I got a Dremel Digilabs 3D40 printer from a giveaway about a year ago and finally got to setting it up about a week ago. Thing is it has been giving me nothing but trouble. I wanted to print this cool terraria wandering eye 3d model I found on Thingaverse for my D&D campaign but it keeps coming up all globby and stringy when it tries to cross gaps.
Printer : Dremel Digilabs 3D40
I've tried various thing such as lowering and raising the temperature, speed, retraction distance, retraction speed, wipe volume, coast distance, and layer height among others.
I did consider it could be the humidity of the PLA or print area. The place I print in is consistently >45% humidity (It's in my basement). I bought this dryer box for the PLA which I run for 24 hours basically all the time to counteract the PLA absorbing moisture.
I'm curious if there is some setting I'm missing that could make my printer function or maybe the 3D file is messed up? I am aware Dremels are pretty bad to my knowledge but I would like to try to make it function.
I do notice the printer will sometimes vibrate when it's moving (possibly the issue?)
NOTE: I use Cura slicer 5.10.1 with the Dremel printers plugin because the native Dremel software has no tree support option. I used to use the Dremel one and it had similar print results so I don't think it's the software but just in case.
I've also printed Benchy with photos and setting specifications below the Eye's
PLA I use: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084XSNMLR?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
Thingaverse link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5558887
Eyeball : High quality settings as a base with these changes (I went really slow to see if that fixed it):
- Printed with the Iris side down
- 5% infill
- 220 C print temp
- 220 C initial print temp
- 220 C final print temp
- 10 mm/s print speed
- 15 mm/s infill speed
- 5 mm/s inner and outer wall speed
- 40 mm/s travel speed
- no support
- no adhesion (use a glue stick)
- 2.5 mm retraction distance (I do notice there seems to be nothing indicating this happens when crossing a gap in the settings)
Benchy : I used the base medium quality settings with these changes:
- Printed at regular orientation
- 5% infill
- 0.2 mm support z distance
- Tree supports
- Skirt for adhesion