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  1. Jimmy Husain

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    I want to do this : http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:211514

    The thing is I know nothing about gcodes & what/where/how to actually do just that for the temperatures & layers on that .stl file.

    If anyone is kind enough to list down the steps? Or maybe write up few lines on how to do it?
     
    #1 Jimmy Husain, Dec 27, 2015
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    That requires a lot of editing, since he only supplied the STL and not gcode, if you do it manually. What slicer are your using? SLic3r and Cura both have facilities to change temps at certain layer heights. You can also do it in S3D under the temperature tab of the Edit Process.
     
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    Ahah~ Totally forgot about that features in S3D! Thanks^^
     
    #3 Jimmy Husain, Dec 27, 2015
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    So I did just that inside S3D with the settings below :

    Printing speed of 1800 mm/min. Outline speed of 30%.
    0.2 mm layers. 2 shells. Extrusion width of 0.35. Extrusion Multiplier of 0.9.
    Temperature starts with 190 (bottom) & ends with 220 (top). I think yellow is not the best color to show the fine details.

    Filament used is from esun, PLA with filament diameter of 1.5 mm in the other tab in S3D.

    temp tower 1.jpg

    temp tower 2.jpg
     
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    Fancy,

    Because of the bridging, slow is not always the best way to print this. I would print it faster and the perimeter could go much higher like 60 - 80% speed. But all in all, I think you will find that PLA is one of the few filaments you use that extruding as cold as possible will be what works. I would try this with PETG or ABS (with appropriate temperature ranges) and there you will see significant differences between the bottom and top of the range.

    In S3D I would go 0.25 mm layers just to print it faster.

    Is your eSUN PLA really 1.5 mm diameter? I have never had a roll under 1.69 mm or over 1.75 mm.
     
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    When you said perimeter, that is the outline underspeed right?
     
    #6 Jimmy Husain, Dec 28, 2015
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    Yes, every other slicer calls it Perimeter or External Perimeter, don't know why S3D chose to be different.
     
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    I am gona try just that & see how it goes.
     
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