If you are going to use regular glass be very careful since it is not designed for this type of application. Not that it won’t work but it may not be very flat and thinner glass can actually bend a bit with the plate. I have heard that mirror glass may be flatter then regular glass.
Also remember how little it can take to break it! Just be careful!!
Hi All
Yes I agree with whirlybird. You do have to remember that this is thin glass and needs to be respected. As far as bending the short answer is YES it will. The problem with this is that the bed is not flat in the first place. Just like my printers most have a bolt, butterfly nut and spring in each corner. (bad design) This can easily pull the bed out of being flat. Some of the newer more expensive printers are now shipping with only 3 adjustment points. 2 At the front and 1 at the back. This allow full adjustment without bending the bed.
I am going to modify my printers when I get a chance by replacing the 2 bolts and butterfly’s at the back with a drilled bar and normal bolts. This will allow me to have just the 1 butterfly and bolt in the middle of the back edge of the build plate. I have seen other people do this mod online and they all say it made a massive different to how flat the print bed was after the mod.
Cheap simple (and reversible) mod that makes a big difference. Oh happy days LOL.
Oh and don’t forget to put a cheap little piece of kitchen sponge with a slit / hole in it around your filament just before it is entering the extruder. Very simple but stops dust and fluff being dragged in and blocking your hot end. also wipes the filament to make sure it is dry.
Regards
Dave
I like using PETG. I pretty much only print in PETG anymore. It has the strength of nylon and the easy of printing like PLA. Get a reel of it. I think you will like it.
As for the software there are many slicers you can use. I have pretty much tried all of them. My favorite by far is Symplify3D. It is wonderful. I guess Cura would be my second recommendation but definitely not makerbot desktop. That is a really limited slicer.
You our need to check the solidity of your models. You can do this in meshmixer or even google sketchup. As stated in another post you probably have some internal faces or flipped triangles.
