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Lots of makers have been pressing their 3D printers into service for the COVID-19 war effort by volunteering to produce personal protection equipment (PPE) for frontline workers. What they are finding out is that it’s extremely labor-intensive to use a home 3D printer for small-scale production.
In this CNC Kitchen video, Stefan shows some tricks that he applied to reduce the print time of a face shield from 5 hours to 1 hour. This involved things like increased layer height, no skirt, increasing extrusion width, and decreasing the infill ratio to zero. There is some degradation in quality, but for this application, that’s fine.
This article was first featured at https://ift.tt/2RIIIJp on April 15, 2020 at 11:00PM by gareth branwyn
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