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Help! What is wrong? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago by pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Hi! Looking for some advice here from friendly local experts.

I've printed this with Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro, 0.4 nozzle, Elegoo PETG filament, no enclosure. Using PrusaSlicer.

This print is basically all walls - the hex grid is thin. It's 2mm thick and each segment is 1.5mm wide. I set 3 layers for walls in slicer. It was printed vertically, just as seen on picture.

The solid part of the print (back wall) came out just fine, but the hex grid part came... dirty. On the picture, there are a few hex segments that just broke off during the print at the base of vertical segments. And the rest of them have small loops of filament that stick outside of the intended surface, to the sides.

My suspicion is the print temperature is too low. I'm printing at 230, which is the low end of 230-260 range of the filament. But in my previous tests I noticed stringing that starts around 240, so I did a few other prints that were just fine at 230, and I made it my default temp for this spool.

Or is it just too fine detail for my printer with PETG? Or something else that I am missing?

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[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

All right, I think you are right on the curling upwards. I started another print, which is also using similar hexagonal sides, but is more massive - hexagons are larger, and walls are thicker. And it warps up visibly! When these overhanging arms on upper part of hexagons start printing, they just warp up while cooling. Then when nozzle comes back for the next layer, it hits the warped edges, pushing filament to the sides and making these artifacts. It didn't break any segments, as they are thicker, but I bet that's what happened in the original print.

On the new thicker print, the base of the model lifted up from the bed on one side at some point. I was watching the first two layers, so this happened some time later. Gonna try to slow down the print, lower nozzle temp a bit, bump up the bed temp a bit. Will see what happens.