A question of terror?
So I've been working on printing my Snappy 3.1 printer, and I'm guessing I'm now about 50 hours into it. I was curious, how you guys "plate" your printer?
Do you load the print sheet up, and see how many hours you can get it to run without intervention?
Do you put as little on it as possible, incase it fails?
I personally like 8-12 hour prints. If it gets over 12 hours generally, I start to get worried about it failing!
I currently have 7 objects on my plate, that combined is 22 hours of print time. So if I really wanted, I could have "chopped" the plate into 3 very comfy prints. A 8-12 hour one. (ready for when I get up in the morning), and 2 shorter 5-6 hour prints.
I am however getting a touch cocky with my printer, as I have not had a single failure, my fault, or the printer, in the past 50 hours of printing.
(Due to the way Snappy needs to be printed, I am not touching the Slic3r profile at ALL, for the entire ~200 hour print)
So yeah. Do you guys just say "Ohh yeah, the longer the better!" or do you hedge your bets saying "The shorter the print time on the plate, the better!"
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Re: A question of terror?
So yeah. Do you guys just say "Ohh yeah, the longer the better!" or do you hedge your bets saying "The shorter the print time on the plate, the better!"
really that depends. for items i have printed before or items i don't think will fail, yeah, 24 hours or greater is fine. shorter prints are great but if i know it's not a tricky print, then yeah i will let it print.
Re: A question of terror?
I agree with Chris. It depends on what I am printing. I will print several low flat objects at the same time because there is a very small chance of one coming loose and ruining everything else.
If it is a tall object with a small plate area, then I am more likely to print them one at a time because there is a higher probability of one breaking loose.
Steve
Re: A question of terror?
I generally avoid long prints, in particular those that I cannot monitor. The only terror I worry about is a globby mess of filament stuck all over my extruder. I just don't want to go there. Thankfully Octoprint makes it a lot easier to walk away yet still check in periodically.
Re: A question of terror?
I generally avoid long prints, in particular those that I cannot monitor. The only terror I worry about is a globby mess of filament stuck all over my extruder. I just don't want to go there. Thankfully Octoprint makes it a lot easier to walk away yet still check in periodically.