Quick Start Guide
FELIX
Pro L/XL
3 April 2019
Page
17
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Tips and tricks
Flexible Filaments
Our 3d printers can in general handle flexible filaments well. Depending on the amount of flexibility, you might need to take
some extra precautions to print it without trouble
.
This is a best practice:
Precautions
.
1.
Ensure you
use the correct slicing profiles
for flexible filaments from our supported softwares.
2.
Ensure the
extruders are cleared
from non-flexible filaments. It is essential that the filament does not experience any
obstructions in the hot-end barrel, before reaching the hot parts of the hot-end. Otherwise chances of buckling filament
inside the extruder are very high. Obstructions can occur if there has been printed with some hard filament before, make
sure it is removed from the barrel of the hot-end. This can be done by extruding some hard filament and then fully retract it
again. Easy way is to do it via the display unit. Then slowly extrude the filaflex into the hot-end.
3.
Adjust filament clamping range
. The extruder arm pushes filament onto the extruder drivewheel. When using flexible
filaments it might be that the filament is squashed too much causing a lot of friction and eventually it buckles and clogs the
extrusion.
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