I’ve been tuning to print at a 0.1mm layer height, the ironing turned out like this. The left side of the Z is a little textured and more shiny.

Why did this happen and how could I fix it?

  • jeansburger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s because your nozzle is ever so slightly too low when you’re printing. I’d adjust your Z offset by one click upwards.

    Reprint the cube, and see if that resolved it. If not adjust upwards by another click.

    If after a handful of times you can’t get a decent ironing pass, I’d take a look at your extrusion multiplier. Drop it down by 0.01 and recalibrate and retry doing the above ironing calibration sequence again.

  • rambos@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Try monotonic order on top player. I never tried it with ironing, but its worth a shot

  • krey@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    i don’t know much about 3D printing, but it looks like a bit of fine sand paper and then ironing again could fix it.

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      1 year ago

      Ironing is a 3d printing term where the heated nozzle is used to smooth the final layer, it’s not about taking an actual iron to your print.

      The print shown is a calibration cube, meant to show you the results of your print settings so you can adjust them to get better prints.

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        1 year ago

        ohh, i see, so you don’t want to fix that particular cube, but the process. lol, sorry.

        • moody@lemmings.world
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          1 year ago

          Exactly, it’s not about fixing this print, but about figuring out what’s going wrong so you know how to make the next one better.