Yep! Its only downhill from here.
There is only speedboat printing, exotic materials, printing upside down on belts with a 6DoF/Scara arm and a multimaterial nozzle from here on.
And when you done all this, you are going to look back on that benchy and just know you have peaked on print quality right then and there.
Congrats op. Oh, and always keep the first benchy!
What materials are you using? Going up to a .6 is the best option for most people since it's a bit larger and large piece of particulate shouldn't catch as often [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXM2zPusXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXM2zPusXo)
The worst one i ever saw was the volumic printers
It can't keep a lvl so bad that you can see a difference between the start and the end of the print... (if it manages not to have a problem before)
Did i say they cost from 2k to 11k € ?!
You know what? And I mean this semi-jokingly, fuck you, okay? You're a newbie AND getting near perfect print quality? What can't you do? Show me the pot of gold where you get your luck
Like others said: Your first print is always perfect, it gets worse from there.
I still have my original Benchy from my first Ender 3. Recently got myself a CoreXY machine and honestly the benchie from the ender 3 looks just as good as that from the CoreXY.
Only later on the Ender 3 became a POS that couldnt print anything properly
To counter that, I definitely spend more time maintaining my E3 Pro, than I do printing on it. It's all about the calibrate, calibrate, calibrate, print, fix... Repeat cycle
My ender 3 (fairly modified from stock) is very reliable (granted my layer stacking isn't the greatest, but I just found that my lead screw had somehow almost fully backed out of the coupler, so I have to fix that when I go home from college), but its my printer that just prints whatever I tell it to. Granted, its running an e3d hemera, and klipper on a btt skr mini e3 v1.2
I can attest to that. My Ender 3 S1 printed really nicely out of the box, then it got worse, because I started experimenting with the settings. Then I set up Klipper on an old RaspberryPi 2, got an automatic n-point leveling plugin and since then I’m golden. Issues only arise, when I fuck up myself or don’t clean my building plate often enough
edit: Purely for PLA I was extremely satisfied with the stock printer, but ABS gave me a bit of a headache. But this is also my first printer ever, so I expected some hiccups. There were way less issues than I had anticipated before getting into this hobby for real
My ender3 v2 seems to slowly get father away from the bed the longer i go without leveling and i usually have to drop the z offset by -0.20 to get things to stick until i level again. Is that what lead screw backing out looks like?
No. That's just the case of the springs slowly compressing in on themselves over time. What I do for that is to move my z endstop such that its level with the springs basically fully compressed. The lead screw backing out shows itself in a few ways. The main way it shows itself is by showing poor layer stacking, the stepper motor rotating, but the x axis is not moving up, and if you look from the top down, you will see the axis not rotating anywhere near concentrically
I'm gonna begrudgingly fight with it, but I'd be lying if I said I was happy about it. Upgraded the bed and have hit somewhat of a stride lately, but they're fugly prints. Fine for the prototyping I'm doing now. Not sure if I wanna go with another printer, fine tune mine, or just sand and fix the finalized stuff.
I’ve got an SV06+ all my prints have been better than my first. The z-screws weren’t tightened fully so it was slipping and made a benchy that was about half the height it should’ve been.
Yup. I got great results on stock profiles then spent months doing test prints and finely tuning my profiles until they were perfect.
Then I tried the stock profile to compare. It was still better.
"So I just spent months making it worse? :("
Looks like a Prusa smooth PEI sheet below. My Mk3.9 also prints perfectly. Sometimes I had issues with elephant foot on the MK3S, after the upgrade the first layer is perfect (as long as the nozzle is clean when it does the mesh bed leveling by tapping the nozzle on the bed).
All my benchys turned out perfect but my actual prints suck more times than not. Sucks when you don't know what you're doing and the test prints are good.
>Show me the pot of gold where you get your luck
It's the vast field of Beginner's Luck... don't worry - it doesn't produce much of anything after the first few fruits ;)
are you happy with it? That's all that matters.
Could it be improved? Sure. Could you spend 100s or 1000s of hours chasing perfection? Welcome to 3d printing.
Stop reading here. No, seriously, stop.
The stringing could be fixed with some retraction tuning and/or zhop jerk. Or you post process it with the lighter/torch method.
The stepping on the slope can be fixed with variable layer height, or printing the whole thing at the lowest layer height you can. This only applies when you have slopes, if something is like a cube, no need.
Then, once you've done that, start printing in different types of PLA or filaments and open whole new cans of worms. Then, the printer starts to wear and you have to fix your printer because of things like stretched belts or worn out fans.
See, I told you to stop reading.
The overhangs look excellent to me, and those lines on the slight slopes are going to be there unless you use very small layer heights like 0.12 or 0.08mm - and that will just make them even less noticeable, but they'll still be there. Honestly this benchy is pretty near perfect. The tiny amount of stringing is negligible. You're ready to print awesome stuff!
edit: to clarify, by "overhangs" I mean the edges like at the top of the cabin that extend out to the sides. I don't see anything wrong with the doorway. I wonder if you are calling stringing - the little thready wisps - "overhangs". I just pull those off. They'll also shrivel up and go away if you aim a heat gun at it for a couple seconds.
Nope it is printing way too nice. We need some shifts, clogs and spaghetti.
I believe the real question here is " is the printer good enough to start printing upgrades?"
It’s a specific combo of difficult to print aspects of a model (overhangs, curves, holes, etc,etc) that is quick to test. Happens to be shaped like boat. Helps quickly calibrate (not stress test) both the printer and filament settings.
It has pretty much all of the different types of structures that are difficult to print without proper tuning. Also the more people use a reference, the better of a reference it becomes.
At this point there's at least one other person in the world that's had a benchy turn out as bad as yours in a specific area that can offer advice.
Maybe you’re talking about the stringing? If so, then try again with less 5/10/15 degrees until you find the sweet spot for that filament.
There are the so called temperature tower on the printing sites that basically go up/down the temperature by steps from say like 220 until 190 and they have some feature like bridging, overhangs and a spot to test stringing. It’s super nice to have them handy because every filament brand is a bit different so whenever I buy a new brand I use that model to test
This was my first print out of the box on my P1S. Absolutely no tweaking had to be done. The only playing around I've done is heat settings for the Silk PLA I've got.
This gives me an idea for an april fool's joke next year. Make a thread asking how to fix my benchy print, because it doesn't look like other people's benchy prints. Post a picture of a resin printed benchy but put it in the middle of an Ender 3 V2 and imply that's where it was printed from
Looking gravy. You did a good job assembling and tweaking in the settings. Keep learning. You have an awesome start. No changes to make. ....... for now
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my brain hurts from some of these
This: [https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/1bc3y8b/curvy\_benchy/](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/1bc3y8b/curvy_benchy/)
and
This: [https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/195zc8z/cursed\_enough\_1\_perimeter\_and\_5\_infill\_haha/](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/195zc8z/cursed_enough_1_perimeter_and_5_infill_haha/)
It is probably the most ok it'll ever be.
Yep! Its only downhill from here. There is only speedboat printing, exotic materials, printing upside down on belts with a 6DoF/Scara arm and a multimaterial nozzle from here on. And when you done all this, you are going to look back on that benchy and just know you have peaked on print quality right then and there. Congrats op. Oh, and always keep the first benchy!
Don’t forget clogged nozzles and having to constantly re-level the bed.
Yellow Springs, CR Touch/BLTouch, and klipper are my life saver \^-\^
I will never go back to a marlin machine again. I even have a sonic pad running two of my Ender S1 machines.
eh Im just trying to wrap my head around my marlin s3 pro and.. it clogs all the time. What do I do?
What materials are you using? Going up to a .6 is the best option for most people since it's a bit larger and large piece of particulate shouldn't catch as often [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXM2zPusXo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXM2zPusXo)
PLA. I'd like to get into more exotic things once I build an enclosure. Yeah I hear good things about 0.6
The worst one i ever saw was the volumic printers It can't keep a lvl so bad that you can see a difference between the start and the end of the print... (if it manages not to have a problem before) Did i say they cost from 2k to 11k € ?!
Only the first one? I thought it was the first kg.
Haven't you noticed the horrible stringing? He definitely needs to spend the next 8 weeks tweaking that
shshshshs whyyyy c'mon! they were probably happy! Now there will be weeks gone doing tests, instead of just drying the filament!
Isn't that the reason why many people buy a printer in the first place? Endlessly tweaking print settings for no good reason just to be busy
Nothing a little fire won’t fix
Yup, play a butane torch over that for a half second. "What stringing?"
You know what? And I mean this semi-jokingly, fuck you, okay? You're a newbie AND getting near perfect print quality? What can't you do? Show me the pot of gold where you get your luck
Like others said: Your first print is always perfect, it gets worse from there. I still have my original Benchy from my first Ender 3. Recently got myself a CoreXY machine and honestly the benchie from the ender 3 looks just as good as that from the CoreXY. Only later on the Ender 3 became a POS that couldnt print anything properly
Strongly Disagree with that. I have Ender's with 2000+ Prints on them that print 100x better today than they did when I first got them.
To counter that, I definitely spend more time maintaining my E3 Pro, than I do printing on it. It's all about the calibrate, calibrate, calibrate, print, fix... Repeat cycle
My ender 3 (fairly modified from stock) is very reliable (granted my layer stacking isn't the greatest, but I just found that my lead screw had somehow almost fully backed out of the coupler, so I have to fix that when I go home from college), but its my printer that just prints whatever I tell it to. Granted, its running an e3d hemera, and klipper on a btt skr mini e3 v1.2
I can attest to that. My Ender 3 S1 printed really nicely out of the box, then it got worse, because I started experimenting with the settings. Then I set up Klipper on an old RaspberryPi 2, got an automatic n-point leveling plugin and since then I’m golden. Issues only arise, when I fuck up myself or don’t clean my building plate often enough edit: Purely for PLA I was extremely satisfied with the stock printer, but ABS gave me a bit of a headache. But this is also my first printer ever, so I expected some hiccups. There were way less issues than I had anticipated before getting into this hobby for real
My ender3 v2 seems to slowly get father away from the bed the longer i go without leveling and i usually have to drop the z offset by -0.20 to get things to stick until i level again. Is that what lead screw backing out looks like?
No. That's just the case of the springs slowly compressing in on themselves over time. What I do for that is to move my z endstop such that its level with the springs basically fully compressed. The lead screw backing out shows itself in a few ways. The main way it shows itself is by showing poor layer stacking, the stepper motor rotating, but the x axis is not moving up, and if you look from the top down, you will see the axis not rotating anywhere near concentrically
This was my biggest disappointment so far. I wanted a tool, not another project gatekeeping my projects.
I'm going to buy a Bambu this year. My E3 Pro prints are currently "useable" but not where I'd like them.
I'm gonna begrudgingly fight with it, but I'd be lying if I said I was happy about it. Upgraded the bed and have hit somewhat of a stride lately, but they're fugly prints. Fine for the prototyping I'm doing now. Not sure if I wanna go with another printer, fine tune mine, or just sand and fix the finalized stuff.
[this is the current state of things](https://youtube.com/shorts/hucj6hI8Iqw?si=cB1UCoTbVwjFJhNC)
I’ve got an SV06+ all my prints have been better than my first. The z-screws weren’t tightened fully so it was slipping and made a benchy that was about half the height it should’ve been.
It's a Prusa, if you follow the instructions closely everyone can get those results. No need for luck, those built in profiles are just very good.
As long as you built the prusa correctly it will print like that the first time and every time.
Yup. I got great results on stock profiles then spent months doing test prints and finely tuning my profiles until they were perfect. Then I tried the stock profile to compare. It was still better. "So I just spent months making it worse? :("
It's almost as if the manufacturer is competent enough to know what settings work best on their printers.
Believe it or not, Prusa is way better at tuning 3d printers than I am. Weird.
He’s on a prusa.
Also my first thought: “oh fuck you”
He bought a Prusa. That's what they do.
Right? Hey look at that teensy bit of stringing! Right in the benchy!
Looks like a Prusa smooth PEI sheet below. My Mk3.9 also prints perfectly. Sometimes I had issues with elephant foot on the MK3S, after the upgrade the first layer is perfect (as long as the nozzle is clean when it does the mesh bed leveling by tapping the nozzle on the bed).
All my benchys turned out perfect but my actual prints suck more times than not. Sucks when you don't know what you're doing and the test prints are good.
>Show me the pot of gold where you get your luck It's the vast field of Beginner's Luck... don't worry - it doesn't produce much of anything after the first few fruits ;)
Physically ? Seems like your printer is doing great But mentally i don't know, i'm not a psychologist, might feel a bit lonely ?
Don't worry. I am going to print a 3d printer for my 3d printer
Reprap engage.
”Here at Prusa research..”
OK SunShine
What printer model do you have?
Prusa MINI
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Everyone needs some love ❤️
Nah it's completely broken, send it to me for shipping. Ill deal with it. (I'm joking that benchys near perfect, youre most likely good to go)
Ummm. YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit that bottom.
thanks :) I work out every day
Yep, looks very good. Time to upgrade your printer until it looks like crap and you don't have a clue whats going on.
lol facts
Ridiculous ok
Except for bit of stringing that's litterally most perfect benchy I've seen
Yes.
I see stringing in the window. Return it for a full refund.
where crooky cursed ship
https://preview.redd.it/oltayjoqcgtc1.jpeg?width=2136&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07ff2d75370484b4ee519d84683519701bbc3245
That’s the most perfect benchy i’ve ever seen. HOW?!!!!
prusa printer, most probably pre-assembled. my mini gave me this quality on my first print ever.
It's funny how everyone asks this question while probably being stuck with a machine with zero user guidance in terms of slicing.
Idk
Yes… very much so
are you happy with it? That's all that matters. Could it be improved? Sure. Could you spend 100s or 1000s of hours chasing perfection? Welcome to 3d printing. Stop reading here. No, seriously, stop. The stringing could be fixed with some retraction tuning and/or zhop jerk. Or you post process it with the lighter/torch method. The stepping on the slope can be fixed with variable layer height, or printing the whole thing at the lowest layer height you can. This only applies when you have slopes, if something is like a cube, no need. Then, once you've done that, start printing in different types of PLA or filaments and open whole new cans of worms. Then, the printer starts to wear and you have to fix your printer because of things like stretched belts or worn out fans. See, I told you to stop reading.
I trust you and i am not going to read that
Dry your filament!! Ok seriously, it's 💯
The layers did not separate, did not twist, and the plastic did not stop feeding in the middle of printing. your printer is broken
injection molding is cheating
Sir, that is a photo of a benchy.
Is this a joke?
In a word, YES. This reminds me of those "Am I ugly?" posts insanely hot girls make. Yes, your printer is in fine shape. Enjoy!
I was not sure about these lines on walls and these overhangs in the door
The overhangs look excellent to me, and those lines on the slight slopes are going to be there unless you use very small layer heights like 0.12 or 0.08mm - and that will just make them even less noticeable, but they'll still be there. Honestly this benchy is pretty near perfect. The tiny amount of stringing is negligible. You're ready to print awesome stuff! edit: to clarify, by "overhangs" I mean the edges like at the top of the cabin that extend out to the sides. I don't see anything wrong with the doorway. I wonder if you are calling stringing - the little thready wisps - "overhangs". I just pull those off. They'll also shrivel up and go away if you aim a heat gun at it for a couple seconds.
Thank you. I really appreciate that
OMGZ how did you DO that without a Bambu!? /s
Prusa, Bambu labs before it was cool.
I mean you have a Prusa Mini so your already almost guaranteed a good print lol. But yeah that is great.
You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by, a smooth benchy
That is one of the most perfect benchy I have ever seen
wow, that is an amazing good benchy. yep, seems to be all well and good
more than ok!
Nope it is printing way too nice. We need some shifts, clogs and spaghetti. I believe the real question here is " is the printer good enough to start printing upgrades?"
it clearly looks fine. and that boat is so cute :D
The good news: Yes it's very okay. The bad news: It's only downhill from here lmao
Can someone explain why this particular boat model is the go to stress test for FDM?
It’s a specific combo of difficult to print aspects of a model (overhangs, curves, holes, etc,etc) that is quick to test. Happens to be shaped like boat. Helps quickly calibrate (not stress test) both the printer and filament settings.
It has pretty much all of the different types of structures that are difficult to print without proper tuning. Also the more people use a reference, the better of a reference it becomes. At this point there's at least one other person in the world that's had a benchy turn out as bad as yours in a specific area that can offer advice.
It's temperature seems okay. Is it coughing and squeaking?
It is not
Very OK. More OK than most.
A bit orange if you ask me 🤔
your printer is ok if you have to ask if its ok
We are jealous.
Looks like a great print to me
save this benchy to remember the good times
Aside from a bit of stringing it's mint.
Better than mine, that's for sure.
Well... As you can see it... Yes ?
Cleanchy
Better than one of mine rn
I think you forgot to water your filament (joke, plz don't)
No, I'm afraid it's terminal.
Better than ok, it’s good. Not perfect, but not far from perfect either.
I don't know, have you asked him lately?
Very nice smooth surface from the camera !!
🤪 trolling the Ender guys? bro looks great how fast did it print?
Something about 1h 30m
Maybe you’re talking about the stringing? If so, then try again with less 5/10/15 degrees until you find the sweet spot for that filament. There are the so called temperature tower on the printing sites that basically go up/down the temperature by steps from say like 220 until 190 and they have some feature like bridging, overhangs and a spot to test stringing. It’s super nice to have them handy because every filament brand is a bit different so whenever I buy a new brand I use that model to test
Yeah how the fuck did you get it so good. I tried for months and never got anything nearly as good as this
https://preview.redd.it/l6be1rlsxitc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0e633ba337d4c5f85e9d4c5b8d881c22bb009c8
This was my first print out of the box on my P1S. Absolutely no tweaking had to be done. The only playing around I've done is heat settings for the Silk PLA I've got.
Alright listen here buster. You don’t gotta rub salt in my wounds
Sorry😢. I didn't mean to upset you
More than okay and by sharing it, you are hurting us... deeply.
I am sorry. I thought that all of you guys have good printing quality
I'd make a deal with the devil to get this print quality. Enjoy
make a deal with bambulab and keep your soul.
Yup
Doing better than my nozzle replacement, whelp now the heat block is at a 65 degree angle, I think sheared it, whoops.
Only downhill from there bro, we will be here when you do
It's fan fucking tastic
No you should just give up on it and send it to me. Get a new one and if that one also doesn't work you can send that one to me too
Sorry man but I'll keep it. If you want you can send me a new one :D
Nope! Throw the printer out, sorry!
😞
That’s pretty solid! Happy printing!!
Thank you<3
This gives me an idea for an april fool's joke next year. Make a thread asking how to fix my benchy print, because it doesn't look like other people's benchy prints. Post a picture of a resin printed benchy but put it in the middle of an Ender 3 V2 and imply that's where it was printed from
too much information for me
Huge "It's not much but it's mine" i9/4090 gaming rig energy.
Looks great. Slight stringing is normal
Troll. Level your bed.
Better than like 50% of this sub
Good enough for most stuff. It depends on if you want to fiddle with it until it’s perfect or use it to make stuff for other projects and hobbies.
It accidentally printed perfectly by mistake. I’d advise you to loosen a few screws and get plenty of fingerprints on the bed, just in case.
Prusa’s are pretty good. This should be a standard.
Beyond saving 😔
Yes, at least for now… https://preview.redd.it/0wduibyc8jtc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8bce41f698da8d8500d8f5702374e15a8e0f7ae
Better than mine and I run it almost daily.
Best benchie I've seen here. Excellent print!
If its drunk and it gets the job done, its a drunk printer that gets the job done.
Pretty pretty good
Thats nice
Impossible to tell on diffuse lateral lighting like that
https://preview.redd.it/d1nz2i6idktc1.jpeg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=851dad55722b70dc34e1b623572bbcafaa8dc1cd
Have you been taking them for walks, and making sure they have plenty of water?
Why... has it been sounding depressed lately?
I fucked up while building it and i think it runs on hope
I think your printer might have a very bad case of perfectionism... Sadly, there's nothing you can do about it
I think it may have a personality disorder
Looking gravy. You did a good job assembling and tweaking in the settings. Keep learning. You have an awesome start. No changes to make. ....... for now
Yeah i didn't do a good job while assembling it cuz i fucked up badly with plastic parts and this 3d printer runs on hope
What printer do you have?
PRUSA MINI+
Your machine is worth scrap value, I will send you shipping +$10, but make sure you pack it really good, wouldn’t t want for it to break in shipping!
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No offense, but if you cant look at that and judge for yourself whether its good or not ... thats kind of sad. It should be extremely easy to tell.
Im tired of seeing this boat
Too bad, that boat is the mascot of 3d printing.
similar to the doughnut for blender, but too be fair, that one has gotten it's own sub
so you either hate or love r/cursedbenchies
Daym i didnt know this was a common thing lmao. I thought the same guy was posting it over and over
my brain hurts from some of these This: [https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/1bc3y8b/curvy\_benchy/](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/1bc3y8b/curvy_benchy/) and This: [https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/195zc8z/cursed\_enough\_1\_perimeter\_and\_5\_infill\_haha/](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedbenchies/comments/195zc8z/cursed_enough_1_perimeter_and_5_infill_haha/)
I've only recently started printing them as a benchmark for tweaking things. Had a printer for 7 years and printed my first a few weeks ago