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48 lines
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# Printing and Materials
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bss's random thoughts and notes on the actual printing of the Buildable Stick System.
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## Printing Settings
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My preferred settings are 3 wall loops with 20% gyroid sparse infill. This gives the models a bit more weight and
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strength against bowing forces, but something more default, like 2 wall loops, 15% grid sparse infill, is fine and does
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not lead to a weak enclosure.
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### Working With Flatness
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A lot of the pieces are long and flat, so I recommend really dialing in your printer settings. The frame pieces make
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corner curling of the frame less of a problem, but you may still get it on the panels and the beveled frame pieces.
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Another thing to consider, in my experience, is the bottom layer pattern. Monotonic prints fast but creates long,
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uniform lines that create reflection patterns on long, flat surfaces. This can be especially distracting for the top
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panels, since they're what you're looking at 90% of the time. Using a non-uniform pattern, like hilbert curve,
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eliminates this problem, but at the expense of a much longer print --- around an hour longer for an inset panel. Other
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patterns may improve beyond monotonic, but hilbert curve seems to be the gold standard.
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## Materials
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Some notes on PLA brands, usages, etc.
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### Bambu Lab PLA
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#### Basic
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* In general, nice texture, but under direct light, you can see a bit of the infill pattern through the walls. Not super
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distracting, but it's there.
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##### White
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* Walls are practically translucent, you can almost always see the infill. 3 wall loops and a varying infill pattern
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definitely help here.
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* Looks perfectly good for thin things like the Neutrik plates, decorative pieces, that kind of thing.
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#### Matte
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* I don't like the texture as much, but they do produce nice non-primary color colorways, and you don't see the infill.
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* Seems like their plastic treatment leaves some plate residue, so be better about cleaning it or you'll get ghosts.
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### Hatchbox PLA
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* **Blue:** very blue. Wife likes it.
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* **White:** more opaque than the Bambu PLA mentioned above, makes a pretty decent (still slightly translucent) frame.
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