Posted by: @diem

Bobstro's website, with a great many 3D printing articles, is preserved at: https://muppetlabs.co/index.html

@cwbullet is hosting it and a couple of us here are holding backups - Bobstro, typically,  did some organising when he knew he wouldn't be able to continue.

RIP.

Cheerio,

@cwbullet is hosting it and a couple of us here are holding backups - Bobstro, typically,  did some organising when he knew he wouldn't be able to continue.

RIP.

Cheerio,

Btw. i got an idea and his work is still available at time machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20230315050943/http://projects.ttlexceeded.com/3dprinting_techniques_calibrating_filament.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20230315050942/https://projects.ttlexceeded.com/3dprinting_techniques_calibrating_retraction.html

Posted by: @bobstro

I've put together detailed notes here on eliminating stringing with PrusaSlicer that should help you get this done easily. I haven't had the chance to go back and re-work these lessons into Cura and Simplify3D settings as I've found that PrusaSlicer now incorporates most of the features that kept me going back to the others. That, combined with the Mk3's direct drive extruder and you can ignore a lot of the stringing issues that plague other printers.

@bobstro 

Hi, i came to your post and i am facing same issues. I found stringing tuning test generator based on Simplify3D and comapring to Prusaslicer i am getting much better results.Unfortunatelly your link http://projects.ttlexceeded.com/3dprinting_techniques_calibrating_filament.html is not working anymore. Any chance you can repost it?Thank you

Great website. I'm using my Utube site for all my learnings. Likewise an IT buff with a lot of experience across the board. Ex-RAF technician and little-boy who loves to take things apart. Now I'm imparting my skills across to my son and we're building model planes using FDM and FFF methods. Markedforged look an interesting company. I have one of their key-fob samples in 3D printed carbon fibre. Their MetalX technology looks good. Once the speed of these technologies comes up, manufacturing will never be the same.

Dont understand that Prusa themselves dont have stringing problems. I wonder about their profile settings. Or perhaps tuning for no stringing has drawback in other areas...

Once you've settled on a specific filament, getting rid of stringing is pretty straightforward. Since Prusa produces their own filament that they know is exactly 1.75mm and 1.0 extrusion multiplier, life is easy. It's when you throw other variables into the mix -- including things like moisture absorption -- that life gets more interesting.

btw great site  bobstro, going to have a read trough.

Thanks! Glad it's useful.