zemlin wrote:I can post some pics in a couple days. I'm not mystified by the options in the software - they make sense. I can make improvements on things when I am having issues. The purpose of the post was to see your 'best of' builds from a quality standpoint so I can get a feel for the limits with different materials. I'm willing to put extra effort into getting a good build, but don't want to beat my head on the wall trying to achieve the impossible.
I can now, after a year, get perfect builds in PLA and PETG. Almost perfect builds in the wood filaments. Average builds in PVA. Sometimes the filament really does fight you and you can only achieve "pretty good, all things considered".
No globs, no zits, no gaps, no cracks, no warping, no stringing, no over-extruded lip on the first row, first layer same size as the others, even bottom pattern, water-fill flat top layer......is my definition of perfect. It can take months (and hundreds of calibration squares) to achieve perfection with a particular kind of filament, but it is doable. Just depends how much time you want to spend on it - the more you do, the better they'll get.
And the better
you'll get at it - it definitely took longest to figure out what was going on with the first one. After that it gets a lot quicker.
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