Bendy printing

I think I needed more support underneath it.

A cunning 3D printing trick is to print at an angle. The thinking is that a printer can quite happily print at 45 degrees, so if you have lots of overhangs in your design (which is the printer case I made yesterday) they will all print at 45 degrees and there will be much less need for support. I have actually done this and it worked well. But not today. It was probably because I was printing on one of the hottest days of the year.

The print went all bendy and dipped below the print head so that the printer started printing in thin air, and just produced some very fine spaghetti. This is the first time the Bambu printer has let me down. It’s my fault really, the print was a bit ambitious. In the end I stood the design on its side, printed a bit of support and it came out just fine.