I ordered some “marble” filament from Geeetech brand, on Aliexpress. The reviews are good, from what I’ve seen.
I would like to know what are the best settings for this type of filament on my Bambu A1 mini? Nozzle, speed, temperature, etc.
Can I use the default settings of the “Bambu marble” filament on the slicer?
This filament is intended to print busts created with makerLab “Create my statue”.
Thanks in advance!
Assume it is PLA, generic PLA will likely be all you need.
You could go to the lengths of calibration, but, unless you have problems, that isn’t necessary.
Make sure the filament doesn’t have any abrasive properties to create the marble effect, many don’t.
If it does, be aware it may cause wear on your hot end nozzle and you may need a hardened steel version.
Bambu’s setting might be too hot.
Use the Generic PLA setting but increase the temp 5*-10*.
You shouldn’t have to change anything else.
All of the the above (slice gen pla what I use as well default nothing changed.) + hardened steel nozzle installed or your normal one will wear out after a single roll of filament.
Not worth the hassle of ruining your nozzle so make sure to buy a hardened steel one before starting printing any abrasives! (glow, marble, wood, carbon fiber etc)
are u guys talking about marble filamment
a saw one on aliexpress
does it wear the nozzle
How’d this turn out? I’ve been wanting to try some marble filament but’ve been too scared to mess with anything
Please read what people write. We seem to be repeating daily eh?
Hardened steel nozzle or you will ruin your regular one. No problems with any filament. The end.
This was marble dollar store no name 8 year old roll with a 04 HS nozzle and 016fine settings using GenPla.
Have fun printing!
You really don’t need a Hardened Nozzle.
Marble PLA is just all PLA, the black specks are PLA.
Sorry - This is incorrect advice and you will ruin someone’s hotend for 12$.
Marble IS abrasive.
You need a hardened or you will ruin the stainless over time - I know I’ve done it on alt printers and ruined those as well.
It depends on how the Marble effect is created, most of the time it is coloured pigments of PLA.
As noted by @lion7718, this is the most common style.
Sometimes the company chooses an abrasive material, yet it is less common in more recent filament offerings, with older filaments often including abrasives.
The marble filament offered by BL does not include abrasives and no hardened steel nozzle is recommended.
Nozzle compatibility
Hotend with Hardened Steel Nozzle 0.4 mm / 0.6 mm / 0.8 mm
Hotend with Stainless Steel Nozzle 0.4 mm
I like the recommendation, and I agree that a hardened steel nozzle is strongly recommended for all printers because it lasts longer and will better deal with filaments that people may not be aware have additives.
Yet, if you only print plain PLA or Marble from the last couple of years, then the hardened steel nozzle isn’t required.
I’ll take a note @MalcTheOracle , I had not thought of them moving away from the old style additive abrasives to coloring instead.
I’ll actually check any new marbles that I buy, I just looked and yeah - I based my assumptions off all my rando spools here marked clearly that there are chunks hehe.
Noted thanks!
@malctheoracle
I bought a spool of marble PLA from Microcenter (inland brand) a few months ago and that was abrasive. It ruined my nozzle after only half the spool. I honestly will still buy it though because I have a hardened nozzle now and I think the abrasive ones look way better since the colors don’t blend at all.
Weird, I said that.
Weird, that Marble filament was from “the last few years” and hardened steel is still needed .
Context is king, yet so often ignored.
This runs onto this.
Did I say all, no, did I talk about BL filament, yes, does that have abrasives, no, has it been around for a couple of years, yes, you see the pattern.
When you ignore the context and everything I said about “most” and “less common,” you then pretend that what I said meant something not written.
You can make many false statements/assumptions if that is your aim, those who read what is said, who do not have a desire to reframe things to suit a position, understand what I wrote.
The result with the “Geetech” filament was very good.
I do not know if it is abrasive or not, I used a hardened head anyway. They are not expensive…
