So following my little jam issue, the printer seems to be running smoothly again, albeit 5 degrees hotter than before :p
Now I have one last issue. I've all the main parts of my building printed, ie, floors, walls, stairs etc etc. All thats left is this major nightmare of a facade. It's REALLY intricate, and I've tried a few things to print it well, but to no avail. This is as much about how I'll split up the model as it is the printer itself.
This is the facade:
Now, I have to print this at 1:500 scale, which means that if i take just the front section, in Repetier, it looks like this:
So, here's the issues. The whole facade is curved. No part of it is flat. Even that tiny piece needs a big raft, which is a problem. On normal quality, the walls of the facade are too thin, and break apart when I try to separate the facade. When I try High quality, the raft is too dense, and although the facade is thicker, the same problem happens. I've also tried production, but that was the worst. I've tried smaller parts with no support, and it's not been so good either. The only thing I haven't tried, mainly cos it's a last resort is to print each column of cells without the support on high quality, and then glue them together after.
The problem is the facade, if you took a vertical section through it when it's flat like in repetier above, is curved, so it would need a raft on the left and right.
What I'm just wondering is if anyone here has any tips on how I might be able to solve this, whether it's to do with chopping up the model differently, or maybe something in settings. One thing I've noticed is that on normal quality, instead of filling in the walls, it just prints them as two lines, with a small gap, ~0.5mm between them. A raft on normal quality with denser walls might just do it, but the configuration for any of the slicer settings is so confusing that I wouldn't know what I'd be looking for.
Any suggestions? Also, hand making it is not an option
