I’m working on a silly bimaterial design using this filament! It’s gonna be a fried egg in a pan with the heavy stainless filament making the rim of the pan. Possibly brass yolk for the nub.
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What brand of filament did you use? I experimented with metal pla a while back - the filament clogged, snapped easily and it was difficult to get good layer adhesion.
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I ruined a $60 .4 mm revo obxidian nozzle with it before realizing it needed a .6mm or larger nozzle.
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Layer adhesion on it is great though. And the results look rougher than standard filament but still really good
This has been my last two days project. An Otrio set. I printed a travel board before my recent vacation and the family loved it so I made a full sized.
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Am I the only one here who absolutely can not abide visible layer lines? 
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If used aesthetically it’s fine but I would bite the bullet on time and set it to smooth the top layer if possible. (As in if it doesn’t mess with fit or anything)
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I would estimate that 99.9% of the time, layer lines are not an aesthetic goal for a printed part (and I’m not just talking about yoyos or counterweights, btw). They are undesirable artifacts of the printing technology.
They’re not my fave but they don’t really bother me. Do you have any tips for reducing them?
I print almost exclusively between 0.05 and 0.12 layer thickness to avoid the lines. Same.
See ya in in a day and some change maybe! I sliced the back off the shelf to save some time and weight. This is my inaugural print after installing a direct drive mod and mosquito hotend in the kobra max, so it’s gonna work and print fast or crash and burn.
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On the kasm from layer infinity I think they almost fit the personality of the yoyo. There aren’t any z seams so it looks clean and fits the brand aesthetic
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Layer lines kind of act like projection profile cuts to reduce friction as well.
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Printing in higher resolution or using a smaller nozzle can certainly help. The biggest issue is it creates a huge time-suck. A good middle ground for most people is optimal heights like 0.20 or 0.16 the quality is pretty good and the lines are quite minimal.
if you use something like ABS, you can vapor smooth it with acetone o remove the lines. There’s also Polysmooth by Polymaker that will let you smooth it with alcohol.
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I’ve used poly smooth and other PVB based filaments before. I like being able to alcohol smooth. It’s great for stuff like dnd minis, but unfortunately it’s not very strong so a yoyo made with it would be busted up quickly.
Oh quick edit to say it’s also really stinky. PVB smells nasty while printing.
Survey says…. Crash and burn. Missed inserting a square nut into the direct drive mount and the whole extruder took a walk. Rebuild and reprint.
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Yikes. But looking forward to seeing the finished display fully loaded 
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