Tuning PrusaSlicer for speed, and quality

-- The 2021 campaign has finished, so you can skip the intro below --
00:00 - Toys for Tots Campaign Intro
01:24 - The model I am using
02:29 - PrusaSlicer action starts here!
05:31- First round, basic tweaks - 52 min
32:13 - Second round after infill tricks - 36 min
35:45 - Seam optimized version - 37 min
38:06 - 0.6mm examples, including the 20 min Jeep.

IC3D and the US Marine Corps Toys For Tots have partnered for a 4th year, to produce, and donate 3D printed toys on Christmas! This is a great cause, and a lot of fun to participate in! In preparation for going into mass production mode, I am documenting how I go about deciding how far I can push my printers to make the best use of time, while still producing good parts. Will these exact settings work for your printer? Probably not. But the process will!

This is a longer video, but goes through the steps from start to finish, and has multiple sample prints along the way. I hope you find it useful, and please share any tricks you might have as well in the comments!

Information about the 3DPrintingToysForTots campaign:

The truck model can be found at Cults3D:

This video is not sponsored or affiliated with IC3D, just a really cool program I want to draw extra attention to.

[HackMonkey]

Hey! Did I miss a setting? Think there is more that could be done? Let me know! Also, often time savings can be had on smaaler parts by simply printing more than one at a time. Slicers can slow done printing if they think there isn't sufficient cooling time between layers, so adding another part adds time between layers, and could decrease total time per part.

[TheMikolasZuza]

Very nice video! As someone who wrote the PrusaSlicer documentation, it warms my heart to see someone else using it and appreciating it. :) We are considering adding somewhere a list of good user-made tutorials, yours should definitely make it to the list. :)

[leestorm]

Still a very valid video a year later, Knowledge gained. Thanks very much

[MrButuz]

It's like 5 years of knowledge crammed into 40 minutes. Having just started using Prusaslicer on my new Voron 0.1 this is a goldmine of info!! Thanks!!

[patrickwelfringer]

This is truly a slicing masterclass! Thank you :)

[huseyintuter]

I am 50 hobbyists with zero knowledge.. I have really learned a lot from this video time to time coming back and visiting the same video and each times it makes more sense thanks a lot

[andresmalo]

This video is more helpful than thousands of other videos big names in youtube are making. You had a goal, you described the challenge abs you provided detailed explanation on how you went about it using practical abs easy to follow steps. I subscribed hoping that you can make series of these videos, please do! I'm a fan now abs this is how i learn no one else does it like you did here! Big kudos man and thank you!

[kevinp]

Well I learned a lot more about Prusa Slicer thanks to your video. I am really starting to dig into the settings because I’m tired of throwing away more complex prints that fail. Definitely saving this video for the future.

[thesword]

One of the best PrusaSlicer videos I've come across. Excellent work. Extremely useful. Thank you for your hard work, and thank you for helping to make some kids' holidays a little brighter. Top tier.

[whodapple]

Wow, I learned more in that 41 minutes, over the last few hours perusing through the Prusa website!

Maybe I’ll even be good enough to print some of those toys for this coming Christmas.

Thank You!

[juliejones]

Thank you so much! I had no idea how to tune a print like that.

[hvddrift]

This is an excellent video. Saving it for future reference. Please make more.

[thisiscristian]

Thank you SO much for taking the time to put this together and share it - I learned a bunch of useful tips and can't wait to apply them. You have EXCELLENT teaching skills and Prusa should pay you (at least in free printers/filament lol) to do more like this. I instantly subscribed and I'm on my way to checking out your other videos.

[donbrobst]

Excellent video. Absolute savior ! Hail HackMonkey!!!

[huseyintuter]

many thanks for this crash course. Just south a purse mini and I have zero experience your video helped a lot

[johannesberger]

Thanks for this in depth explanation of all these functions! I immediately saved it to my 3d-print playlist.
You're doing a great job.

All the best for you.

[nathansmith]

extremely underrated video. really shows that default settings are very conservative.

[scottposey]

very well done walk through of your tuning process. I'd love to see more like these...tuning for a new material...tuning for a new printer...etc

[HackMonkey]

Quick Update - We shipped off our Toys!! I printed over 350 of these toy trucks, and over 1300 total toys! My most printed toy was the Flexi Mini Octopus. This is a challenging print, and one I think I will dive into next.

[Kpub]

thank you for the video you are amazing at presenting and creating learning videos. Inspirational for tweaking slices much much more