Just a reminder, lots of public libraries have seed exchanges! A little library of seeds free to be taken and encouraged to be dropped off!
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
- Wash the plate to help with adhesion
- raise z offset just a tiny bit
- if possible add a chamfer
- 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.
3 things.
- 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.
- If you are designing the part or have any time with cad then put a tiny
bevelchamfer 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. - 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 amazing how the companies surrounding the housing market just keep posting higher and higher record profits while they are pricing out people and serving a smaller and smaller base. It’s almost like unregulated markets will always consume themselves.
Buy a 3d printer pen. Believe it or not they are pretty great at filling the spaces as long as the spaces are not too complicated or wide.
This has to be a joke?
I just can’t unsee this after watching the trailer.

I think it was more of the realization and actually labeling it as a practice. Naming things only come after people go (we should give this thing we are doing a name)
You’re the kind of person to store photos, pdfs and executables in a sql db aren’t you?
That is a wild take imo.
