Ultimaker3

Works Sculpture DigitalSculpture 3dPrinting

This Much I Know

1. PLA is:
   
   1. brittle, don’t drop it
      
   2. moisture in your PLA filament roll is real
      
      1. here [1] [2] are some things to be done about it.
         
   3. melty. don’t run it under very hot water or anything like that.
      
2. http://thingiverse.com is amaazing. contribute to it when you can.
   
   1. useful things
      
      1. filament clips [3]
         
      2. dessicant containers that fit in the center of rolls [4]
         
      3. filament dryer [5]
         
         1. I actually made this and it works very well. solved my printing problems, especially with the PVA. Now I dry the filament I’m going to use for several hours before I start printing.
            
3. https://www.youmagine.com is good too (more ultimaker centric?)
   
   1. useful things
      
      1. door hinges [6]
         

would be useful to get

• tank with a water pump to help loosen the PVA faster.
• rock tumbler make shining metal prints easier, so they say.
  

Error messages and what to do about them

• '''Difference between detected height of both PrintCores exceeds realistic values'''
  

Works Sculpture DigitalSculpture 3dPrinting

FILAMENT LIST

Brand	Type	Color/Special Properties	Obseravtion
Ultimaker
	PLA	white	awesome. love the matte-ness of it, looks a lot like plaster. I’ve not had a print fail with this material
	PP	clear	a bit tricky to print with but once it works it’s a cool material. flexible and a bit squishy and soft feeling. I printed at about 210[7]
	PLA	black	too shiny for my purposes. reminds of black garbage bags, in a bad way.
	PVA	natural	hard when printed but dissolves in water. Used as structure material in 2nd extruder allowing for otherwise impossible prints with extreme overhangs and curves with no marks on the print afterward.
Polymaker
	PLA	natural	my fave PLA. easy to print with. translucent and has a reminder of something organic, to me.
Colorfabb
	PC-NGEN	LUX gold	very sparkly and pretty! looks more gold than yellow.
	PC-NGEN	white/black/gray	i found it stringy and melty. experiment with printing at lower temp?
	PLA/metal	Bronzefill	need to try it on something serious.
	PLA/metal	Copperfill	i have a sample, to be tried.
	PLA/wood	Corkfill	My favorite wood filament thus far. Dark wood color. Easy to sand and if oiled it looks a lot like real wood.
Form Futura
	PLA/metal	Metalfil Ancient Bronze
	PLA/stone	Stonefil Terracotta	nice and heavy and rough as terracotta. color is fairly uniform. tried sanding it with mixed results. check temperatures carefully.
LayFilaments			pretty much always: lower temps (+/-140-160°) are better. low heat bed, 80% print speed of PLA, 110% flow rate: gives very clean lines.
	WAX	Moldlay	FAQ print at 170 – 180° C, heated bed max. 40°C treat your mold at ~ 270°C in an old baking oven only the wax flows restless out the mold, similar as hot paraffin
	PLA/stone	Laybrick	heated bed necessary @50+/-, print temp: 140-165°C to get smooth, higher temperatures (from 210°) will print rougher surfaces, slicing: object fill max. 25% the filament is brittle under 20°C, heat it and it´s bendable
	Wood	Laywoo-D3	[8] print at 160 – 210° C (tree rings if you play with temp.) Use the larger nozzles to avoid clogging
	Felt	Layfelt	[9] to be tried.
	PVA		to be tried.
Orbi-Tech
	PET	clear	print very high @232°, bed at 100°. don’t like it as much as PP. stringy, hard to get good lines. quite rigid but you can squeeze it a little bit when printed hollow.
	PVA Advance	natural	so far my favorite dissolvable filament. Dissolves fast even in cold water.
TreeD
PLA/stone	Dark Stone	dark gray	print at @230°, bed at 100°. It tries to lift off the bed so use strong glue. Has good detail and is very matte. print NO FAN specifications[10]
PLA/clay	Clay	pink	print at @220°, bed at 100°, fan on
PLA/stone	Sandy	tan	print at @230°, bed at 100°, fan OFF or it forms cracks
fillamentum
PLA	Gold Happens	sparkly yellow gold	this is just PVA but I love the color. The best gold filament so far.