Stop 3d printing so slow!!! 🤯 (how to print faster) 

This video is more a commercial than helpful content. It seems like it was made for people who have never even 3D printed not those looking to reduce print times

TLDR: Increase the layer height Increase print speed Bigger nozzle Lightning infills

You can also tweak a few parameters such as: - number of perimeters - perimeters speed (interior vs exterior) - number of solid layers (bottom and top) - speed of solid layers (bottom and inner) - top solid layer speed, pattern and width - infill pattern - infill size - infill speed - infill every 2 layers - infill only where needed - travel speed - etc. Also, you can replace the current print system by Kilpper in order to reach faster speeds with same quality or even better. Depending on what your goal is (speed, quality, structure, balanced, …), you should be able fine tune more settings. I am pretty sure that you can reduce you print time even more!

So, while Ive considered myself a hobbyist for years(all the way back to maker farm) what I have yet to see anyone do a video is development of a filament profile from nothing and explanation of all the slicer settings OR. complete calibration process for an individual printer for any given slicer. Slicers have a ton of settings and any one miscalculation can be disastrous.

Would probably be more useful to present the percentage reduction in print time provided by each setting individually.

Here's a video idea, 'How To Use Plastic Welding To Fix Broken 3D Printed Parts'. When something breaks, the simplest solution is just to print a whole new part and toss the old one. But that's wasteful when the part can just be stuck back together. Sometimes glue is the best option for this, but when something doesn't have enough surface area, you don't have glue on hand, and/or you just can't use it for one reason or another, take advantage of how parts are made in the first place and just melt them together with a soldering iron and a little filler material (the raw filament)

Thanks for the slicing tips to make my prints faster. I will definitely give them a try. The ad plugs at the end of your video were not that painful as they seem to be for other people. Thanks again 👍🏼

Yeah, you can print fast by swapping nozzle, increasing layer height and linear speed... but you must also have an extruder/hotend combo that allow you to push like three times the amount of filament in any given moment (on an Ender 3 with stock hotend/extruder you're not gonna push out 23+ mm3/s of filament at almost 10 m/s of filament speed) , not to mention the fact that you need to tune settings accordingly. Useful knowledge, but fairly incomplete unfortunately

Adding a Volcano or other high flow nozzle can make a big difference in maximum flow rate even if you don't replace the heater block. CNC Kitchen did a great video on different nozzle solutions which can handle significantly higher speeds without underextruding.

When it comes down to it, there are two ways to reduce print time: reduce the amount of filament used, and extrude at the maximum volume flow rate that your extruder or part cooler can handle. Wide, thick layers will result in a short print time, even at slow movement speeds. A wall that's twice as wide and twice as thick printed at half the speed still prints in half the time. It's also much easier to upgrade your max extrusion rate than to improve all the kinematics of your machine to enable faster movement speeds.

You’re increasing day by day, it’s incredible

You can also try increasing extrusion width

I'm probably going to come off as harsh. I don't mean to. I just want to provide constructive criticism. I feel deceived. No duh using more printers will result in a faster print. I understand you are promoting a sponsor, and that's fine. But the beginning of the video made me feel that you were going to go over slicer settings that let you print that giant benchy using one printer. First video of yours I have disliked.

Great video!! Super helpful tips 👏

Wow... just WOW! Thank you!!!

Without the correct hotend and extruder combo you cannot print at more than 80mm/s without running into quality problems. The stock Bowden Ender 3 setup won’t work that well on high volumetric flow rates. Yes it is printable but you will face skipping on the extruder, or lots of under extrusions

Thank you for the information.

I also heard that printers like the FLsun super racer prints 50-80% faster due to its 3 arm design. I use a ender 3 v2 since I just started recently.

Thanks! I'm gonna try it out tonight!

i just got my first 3d printer for christmas so im a complete beginner, all these tips are for sure gonna help. thank you!

Banger of a video!

i find hard to believe the hotend on the ender 3 can push 120mm/s printing speeds with a big nozzle.

Great video. Thank you.

great topic, thanks

Need more Micro Centers in the country.

Thank you Steven…this vid was very informative. I’ve only been printing for a few weeks now…maybe two months top. Yesterday morning I had my first flirt with 3D printing disaster. I set the printer up and after watching it for a few layers…I set out to do other thing on the computer. It failed and I had a blow back. I cleaned it up and printed more.Tomorrow will be a tuning day thanks to your vid. You answered some questions I’ve had since before getting a 3D printer. I did get a few bigger nozzles and I’m gonna try the .6mm and speed it up thanks to your vid. I have a Elegoo Neptune 3 Max and I believe that I should have the house filled with 3D printed stuff already! LOL

oh well, one thing I didn't know was the lightning infill. I have 2 ender 3 with noctua fans all over. I van currently print at 100mm/s, this is double the recommended speed! so cheers to OP, for showing, that it's possible

Very interesting tips, thanks 🙏

u saved me 3 hours on a nerf mag. thankyou good sir

That helped so much

My life goal: making my filament storage look like a store shelf.

I used print on my stock ender with a upgraded motherboard using 150mm/s and then I got the cr10 smart pro this year and I print depending on what I need to use the print for I print 250mm/s and it still comes out looking perfect.

Am so gonna get into this around Xmas time

You! Are the Man!!! thank you so much for that information

Infill doesn't really affect strength that much, if you want more strength add more walls.

very brief and helpful

There is an option on Cura which reduces my prints from 8 hours to just 3 hours and is called “Adaptive Layers”. I turn the option on and in most cases it dramatically reduces print time.

I've used all these except that infill tactic. Is that in PrusaSlicer too? Love using the other tactics, though

What material or filament used here. Thanks

put your speed to 999 mm/sec and print in 10 minutes

Thank you very much for this video!! Awesome!

I like how the music sounds like I just unplugged something from the USB slot.

Lol- love the Benchy’s!

Are you doing any type of giving away for a 3D print in the near future? I would love to get back into 3D printing

cheers my guy, big help. strait to the point i wanted

Ideamaker slicer has adaptive infil where you set a percentage for the majority of the print, but 3 layers before a solid layers, it will use the higher percentage. i set mine to 5 % and 15%. I also use 0.32mm layer height on my 0.4 nozzle with a line width of 0.5 or 0.6mm which is the same as a 0.6 nozzle, but with my stock nozzle. people think you need to change nozzles when you dont. 3D printing was originally designed around a 0.5 nozzle and 0.5 line/extrusion width. with my stock 0.4 nozzle i print with a line/extrusion width as low as 0.3 and as high as 0.6 with no issues.

The US barely has a microcenter they need to be in every major city. I have never seen one in person

Have you changed acceleration and jerk? If not, I dont think that you are really reaching 120mm/s everytime. Maybe in a long line you will, but not in a model with a lot of sudden orientation changes.

What acceleration are you running?

Throw a spider hotend on it, you can get a decent gain over stock hotends on the ender 3. I have been impressed with the flow and reliability of the spider. Don't get me wrong, it can't outflow a volcano but it doesn't ooze like a volcano does. With some tweaks to coasting and retractions it prints really good. If someone wants to push the speed a bit more they are going to need more hotend flow, a simple all metal heatbreak will actually provide a decent bit more flow pair it with a good Copper nozzle for even better flow and another benefit is reduced retraction distance (~2.5mm vs ~6mm stock) which makes a noticeable difference in print time. As for speed, you should have at least mentioned acceleration. It doesn't reduce the speed in cura BUT in real world prints it does. Stock ender3 if want to keep it like stock reliability 2k acceleration is perfectly acceptable on all my enders when they were stock. Rambling about my enders below if anyone cares if not, don't read anymore. Also willing to answer questions if anyone reads this wants to ask. I have multiple enders all with different mods. My most reliable is stock hotend with a bi-metal heatbreak, aluminum creality extruder. Followed by the spider hotend,titan direct drive, skr 1.4 turbo w/tmc 2209. Fastest ender of mine is the one with linear rails,coper volcano block, titanium heatbreak, bmg extruder, mks tinybee w/tmc 2208 and all steppers upgraded. Most troublesome but coolest imo is the dual nozzle, dual extruder setup. It's got skr 1.4 turbo w/2208, 1 titan extruder 1 bmg(not sure which I like more) it pushes as much flow as a standard v6 hotend but isn't for speed.

so im printing like 1,6 mm cards out of wood filament, any tips to speed it up? also making boxes that the cards fit in, same question?

Hey man I wanted to know what software did you use to split up the model and scale it up

My closest micro center is 3200 km away...

Now I finally found a store where to buy filament

lol that "120mm/s" on your V2 isn't 120. that's more like 60 or 70. Stock board can't print that fast no matter what you do to your setting or firmware unless you are running klipper.

Hello, I see you are a creality user, can you make a video about why the creality slicer is bad and why you should switch to prusaslicer/cura? My friend is also a creality fan but will not understand why the creality slicer is bad

How do you get the price estimate of how much it would cost to print on the Cura’s slicer?

Thanks for the tips! MyCreality slicer doesn't seem to have lightning infil. Any idea how to add it?

Wish I had a micro center near me

Really excellent. So many 3d print videos are not very useful. Printing times are a big issue and this video is right to the point. Thanks 👍

There's a Micro Center opening near me in May. I wonder what kind of deals they will have.

i got my prints from 1749 minutes to 409 with ONLY Settings. i made the outer lines thin and the inner ones thick but ran them both faster so that the smaller one still looks good with that extrution. strength works as well. allon a 0.4 nozzle

Ya I'd love to buy one... sadly the nearest microcenter is almost 6hrs away 😔

Can you buy more than 1 printer at that price, or is it just 1 per customer?

How did you join that giant print? I’d like to know more about how to do that

Is there any short List with the Options?

Microcenter needs to replace the Fry's that were in the San Francisco area. After Fry's closed, it left all those buildings just waiting for another person to come and take up all the customers that went there.

I’ve had constant issues with my Ender 3 V2. Final straw was a clogged of hot end. I could buy an upgraded one along with other parts but then why not just get a better printer period? Which I had done. I learned alot from It which I’m thankful for, but I’m curious but others experience with it. Have you had an issue with it as well? How’d you solve those problems and did you end up with a reliable machine? What did it take

would love a mirco center in sweden ..

Would you consider doing a vid on the ideal settings? I went into "Speed" for instance when you told us to print faster (I've never gone over 70) and saw your wall-speed etc was 60, Cura's default is 35. I'd like to know all your settings and I'm sure all your viewers would too. Thanks

very cool! At the end you show joining the several prints with what looked like a soldering iron. how are you joining the prints?

thanks for the link for the $100 off the Ender pro. I picked one up! Subbed!

Perimiters and acceleration: Am I a joke to you?

Speed up your prints by reducing the quality. What a genus.

omg tnx

micro center has this deal a lot, right now it's for a ender 3 v2 which i like a lot, but i suck at everything so i couldnt get it running right, so now i have it on the floor somewhere wasting space.

Hey buddy which 3d printer is best?

Could you please give some advice How to slice the model for few separate part for printing them on the different printers at the same time?

make a life sized benchy and go to the ocean to go on it

upgrading hotend would also increase print speeds and making sure to use the latest Cura verison as well. There was an update awhile back that increased speeds by like 40% just from cura algorithm alone. With a new hot end, I was able to 2x speed in some cases but decided to go back down for better quality

this was super informative and concise. keep up the good work

😂 Micro center!!! I knew that was coming😂 to bad its 400 miles from where i live😢

Rather than using lightning infill, I user infill support and/or gradual infill steps. They have been around in Cura from the beginning but too many people overlook them.

Oh how I wish we had a Micro Center where I live. Fry's closed up so now we're stuck with Best Buy! Yeahhh!

Can you share profile settings?

I’m new to printing can you use different slicers for different printers like the Prusa slicer for a sovol?

I am 100% noob at printing. If someone new does these setting will things still work? Or depending on what you want to print needs different settings?

the bigger they are, the more defects they have. When I was beginner, I preferred a big printing machine. But it comes out disaster when printing big objects. I'll plan to pick a small machine with precise printing detail.

I bought my first ender 3 at microcenter and in the first day of printing I couldn’t be happier. Can’t recommend it enough

When I change my layer height from 0.2 to 0.28 my time increases by about 3hrs.

What version of cura do you have to say the price of the print

I wish I had access to a Micro Center here on Vancouver Island (my bank account is happy that I don't though)!

Wow. Never knew this was an option.

Hi Steven, whats the best free 3D Cad i should start with?

When does the coupon expire

how much do you usually heat up your nozzle for PLA if the build time is longer than 5 hours?

Now I want to know if a full size benchy is sea worthy!

99 bucks for a Pro is great. Get it, flash the board with a version of the Ender 3 V2 software and you have a helluva great printer. That is what I did to my old Pro and now I have a nice New V2... The only difference is the center extrusion location. V2 is 25mm farther forward on the center cross extrusion. This places the build plate father forward of course. You just need to reposition the rear limit switch to set the front left corner of the bed with the nozzle. If you still have the stock wheels on the bed then they have enough clearance before they bottom out on the Y axis belt tensioner housing. I converted mine and she prints just like my Voxelab Aquila that I changed over to a 4.2.7 Creality board and is now a running V2 software. Now you say WHY maker the change... It's all about the software. V2 with the Marlin2 leveling feature will turn your pretty nice little Pro into a Powerhouse V2.

Why does MicroCenter not have a store in the SF bay area? Silicon Valley, man! Respect your roots! I'd love to shop at MC, but not enough to drive seven hours 😭

If microcenter would build a store In Tennessee I would go there.