What am I supposed to look for/learn from this PLA+ temperature tower test print? (seems like it doesn't make a huge difference)
Posted Sep 26, 2021, 3:56 AM UTC
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Which part of the tower looks sliiiiiighly sexier than the rest. There’s your temp.
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seems like it doesn't make a huge difference
That's what you learnt. 😊 The main reason for this is because you are using PLA+ and it is quite forgiving at most temperatures above 185°C. If you were using PETG, you'd get a very different tower.
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I had been expecting a more significant difference!
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I think you might have a really good quality filament. What brand is it out of curiosity?
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3DFillies in Melbourne, Australia
Go Demons!
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Good to know. I get Cybridge, they are Melbourne based too. Go the Morons! 😂
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I got the same stuff and had no differences in my temp tower as well
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Follow up here, I think I get the importance of it now.
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Maybe you should do durability test. There's a chance that layers printed in lower temperatures are holding together worse than layers printed in higher temperatures.
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I use pla+ too and sometimes you get very little difference but it's worth doing with each filament because not each on is the same. I've had some that work at 190-220 and others that look a bag of crap at anything over 195
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Follow up here, I think I get the importance of it now.
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You can make a single wall cube temp tower and test with your hands what temp gives the best strenght
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Or dont do anything lol
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Go screw yourself. /s
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Spotted the "what the fuck is this print, it looks like a dog took a shit on my print bed, what damned temp should I be using?" maker. :-D
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Nope, but none of my printers have ever printed THAT nice. Been printing since 2014, but never used an ender
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Looks like you didn’t really need to calibrate, however; you may want to check up your slicing post processing g.code script to see if it did do the step increment for increasing temp at certain later heights
Yeah, I was monitoring the temperatures as it printed and the temperature steps are in there. I was expecting a larger impact!
I usually have the opposite luck 🤣🥲
Follow up here, I think I get the importance of it now.