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PLA TempTower 220 190°C

5axes edited this page Aug 22, 2023 · 8 revisions

This part is used to print a tower, printed with a different temperature setting for each floor. To help you to change these temperatures a postprocessing script is provided in this Plugin to easily define this tower.

PLA TempTower 220 - 190°C

SCAD Model PLA TempTower 220 - 190°C

PLA TempTower 220 - 190°C

Based on a design proposed by stoempie, freely adapted by 5@xes 2020. Licence for the TempTower : CC BY-SA 3.0, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2493504

Associated Postprocessing Script

TempFanTower.py

Settings in the script for a Layer Height : 0.16 (Initial Layer Height : 0.2)

Settings Script TempTower PLA

Note

After the use of the Postprocessing Script, don't forget to remove it for your next project !

Printing Conditions

 - Nozzle Size : 0.4
 - Layer Height : 0.16
 - Initial Layer Height : 0.2
 - Line Width : 0.4
 - Wall Line Count : 3
 - Top/Bottom Thickness : 0.8 mm
 - Enable Bridge Settings : True
 - Use adaptative layers : False

Printing Time = 1h28mn

Note : Take care that the option Use adaptative layers is not active in your profile !

Results

The goal is to choose the highest temperature possible that doesn't produce artifacts.

First, you have to analyse the tower. Each floor has the according temperature written on it.

Notes

Check that the option Use Adaptive Layer is not active. Since release 1.2.4 when a Tower Model is used, the plugin checks if this parameter is not set. If the parameter is set to true then the value is changed and a message is displayed :

Message adaptive

This model has been designed to be printed with a 0.4 Nozzle. If you want to use the same model, with a bigger nozzle you can do it by activating the option "Remove all holes" in the Mesh Fixes section. As many users are opening an issue for that, since release 1.2.5 this parameter is automaticaly activated for this model if your nozzle size is bigger than 0.4mm . In this case an information message is displayed in Cura :

Message adaptive

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