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If your brand new to 3D printing skip the ABS, and XT and go straight to PLA. Get some good quality stuff and learn from there. Once your good with PLA I reccomend XT as well. The thing is when you print ABS it releases some pretty nasty chemicals that aren’t to good to breathe in! XT on the other hand acts like ABS, can be vapor polished and glued like ABS, but doesn’t have all the ugly properties of ABS. XT can be a tad fininkey to get printing right when you start out so that is why I reccomend PLA since it just works!

One other word of warning is dont’ go for cheap filaments! Ever… they are more frustration and heartache than they are worth in potential cost savings. Not to mention who knows what toxic impurities your breathing in!

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the one on the left looks good, the one on the right is really bad. were they printed one after the other or all at once ? Were they printed at different resolutions. The devil is in the detail, we need to know the detail.

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Great advice! Thanks! Do you know any good brands for PLA?

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Haha! Noted!
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Why? Well to be honest i didn’t know XT existed… Until now… :slight_smile:

I think i will buy a spool and see what i can come up with!

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for me the same as “designedby36” colorfabb XT.

just test http://colorfabb.com and use the tips & tricks XT-WHITE

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Thanks! I will look into these other brands!

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Hey! Thanks for the tip! Here’s to experimentation! :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the reply! I’ll give this a shot!

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Me (and a lot of others here) would say ColorFabb filaments. They seem to have really consistent and well printing filaments. If your in the states go to www.printedsolid.com and grab some of their PLA/PHA sample as well as an XT sample while your at it! I had some issues with the Ultimaker PLA that came with my machine but when I jumped to the ColorFabb I have had 0 issues outside of operator error.

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All printed with varied settings…

Further most left (260 nozzle, 110 bed, 50% speed, 60% fans)

further most right (230 nozzle, 90 bed, 100% speed, fans off)

The ones on between with varying mixed settings.

Always at 0.1 line height.

I think that’s everything…

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Right! Lots of colorfabb recommendations… I’ll try them first! :slight_smile:

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Noted! Thanks very much!

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Thought I would add, I had some really nice results with some glow ABS i bought (manufacturer unknown) printed with settings: (260 nozzle, 110 bed, 50% speed, 60% fans)

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i have to say that i have had issues with colorfabb and the ultimaker filament, but also got aweseome results with both of them.

I used a lot of fabherdashery filament, that was awesome but unfortunately does not come on spools and this resulted in some problems.

check ot this test, its a little unfair on colorfabb because i get my best colorfabb results with 210 c

good luck

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Thanks for the info! :slight_smile:

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Protoparadigm

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try our formfutura range from our 3d webshop based near manchester uk

www.metacad.co.uk from beginning of may

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Have you tried our Clarity Filament by The 3D Filament Shop. We have many repeat customers including some Major film studios. Can I ask why you are using ABS and not PLA, is it for structural work or are you just playing. PLA is far more forgiving for a novice printer! And if you want a free sample please let us know.

Dylan

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I’d be delighted to try your filament! :slight_smile:

From this thread I’ve realised PLA is probably the way forward for me… I didn’t really know the properties until looking a bit further into it.

You can get me on mail@darrenmillar.com

Thanks again!