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I built my 3D printer a couple of months ago, but I can't get it to print sharp corners. The corners in the picture should be 90°, without any fillets:

During this test print, I played with multiple parameters: speed, temperature, acceleration, junction deviation, linear advance. All of these were also individually tuned previously. Nothing seems to make a difference.

Could this be a issue with the construction of my printer? I'm beginning to think my hotend isn't rigid enough, but then I would at least expect better results at low speeds.

Edit: the printer is a CoreXY of my own design running Marlin 2.1.2.1. The Slicer is PrusaSlicer with most settings left as default (but increased speeds)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Id like to see a single wall cube print like 30x30 mm. Corners on the picture look rounded too much, but wall thickness is only 1.35 mm (right?). In ideal world you would have R0.225 on each corner so the flat part would be only 0.9 mm. Thats super small, you probably want smaller nozzle for details like that. But yeah, maybe it can be improved by tuning settings or reducing play in your XY gantry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is a 40x40 cube printed in vase mode:

The corners look pretty okay on that:

But I don't see these kind of results on real-world parts. I guess I have to print some more test parts to narrow down the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cube looks good, but corners are rounded bit too much I think (at least the one on 2nd pic)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your design CoreXY reminds me on belt issues. Do you have a pic? It doesnt have to be mechanical issue, but belts must be tight and parallel/perpendicular to linear motion system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The belts are parallel to the axis, but I will try tightening them some more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It looks great. Ive seen some bad designs with weird belt paths, but not your case

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tightening the belts seems to have helped, but I will have to do some more printing to be sure. Thanks for your help!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Great to hear that