Hoping someone with better 3d printing skills can help. I’m trying to print the large L4 print (x axis) and printer tells me that it will be 72 hours to print. Seems a bit much?? I’m also printing with supports
What is your print speed?
- Drop supports. The prints are designed to not need them if you print in the original orientation.
- printed with a larger nozzle of 0.6 mm and that helps by printing more volume in less time.
- Only use 30% cubic infill
- Use 3 perimeter walls
- Use a thicker layer height.
Each of those things will minimize print time once you reach maximum flow.
My ender only printed 50 mm/s and my v4 printed 60. The LR4 core took 22 hours with the optimizations above on the v4. The ender would have been a bit slower. After I upgraded to the v5 and upped the max speed to 200 (using orcaslicer default settings - after completing the calibrations) and let the print be flow controlled, it printed the core in 12 hours.
This upgrading took a couple weeks and the calibration took days, so what is mentioned in a line isn’t always a quick solution, but are meant to give suggestions. Infill, Supports, and perimeters are software settings and can be tried on a small part to verify as well as time estimated after reslicing.
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Thanks, I should be able to go 200, will play with settings
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Welcome John!
I use a 0.6 nozzle and 0.36 layer height and got a really nice LR4 core off an Ender 5 in 28 hours at 70 mm/s.
With a 0.6 nozzle you could probably push that layer height up to 0.48 mm. Per Ryan’s instructions…
I also use 0.6 nozzle with 0.36 layer height. 0.72 mm layer width 3 bottom layers, 3 top layers and 3 perimeters. 30% infill cubic at 45 deg. Flow max set with max speed of 200 mm/s.
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With all of the above parameter setting, also make sure your slicer is set with your maximum volumetric flow rate and will respect that when slicing. Otherwise, you may get some crappy results.
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Changed nozzle to .6 and .40 layer and time went from 3hrs 50min with .4 nozzle and .20 layer to 1hr 2min with the .6 nozzle thanks!!
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Time is for printing the brace
Which slicer are you using?
Creality