Stop 3d printing so slow!!! 🤯 (how to print faster)

Use these simple tricks to 3d print more than 3,357% faster. (no joke)

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[evank]

This video is more a commercial than helpful content. It seems like it was made for people who have never even 3D printed not those looking to reduce print times

[MichaelChin]

I'm probably going to come off as harsh. I don't mean to. I just want to provide constructive criticism. I feel deceived. No duh using more printers will result in a faster print. I understand you are promoting a sponsor, and that's fine. But the beginning of the video made me feel that you were going to go over slicer settings that let you print that giant benchy using one printer. First video of yours I have disliked.

[mihaicristian]

TLDR:
Increase the layer height
Increase print speed
Bigger nozzle
Lightning infills

[dadandme]

You can also tweak a few parameters such as:
- number of perimeters
- perimeters speed (interior vs exterior)
- number of solid layers (bottom and top)
- speed of solid layers (bottom and inner)
- top solid layer speed, pattern and width
- infill pattern
- infill size
- infill speed
- infill every 2 layers
- infill only where needed
- travel speed
- etc.

Also, you can replace the current print system by Kilpper in order to reach faster speeds with same quality or even better.

Depending on what your goal is (speed, quality, structure, balanced, …), you should be able fine tune more settings. I am pretty sure that you can reduce you print time even more!

[HReality]

So, while Ive considered myself a hobbyist for years(all the way back to maker farm) what I have yet to see anyone do a video is development of a filament profile from nothing and explanation of all the slicer settings OR. complete calibration process for an individual printer for any given slicer. Slicers have a ton of settings and any one miscalculation can be disastrous.

[takatamiyagawa]

Would probably be more useful to present the percentage reduction in print time provided by each setting individually.

[tacok]

Thanks for the slicing tips to make my prints faster. I will definitely give them a try. The ad plugs at the end of your video were not that painful as they seem to be for other people. Thanks again 👍🏼

[Panthera_Leo_]

Here's a video idea, 'How To Use Plastic Welding To Fix Broken 3D Printed Parts'.

When something breaks, the simplest solution is just to print a whole new part and toss the old one. But that's wasteful when the part can just be stuck back together. Sometimes glue is the best option for this, but when something doesn't have enough surface area, you don't have glue on hand, and/or you just can't use it for one reason or another, take advantage of how parts are made in the first place and just melt them together with a soldering iron and a little filler material (the raw filament)

[Daekar]

Adding a Volcano or other high flow nozzle can make a big difference in maximum flow rate even if you don't replace the heater block. CNC Kitchen did a great video on different nozzle solutions which can handle significantly higher speeds without underextruding.

[DavidPaauwe]

When it comes down to it, there are two ways to reduce print time: reduce the amount of filament used, and extrude at the maximum volume flow rate that your extruder or part cooler can handle. Wide, thick layers will result in a short print time, even at slow movement speeds. A wall that's twice as wide and twice as thick printed at half the speed still prints in half the time. It's also much easier to upgrade your max extrusion rate than to improve all the kinematics of your machine to enable faster movement speeds.

[mattgavioli]

Yeah, you can print fast by swapping nozzle, increasing layer height and linear speed... but you must also have an extruder/hotend combo that allow you to push like three times the amount of filament in any given moment (on an Ender 3 with stock hotend/extruder you're not gonna push out 23+ mm3/s of filament at almost 10 m/s of filament speed), not to mention the fact that you need to tune settings accordingly.

Useful knowledge, but fairly incomplete unfortunately

[Jack-kznb]

You’re increasing day by day, it’s incredible

[attackonhumby]

i just got my first 3d printer for christmas so im a complete beginner, all these tips are for sure gonna help. thank you!

[benliew]

Without the correct hotend and extruder combo you cannot print at more than 80mm/s without running into quality problems. The stock Bowden Ender 3 setup won’t work that well on high volumetric flow rates. Yes it is printable but you will face skipping on the extruder, or lots of under extrusions

[mtayseer]

You can also try increasing extrusion width

[tardarsauce]

Thanks! I'm gonna try it out tonight!

[rctrix]

Really excellent. So many 3d print videos are not very useful. Printing times are a big issue and this video is right to the point. Thanks 👍

[jmcguire]

Need more Micro Centers in the country.

[melvinmartinez]

Thank you Steven…this vid was very informative. I’ve only been printing for a few weeks now…maybe two months top. Yesterday morning I had my first flirt with 3D printing disaster. I set the printer up and after watching it for a few layers…I set out to do other thing on the computer. It failed and I had a blow back. I cleaned it up and printed more.Tomorrow will be a tuning day thanks to your vid. You answered some questions I’ve had since before getting a 3D printer. I did get a few bigger nozzles and I’m gonna try the .6mm and speed it up thanks to your vid. I have a Elegoo Neptune 3 Max and I believe that I should have the house filled with 3D printed stuff already! LOL

[brandonquirk]

I also heard that printers like the FLsun super racer prints 50-80% faster due to its 3 arm design. I use a ender 3 v2 since I just started recently.