3D Printing with ABS - Tips for Success
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2024
- ABS is a great material for 3D printing, but it can be problematic--warping and peeling off the bed--often resulting in unusable parts or worse. Today we're going to take a look at why that happens and what you can do about it.
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14:40 "I prefer to go oldschool"
*proceeds to bring out mega extruder with servo arm bed leveler*
i know...lol right? too funny
2:15 What is ABS?
3:22 Why ABS is hard to print with?
6:43 How to reduce ABS shinkage issues?
Bed Adhesion
Hair Spray
PEI Sheet
First Layer Height percentage tweak
20:27 Control draft air near the printer especially the hotend
26:44 Tweak the design to reduce the shrinkage force
29:34 Mouse ears technique
32:20 How to add mouse ears using Simplify3D
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Probably the most useful comment that I've seen in the last 10 years. The full video is very good, but for a second review of the video, your pointers are gold nuggets. 8-)
My men 🔥
Exactly I wanted!
You forgot the magical incantation you recite which endows a face shield with the ability to repel viri.
Never thought about using the mouse ears to help adhesion. Had the mindset if only using brim. Thanks for the video!
this is probably the best video tutorial on practical issues in 3D printing. helpful information with absolutely no-nonsense or drama. thanks a lot. will look out for more.
Excellent video, no over the top production or gimmicks and full of useful information, thank you.
Hi, I've learnt so much from this video. I've never seen the tip about breaking long strands and mouse ears (against a full brim) in any video before! You explain everything with so much clarity and and if if you (meaning me) understand something its now simple. I've always watched your videos, that I've clicked on, to the end because you make them so interesting and I always go away having learnt something that you have shared. Keep up the great work.
That was the MOST AMAZING CLASS I watched recently around so many aspects of good 3D printing. I learned A LOT! Thank you so much. Your custom extruder is a piece of art.
So many great ideas! You have beautifully demonstrated that understanding a problem goes a long way to overcoming it. Thank you.
I'm so glad I came across this video!!
After a long wander and watching dozens of videos that explain about gluing the models to the bed, I learned the most important information here and I'm going to try the tips you recommended.
The video is clear and professional and I encourage you to make more videos like this and contribute to anyone who is dealing with problems in 3D printing, especially ABS.
Was about to give your video a miss because it's half an hour and I'm impatient but then decided to listen to the first few minutes. Glad I stayed for the rest of it as this has been great info and insight into design for manufacturing.
Incredibly thorough explanation of ABS and its properties as it prints. This was EXACTLY the information I needed, thank you so much for your helpful video! And brilliant trick using the mouse ears for more bed adhesion, a much appreciated tip.
Beautiful tips James, as a heavy ABS i know all the tips you said, but I do find this video highly valuable, well done!
Excellent video James. Very well explained. I've printed over 100 face shields of a different design, and I wish I'd seen your video a week ago! Your mouse ear addition would have saved me a lot of trouble. I'll definitely give it a try on the next batch.
Excellent real world explanations clearly articulated! I’ve been down the same paths and have found many of the same solutions, still learned a few more tricks. Thank you for the vid.
Such a good video! I am thinking of getting into 3D printing and found your channel. So easy to listen to and a lot of really good information. Thanks!
Your attention to detail is just amazing and really helpful. Subscribed immediately.
I've watched video after video about this subject, and this is by far the best. Thank you so much.
Great advice and I love the clever solutions! Really helped me with a print I was having trouble with, thank you!
Great video. Picked up plenty of ideas applicable to my PLA printing as well.
Killer video!
So glad I stumbled across your channel. Love your analytical viewpoint
Subscribed. Excellent delivery, well researched content. I don't print ABS, but learned a lot of interesting and useful tricks, particularly the circular cutouts and mouse ears.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. This is by far the greatest video I've watched on a filament. You are a true inspiration.
This is a really detailed guide into printing with ABS full of helpfull tips. I liked the real world examples of problems encountered and how they were solved. The most benificial part to me was the re designing of a part to stop warpage as me as a person wouldnt have given that idea any thought before seeing this guide. Thankyou James.
Thanks for an excellent collection of information to print with ABS. Sort of makes me want to try the stuff now! Regarding auto bed levelling, the model will always print vertically - it won't get tilted, the levelling routines actively adjusts Z for the first few layers to compensate for surface irregularities. This results in a "flat" surface to print on.
Well done video, editing, photography and so on. Excellent job.
Great Video…….the use of sesperate STL files for the mouse ear rafts are nothing short of pure genius! Thanks for sharing.
Probably the best tutorial on this topic,
I'll follow your channel it stands out, unlike the usual content about 3d printing that is overwhelmed by teenagers and amateurs playing experts.
Thank you, James. That was very helpful to me, especially non obvious solutions and your clever tricks!
I'm researching these machines to see if it's something I want to play with as I'm a woodworker. You have one of the best channels for knowledge and I like it.
The 3D printer has become one of my most used woodworking tools. You will find way more uses for it that you can imagine….
I am a woodworker as well and in the past year have added a CNC router and am getting a Thunder Laser delivered in December. My wife is interested in a 3D printer but most of what I have read or been told is "you better get good at Fusion 360" before purchasing a 3D. I have played around with 360 but have not spent a great deal of time since I have had to learn Vectric Aspire, soon will need to learn LightBurn and I have been working on improving my Adobe Illustrator skills.
Wonderful video, thank you. Equally useful for PLA (though PLA can be more forgiving). Example: "Drafts are everything." As a newbie, I had an air conditioner located 5 feet from my printer, and was seeing warping. You tuned me in to the importance of the whole thermal environment.
At last someone that goes into the details in a way that I can understand! Now I've got to see of you covered PLA and PETG so I'm "IN" subscribed!
Excellent video, very descript! You've put me on the track to be successful with ABS. Thank you!!
an excellent and thorough explanation / ellaboration. very well done.
You saved my Life (and my nerves!) with the Mouse Ears! Thanks a million Sir!
Love the hairspray tip! Will definitely try it out
James, I really enjoyed this video, like always, very professional, very informative and I learn something with every video you make. This one I learned about using the micro switch for the Z stop. I've tried several different capacitive and inductive sensors but none work to suit me. Just hopi I can figure out how to rig up the micro switch. Thanks very much for the great video.
An excellent video! Thanks for all these useful tips.
An extremely useful and informative video. Thank you so much.
Congrats on a great and technical video!! absolutely correct so many things!! ALOT of variation between makes and even colors!
To remedy the whole warping thing what i have found that works well is pre heating the enclosure to about 50°C. Bed adhesion goes without saying, hairspray is also my go to, ABS Is way more sensitive than PLA, but the main difference I have found from PLA is the mere viscosity of the plastic when melted. Bed temps from 80 to 90°C is fine. To print ABS well you have to get the extrusion (and retraction) really dialed in. Again, this will vary from make and colors.
Love the bunny ears! And thanks for the tips about temperature control. I wish I would have known this a while back.
Very nice presentation, I would like to hear you explain more about 3d printing because nobody else presents the details and reason that you present.
Every other video I saw trying to solve this just kept saying to through bonding agents and heat at the problem. It did help some, but I am printing tall mold frames on an open printer.
Those magic dots, or increased adhesion is not recommended enough.
Thank you for covering this so thoroughly.
Again, for someone hoping to get a printer, this was very educational. The layer and warp explanation makes a lot of sense.
Excellent work and rich info. It is alway a paint to print with ABS, but for some reason even when I print something with ABS and comes out warped on the bed I still like how the plastic just come out clean. For the hot end cooling, I would actually rather make it water cooled and use a larger cooling fan on a radiator and get rid of those tiny loud fans. Thank you for the brilliant presentation.
Thank you for that concise tutorial on ABS 3D printing. I found it extremely useful and has made me more prepared for using ABS.
Really informative (and concise). Thanks!
Thank you. Very thorough and specifically addresses my problems with printing face shields. I’m printing a DtM-v3.1 which is a modified Prusa design. I’ve printed hundreds of PLA, but have yet to get an ABS one come off of my Ender3 Pros. Now I just have to do it. :-)
This video was much better then those made by 3d printing channels. Very very helpful my dear. Best regards from Florence ITALY
Thanks for the video! Esun is also my go to brand so this perfectly helps!
What a fantastic video James, thank you! I have long struggled with ABS and I learned a ton about it (and 3D printing generally) from this video. Can’t wait to try these tips.
Thanks! I hope it's helpful.
Every time he said "Deburr," I thought of "Deburr, deburr, deburr." lol
Thoroughly enjoyed your tips on abs and things to watch out for and consider. Don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Thanks for time and advice.
Good info. I print quite a bit of ABS on my older machines. I still have plenty of 2.85 laying around. We've been only printing PETG for PPE because our local hospitals don't want ABS parts due to its susceptibility to solvents.
Really great info. James. Thank you.
Great video. I have some ABS that I gave up on but after watching this I plan to try it again. Thanx
Jan Feb Mar all printers working great. April shows up and two of the printers can't print right and everything looks like junk. Ridges are warped. Parts won't adhere to beds. The difference... Air conditioning vent behind the shelves. Yes. It 100% matters with any extruded medium. Your insights on channeling air around the print head are going to help me plan future upgrades. Thinking about building a walk-in closet in the shop with a dehumidifier and temp control. Gotta keep the dust and humidity off of these spools. Great channel and thank you!
I had not thought to look for a "Draft" from my cooling fan... sure enough, that was the problem. Solved my warping issues. Thanks!
Just subscribed. What great videos. Not boring and the explanations of why? are great. Keep it up. I am new in 3D printing.
Thank you for this video. I'm definitely going to try ABS, this video has given me some confidence.
This was insanely informative. Thanks
Nicely done, thanks for this. And printing PPE back in April, because of course you were. Well done, indeed.
Love the way you address the peanut gallery with “go ahead and put that down in the comments.” You got the TH-cam version of the Louisville slugger complaint department.
That's a very complete and clever explanation and solution's summary. Very very nice. Thanks for making youtube such a nice knowledge base! :)
Thanks for the run down, you explained perfectly and my prints are sticking nice... turns out my hot end fan was dumpling a ton of air strait down and cooling my prints. Used a piece of tin foil and redirected air flow out the back. Stock Ender 3 pro.. Thanks again my man!! 💪💪
I needed this, thanks!
Really good review. Mouse Ears genius. Thanks very much, reel of ABS purchased and on its way😁
Thank you very much for that clear explanation and suggestions. It's very quality knowledge share not specially for PPE but ABS printing.
Lots of great info here. Thank you.
Finally, I keep having to repeat myself, with long text replies on reddit to explain these concepts to people, now I can just link this video. Thanks.
One thing you can do is make your own pinned posts on Facebook or something, could even be on notepad and saved to your desktop.
Then whenever you need to put out that same story you just find where you put it and copy n paste it.
I got sick and tired of posting the same long rants about various things and started collecting them so I can ctrl C & V it.
Awesome information thanks for the work.
One of the better info videos I've watched. Always had problems with ABS so now I can use the accumulated spools I have laying around. Thanks for the 'mouse ears'.
You're welcome. One more trick for the tool bag.
brilliant ! very well presented, Thanks
Great video and well explained. Thanks
Excellent presentation.
Awesome tips, and the mouse ears are great! Thanks!
A great deal of valuable info on the subject and from a guy that designs his own extruders! I learned a lot today. Thanks James!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video explaining the details!
To put holes in long walls is a neat trick! Thanks, I'll be using it from now on!
Absolute gold- a masterclass.
Best video on youtube, from every aspect. Well done son.
You are quite right about drafts. Why do so few people use actively heated chamber and water cooling??? I took efforts once making these two things out of scrap and have a constant good results with ABS. These two measures solve the warping/delamination problem forever. Thank you very much for such a comprehensive video! You actually quite right about everything you described.
this is just pure gold.
Very thorough, thx! I am choosing to use ABS for its ability to hold up in high temps and because I can use acetone to bond pieces together. I build an enclosure fairly cheap and easy.
This is much more than helpful! Thanks for the video!
You're welcome!
Excellent tips, I really like printing with ABS and have some good (and bad) experiences. Your tips will help alot. Took me a long time to realize I needed an enclosure, so I built one. I've had good adhesion with Thick Polyimide Adhesive Tape (Amazon) cleaned with isopropanol 99%.
Great video, very instructive. Thanks!
As usual: I learned a lot. Thanks
Really informative. Thank you
Great video! lots of good tips.
I thought i ordered PLA but it was ABS and have been trying to print for two hours with PLA settings ....was not going well, That is why I'm here now thanks for the help and I"m subscribing thanks for the help.
Great tips 👌 well explained.
Wow what a brilliant video have not been brave enough to try abs yet but will do now.
I learned a lot, thank you!
WOW! Very cool mouse ear technique! Thank you!
Thank you. Very comprehensive and very well explained. 3D printing is like our journey through life with lots of curved balls just to challenge our problem solving skills.
That’s a very good video, you are clear, dense and globaly true ! That’s so good to see someone who knows well and helps everyone, so for this : THANKS YOU!
I doubt about only one thing: i don’t think that the fan(s) that are cooling the extruder are also cooling the print in a closed chamber, because the air witch is sucked by the fan(s) is already hot (because of the chamber obviously)and heated by going throught the extruder.
Sorry about my english, i’m french 😁 do not hesitate to correct me.
I started printing in hard mode (ABS) from the start just for the reason that PLA can deform easy on hot days in several places and I wanted my prints to last. The 3D printer I use is the WanHao Duplicator v2.1 and I learned a lot from the start and what works best for me. Don't try to print ABS if you don't have a heated bed on your 3D printer.
I made a cheap enclosure by stacking 2 Ikea Lack tables on eachother and used polycarbonate plates in combination with 3d printed parts to fill up the gaps and added led lights. An enclosure is almost a must to make sure that the the whole print stays warm without any drafts that can cause cracks (and it makes a big difference with prints that are higher), and it can even help a bit with the electricity bill because it is easier for your hot end and bed to keep the temperature. When the print is done I keep the enclosure closed while it cools slowly as a whole, because if cool air hits the side fast it can still crack even when you are done printing. Mostly when it cools down enough the print pops off the glass plate with a loud noise and that is the moment I know I can safely take out the print.
I use 3DLAC (comparable to hairspray) as an adhesive to make the print stick to the bed. With the settings I disable the fan that normally blows on the hot end, and I print slowly so the layer has more time to cool. I also use a setting to pause between layers if the layers are printed within seconds so I can prevent burning the plastic or a molten blob of plastic on top of my print.
When you start printing ABS expect many failed prints and it is trial and error. Just Look at what happens (keep an eye on it while printing), find tips on how to solve it, adjust settings and repeat. Start with small prints first to solve adhesive issues with the bed and to make sure the first layer sticks well enough. After that challenge yourself by printing higher, and later try prints with a bit of overhang and find the limits on what your printer can do with ABS.
Yeah, I started from the beginning in hard mode as well. I've only ever printed about 100g of PLA, compared to maybe 40Kg of ABS.
A lot of tips for the ABS printing, thank you.
Thank you for the Master class
A very helpful guide. I've struggled with ABS and revert to ASA when I can. But customers will ask for ABS, especially for automotive parts, and it's rare to get the part printed right of the Bat. I hadn't considered mouse ears, but will certainly be giving them a go.
A better printer with a heated chamber completely solved all of my issues.
Very good informative vlog your a good teacher thank you
Great lesson! Thanks.