Extrusion width mystery solved? December 11, 2016 06:55AM |
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Re: Extrusion width mystery solved? December 15, 2016 06:50PM |
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dmould
Setting the line width in mm should result in that width of line regardless of your nozzle diameter. The line width is dependent only on the rate of extrusion and the layer height - the nozzle width does not affect the width of the extrusion, though you will not get good results if the line width is a lot different to the nozzle diameter. IOW any given G-code file will print the same width lines regardless of the nozzle diameter used. This is obvious with a bit of thought - the volume of plastic for any line is the same (fixed by the amount extruded), the line height (layer height) and length is the same, so the width must also be the same (volume = length X width X height).
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Re: Extrusion width mystery solved? December 15, 2016 11:40PM |
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Re: Extrusion width mystery solved? December 16, 2016 06:49AM |
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That doesn't make sense. All the plastic has to flow through the nozzle. The diameter does matter- the rate of extrusion is affected by the nozzle diameter. That's why the slicer needs to know the diameter of the nozzle. You will get different line widths if you move gcode from a printer with a 0.4 mm nozzle and try to run it in a machine with a 0.25 mm nozzle because less plastic will flow through the 0.25 mm nozzle.
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