Topic: Printer Speed
Ive had my SD3 for a few weeks now and I want to start speeding up my prints a bit, I was wondering what print speeds you guys would recommend?
Re: Printer Speed
You might be able to crank the infill up to 80-100, but I would recommend keeping outer perimeters down to 30. The Solidoodle may have a rigid frame, but the extruder mount isn't the tightest. As a result you can get overshoot when you make sharp direction changes at high speed, giving you uneven, slightly ragged corners. The outer perimeters are what's visible, so keep those slow and speed up the infill.
How fast you can print depends on how fast the extruder can melt the plastic. It might help to raise the temp 5-10C. Also you might be able to extrude faster with a .5mm nozzle.
Re: Printer Speed
IanJohnson wrote:
You might be able to crank the infill up to 80-100, but I would recommend keeping outer perimeters down to 30. The Solidoodle may have a rigid frame, but the extruder mount isn't the tightest. As a result you can get overshoot when you make sharp direction changes at high speed, giving you uneven, slightly ragged corners. The outer perimeters are what's visible, so keep those slow and speed up the infill.
How fast you can print depends on how fast the extruder can melt the plastic. It might help to raise the temp 5-10C. Also you might be able to extrude faster with a .5mm nozzle.
Alright ill give that a shot thank you!
Re: Printer Speed
Ill just put out there that I took the default settings that slic3r had and doubled everything in the speed tab. This of course has consequences. The machine would rock and sometimes quite violently when doing small details since its changing directions and accelerating so much. I also think this caused some of my filament feeding issues.
That said with the white I got from solidoodle it seemed to handle the outer layers just fine at 60 and infill at 120 etc. but the black and red i got from ebay just bound up and clogged everything when trying to feed that fast. There is also a sacrifice in quality when you crank up the speeds. but most of the parts i make are for function not form so sloppy edges don't matter much.
its all about what you want and how your specific printer handles it. though i am interested in what Ian mentioned. using larger nozzles for faster prints. I see makergear has a 0.75mm nozzle that i might pick up and try. It might mean i can slow my speeds down and keep my faster print times.