![]() ![]() Then, because a smaller bore is also more restrictive, in some cases you might also have to slow down the linear print speed to get good control of the extruded filament.Īnd lastly, a smaller nozzle also means lower optimum layer heights. First of all, your extrusion track is less wide, so to fill out the same area on each 3D printed layer, it needs to cover a lot more distance than a larger one. With any smaller nozzle, your parts generally take longer to finish, but much more than the pure diameter change might suggest. It allowed you to print finer details than a. As a finer option, you had 0.35mm, but looking at the print time increase that came with and the generally lower print quality the machines used to be capable of, it was a far less popular option.īut when E3D released their first commercial hotend, they chose a 0.4mm nozzle as a happy medium – and because their v4 hotend was so far ahead of everything else, it quickly became the new, unchallenged standard. So to understand why we’re all using 0.4mm nozzles, maybe a little history, because it wasn’t always this way.īack in the early days of RepRap, the default was actually 0.5mm, which I guess was a result of the hotends from back then, which had a fixed, built-in nozzle, being mostly DIY jobs and. So get ready to replace your nozzle, I’m going to show you how this new slicer tech works and how much better and faster it prints. And of course, it’s still much faster at it. And, spoiler, with the newest generation of slicers, a 0.6mm nozzle can now print details at least as good if not better than what the default 0.4 used to be capable of. And to put my money where my mouth is, I switched to a 0.6 on the printer I use the most and tried to see how it stacked up. Honestly, I think it’s the wrong choice for pretty much every application that it’s being used in and you would be better off using a 0.6. But why is it always a 0.4mm bore? Surely with all the different applications these printers are made for, it can’t just be a one-size-fits-all choice. ![]() And the nozzle is one of the core things that make a 3D printer work. But they all share one thing in common: A 0.4mm nozzle. They look like they’re machines that are made for vastly different jobs, based on how they’re built and what they’re capable of. I´ve used dozens of different 3D printers over the years. Are you still using a 0.4mm nozzle? You probably shouldn’t be! ![]()
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