Saturday, September 06, 2025

Spillproof Desiccant Boxes for Dry Box (Cereal Box)


https://www.printables.com/model/989429-spillproof-desiccant-boxes-for-dry-box-cereal-box/comments
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Printed in Clear PETG - (note to self: Prusa MK4s desiccant-box-for-cereal-box)


Put in my filament boxes - to replace bags.  
Will experiment with putting them in a filament dryer to refresh desiccant
(Have new skill - can spell desiccant - one s 2 Cs)...


Friday, September 05, 2025

 Prusa XL - PETG + PLA

Selected 0.20mm BREAKAWAY FULL

- fillament settings/advanced/minimal purge on wipe tower - 35mm

Pick a single extruder for the wipe tower - PETG extruder:

- Print settings -> Multiple Extruders -> Wipe tower extruder

Print settings -> Multiple Extruders -> Stabilisation cone apex angle (under wipe tower):85

PETG As PLA support

Print Settings  - soluble full

Print Settings -> Support Material: With Sheath around the support : disable


Set the extruder where you put the petg (by default it selects extruder 2)

 Print Settings -> Multiple Extruders / support material/raft/skirt extruder

 Print Settings -> Multiple Extruders / support material/raft/interface extruder:

Note: This feature can only be used with Organic Supports when using a Wipe tower. Changing the support extruder with any other support style than Organic will disable the wipe tower.

Heat bed temperature:

Print Settings -> Multiple Extruders -> Extruders -> Bed temperature by extruder.

The setting specifies the extruder to take the bed temperature from. Setting it to zero uses the default logic that the first layer temperature is always taken from the first printing extruder, and all other layers' bed temperature is taken from the first extruder that prints the second layer. 

I set the bed temperature extruder to 1 with pla and then I modified the pla bed temp to 65 degrees

Support Style

When using snug supports, check in the sliced object for parts of the support material that might be very tall and thin, as these might fall or break in the middle of the print. If you notice them in your sliced object, we recommend changing the support pattern, and/or changing the support style to grid

When using organic supports, don't use interface layers, or they will create unprintable artifacts.

Bed Temperature

Try bed temp of 65degrees and use satin sheet

Useful References

- https://help.prusa3d.com/article/combining-materials-xl_498103

- https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/192uvun/mixing_pla_and_petg_for_supports_on_the_xl/

https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/original-prusa-xl-tool-changer-how-do-i-print-this-printing-help/what-bed-temp-sheet-for-printing-pla-with-petg-supports/