Dear Community,
I am trying, just for fun, to convert the print below from PAHT-CF to ABS. The PAHT-CF material is awesome, and the print turns out brilliantly despite printing with no supports but just a small brim where the four “feet” touch the build plate.
I am sure the ABS will not be as strong as the Carbon Fiber filament, but I have a full roll of red Bambu ABS I ordered with my P1S and would like to try to print a viable pod in another color just to stand out from the other quads on the race line. Also, I would like to learn from the conversion so I can apply the lessons to learn what you need to do to be able to print models in a variety of materials.
Below are a couple examples of the black CF pod that has printed perfectly three for three attempts. Also, I included a failed ABS attempt. I tried once with no support which flat out failed to make the necessary bridge. The second attempt with support resulted in an ugly model with supports that were a struggle to remove and left the underlying model with a horrible surface.
Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions, I am looking forward to hearing from and learning from the members of this great forum and community.
Basically, alI you have to do is change the filament type in the dropdown menu.
Thanks for your reply. I’m pretty sure I did that but I am going to try again to make sure I didn’t miss that step. I’ll repost after I get a chance to try.
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Dry and calibrate your ABS, roughly the same methods to print with barring a bit more heat on the plate for the ABS. I find ABS relatively forgiving once you have your first success, its one of my faves to print with.
Thanks for your reply. I tried a couple more times last night and got some pretty good results. I found slowing everything down 20% and lowering hot end temp to 260 from 270 gave me good results. Regular supports gave me the best surface but were a bear to remove where tree supports came away easily but did not leave such a good surface. Also I studied and applied support and no support painting and applied it to the model.
After all this I have to say that PAHT-CF is amazing in that no supports were needed at all and the model came out looking amazing with no post printing fixing up needed. It needs to come in more colors though!
Since I have a couple good test models now I think I am going to give acetone smoothing a shot. Just need to set up a space in the outdoor fresh air to try it.
The filament has nothing to do weather it needs supports or not it’s the model.
If you can print it with PAHT-CF with no supports, you should be able to do the same with ABS.
Thanks Lion. I am drying my abs as we speak after that I will run a calibration and then give it another shot to print without supports. Stand by for results!
Let it dry for about 12 hours & print from the dryer if you can.
I have the Creality single roll drier. I don’t remember where I read it but I heard it has an issue when trying to print from the drier.
Sorry if this sound very basic but the model has to be re-sliced after the filament change.
Thanks and a point that could be easily overlooked. I just woke up here in California and as soon as I shuffle the wife off to work am going to fire up the printer, calibrate the filament, and try for the third time to print a model without supports per lion7718’s advise.