These models are ridiculously complex surfaces, so slicers (at least PrusaControl and Slic3r) will have a hard time processing the model meshes if you attempt to batch print more than one or two full work benches at the same time. For the smaller benches I printed two tops and bottoms in a single print, while for the 1×3 and 1×4 I printed single tops and bottoms as a pair.
I tried out the Hatchbox Wood-fill filament I had on hand for the first set of benches:
While the benches are sturdy, the flat surfaces are a mess – detail is lost, and cleanup was a minor nightmare of wispy filament and rough edges.
I printed the larger 1×3 and 1×4 benches in standard PLA, with much better results:
And why a turquoise bench? The wood fill jammed part way through a print, and the turquoise was on hand as I was cleaning out the burnt woodfill. Rather than unload that filament and risk not having purged the hot end and extruder of jammed material, I ran a full bench print in turquoise.
- Maker: devonjones
- Source: OpenForge Word Bench
- Original License: Creative Commons – Attribution – Share Alike
- Models: All Models
- GCode: –
- Material:
- Hatchbox Wood-fill PLA 1.75mm
- Inland Light Brown PLA 1.75mm
- Print Date: 2017/11/13 – 2017/11/14
- Print Time:
- 1×1 base/top x2: 1 hour 25 minutes
- 2×1 base/top x2: 2 hours 5 minutes
- 3×1 base/top x1: fail with Wood-fill / 1 hour 20 minutes with standard PLA
- 4×1 base/top x1: fail with Wood-fill / 1 hour 38 minutes with standard PLA
- Estimated Print Time:
- 1×1 base/top x2: 1 hour 16 minutes
- 2×1 base/top x2: 1 hour 57 minutes
- 3×1 base/top x1: 1 hour 27 minutes with Wood-fill / 1 hour 12 minutes with standard PLA
- 4×1 base/top x1: 1 hour 49 minutes with Wood-fill / 1 hour 29 minutes with standard PLA
- Estimated Filament:
- 1×1 base/top x2: 3.6 meters
- 2×1 base/top x2: 5.9 meters
- 3×1 base/top x1: 4.4 meters with Wood-fill / 3.4 meters with standard PLA
- 4×1 base/top x1: 5.6 meters with Wood-fill / 4.3 meters with standard PLA
- Slicer: Slic3r PE 1.37.1
- Slice Settings:
- 0.20mm layers
- 20% infill
- material setting:
- colorfabb woodfill – print failures as extruder would jam. colorfabb print temp is ~190℃, while normal PLA is closer to 215℃
- pla
- include brim
- no supports
- Printer: Prusa i3 mk2