Well, color me stupid. Today I discovered something called Flow Control. From my reading it seems to be the amount of filament that comes out of the nozzle, regardless of how much the extruder pushes into the hotend. Of course I assume there's a link between these 2 things but, apparently they're not actually the same thing.
I found an article that referenced a bottomless & topless box (basically a fence) that's supposed to have walls that are 0.8mm thick when printed. If the walls are too narrow the Flow Control needs to be increased, and vice-versa for walls too thick. Mine were quite thin; around 0.5mm to 0.6mm.
A little more research led me to discover that PrusaSlicer 2.2, which I've been gravitating toward the past couple of weeks, calls Flow Control Extrusion Multiplier (it's located in the Filament item in the Filament tab).
My Extrusion Multiplier was set to 1, the default. I printed several test cubes, first with PETG, then with PLA. It turns out I need an EM of 1.85 for PETG and 1.70 for PLA. Using those values I was able to get walls very close to 0.80mm thick (0.79mm to 0.81mm).
I think that's pretty close. What do you guys think?
I found an article that referenced a bottomless & topless box (basically a fence) that's supposed to have walls that are 0.8mm thick when printed. If the walls are too narrow the Flow Control needs to be increased, and vice-versa for walls too thick. Mine were quite thin; around 0.5mm to 0.6mm.
A little more research led me to discover that PrusaSlicer 2.2, which I've been gravitating toward the past couple of weeks, calls Flow Control Extrusion Multiplier (it's located in the Filament item in the Filament tab).
My Extrusion Multiplier was set to 1, the default. I printed several test cubes, first with PETG, then with PLA. It turns out I need an EM of 1.85 for PETG and 1.70 for PLA. Using those values I was able to get walls very close to 0.80mm thick (0.79mm to 0.81mm).
I think that's pretty close. What do you guys think?
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