A gyro ball! Second attempt succeeded but I am not too happy with the print quality. Too much hanging on the bridges. Bad quality PLA? Need a better fan setup?
Took 33h on an @Ultimaker at 0.06mm layer height at 50mm/s in Ultimaker’s red PLA.
A gyro ball! Second attempt succeeded but I am not too happy with the print quality. Too much hanging on the bridges. Bad quality PLA? Need a better fan setup?
Took 33h on an @Ultimaker at 0.06mm layer height at 50mm/s in Ultimaker’s red PLA.
Bridging can be challenging, what are your settings? Fan is good, slow speed is good, and perhaps printing at slightly lower temperatures helps. Apparently it’s also good to underextrude on bridges. What slicer are you using? Try the bridging torture test on thingiverse.
I am using Cura and printed at 215. I will try the torture test later today. Thanks!
Also, heard that the Ultimaker PLA isn’t really that good. It is the only one I have tried so far though.
I see you have some small “sticks” standing out at a ~45º angle. I’ve had that as well, and haven’t managed to get rid of it with that plastic. With another roll of PLA I have none of that. Ps, slower retraction could help bridges if your part has retract just before it prints a bridge.
Does it spin ? (after clean up)
It spins with manual help but not freely 
33h !!! I can see it would be frustrating not to have a perfect result. Running torture tests and tuning results might be good. I need to run a bridging test on mine.
Goodness… why 0.06? While I hardly venture below 0.25, the few times I have seen similar artifacts on the sides with lower layer heights. Why not try again at 0.1 or 0.15?
@Brian_Evans , I am not in a hurry
I might try again just to see the difference.
You just might get better results with 0.1 or greater. I never vent below 0.2 and im not in a hurry also. It just doesn’t make sense to me to go that low…but that’s just me I guess.
I clearly see a difference between 0.2 and 0.1 and some difference between 0.1 and 0.06.
Great print!
@Peter_Parnes
@Peter_Parnes Many times you get more artifacts and print failures by just printing for extended periods time. Plastic expands or retracts depending on what it is which is the source of most issues, let alone microstepping wonkiness. This is why amping your speeds with minimal effect to print quality should be the goal of any printer.
TLDR: Printing slower ≠ better quality.