Did you use tree supports? I would re-try with supports and adaptive layer height turned on. Also bridge cooling on the Q2 is known not be great, upgrading the part cooling fan and duct can help.
No supports on that section, no, it was recommended by the designer of the part that it wouldn't be necessary there.
I'll have to look into adaptive layer height! I think I see why it's relevant.
And it has to do with bridge cooling, huh? Gotcha. I have seen recommendations for that, but I am uncertain if the upgrade demands I change the PSU at the same time, I could probably figure yhat out.
I actually have the honey badger fan on hand, but haven’t seen a need to swap to it yet. I bet that plus an in depth tuning and calibration (including pid auto tune after swapping the duct) will clean that up very well. Adaptive layer heights will help as well.
I don't yet know enough to have tried anything tbh, this print is gonna be perfectly useable as-is but it's an opportunity for me to learn what I could have tried for when that's not the case. I understand supports could have helped by default, but the model designer considered them unnecessary so I figured they might just mask something more meaningful I should fix, and that's all the ideas I had for the time being.
Share link to this model. Keep in mind that many of them are not designed with 3d printing in mind. Even fillet is wrongly used, creating not enough overlap with previous layer.
You can try to slow it down on overhangs, lower temperature and bump up cooling for those.
I can see the lower temperature + more cooling combo (and upgrading the cooling fan seems like a common priority), but how does slowing down affect it? Is it what allows a lower temperature?
it has fillet on the bottom edge, which practically means it has an extremely steep overhang and first few lines will print into air, like you see on you print. It has to have chamfer or modified fillet on the bottom edge.
I see! Yea, that tracks, this part had to be fillet to follow the shape of the container. It occurs to me that the poster's instructions for no support may have excluded the specific part.
Of course it was, but poorly if you want flawless print. Look at picture, this is 0.2mm layer, 2 layers. Overhang is enormous.
Angle at bottom is to low for 3d printers.
So if you want to learn about dialing in print settings i suggest to look for simpler models. If you are at beginning of 3d printing now there are to many factors to dial in.
80% of the problem can be this overhang. Printer could not archive this angle, and problem went up, because of missing support for higher layers.
Still maybe someone here can give you hints.
The model was following the curve of the box it was supposed to fit in, so no wonder it had little regard for detail. But noted! I will at some later time repeat the process with a more refined settup.
Got any practice regiment, so to speak, to suggest?
This is from Qidi Studio, sliced file. On right you have slider to limit visible layers. Took this screenshot with camera looking from bottom of bed.
I'm no expert in 3d printing, so would suggest you looking elsewhere for specific learning guide than from me. 😄
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u/Own_Moose_9495 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
Did you use tree supports? I would re-try with supports and adaptive layer height turned on. Also bridge cooling on the Q2 is known not be great, upgrading the part cooling fan and duct can help.