I printed some custom boxes for my childrens craft and art supplies. This lasts many many hours and some faster nozzles would be great as we will increase the box usage at our home.
looks interesting, i think it would help increase the speed to print a couple of new designs i’m working on at the moment (can’t share the images just yet )
My printing plan would then be to acquire some spools of High Speed PLA or High Flow PETG (whichever is available in a better matching color scheme).
I will try to make a base out of wood with a metal rod instead of a printed rod to hold up the print as I feel it would be nice to use a contrasting material for the base.
If the prototype works out I plan to print two more copies and give them away as Christmas present to our kid and my nephew.
The first model I would print with the new High-Flow Hotend would be the Shizu Vase Kintsu by Sabre Design from Snapmaker Space.
I think this would be a great real-world test for the High-Flow Hotend. I would print it quite large in PLA and try to push the printing speed and volumetric flow significantly higher than with the standard U1 hotend.
What interests me most is not only how much print time I could save, but also how well the beautiful surface structure of this model is preserved at high flow rates.
Of course, I would also print the same model with the standard U1 hotend for a direct comparison of print time, achievable flow rate and surface quality.
I would simply use the settings from the planter 3MF file: 2 walls, 5 top layers for water-tightness, 3 bottom layers, and 15% infill. For the filament, I’m using a matte yellow; it hides the layer lines very well.
I would print the moon that uses topographic data that is provided by NASA where someone smarter than I am turned it into a model. It’s a pretty long print from what I remember.
And since I’ll be using the U1 I would look for other planetary models that make use of all 4 colors for the second print.
I found the model a long time ago and thought they were the original maker as they described the process to make it and where the data came from but I’m not finding it. This looks like a good version though, with lots of detail.
The first thing I’d print: My self-designed Diamond Painting Station “Crystal Grin” – a larger functional component (150×160×65 mm) with a docking station, drawers, and trash bin.
Printing plan: The housing in PETG, because I need good layer adhesion and dimensional accuracy for the drawer guides and docking mechanism – my current hotend noticeably limits print speed, especially on larger surfaces. With High-Flow, I should save considerable time on the thick walls and high infill for the trash bin area, without compromising the detail accuracy of the interchangeable wooden front cutout.
I would print the rose dragon, which already takes 3d18h with 2564 color changes across 1249 layers using standard hotends, in PLA to test the quality and time savings.
