I’m planning to print the LR4 files with a 0.6 nozzle.
The guide says to print 3 walls (as opposed to 2-3 walls for the LR3). So can you also do 2 walls with a 0.6 nozzle? This would give the same wall thickness as a 0.4 nozzle. I’m not sure what the impact on strength is.
Same for infill, can you set for example to 25% instead of 30%, as the lines will be thicker?
For layer heigth I’m not sure if I go for 0.3 or 0.4 mm. 0.4 is still within the advices 80%, but I think it is less strong.
I print with a .6 nozzle, 3 walls/top/bottom layers at the recommended infill %. You probably can get away with less, but it wasn’t worth the little bit of plastic savings for me. I would rather stronger parts.
I used a 0.6mm nozzle. 3 walls, 3 bottom, 3 top. 0.24mm layer heights. I wouldn’t personally go above 0.35mm layer height with a 0.6mm nozzle. I kept infill as it was in the recommendations, some parts I added 5% extra. I printed all parts for a full build. A little over 2.5 spools of filament. I would not try to save filament either, like Jonathan also stated.
Not in any way meant as an argument, but I printed 4 versions of the Beta at .38mm layer height and beat the absolute crap out of all of them and never had a single part problem. I went down to .3mm now because the parts look better after printing.
Oke good to know I personally just ran into issues printing at large layer heights with a 0.6mm nozzle. These issues were likely because of the limited flow capacity at large (0.4mm) layer heights and with a 0.6mm nozzle. Slowing down would probably solve this, but I personally prefer to keep my layer heights below 0.35mm, also for visual reasons.
Yes, if your extruder can’t melt it fast enough to keep up that will for sure cause problems. I just meant if you can print at those layer heights that you shouldn’t run into structural issues is all. And I agree the .3 layer height does visually look better
Ok thanks for your input. I think I’ll settle for 3 walls and a layer height of 0.3. There seems to be some discussion on the web on layer height vs strength and which is better. But I’m not going in that rabbit hole.
I personally just ran into issues printing at large layer heights with a 0.6mm nozzle. These issues were likely because of the limited flow capacity at large (0.4mm) layer heights and with a 0.6mm nozzle. Slowing down would probably solve this, but I personally prefer to keep my layer heights below 0.35mm, also for visual reasons.
0.4mm layer height! Doesn’t look as nice though.