350 Feels slow, printing a threadboard and it takes 17 hours

I’ve had my 350 for a few weeks now and It has been frustrating to produce good quality prints.
however the issue I have today is speed.

I’ve been using the normal settings since i got it and small models take much longer then they should.

Does anyone have links to settings files I can import? Or any assistance they can give.

Do you happen to have the model to share? Keep in mind if it’s large, broad, and flat, you’re printing a 0.4mm line per sweep. Most time in a print is the bottom and top layers doing full fills, taller projects with sparse infill are faster.

Not to mention that the first layer is often much slower because you have to guarantee bed adhesion.

I would just get 1 or 2 ikea skådis boards if i were you. They’re not that expensive and there are many downloadable toolhangers for them online…

The Snapmaker 2.0 is not a fast printer. I believe it uses leadscrews with 8 mm lead?? for x and y so it cant print very fast without loosing steps…

edit: I see now that there are 20 mm versions. Hopefully you have those and not the 8 mm versions… according to Snapmaker, the 20 mm versions should be good for about 100 mm/sec.

If you must print your board(s) you could try printing fewer top/bottom layers, increase layer height, reduce the infill percentage and use high print, travel and acceleration speed.

If top/bottom layers are non-critical, which it appears it shouldn’t really be, either a single bottom and two top, or forego the top/bottom altogether. I have a habit of printing functional parts that are either flat or horizontal load bearing with no top/bottom and exposed infill. Plus it looks neat. :slight_smile:

You can reduce your print time by as much as 80% with proper calibration and slicer settings tuning.
Example: using Luban with “Normal Print” default settings will print a Benchy in 2hrs 42min (162min). After calibrating the machine and using Cura with fully tuned settings, the same Benchy will print in 31min. That’s an 81% reduction in print time with no loss of quality. And that is using an older pre-update A350; the T-suffix model machines with the updated linear rails can go even a bit faster.