February 19, 2022

Tuning my settings for the wonderful budget PLA+ from llldmax.com

I got a great deal ($9.99 / kg) on some PLA+ 3d Printing Filament from lllD MAX (or is it IIIDMAX? Even their own shipping emails use the two interchangably). I'm not sponsored by them in any way but I feel very comfortable recommending this filament to anyone who looking to get into 3D printing. When you're starting out, you'll need some cheap filament to tinker around with, and they have a pretty wide selection of colors to choose from. I highly recommend watching for the $9.99/kg sale (you have to buy 10kg to get the deal). The filament came neatly wound on plastic spools and I've been thrilled with the colors.

All my prints were sliced using either Ultimaker Cura v4.13.0 or v4.12.0.

I printed a temperature tower using this guide and an .stl provided by the Calibration Shapes Plugin

So far I've determined these to be my best settings for printing with this material:

SettingValueNotes
Print Temp215CCan be anywhere from 200C-220C. CNC Kitchen went over the strenght of 3D printing parts with respect to temperature here and concluded that 215C was the best compromise between strenght and quality. I have been very happy at 215C with no stringing
Retraction Speed
CoastingEnabledThis seemed to eliminate some of the stringing issues in my temperature tower.