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Hi All,

In the past two months, I have been working with ABS and feel I have pass the grasshopper stage and wanted to print more detailed objects. I don't think ABS is not the right material to use for things like the picture/STL I've included (the part is about 2 inches long).

I think the top part of this piece is too fine of a resolution to print with the set up I have (Nozzle diameter = 0.5mm and using ABS filament).

Has anyone work with detail prints with ABS? Other? and care to share their set up for me to try out?

Mike

Anything printed with a filament printer, regardless of the type of plastic, is going to be limited in resolution not by the accuracy of the stepper motors, but by the diameter of the filament as it exits the extruder. If you want to try to work finer detail, you can try getting a 0.25mm nozzle. At that point, the type of plastic does make some difference, because some plastics tend to clog the extruder at 0.25mm more than others (I can't be more helpful than that, because I don't have any experience with 0.25mm nozzles). A 0.5mm nozzle is definitely not what you want for detail. Looking at your picture, it appears that it's maybe a centimeter wide, so that flat rim on the raised part on the top must be around 0.2mm wide---so you would not be able to get that kind of detail even with a 0.25mm nozzle. However, it would be closer, and depending on what you intend to do with this thing, might meet your needs. For detail finer than that, you would have to go get yourself a resin printer. They're expensive to buy and expensive to print with, and have small build areas, but they excel at fine detail.