I just got my A1 a month back so I’m new to 3D printing. I got some Elegoo PLA Silk silver and I’ve been experimenting how to get it shiny (pretty sure their vase in their product info is false). I got it pretty shiny, but I used a little skull from a skeleton model as a test object. I printed one out of eSun PLA+ and it looks almost perfect. When I print with the silver it’s getting a big messed up place on the brow of the skull. It almost looks like the tip caught there and dragged. In my tests for to get the best shine, I’ve printed two and they both have that blemish, but the eSun is smooth. I just don’t have enough experience to diagnosis it so any help would be great!
With the pic only, I can only speculate. But it looks like it occurs in a low angle area with “ensure vertical thickness” checked?
Then it may be the result of edge curling.
That can be reduced by drying the filament and lowering layer height or using lesser constraints on “ensure vertical thickness”, the latter risking holes in the slice though.
What is the hotend temp…??
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That can be reduced by drying the filament and lowering layer height or using lesser constraints on “ensure vertical thickness”, the latter risking holes in the slice though.[/quote]
Yes “ensure vertical thickness” was checked.
I used the Bambu PLA Silk profile so it was 230 degrees according to the settings.
new user here, made a few prints with different filaments. The only one I had issues with so far is this exact same PLA Silk Silver from Elegoo. I was printing a poop box, nothing fancy
the others Elegoo I used worked well, same with bambu’s
a bad batch maybe?
The other day on a whim I looked at the Elegoo recommendations and noticed the spool sticker said 220 degrees. The Bambu PLA Silk preset has the temps at 230 degrees. I Googled a little and some people said to just use the Generic PLA Silk profile, which is 220 degrees. I printed the same little skull and it came out a lot better with only a minor defect on the brow. I’m going to play around with the settings a little more, but I think that’s the problem.
To get the Generic PLA Silk profile, you have to look on the left side of Bambu Studio, go down a little to “Filament” and there’s a gear symbol to the right of the tool bar that, if you hover on it, says “Set filaments to use”. In there you have to enable that profile.