It seems I’m too late to offer advice on your initial question, but I’m in the Elegoo family ane can say I’ve been enjoying my Neptune 3. There is a channel that you should check out on YouTube, guy goes by “The Feral Engineer”, he has done a ton of work on these printers and if you find his profile on Reddit he was insanely fast to message me back with a question I had for him.
Happy printing!
Asks for advice
Is given a well thought out and thorough response
“Dude it’s not that serious”
??? I think you meant “thanks for your input” but that’s a funny way to type it out.
They made them much more usable as well. I believe they’re faster and more easily controlled.
I think you forgot to link the print you’re talking about, unless I missed something
Looking at that corner… it definitely just looks like corner curl. It can be incredibly hard to see when the printer is going, but unless your slicing software was telling the printer to raise the Y axis in the exact same pattern every layer, nothing can really cause that besides the corner of the print coming off the bed. You can fix that part by playing with the bed temp settings. Too low and the first lines won’t stick, or the print might pop off the bed of the nozzle runs through some hairy parts. Too high and you get prints like yours.
I wrote a very long and detailed comment about your settings last night but it seems it didn’t save.
Long story short, your hot end has a maximum amount of filament it can melt and squeeze through your nozzle. Anything more than that and you’ll start to have issues.
Let’s say for example’s sake that your hot end cannot handle more than the default 0.4 nozzle 0.15 layer height @ 60mm/s. You can increase your nozzle size to 0.6, but you’ll need to decrease your print speed to keep the hot end happy. Even moreso of you increase layer height as well.
So in your post you went from 0.2 layer @ 40mm/s, to 0.25 layer @ 60mm/s. I don’t know what printer/ hot end you’ve got, but that’s kind of a lot of filament. You can increase print temp to compensate, which I see you’ve done, but remember that your filament has an optimal print temperature, and if you exceed that too far you’ll run in to issues there as well.
Have you already tried printing calibration towers (temp, speed, retract, flow etc)? If not, definitely look up a video or two on how to get them set up. They are much more effective for finding proper print settings than test prints like the benchy. Use towers to find the right settings, use your benchy to test the settings to make sure everything looks good.
Larger nozzles do kick ass. I personally use my 0.6 nozzles pretty heavily. As others have mentioned though, there are definitely scenarios where you’ll really want or even need to drop to a smaller size. My printer hates trying to print PETG at higher sizes for example, maybe my hot end isn’t powerful enough.
I’ll try this but maybe with the forehead instead of looking down. Idk why but I really hate looking at people’s mouths when they talk. Haha. I get distracted with, “ew, what is that gross thing you’re doing with the hole in your face?”
I always eat 2 M&M’s of the same color but on either side of my mouth.
If I mess something up (2 on left side, or green on left red on right for example) I have to even it out for the next bite (2 on right side, or red on left and green on right) otherwise I’ll lose my “M&M streak” and I don’t wanna eat em anymore.
That’s brilliant. I’m on the spectrum and have always had issues with eye contact and feeling like I’m just STARING at someone. I usually will look in to someone’s eyes for like 2 seconds before the “pressure”(?) starts to build and I have to look somewhere else like their chin or forehead. I’ll try looking at each eye individually next time!
Problem is that you have to work in the industry to fuck up that badly.