How To Print With Flexible Filament // 3D Printing Flexible Filament

If you haven't been printing with flexible materials, now is the time. These fundamental tips and tricks will help get you started with dynamic filament like TPE and TPU.

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[madisoncampos]

He loves helping the people in need and building things

[superflytnt]

You didn't talk about print speed or any other settings... hmmm

[jamesmanning]

Oh wow thanks for this video MatterHackers, my ninjaflex is supposed to come in tomorrow lol.

[jamesdunham]

Can you print TPU on a Creality Ender 3?

[Enderbot]

Can a Dremel 3D45 print flexible filament?

[orion]

Alec's hair was printed with the Matter Hackers Blue Green Quantum PLA Filament

[babylonfive]

Honestly, you didn't explain enough about flexible filaments for the beginner -- why it's needed and what sort of part needs flexible -- i was confused by some of the buzzwords and the definitions.

[dwdw]

My wife has a large thermos like drink bottle. Aside from being difficult to grip due to its wide O.D. it is also very slick. She wants me to print a grip for her cup thingamajig. Could a cup grip be printed flat and attached at the ends to form the loop to wrap around the cup rather than standing as a cylinder? I want to make it with lots of hearts and penguins and cute crap but i dont want to deal with support. If so what would we use to attach/glue/weld the ends together? I mean what do yall think might work best?
Would superglue work?

[thebeststooge]

In a food dehydrator what temp should I set it at and for how long to dry TPE?

[brandonvaz]

Can you print overhangs with flexible filaments?

[ronsites]

Kinda hard to take someone with green hair serious, didn't talk about the important stuff.

[alverick]

What's a good way to remove soft PLA from a PEI bed? I heat the bed to 60C for adhesion, and it works beautifully; however, when I removed the first print from the bed it was stuck so badly that one of the corners tore. I'm hoping to print cell phone cases for my kids, and this type of issue would destroy the detail of the prints, making them useless.

Help?

[nimrodquimbus]

What happened to your hair? were you coloring eggs?

[Cutleryloverlife]

you should mention recommended extruder temperature and bed temperature next "how to print with" video.

[TheSkyPod]

What about the fan ? Should that mak a difference as well? Should it be turned off or down ? Thanks

[StevenBenjamin]

I would like to learn about the fan settings for flexible materials.

[rocketboyjv]

I hate this god damn music I hear it too often.

[hernanmorenorueda]

Thanks for this tutorial. It has been very useful, mostly on the humidity absorption and the special extruder for flexible materials! I will start following you guys

[xonsightx]

I want to thank you for that grateful information. It has helped me with TPU printing but my problem is feeling the print all the way up to make it solid. I have 100% in field but yet there's plenty of voids in the walls of what I'm printing. I have went into my settings and simplify3d and bumped up the flow rate and things of that nature but I haven't found a happy balance yet. Is there certain settings that you would recommend with that software?

[arjanv.d.heijden]

Hey,
Great video!
What settings would you recommend for drying the TPE in an oven before printing?
I can't really seem to find that on the internet.