Ultrafine detail Print  

RE: Ultrafine detail Print

Printer would have came with a .4mm nozzle, it will have three dots around the outside of the hex if you want to verify. I use a .25mm pretty often. I do need to recalibrate my Live Z when I switch nozzles. Make sure you use the .25 printer profile in the slicer also. I don't really change too much else, the defaults usually work fine for me, with your miniatures you may need to dial in the print settings closer.

RE: Ultrafine detail Print

@stephen-h14

Hi Stephen   I am confused.   The profiles in the Slicer software go from .3mm to .05 and it calls the ultrafine .05 mm.   I have been using .20 mm quality profile and my prints are comming out pretty good.  

RE: Ultrafine detail Print

Those values are the print layer heights not the nozzle sizes.  Don't confuse the two.

When you added your printer using the wizard initially you probably selected the default which would have been for the 0.4mm nozzle.  You can add the printer again using Configuration >Configuration Wizard but this time when selecting the printer tick the nozzle size you want to add/use.

That will add new profiles for the new nozzle(s).

RE: Ultrafine detail Print

Think of the profile sizes (0.2, 0.15, etc) as the vertical (z) resolution, but the nozzle diameter is your horizontal (x,y) resoltion. You really can't print features sharper than the nozzle diameter (well, technically this should be extrusion width, so no feature sharper than a 0.225mm radius (half of the default 0.45mm extrusion width)).

In order to get finer features in the horizontal, you need to get a smaller diameter nozzle. In order to get a smoother profile vertically you need to use a smaller layer height.