Started printing my CC1 CANVAS tophat. Not expecting delivery until late June but I might as well get things ready. https://www.printables.com/model/1703581-elegoo-centauri-carbon-1-canvas-top-cover-riser/files
So… Recently I learned that I’ve been using a 50 micron (0.05mm) layer height for resin prints, instead of the much more “commonly suggested” value of 35, or even 30. I did some test calibration prints yesterday with some new Sunlu “ABS-like” resin, as well as the clear “Standard” Elegoo resin I got with the printer. Came out pretty much spot on with the community settings I found via Lychee. I tried adjusting the exposure time down just a tad for the Sunlu resin, but ended up making it worse… I’ve got a day off tomorrow (‘cos election results, innit), so I’m looking forward to seeing what it can do. My office stinks of resin now though… I have not, not yet. I do plan to though, once I’ve got the resin printer a bit more dialled-in. I’m curious as to just how good my printer can get. In terms of settings, I’ll be using whatever profile settings are in QidiStudio - it’s the modified version of Orca Slicer that Qidi maintains for their printers. It’ll almost certainly be a 0.08mm layer height, that’s the smallest resolution that’s realistically workable for a 0.4mm nozzle. I already know that it’s not going to get anywhere near the resolution of a resin printer, and I’ve no desire to go mucking about with speed & acceleration values and all the other re-calibration that comes along with that. A smaller nozzle size will help more than hours of testing & calibration.
Think I might join you after work. I've got a full roll of PETG available. My CANVAS is in the first batch, so might arrive as soon as Monday.
ahh, yeah I’m just tying bits with it. Currently the one print I tried at 0.1mm layer, it didn’t seem to like. Just nothing came out. Maybe not enough extrusion. But can’t be arsed sorting right now. There’s other prints I want to do.
Fixed my last few posts. I didn't know the albums had privacy settings, and I'm never really awake when I post here.
Had a go with little Jago from KI, fig.. looks bad but didn't fail catastrophically like i thought it would. The model itself I don't think is very... 3D-Print oriented. It doesn't have its own base so shoved something in myself, and tinkercad only takes 300,000 faces, max 25MB. The original model file was like, 120MB and 2million faces. PLA 0.12 layer height. 0.2 first layer. 0.4 Nozzzzzzzle. Took about 8/9hrs I tried to do the print at 0.08 layer height. But found it just wasn't extruding anything. So guess have to work out some sort of calibration for that low a layer height. I do have some 0.2 and 0.6 nozzles, so might try the 0.2 and see what that does to things.
Lost my first hot end on my CC1. The printer just shut off completely, mid-print. Had to unplug it and leave it for a minute before it would power on again. That's when I got a blob of death and hot end anomaly error. So I cleaned up what I could and removed the nozzle and I felt something moving as I squeezed the silicone sock - the ceramic thermistor was cracked and loose. Ah well, I have plenty of 0.4 hot ends, so no biggie. Just annoyed it happened two hours into a print.
<Oof! emoji> In other news, I've just started build plate #4 of 6 (and my 2nd roll of PETG) on the CANVAS lid for my own CC1. I think there's maybe 1.5-2m left out of roll #1 from 28.5hrs of printing so far, around 30.5hrs to go.
I still have the top corner pieces and the canvas cover to print. Just started on the canvas cover pieces. Doing the corners in grey and the rest in black. If you don't fancy cutting acrylic to size, I found some on Amazon at 205x255x3mm, which should be perfect. It's around £15 for the three sheets, but I'll happily wear that in lieu of pissing around.
He had a go at 3d printing a Noctua fan. Spoiler: For those that can't be bothered to watch it. It was worse than the original.
I got the OP-linked sheets in the week, I can cut them in work. In other news, my canvas has SHIPPED!!! It was collected from Elegoo's UK fulfillment warehouse at 5:30pm yesterday (Sat 09/05/2026 future peeps) So it should be in my hands before the last parts of the hat pop off the CC1's build plate.
Speaking of... Printing the top corner posts now, but the bottom ones look decidedly meh in this light - they were printed on the old hot end though, so I'm wondering how the new ones will fare. Doesn't need to be pretty though - as long as it all fits. I have put a serious dent in my PETG stock. I tweaked the model and increased the walls and infill% so it's using a fair bit more, mind. I dried a reel of black while the first grey parts printed and that reel of black is gone, but I dried another reel while that one was being devoured; then I dried a second reel of grey as the first reel is about to run dry and I'll have to do another swap. Maybe 2.5kg total. [edit] Nope. 3kg. I **** you not, this shelf was full three weeks ago. Christ, it wasn't far off just three days ago.
Well, it's finished (apart from the acrylic panels). You can see the lighter band in the corner posts where the filament ran out while I was grocery shopping and it cooled considerably before I could change reels and resume. Meh, if I cared about that kinda of thing I wouldn't have printed in at .28 layer height. I'm pretty happy with the result tbf.
Jealous of these nice big things you guys are getting off ;D haha. I'm apprehensive at the moment to start the longer prints after its failed a few times to complete some. But heres a Benchy i've done... not done one before. Along with measurements. Seems the overhang is a struggle for mine. And other bits but need to work out how to decipher them. I did this from the 3D printer SD Card directly, as I tried twice with OctoPi (on Pi) and they failed. Just stopped at some point in the print. Can't find a reason. Does anyone know a way to log the Pi itself - as I think it might be that, not OctoPi - could be restarting or something. Just a way to constantly log and if it shuts down, send the log to somewhere for me to see easily. I thought there would be a system log file... but (in one of the images below, none of these files show anything...).. But first.. Benchy boi
Still having problems getting the printer to play nice on overhangs - but I have successfully printed in TPU, which is happy-making. Sunlu PLA+ 2.0 for the clip, TPU for the strap - it's a rotor holder thing for the DJI Lito 1/X1, which for some reason DJI didn't think to provide. Had to adjust the size of the strap - 10% thinner, 2% narrower, same length - to get it to actually fit through the hole, so this is actually the *second* thing I've printed in TPU, technically! I'm not alone!
Did another copy of Dukat, this time with Sunlu “ABS-like” at 30 micron (0.03mm): Still a bit “crispy” here and there, but that might be over-curing on my part. And any crimes are almost certain to be hidden when a miniature is painted - those photos are zoomed in quite a lot, coke can for scale: Also tried the “clear” Elegoo resin I got with the printer… Either the exposure is way off, or this resin is a little past its shelf life! I’m currently printing the first thing I actually want to print, instead of test prints: Going to take a few batches to get through all that…! The worst is actually the flag section; at 30 micron, that’s going to be a 17hr print… The same creator also has a bunch of other character models I’d quite like to print, such as Aloy from Horizon: Zero Dawn and Karlach from BG3: Karlach was part of a “starter set” I got for signing up to the Patreon, but I’d have to pay for Aloy.
