Asides sanding...how to improve this?

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Asides sanding...how to improve this?

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Here's how the model started and how it shows up with rings
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Rotate 90, pva will do the rest
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Or use thinner layers.
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In the cases like this, I take a deep breath and print at 0.05-0.06mm. Using ABS instead of PLA also improves the surface quality quite considerably for surfaces like this. You know all that stuff, don't you? :-)
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The surface quality would stay the same with PLA or ABS, but ABS is soo much easy to sand then PLA :)
but you would need to enclose the UM for ABS.
you could try XT, this is also good to sand.

It also looks like you printed a little too hot ?
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Corners with curves are a sign of low accel/jerk speed, my main concern about um3 profiles and machine.

Also.. doesn't look bad for a free printer.
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Ha well it is nice to have the Ultimaker 3 for a month and see what it can do

90 degrees, had't thought of that

I currently have it printing 0.10 layers and will be done in 44 hours! But, it will be fun to compare 0.10 to 0.20!
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Look how the fallout mini nuke was print : 3 parts, 3 different layer height

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Here's the link to the file(s)

https://github.com/PatchBOTS/bb8head

The file is EXTERNAL_DomeTop_FULL.STL
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Those resolutions give an amazing finish. And would take a long long time...but for those results, worth it
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