amber fjord
I am trying to dial in ironing finish, but i feel like the flow is not consistant if that makes sense here is a photo, shows you like the more to the left you go the more "flow" there seems to be, and that happens at any speed. I don't understand this behavior of phenomenon
amber fjord
Did i put this in the wrong place
pure pike
Did i put this in the wrong place
this is more a general printing/calibration issue so less related to OC. But I can say the CC has a long melt zone and if ironing speed is slow ooz out the nozzle can contribute significantly to material deposition initially, but this reservoir gets depleted and isnt replenished with new filament fast enough. I would suggest increasing ironing speed or pass overlap to see if that makes it more homogenous.
amber fjord
Okay thanks! You might be right it is kinda a general calibration thing 🙂
I felt like decreasing speed gave me better results though if i look at the numbers which represent speed
On my ender3 ironing would work out of the box, so i was a little confused because of that, but the machine ofcourse is differently build
pure pike
On my ender3 ironing would work out of the box, so i was a little confused becau...
yeah for that the melt sone is only something like 1/3-1/2 as long so that could be a factor. long melt zones have a much higher propensity to ooze
but it could be other factors like flow. hard to know without playing with it first hand
proven cedar
I haven’t played with ironing, I looked into and found where someone had recommended just slowing down the top layer and calibrating your flow rate and that being able to leave nearly as good of a surface. I simply changed my top layer speed in orca to 50mm/s I think it was and ran the flow calibration and have been very pleased with the results. I believe the post I saw recommended like 20-30mm/s for the top layer but I went with 50 and was happy enough I haven’t bothered to try other speeds.
amber fjord
some people say you need more solid layers before ironing really works well like 7-8 layers
but i also found this commend which is similiar to yours @proven cedar but it doesn't play with the speed
on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqJxxJwK8To
which says that they don't use ironing but rather this specific way of doing the top solid infill.
proven cedar
but i also found this commend which is similiar to yours <@631640230738395168> b...
Yea I’ve also heard you need a lot of top layers for ironing too. I decided I didn’t want to invest the effort to make it work when I could get really good results just by slowing down the top layer speed and running rectilinear for the top pattern thing. And by just slowing down the top layers it can actually be faster than ironing since you don’t have to run over it all again