From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints (2019)
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Speeds, temperature, and cooling
From the course: Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints (2019)
Speeds, temperature, and cooling
- [Instructor] Most people will set temperature for a material and speeds for a printer and then not think about either type of setting again. However, there's a related group of settings having to do with how the print cools. If those are off, the print may be blobby. The first thing we want to set is the extruded temperature. If your machine settings indicate that your printer has a heated bed, there will also be an option to get the build plate temperature. Temperature is a trial and error thing, but most manufacturers will suggest a range for a material. Typically, it's a larger range than you would like because printer factors matter, as well. Some combinations of filament and platform surface will not require heating the build plate like blue tape for PLA or Garolite LE for nylon. If the extruded temperature is too low, the printer will have trouble extruding and layers may not stick to previous ones properly. If…
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