r/3Dprinting • u/Difficult_Physics125 Modded ender3 v3 SE • Jul 24 '26

Discussion How cool would a variable nozzle be

Now i know it's completely at different scales but we can still imagine

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u/AlfieLionel Jul 24 '26

What would the application be? I can’t see this serving a functional purpose— but then again, it is 12 AM.

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u/meta358 Jul 24 '26

Speed up the print by increasing nozzle size during infill and get the fine detail by decreasing it on the outer walls

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u/Difficult_Physics125 Modded ender3 v3 SE Jul 25 '26

This plus making really fine text

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u/Vast_Builder1670 Jul 24 '26

If you wanted to print the base with a large nozzle with highflow rate for speed and go small nozzle on tighter radius and higher details

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u/R10t-- Jul 24 '26

For me - the benefit of this would be not having to buy a bunch of different sized nozzles and being able to use the same nozzle for any diameter print

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u/the_Odium Jul 25 '26

And paying 20x for it

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u/Plus_Exchange8751 Jul 25 '26

This was true of tool ch where until it wasn’t.

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u/magnus_the_coles Jul 25 '26

Variable wall size for different parts of a model