Seams in prints - Please Help!
Hey everyone!
I've been getting some solid prints out of my new Prusa Mini+, but I keep encountering these strange seams whenever I print something that's slightly rounded.
If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks!
Turn
Turn the print and see if you still get them. You will always geat seam - the location might change.
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Chuck H
3D Printer Review Blog
No solution?
So no matter what I change I'll always have seams in my print?
RE: Seams
So no matter what I change I'll always have seams in my print?
Yes, you will always have seams, but you can change to position and you can make them less pronounced.
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Chuck H
3D Printer Review Blog
Seam can't be eliminated, but can be reduced
As @cwbullet notes, the seam is a fact of life with FFF printing. Unless you're printing in vase mode, each layer has to start and stop somewhere. You can hide it in corners or on the back of a print, but with rounded prints with no such corners, the best you can do is reduce it. I've found that calibrating my extrusion multiplier for each filament makes a big difference in how prominent the z-seam is. I can at least get it down to where it's not as noticeable or can be easily sanded away. Here's a pic showing a typical result:
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RE: Seams in prints - Please Help!
The picture is my first print with the prusa mini +. There is a seam about 5mm or 3/16" up, all the way around my print. I have printed a few other things and the seam is on every print the same distance up. I am using prusament pla with the settings set on quality 1.5mm on prusaslicer. Any fixes?
