Movement of material on bed during printing

[drfrei @drfrei My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

This is probably a very basic question in 3D printing: best material and settings to avoid curling on the base print on the bed and/or printed items moving by being dragged or knocked by filaments, therefore wrecking the print.

I am mainly using ABS: should I heat the printer bed higher? Or the nozzle? Would PLA make a difference? I read someone saying to cover the bed with Kapton table to ensure the printdoesn’t move.

[click @click My Robox is a Green Kickstarter Limited Edition]

First check here: http://roboxing.com/first_layer_wizard

Material not sticking well is usually due to height of first layer (keeping all other CEL’s ABS material settings like bed temperature, nozzle temperature for first layer, etc). I found all material details being quite spot on (and allowing some variance without real effect on first layer adherence), but height of nozzles/calibration usually affects it the most. Along with cleanness of the PEI bed.

PLA sticks slightly better… All other things other printers used to help objects stick properly are usually not used with Robox: heated bed + PEI material are supposed to be the latest in 3D printing and one of the best combination. All other things are invented because they didn’t have those two.

Also, for small parts do use brim to increase surface that sticks to bed.

As for warping - it is still a battle. For instance, see here: http://www.cel-robox.com/forums/topic/horrible-warping-using-pla-and-fine-setting/

There are a few other topics on it and I didn’t get definitive clear answer how to fight it but some clues what might do. I like this page: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2011/06/23/12-ways-to-fight-warping-and-curling/

[drfrei @drfrei My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

Thanks @clicky

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