I wanted to print a test first to see how stable the hook is. The hooks are printed on a plate and have to withstand a lot because a heavy object is hanging from them.
I printed two tests on the X1C with PLA, once with 0.28mm layer thickness/DRAFT and 25% infill and once with 0.16mm layer thickness/High Quality and 100% infill.
As you can see in the picture, the filling has a bad connection to the plate and the outer area has no connection at all. The hooks came off almost as easily as the support structure.
Does anyone have any idea what I need to do with the print settings to get a really good, complete and force-fitting connection between the hook and the plate?
Your description is hard to visualize as to what the end objective is supposed to be. You use the word “Hook” are you referring to a two-part assembly? Without being able to see the end objective, it’s hard to understand what you’re trying to achieve.
It would answer a lot of questions if you could share a screengrab of what the model looked like before and after slicing. It would also help if you had an image showing what the end product is supposed to look like. If this is a two-part assembly, from what I see, there is insufficient structure to the model itself. Is this something you did in CAD? Are you expecting two parts to simply plug in together or is what we are looking at is a printed part that has broken apart under weight?
Uploading the 3MF file would greatly increase the probability that the community could offer suggestions.
