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Hello fellow Makers!

So great to meet all of you and even more awesome to share experiences on how we can 3D print even better - Thanks for your valuable Tips and Tricks!

Remember important settings to play with:

- Speed, temperature, layer height

- Bridging

- Retraction

- Cooling

- Warping

Test your ColorFabb samples! I am curious to see what new things we can make with those materials!

Looking forward to host more events for you MAKERS!

Cheers

Roman
Co-Polyester Presentation.pdf (10.2 MB)

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Awesome presentation with some great tips & tricks!

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Hi Roman,

Great to hear you had a successful evening with the local Hubs! We would love to see some printed samples from our sample materials!

best,
Gijs

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Yes! I will take some pictures and share my 3D prints with you… :wink:

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So far i have tried nGen, pretty happy with my first test print http://i.imgur.com/RwqWuD2.jpg, printed @ 230c + 85c and the rest like my normal pla settings.

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Here are some pictures of the nGen and XT materials… Check out the scaled 3D printed testing sample - on top surface you see small holes like the infill is not totally covered by top layers - I’ve seen it before, but cannot recall the name for the issue. Let me know if you are familiar with it…

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That looks super great - seems you get well control over retraction as well compared to mine! nice print!

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That’s with 2mm and 20mm/s with a direct drive extruder, still needs a bit of tweaking to get rid of the small blobs on the surface.

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What settings are you using for XT? i’ve tried 2 test cubes http://i.imgur.com/jkLz4cd.jpg the first one at 250c (the right one on the picture) and the other at 240c. The one @ 250c looks like it’s way to hot, and @ 240c it underextrudes a lot and looks like it’s way to cold, maybe i just need to find the sweetspot in between those values :S

With your problem with a nGen i would just add a few more top and bottom layers(and/or more infill), that usually fixes it.

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printed my models with 258C - thats where I found the material well molten.