Judging the optimum temperature of your print.

Hi Guys

Please can you give me some tips and advice of how you judge your best Temperature of the filament when printing for example PLA.
I know the recommended temperature temp of PLA and that's what I would set my filament , but while printing and looking at your print, what do you look for to turn your Temp up or down.
What are the indicators that you use to judge your print etc
Like to see your feedback.

It´s all been written down for all of us to see.
Why would you expect, anyone would write it down for you again?
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-Olaf

Hi
Well I was not talking about trouble shooting. I was talking about judging your prints as they print and adjusting the temperature. Things to identify. I thought this was the idea of the forum for like minded people to help others or want to help others.

Whenever you have a new spool, make a temperature cube.
The one below is 25x25x100 mm cube for 1.75mm PLA. Optimum temperature range is between 190C to 200C.
However when I print a model that has long bridges, I lower the temperature to 180C.
(Instruction and STL file is on [www.thingiverse.com])

My Slic3r setting:
Layer height: 0.2 mm
Perimeter: 1 (Vertical shell)
Horizontal shells: Top (0), Bottom (1 to 3)
Infill: 0%



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/07/2015 09:37PM by janpenguin.

Now that is an awesome idea. Thanks