Cura Settings

D3D Cura Settings

The industry standard settings for the D3D printer for production printing at OSE are:

1. Nozzle size - 1.2 mm
2. Layer height - 0.4 mm
3. Filament diameter - 2.85
4. Sink object - 5 mm for 3D printed corners
5. Brim - typically no brim unless only a small portion of the printed object is touching. Brim lines recommended are typically 5-10
6. Raft - never
7. Spiralize Outer Contour - for single-line prints
8. Line width - even though the nozzle is 1.2 - we can print 1.0 line widths, and even 0.8 mm if necessary for smaller features such as holes near the edge on the extruder.

Object Design Notes

1. When designing objects with large flat bottoms, put a chamfer on the bottom so that you can get a tool under the chamfer to pry the object off the print bed.

.4 mm Nozzle on Lulzbot Mini

This is what I did for 0.4 mm nozzle, as opposed to 0.5 standard. I reduced the values until the yellow highlight disappeared, assuming that the yellow highlight is no go. Result was stringy, so I left the settings at the 0.5 settings when using the 0.4 nozzle, and it worked much better.