Hey everyone.

I built an mk3s+ from its kit form successfully, tested a few PLA prints with the stock 0.4 nozzle.

I’ve set prusaslicer to use a 0.6 nozzle now that I’ve upgraded, and am using PETG. Prints look pretty bad, in spite of calibrating z-offset etc.

If you were doing something like this for the first time, what would your setup steps be like?

To be specific, using a diamondback 0.6 nozzle, matterhackers PETG at 235c.

Issues I’m seeing are a really bad loss of detail, lots of stringing, etc.

eta: added a photo of a moderately post-processed part. Notice how rough the top surface looks, there’s a disconnect between perimeter loops, etc.

  • Nilz@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    With diamondback nozzles you need to reduce the printing temp compared to what you had on your brass nozzle. I have the same exact setup as you, mk3s with 0.6mm diamondback nozzle and it’s working fine with stock settings but a bit lower temp . Stringing is really an issue for me though.

    What layer height are you printing? I usually go for 0.4mm.

    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Same, tried 0.35 too. Group consensus seems to point at the temperature… I’ll give that a shot. Thanks for your comment.