Having completed a number of upgrades to my BigBox Dual Titan Direct, I wanted to see what my quality limits are. This little jar I designed is one of my favorite test items. Both the lid and body are meant to be printed as single walled vases using a 1 mm extrusion width. They have some nice overhangs, large planar surfaces, and some wide curves. The one on the left is colorFabb HT clear and the one on the right is transparent blue Taulman T-Glase The jars are only 65 mm high and were printed using 0.2 mm layers. I think the surface quality speaks for itself
I"m always happy to share my design attempts. Here's a slightly improved version. The cap is redesigned to be slightly more aesthetic and the jar and lid are gently but functionally threaded. Enjoy!
Well, this'll be interesting then. One thing I've never tried so far is setting the extrusion width manually. In this case, setting a width of 1mm with a 0.4mm nozzle. I'm happy to learn how well that comes out. Printing now ...
Me too, but it does sort of look like it's 1mm. The base wasn't quite right, but I hadn't adjusted z-bed prior to print.
Well, the edge really is 1mm .... very interesting ... Some evidence of banding from my machine here ... Banding disappears with the right light ... This was the base, but as mentioned I think this might have been due to a nozzle too far from the bed. Second test will come shortly ...
I wonder what that banding is from. Its several mm in period... The print will look prettier if you use concentric infill on the base
Yeh. Good call. The lid printing proves that the separation between the lines is a result of the nozzle being too high. I'm also curious where the banding is coming from. Seems likely to be some regular slight bed movement from side to side, possibly from the leadscrews. That side, if you view it from the side, or with the right light, it's completely not there. So it's very minor ...
The model looks fine, but for some reason S3D injected a fault line into the print for me. Also quite clear in the result.
Looking at your photo in an image program it looks to me that the bands have 2 mm pitch. That says bent leadscrew to me. Leadscrew quality is the bane of these printers!!! The good news is its fixable!
The artifact could relate to the transition from a normal layer to vase mode. I see it in mine as well and it is the corner where the print started.
The good news is that soon we'll be running the new leadscrew-motor combination. (In the meantime printing at 0.15mm layer height does a pretty good job of covering issues.) RichRap says you can go up to 2.5 times nozzle diameter (examine the diameter of the flat tip of your nozzle). Particularly when printing small parts where strength is a premium I examine my slicing for annoying thin regions which are not getting enough plastic because no room for infill or gapfill - or another two perimeters), then play with the extrusion width so that things work out.
