How to create a Temperature Tower Test in Simplify3D
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2017
- Hey everyone! Today I wanted to make a quick video about how to create a temperature tower test in Simplify3D. A temp tower test is probably the best way to figure out the best temperature for each filament to get the best results. This is a fairly quick tutorial of how to set it up and what you should be looking for in the finished print to determine what temp you should be using. Hope it helps!
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Temp Tower: www.thingiverse.com/thing:236...
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I just purchased S3D and I'm new to the printing world. Thank you for both the video explanation and calibration tool :)
Thanks for this video man, I have been meaning to figure out how to do this recently and this video just fixed that. Thanks again!
I literally just did this last night... good video
Thanks man - so simple, but not well explained elsewhere. Sub'ed
Worked like a charm. Perfect Instructions. Easy to follow and such a time saver. Thanks so much!!!! Just swapped from hatchbox to Esun PLA and had no clue what to temp to print it at. 40 minutes later 210 seems to be the magic number and I'm up and running.
Glad it helped!
Good job shane. Another informative video. Keep them coming buddy.
Thanks!
Thanks for an excellent S3D process tutorial. In regards to temperature towers, it makes more sense to have the temperature increase for each section since that's much more controllable than decreasing it - nothing really controls rate of temp decrease.
True. You can always design a tower to support your idea. I just used one off thingiverse.
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Great vid. Thanks!!
Great thanks!
Hey Shane,
thanks a lot for this "Tutorial"!!
So i finde the perfect Settings for a nasty Role of Filament i bought earlier. *Thumb up*
Thanks for sharing. The simplify3d section was very clear. Is it fair to takeaway that this particular test told you the filament is best to print anywhere between 185 and slightly lower than 220? What ideal temp did you decide to use for the rest of the roll? Maybe the range needs to be larger to see where there filament performance is not acceptable. Thanks again.
There is no way to test an entire roll so this test is only so accurate. You would hope that the rest of the spool behaves the same way.
I picked this video because I am using Simplify3D, and this would be the easiest to follow. I think I did everything correctly as you showed in the video. I downloaded the same Temperature Tower from thingiverse, but my layer height was 40 instead of 50. No biggie, easy mod to keep up with. What stumped me though, is that when the tower finished printing, the whole tower, edges, faces, everything was perfect. There is no noticeable variations, ugly parts, sweet spot, nothing to let me think that THIS is the proper temperature to print this filament. I am working with PLA+ by the way. No clue what is going on. Maybe I just have a very forgiving filament that will print at any temperature? This is a good tool, but I am disappointed that I may have done something wrong, and printed the whole tower on one temperature without knowing. That is my only explanation that I can offer, though I am certain that I did everything correctly. Would love your input. Thanks for making a great video. Wish it worked for me though. Subbed.
Thanks for this video. Now please do one in Cura and help us evaluate based on this print what would be the best temparature for a filament just not based in the corners shape. Keep the good work.
I'll see if I can do that.
I did this but the temperature remained 225 all throughout the build? :(
Same with makerbot
I'm watching a 3D print using this technique for changing the temperatures on a test tower and I don't see the printer "waiting" for the temperature to stabilize prior to beginning printing the next level in the tower. It definitely started "heating up" to the 225C level but it didn't pause printing to wait for the temperature to stabilize. And yes, I have "Wait for temperature controller to stabilize before beginning build" checked.
My RigidBot Firmware has this message only at the beginning of the print, the continue to print normally as seen in the video.
I am not sure if having a firmware that stops the print is a good thing, because the stopped hotend may damage (melt) the current print.
To work well in theory you should have a clever slicer that in the gcode writes the following commands:
- retract the filament (in gcode)
- moves the hotend away in empty area (in gcode)
- set the new temperature (in gcode)
during the print the firmware will blocks everything after this gcode line and will wait the correct temp (we are in an empty area, and retracted to avoid oozing). Once at temp, the gcode continue to be executed.
- moves the hotend at the exact previous location.
- extrude the filament
- continue to print
I see very complex, and I think no slicers write this special gcode command sequence prior and after each temperature change.
Very nice tutorial, I've done it. I got the same result as you, I can't see any difference. The surface and the corners of the tower are the same, no change at any temperature. Every floor is the same.
So we have just proved that the temperature is not so important parameter at all, its 40*C (!) difference between the top and bottom of the tower. And it doesn't matter at all. This is a little surprising, and it would need more explanation.
I had the same exact result as you did. I am printing in PLA+, which started out really hating me until I just randomly tweaked with the bed and extruder temperatures until something would work. Not the most efficient route to take, for sure. I printed one of these towers out, and I am pretty sure that I did everything correctly. No changes on the entire tower. Everything is exactly the same from top to bottom, side to side. I am confused.
I do not have a 3d printer yet...but before i saw this...i was thinking a square tower would be good to check layers uniformity and stability of the z axis...and one can check the squareness to the bed and x to y
Yep it shows all that as well.
Well, i made this test as you described, but the finel print is all same from 220 to 180. There is no difference on the print.. Now what can i do ?
I would try to do an overhang test then that also changes temps. Try this one out. www.thingiverse.com/thing:2729076
What about in relation to fanspeeds? 0 or is there an 'ideal' range to be?
Depends on the filament. For PLA I have it set to 100% starting at layer 2.
just following your vid and i cannot find where in the settings it turns on the layer count, 1 of 401 in brackets.
I'm not sure what you mean. I showed how to make the changes in S3D.
I wish I knew how to just adjust the Temp to 210 and bed to 70, and leave it like that?
Why not use the variable settings wizard?
I did this with 3.1.1 so that didn't exist.
Hello. I have a Creality CR-10S,
I have a Creality CR-10S and use Simplyfy3D as software. I ordered new filament and wanted to use a Temp Tower now. I came across your video while doing so. If I take over the settings which are provided with this file, my program shows me a printing time of 37h. That can not be for such a small model. Can you please give me the settings here? I assume that this should not take longer than 15min.
Thanks a lot!
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What is your print speed?
Hi!
Where I can download this tower?
Here you go! www.thingiverse.com/thing:2365226
Thank you very much!
Damn and I thought I had bad hangnails lol. Thanks for the vid though!!
OK, now tell us how to make a flow rate tower. Every filament has it's own flow rate too. It's why Simplify3D has an extrusion multiplier function. It's just as important as temperature for dialing in filament.
Why would you print at 9mm/s (and vase mode)? That's not a realistic scenario. At least not for me.
Also, the temperature should INCREASE, not decrease...
6 of one, half dozen the other. It is personal preference how you set up the tower. The speed is set by S3D. You could disable the minimum layer time if you want to print faster. Again, personal preference.
5:50, Yeah 1.4mm of filament, not even a full arms width for most people.
Do we live in nano world or some?
I meant meter lol.
"It uses 1.4mm of filament" I think you mean 141mm