So get ready and\u00a0enjoy your next step forward towards expert 3D printing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You may think, ” I don’t have any issues with stringing. I will trim the strings and make the final part\u00a0<\/span>beautiful. Why should I spend some time for this setting?”<\/span><\/p>\n That’s OK \u00a0but if you want to print more precise parts and in larger quantities then the facts will be different.<\/span><\/p>\n Stringing creates and causes:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As the quantity and quality of the parts increase the above issues will show more meaning and importance.<\/span><\/p>\n Most of the people start 3D printing as a hobby and fine tuning doesn’t seem\u00a0important to them at the beginning. But as time goes they find themselves in a series of part manufacturing activities that concepts like Time, Material Economy and Quality become completely important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Suppose for example,\u00a010 3D printers are working and each one is supposed to manufacture multiple parts for different assemblies, a total of 100 parts.\u00a0I am sure you can imagine the amount of material, time and effort that would be wasted if we want to do the rework for trimming the strings from the parts.<\/span><\/p>\n That’s the beauty of this way. So enjoy this beauty !<\/span><\/p>\n There are a number of settings on your 3D Printer that help you prevent or reduce stringing. The most important ones are Retraction<\/strong> and Hot End Temperature. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We may be unable to avoid strings completely but as this picture shows we may have considerable improvements just by setting the Hot End temperature. So why should we ignore this valuable and effective setting?<\/span><\/p>\n In this post our focus is on finding the best temperature settings against this fault.<\/span><\/p>\n This beautiful picture (from Thingiverse.com ) is showing how the stringing could increase as the temperature of PLA goes up\u00a0from 180\u00baC to 240\u00baC.<\/span><\/p>\n Depending on the type and brand of the material this temperature range may change. So make sure that you do this setting again whenever you change your material. <\/span><\/p>\n It takes just a small amount of filament and time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the following video Anthony from the “Hot End<\/span><\/a>” youtube channel is showing a very interesting method of doing this setting using ” Processes” feature in “Simplify 3D<\/strong><\/span><\/a>” software.\u00a0He has designed a 3D model with\u00a04 columns that are close enough and could show the stringing behaviour easily and effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n The logic is that you define a number of processes for your 3D printer in which it prints a 10mm column with a certain temperatures starting from 220\u00baC.\u00a0Then the temperature drops for 5\u00baC and then prints another 10mm column on the previous one.These series of processes continue until you reach a temperature around 180\u00baC or 190\u00baC. By looking at the final printed columns you can decide about the optimum Hot End Temperature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I hope you enjoy this video and find it helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\nWhy should we prevent stringing?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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