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General Slicing Tips
Cooling: Printing without cooling is only possible with large parts. Thick and
large layers take time to cool down, thus requiring you to reduce speed
for small parts.
Filament: Typhoon is designed and tested for 2.85mm filament. Never use
"real" 3.00mm filament.
Print Speed: Slicers allow you to change speeds for the infill, inner wall,
outer wall, etc. Please make all these values the same.
Retraction Vertical Lift: Set vertical lift to at least your layer thickness. For
layers of 1.00mm, lift a minimum of 1.00mm. Slicers are not yet optimized
for large prints. Many over-extruded sections will be noticeable. Lifting the
head will prevent any collision with the printed part.
Wipe: Wipe nozzle to at least the line width. For a line width of 3.50mm,
wipe 3.50mm or greater.
Temperature: Start at the low end of the suggested print temperature and
adjust from there. The elongated melt zone of the Typhoon allows the
filament to be exposed to more heat and will flow better at lower
temperatures. For example, our PETG is commonly printed at 240C with
standard extrusion, but we found 215C was optimal with a 2.50mm nozzle.
Flow Rate/Extrusion Multiplier: This setting will fine tune the amount of
filament being pushed into the melt zone. It is not uncommon to have to
decrease this value below 1.00, or 100%. This setting should be adjusted to
fine tune the dimensional accuracy of the printed lines. It is not
uncommon to have a flow rate value between 0.80-0.97 with the
Typhoon.
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