I have been trying for days to print this duderstadt class star trek ship. No matter what i try the engines always fail and when i get up in the morning its just a filament hair ball.
i watched a video and it says to stand it up like this yet every time i do one of the engines topples and well were back to the hairball. I used tree supports on it but they just dont seem to work and i was thinking on using these but they will prob scar the heck outta the model.
Do you have a link to your model (if it is public)? Try to use manual support, as it can be adjusted better.
And I am not sure if a cool plate is the best plate for this. At least I would add some brim, as your plate contact is extremly low. On you second screenshot, the middle support is not connected to the engines and therefore does not help until the print is reaching the middle area of the model.
Maybe try the model in that orientation with an 0.4 nozzle with .08 on the standard textured plate first and then go from there and see where and why things fail with 0.2 nozzle and cool plate.
As far as the orientation, did you make sure the second engine touches the plate? It shows supports in your screenshot on that side; that might be the issue. I’d try and see what “auto-orientation” thinks and what options you have laying the model on the bed by using the tool in Bambu Studio.
Worst case, cut the model… but I’d do that in Fusion 360 or the alike to have more control over it, so that the cut (glue) lines are not as obvious afterwards.
What was the printer they were using with that orientation? Don’t forget that you have a bed slinger, so the higher you go with this kind of model the more force will act upon it. If they used an X1 or P1, then this is not the orientation for you… their plate doesn’t move, so it’s much easier to build “fragile” prints like this. Maybe give 45-65 degrees a shot on your A1.
ps: be great if you could post a picture of a failed print (best still on the plate) for people here to have a look and see what happened to it during the print.
hmm…the printer in the video didnt have a moving bed, that must be it as for the model i got it off of stlfinder which links to thingverse and that appears(at least last 2 days) to be down.
Also, the reason i was trying to print it upright is when you lay it down it gets hundreds of tree attachment points on the underside and it scars the model to h*** and back
Im trying to figure out how to put that larger footprint support on the bottom of the print so i get better adherance to the build plate. where is that option?
Do you mean the brim? If so, there should be a button for it on the top toolbar in Bambu Studio - just click on the model, and there should be an option to add a brim on the toolbar in Bambu Studio (I can’t upload any screenshots at the moment because I am on my school Chromebook, and do not have access to Bambu Studio)
yea i been tinkering with it…but i cant get it to make a big footprint, its just this really tiny zigzag barely an 1/8th of an inch around it. i wanted to do something like in the picture above.
You will need to use Orca Slicer if you want to be able to easily enlarge the brim of the support structure.
In Bambu slicer you will need to manually add a first layer the size of the part footprint so that it will generate a full layer with a brim under the supports.
well after 4 tries im giving up on ever printing a duderstadt class ship. Got up this morning to a ball of filament hair covering my plate. No matter what settings i tweek it just fails every single time. Thanks for all the help guys but im just gonna give up.
If you post the files on this thread, I’m sure someone will be able to get the right settings for you. Also, what nozzle are you using? (0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8)
well…did what you said…and this is boggling my mind. On my mini it works…see the pic…yet when i try it on my ship, no brim will appear…even when set to 70mm no brim whatsever. Am i still doin something wrong?
is anyone out there able to help me?
