Now they won’t be sticking to each other in odd configurations and rattling around in the drawer.

    • Gork@sopuli.xyzOP
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      Nope, plug and play. It’s a new printer. I’ve had a few print fails so far, mostly since I’m still learning all of this.

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        Ah, it’s new so it probably does the input shaping for you. There is probably some calibration step where it moves the head around and kind of twitches around a bit. Though modern printers can do calbration while printing.

        It builds a map of how the machine wobbles due to the mass of the print head moving and then slightly tweaks (“shapes”) the inputs it recieves to cancel out the wobbles. Without it, the layer lines would be slightly misaligned and that stands out when you’re printing flat vertical features.

        That’s a good quality print, you have it dialed in nicely.

        Speaking of neat festures, if you enable ironing in your slicer, it’ll do a slow pass over the top surfaces with a small amount of extrusion which will fill in areas on the surface where the adjacent layers didn’t quite fuse together, like above the #5 tube. It’s purely cosmetic, an alternative is to print “upside down” so the top surface of the print is textured from the bed.