The New 3D Printing Thread

Not wishing to sound condescending, but a suggestion;

Instead of printing them standing upright print them flat on the bed.  There are a couple of reasons;

1. The layers will run vertically in the wheels when they are fitted to the model, this provides stronger structural integrity, printing them in the plane you wish to use the wheels you have the layers running the thickness of the wheel instead of the vertical of the wheel.  This may lead to them snapping more easily, if printed flat then the layer strength is better as it covers a larger area.

2. Printing them flat you should get 'rounder' wheels, if the layers are printed horizontally across the wheels the 'steps' caused by the layers may make them less accurate and rough on the driving edges.

3. Printing them upright on edge like it seems you are there is a higher chance that the print head may clip a wheel and knock the model over causing a failure.


Cheers, Nigel