¶ Using Wear-resistant Nozzles
Due to the carbon short fibers and peeling short fibers in filaments, nozzles will wear during extrusion. After printing a certain amount of filaments, the nozzle diameter will increase, leading to a decrease in print quality. Therefore, it is necessary to replace nozzles with more wear-resistant materials. Hardened steel nozzles are usually chosen as print nozzles for fiber-reinforced filaments.
¶ Drying filaments and Keeping Dry During Printing
Since nylon filaments easily absorb moisture from the environment, printing with wet filaments will cause serious stringing. Therefore, it is usually necessary to dry the filaments before printing and keep them dry during printing.
- Drying Filaments: Use a filaments dryer or thermostaticdrying oven to dry the filaments according to the manufacturer's instructions.
- Saving filaments during printing: Use a filaments dryer to maintain low humidity during printing.
- Saving filaments when not printing: Store unused filaments in a sealed box or oven.
¶ Heated Bed Adhesion
We recommend using glass with a smooth surface and applying glue (or spray adhesive) as the printing bed surface. This will ensure sufficient adhesion to guarantee a high printing success rate.
¶ Printing Parameters
The following are some key parameters for the filaments we tested, and we also provide print configuration files that can be directly imported into Luban.
- Softwear: Luban v4.6.3
- Machine: Snapmaker J1 (parameters similar to Artisan, can be used interchangeably)
- Filament manufacturer: Polymaker
| Filaments | Printing Temperature / Bed Temperature | Retraction Distance | Retraction Speed | Printing Speed | Travel Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA6-GF | 280 ℃ / 50 ℃ | 1.5 mm | 30 mm/s | 60 mm/s | 200mm/s |
| PA6-CF | 280 ℃ / 50 ℃ | 1.5 mm | 30 mm/s | 60 mm/s | 200mm/s |
| PA12-CF | 260 ℃ / 50 ℃ | 1.5 mm | 30 mm/s | 60 mm/s | 200mm/s |
| - | - | - | - | - | As fast as possible |
| Filaments | PA6-GF | PA6-CF | PA12-CF |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material Settings | pa6-gf.def.json | pa6-cf.def.json | pa12-cf.def.json |
| Printing Settings | normal_print_(pa-fiber).def.json |
It should be noted that the printing temperature and heated bed temperature of different filaments will be quite different, please read carefully the recommendations provided by the filaments manufacturer.
¶ Result
