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Here's a closeup of the part that fared worst on last-night's print: as you can see, the texture's glossier and the structure itself has bulged out and sagged a bit. That's thermal load at work: small parts tend to need slower printing or active cooling, allowing heat to dissipate adequately before the next layer goes down, or they stay too soft and warp.
Fortunately, there's a setting to compensate for that in my slicer.
https://awoo.space/media/H9NpBAYWN5e9DQELcl0
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@Momentrabbit This is really awesome to hear about! I really want to get into 3D printing.
I should probably learn how to 3D model, first. >..>
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@Momentrabbit That's kind of how I tend to pick things up, yeah. Necessity is the mother of motivation? *shrug!*
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@mawr I'm modestly functional at 3D modelling - in software I can't even remotely afford to use outside of an academic setting. *shakes paw ruefully at Solidworks Corp* So I'm teaching myself a hodgepodge of Ways To Get Things Done in OpenSCAD and Meshmixer and Blender and whatever else gets the job done, for whatever job's grabbed my attention at the moment. This approach seems surprisingly well suited to an ADD attentional variability.