Comments on: 3D Update

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:46:21 +0000

Ah, that makes more sense 😀
And yes, you can, smaller layers and with some materials a quick wipe with acetone to melt the surface slightly. But in the end I gave up on printing this part in PLA and PLA+ and just switched to PETG with *much* better results – the slight flex in PETG makes it far more suited to parts like this which have to snap over one another.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 15:13:51 +0000

In fact my idea was “how to suppress the grain” as it would be a defect for most uses.
Sylvain

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:35:28 +0000

You can definitely make the grain more pronounced by increasing the layer size Sylvain, but it’s not a great idea – the material will delaminate more readily.

By: Mark Dennehy

Mark Dennehy — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:32:18 +0000

In reply to Raph Boumenot. Cheers Ralph. Just mucking about with it really :)

By: Raph Boumenot

Raph Boumenot — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:26:28 +0000

I like the look of the new blog.

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:42:24 +0000

Interesting to see the printing result is not isotropic.
Plastic grain!
Can it be enhanced by varying the vertical step, temperature, linear speed?
Sylvain