• papalonian@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Larger nozzles do kick ass. I personally use my 0.6 nozzles pretty heavily. As others have mentioned though, there are definitely scenarios where you’ll really want or even need to drop to a smaller size. My printer hates trying to print PETG at higher sizes for example, maybe my hot end isn’t powerful enough.

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      1 year ago

      it also consumes way more filament- especially on single-wall parts or parts that have x perimeters rather than a perimeter thickness. They’re great for structural prints, and large prints that you want done quickly. For comparison, a .4mm nozzle will have a nozzle area of about 0.125 mm^2, where a 0.6mm is .28 mm^2. and .8mm is .502mm^2. More than double the extrusion width.

      like basically everything else in 3d printing, it’s all about compromise and which compromises are acceptable.

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        1 year ago

        No, I don’t agree with consumes ‘way more’ filament.

        If your design calls for 1mm width wall. You’re doing two passes with a 0.4 nozzle (0.5 width x2) or one pass with a 0.8 nozzle (1 width x1)

        It’s the same plastic.

        You’ll use more plastic on the infill, but you could arguably use a lower % infill if the infill wall thickness is larger.

        So you could be using more plastic overall, but I don’t think it would qualify as ‘way more’… maybe like 10% to 20% more.