I recently printed a model of a hand holding a sword. The overall print quality looks good, but the sword itself is very fragile and breaks easily. I suspect this might be partly due to using Silk PLA, since I wanted that metallic finish, but I’m not sure if the material choice is the main issue.
Does anyone have tips on how I can make the sword stronger? Would changing materials, adjusting print settings, or reinforcing the design help?
I would suggest looking at the “inside” of the sword after you sliced it in Bambu Studio. Maybe it is just very thin, so I would certainly select “detect thin wall”, and maybe raise the wall thickness to 3 or 4.
As far as I can see, the “sword” is oriented along the Z axis, so it is “naturally” fragile. The question, of course, is what exactly is meant by “fragile” here, because it can mean many things… from “cannot be removed from the build plate at all” … to “cannot withstand normal use/display on the wall” … to “cannot be used in real combat”…
By the way, it’s not just the sword that’s wrong, the hand/fist/fingers holding it don’t look quite normal to me either…
Back to question - I’m no expert, but to make it stronger, I’d use the modifier for “sword” and set 100 walls or smtng like that, but I don’t think it will overcome the “Z-axis curse” too much… or change the orientation of the model if possible.
