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Printed with Makergear M2

Sliced Simplify 3d Creator 1.1.4
Layer height .15 mm
Print time 29 hours in 2 batches
1st batch 20 hours for main house body.
About 1.2 lbs of filament.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:117080

Great print!!!

Hope the birds appreciate the low layer height finish

Bratag wrote:Hope the birds appreciate the low layer height finish

"Look at this, Bob! You can barely see the layers!"

I like the fact that the finishing work is greatly reduced. Does that add a lot of time to the print?

Jules wrote:I like the fact that the finishing work is greatly reduced. Does that add a lot of time to the print?

Lets take your .15mm print - lets say we have an object thats 15cm high that's going to require about 1000 lines to print give or take a few

Now lets bump the layer height up to .25mm - now we only need 600 lines to print the same object.

Granted you lose a little quality on the finish but if you are planning on painting (or my suggestion for stuff that goes outside XTC-3D) then chances are you are going to smooth out the lines in post anyway.

Don't get me wrong I do print at low res but usually I am like Maverick in Top Gun - I feel the need ... the need for speed. Especially on large prints like this one.

Bratag wrote:
Lets take your .15mm print - lets say we have an object thats 15cm high that's going to require about 1000 lines to print give or take a few

Now lets bump the layer height up to .25mm - now we only need 600 lines to print the same object.

Granted you lose a little quality on the finish but if you are planning on painting (or my suggestion for stuff that goes outside XTC-3D) then chances are you are going to smooth out the lines in post anyway.

Don't get me wrong I do print at low res but usually I am like Maverick in Top Gun - I feel the need ... the need for speed. Especially on large prints like this one.

Yeeps! That's like 67% longer!

(Really does make you appreciate a fine finish.....'specially on a larger print.)