Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
- Decided to dive head first after making a couple successful prints but when doing my first from scratch, don't understand the bed heat settings. I know the first layer should be 50c or about but then I seen a setting for after that and wasn't sure what to put as seems like you would want it cooler after the first layer? What would that setting normally be? Room temp? Thanks.
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Use default profiles if available for your filament. If not start with the generic profile, in your case generic PLA. Do not change anything unless you have a reason to do so.
The settings in the default print/filament/printer profiles are pretty good (except the support settings, imho, but that‘s a different story), always start with those…
generally: if you don‘t understand a setting, it‘s usually a good idea not to change it.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
Understand the pre-coded like the Batman logo and the little boat but my daughter purchased a stl file that I had to convert to gcode. I had to change a couple settings when converting and went to print and the heat bed never heated. Stayed at 25c. I believe the boat and other items went to about 50c but unsure if they stayed there as I never paid attention to that. So I went to change to 50 in slicer but noticed the additional line after that for future layers and had no idea if I had to keep at 50 for the entire print or lessen? Thanks.
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
You must be doing something fundamentally wrong. Let's try to figure out what it is.
he heat bed never heated. Stayed at 25c
All (I believe) of the PLA filament profiles supplied with PrusaSlicer heat the bed to 60 degrees, so if it didn't heat up in your case either it's a hardware problem (less likely) or somehow you did something inadvertently to the filament settings.
Go back to basics. Load the STL your daughter bought. Set the correct printer under Print Settings. Set the correct filament—in this case Generic PLA—under Filament.
If the problem persists, save the project from Prusaslicer's File menu as a 3mf file. Right-click on the file and compress it. Attach it to a post here. If you don't compress it, the forum software will silently reject it. This way we can see all your settings. If you're concerned about sharing the STL because it was bought, delete it from the project before you save it. We only care for the settings that are stored in the 3mf file.
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
Ok, the setting in the slicer was set to zero for first and additional layers. I changed it to 50/55 ( can't remember which ). Everything is fine I believe. As stated, changed the first layer but wasn't sure what the layers after the first I needed the heat set at. I contacted the maker of the file and he basically told me a few settings to use for speed, first layer pattern fill and percentage. The only question I had is what should the heat bed settings be for beyond the first layer? Will look at the 3mf fine and see what that says.
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
You should start by selecting preset profiles for print, filament and printer. It should look like this: (click picture)
Then you can change single settings like infill pattern ect. But at first just go with everything set on default. Do not change anything, just slice and print.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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PS: You do not have to look at any 3mf file. What fuchsr meant was: You need to save your project in PrusaSlicer and zip the resulting 3mf file and post it here so we can see what you did. Otherwise we can only guess...
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
Ok on the file. The owner of the project wanted me to switch patterns, speed and fill. So I did that and started to print and noticed the heat bed was only 25c which is basically room temp. So I was going back in and change the temp settings and they had a default of zero. So I'm really confused and tried doing this project once after many successful others but failed towards the end..grrr. Still looking.
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
The project developer got back to me and suggested to make sure the bed is heating to 60c during the entire process. I adjusted in Splicer and will see how it goes. Will post pic if successful or video of me hitting my head against the wall if it doesn't 😀 . Thanks to everyone and starting to get the hang of it. All you need is a bigger hammer 😀 .
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
Hey Kevinjo, as fuchsr pointed out: you are probably doing something fundamentally wrong. As long as you do not do as suggested: post your zipped project, I do not see a way to help you since nobody knows what you are doing (apparently including you). So, good luck and happy printing!
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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This nozzle temp doesn't show on the LCD display. Nozzle temp on the display stays at 25C even though I thought this change should show on the status of the LCD readout? Thanks.
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
One last try. As Robin and I have said, we can't help without seeing the actual 3mf file to have a starting point. Instead of sending a screenshot, go to File, save as 3mf, zip compress it, attach it here.
As above, we can do nothing without the .3mf file ... you can remove the model from the file but a picture of the expected result would be useful - or a link to the advertisement so we can get a better idea of what may be needed.
Cheerio,
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
Understand....think I got it...as expected..user error. Newbie and sorry. Let you know how it goes. Forgot to run the wizard..... where's the DUNCE CAP....grrr. Thanks!!!!!
RE: Slicer - Heat bed settings Shiney PLA
Thanks. After I ran the wizard, everything worked as planned. Thanks to all for helping. Nice to see people help each other. Have a great day.