If you ever try it again, consider rotating the globe such that the north/south 'antipodes' lie on water (easily doable), or land (not so easy to do for the earth). At least the crummy print aliasing at the poles will be in the same material, and you may be able to sand/bondo it, then try to paint-match a touch-up. I think I'm going to try this, but on a smaller version. Also, I'm going to make it more or less hollow using 'lightening' infill, and if I like the final result, may fill it with plaster.
Go for it, and let me know how it goes. On a smaller sphere, e.g. if you keep it the default 7.5cm, you might probably make it look good with .12 or .08 layer height, which on the 15cm one it would still look like stairs. About the infill, I originally considered printing it completely hollow, but it wouldn't slice cleanly, so I decided to be safe at the beginning and either lower the infill density or choose a different pattern later. But I didn't get to that :).
Haven't had issues with the nozzle wiper in particular, but other things have been trouble in the first couple months - the AMS has jammed twice, to a point where I had to take it apart and free stuck filament from the inside. I've also lost the original .4 nozzle after like 2 or 3 weeks - first it clogged, but I was able to make it work by undoing it from the printer and removing a stuck bit of filament. But a few days later it just stopped extruding mid-print. The printer didn't care, it kept "printing" in the air, no errors or anything. And this time I was not able to save it, there was nothing to clean up, it was either clogged too deep, or it was something else.
Are you using PETG? From what I've read, the nozzle wipe doesn't work well with PETG. Even if you're not using PETG, it's worth watching vids about it, as there are options available for 'minimizing' (not fully correcting) the problem.
If you ever try it again, consider rotating the globe such that the north/south 'antipodes' lie on water (easily doable), or land (not so easy to do for the earth). At least the crummy print aliasing at the poles will be in the same material, and you may be able to sand/bondo it, then try to paint-match a touch-up. I think I'm going to try this, but on a smaller version. Also, I'm going to make it more or less hollow using 'lightening' infill, and if I like the final result, may fill it with plaster.
Go for it, and let me know how it goes. On a smaller sphere, e.g. if you keep it the default 7.5cm, you might probably make it look good with .12 or .08 layer height, which on the 15cm one it would still look like stairs. About the infill, I originally considered printing it completely hollow, but it wouldn't slice cleanly, so I decided to be safe at the beginning and either lower the infill density or choose a different pattern later. But I didn't get to that :).
That print was screaming for 'lightening' infill.
Does the nozzle wiper work for you? I just bought a P1S and it works only like 50% of the time
Haven't had issues with the nozzle wiper in particular, but other things have been trouble in the first couple months - the AMS has jammed twice, to a point where I had to take it apart and free stuck filament from the inside. I've also lost the original .4 nozzle after like 2 or 3 weeks - first it clogged, but I was able to make it work by undoing it from the printer and removing a stuck bit of filament. But a few days later it just stopped extruding mid-print. The printer didn't care, it kept "printing" in the air, no errors or anything. And this time I was not able to save it, there was nothing to clean up, it was either clogged too deep, or it was something else.
Are you using PETG? From what I've read, the nozzle wipe doesn't work well with PETG. Even if you're not using PETG, it's worth watching vids about it, as there are options available for 'minimizing' (not fully correcting) the problem.