World's Smallest Temperature Calibration Tower Test
The most teeniest and tiniest temperature tower ever!
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Really appreciated this as a nice way to take a second look between a few different temps with very little filament and time, especially if I lost/threw away the my original temp tower. Definitely not the most comprehensive temp tower, but I don't think it is setting out to be that.
Thanks, very handy when dealing with new filament to figure out the best temp to use.
I printed it but the temperature did not change. Am I supposed to manually change the temp as it goes?
@Lucky1_591793 which file did you use to print? The STL does not have temperature changes.
@OakBuffalo ok so I need to go into the slicer and set the temps. Got it. Thanks.
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@OakBuffalo Not really, no! I sliced the stl myself with Prusaslicer, added custom gcode for the temperature changes at the respective heights. The only trouble I ran into was forgetting to set my initial hotend temps to 220 for the first layer, so the 220 and 215 layer are both actually at 215.
The only thing I really discovered with my printer and Prusament PLA was that print layer definition looks marginally better and stringing was marginally better at 205. I haven't tried any destructive testing to see if layer adhesion is affected at the lower temp.
I would suggest (and may remix myself) that the tower levels be labeled "A" through "D" or something for other materials with different temperature ranges, and then the user could simply make note of what temps were selected for each level.
Thanks!
@zsmith35 great idea! I added the variant with A/B/C/D. :-)