I’ve started 3d printing again after a while. It’s hard…
I’ve been doing all kinds of calibration of the machine, drying fillement, optimization in g-code, using other slicers than Luban and so on.
And it has worked a little. However I still belive that the print quality is below what should be expected.
Now a thing I simply do not understand is this.
In my latest print I tried printing a piece a little different than what I had done earlier, to try to make it look better (printing it more upright rather than laying flat).
When it was done I noticed that the support surface is quite nice compared to the surface of the print itself .
Do anyone have an idea how I can optimize the prints so it have the same overall quality as the supports.
(also if you have some nice tips on how to make supports easy to remove that would be great too)
Whats your slicer (I guess Cura)?
Whats your printed material (Pla)?
May you show us a bad printed model?
From what I can see, I think your tree support prints slower than the model itself, here we come to the main question - > What are your print settings?
Did you ever had a look while printing, what’s the visible difference for you (speed)?
I do understand it’s hard to say anything from what I provided. There is a lot that can cause unsatisfied prints.
To answer your questions:
I use Cura
The print I do now is PLA (as it should be the easiest to print with)
I’m not sure what you by showing a bad printed model, but I’ve attached some pictures of the same piece as in the first post but where it was printed flat on the bed. The supports in this product was impossible to remove.
I’ve attached a photo of the speed settings. As I see the support speed is the same or higher than the other speed settings?
The visible difference do look a lot like the settings. I believe the supports is printed faster than some of the other parts with exeption of the infill.
I can tell from these two photos that your bed mesh leveling is not correct. Unfortunately you will need to fix that before anything else, as it can cause “cascading” defects through the entire print.
