builders:

1.  What are things I can do to further improve print quality?
2.  Any hardware modifications that should be made to the printer? (I have seen mentions of bed coatings, PLA cooling mods, etc, but don't know where to start)
3.  What filament do you recommend for when my starter cartridge of XYZ white has run out? 

Thanks!

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