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  • Not trying to be combative here but the tests you linked further support what I was saying. A small chamfer and I really mean small will have a similar effect once rendered in gcode to a fillet. If you have access to software to generate a fillet easily that is good too. That being said I would only do it for the outer rim.

    Either way the print looks like it is warping on the lowest layers and has elephants foot which is what I suspect is the biggest issue here.

    The steps I proposed are

    1. Wash the plate to help with adhesion
    2. raise z offset just a tiny bit
    3. if possible add a chamfer
    4. if adhesion is still a issue add a brim

  • Hey OP, just so you do not waste time. I mis-spoke and told you the opposite of what you should do in the program. No bevel, I meant chamfer!

    I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense to make the surface area touching the build plate smaller but it is worth it since it provides relief from the layers above pulling when it is shrinking.


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    3 things.

    1. Wash your build plate with soap and hot water. It helps more with adhesion than you think. Do not use glue stick or any adhesives on the plate. People report that it works but I always found significantly better results with just soap and hot water on pei with materials that adhere to pei well such as pla. Masking tape with adhesives might make a difference for materials that do not stick to pei.
    2. If you are designing the part or have any time with cad then put a tiny bevel chamfer on the surface that touches the build plate. Doesn’t meet to be large. Just something. It helps with cooling shrinkage and retraction of pla on the first layers.
    3. enclosure or still air will help but are not strictly needed for pla.

    Last thing I would do is maybe adjust your z-offset. It looks like it might be experiencing some elephants foot at the bottom. I would try raising the head just by about .10. Really though that is going to be fully determined by your first layer of course.







  • It’s pretty serviceable at this point. Fan and temperature monitoring in the kernel just made its way in too. I’ve been using Nixos with the Asahi kernel on a 64gb M1 Max MacBook Pro for the past few months and it’s been a pretty fantastic experience overall. Before that I was using it on a 8gb m1 air and it was decent enough. I wouldn’t say it’s perfect by any means but it is capable enough that I could not see switching it back to macOS for much of anything outside of some production stuff.


  • The head might be too close to the bed. You could potentially compensate with either additional top layers in the slicer or just give it some more room to lay down layer one. Another possible cause is potentially too much heat. I am going by the slight elephants foot at the bottom of the cube and the slight droop at the top of the X and Y.









  • Co-ownership is kind of a horrible idea overall. What happens when one of the 4 people wants to use the property as collateral for a loan?

    Not to mention that this promotes increase in property costs without fixing the issue. If the norm is to continue pooling money between individuals then real estate can continue to raise prices. Then you just need 6 friends 10 friends 14 friends etc. we need a market crash and we need corporate residential ownership to be heavily regulated.