So you think you can Print - a-MAZE-'n

The reason I am starting the print challenge is to help people get their printers dialed in. There will be certain things that won't print well unless you have certain mods. Hopefully, this and future challenges will help people learn to overcome the limitations of their machines.

I need STLs!

I need, preferably, original designs that offer unique printing challenges. It would be nice if they only had one or 2 things that made them tricky to print. This will help people dial in specific settings. I already have my next design in mind and am working on it now. I would also love some feedback on frequency of challenges, what types of designs people would like to see, how big the prints should be and so on...

I was trying to keep print times around 15 minutes but that will not work for most prints. All feedback is welcomed.

Need to tweak my settings.  this was at a indicated max of 150mm/sec.

22:47:05.640 : Printjob finished at 8/9/2013 10:47 PM
22:47:05.640 : Printing Time:9m:28s

Now we just have to figure a way to keep the bugs inside so they go thru the maze

so what is the regular print speed that you guys usually use?

yea thats what i was thinking elmoret ahahah

how do you guys get those good prints at those speeds?

here is mine at 50 mms per sec ahahah

I gave this a shot, and it turned out quite nicely I think, but this sort of print isn't what is really challenging my printer.

It did lift a little, but I'm hoping to see the end of that problem when my glass arrives.

As always I am interested what other people may notice about the print.

This was printed using the 'default' Solidoodle .1mm profile, at 150% feedrate, 125% flowrate.

dont try this with moist filament it only ends in heartbreak

I had to crank my speeds to 100mm/sec and layer height of .35mm just to get the ETA down to ~ 15min. What am I doing wrong here?

Save that clear abs. you will need it for the next SYTYCP challenge. Nice print!

Yes, this is a separate profile I created just to see what it would take to get to the 15 minute 'default' settings mark. The normal profile I use, which has slightly increased speeds, is reporting 21.5m using a .3mm layer height.

Edit: 21m included 4 solid base layers. Came out well, though there is some slight stringing and a thin hole lined up with one of the walls in the inner maze.

Here is my part, with an unofficial time of something south of, say, 9 minutes?

A bit of a disclaimer on my "time" stamps. By the time I realized my computer's time was not shown in my real start photo (5:50pm) I was on layer 4. I retook another photo, and that's why it shows a time of 5:51pm. As it stands, my 5:50pm start time can only be called "unofficial". The end time, however, was official at 5:58pm (I have no idea how many seconds, so this is all a bit silly anyway).

So, to be fair, 2n2r5's time still stands as the winner, easily. But I was close, damn close...

That was fun, thanks 2n2r5.

BTW, my perimeter speed setting in Slic3r was 100mm/sec, and I cranked the multiplier up to 300 after about 10 seconds of print time. Never once did the printer reach anywhere near these speeds, you know that, right?