NSD Cowl 1.0.0

Whats the best print settings for this? And support too. I checked my slicr and it said about a 5 day print.

Yes, mine wanted to take 30 hours at standard speed, 0.2mm layers and 20% infill. So I confess I actually went for 0.25mm and fastest ('turbo') speed to get it down to15 hours.  I set it going late Sunday afternoon, let it run overnight, checked it was OK Monday morning before going to work and when I came home from work it was waiting for me. So not too painful. Depending how fussy you want to get with sanding/finishing, I reckon you could get away with 0.3mm layers and 15% infill isn't too far from 20% but should shave a bit more time off. You can see from the photo it was sitting on a big block of support mainly under the flat top, and then kicking in at 30 degrees towards the back edge. I think most of the printing time and filament went into the support. If your printer were big enough you could lay the cowl down on its back to cut down the volume of support, but then you get that nasty 'woodgrain' effect everywhere. So the time saved in printing is blown later in sanding the thing smooth.

Normally I print in ABS so I can do that acetone vapour thing, but a print this size would just distort too much. Much as I hate sanding (and PLA is a particular bugger to sand), I thought this thing is mostly broad flattish surfaces with little fine detail, so not too arduous. Mind you, that was 2017 and Dalek Kevin's still waiting for me to get sanding.

I printed this model with PLA on a Creality 10s Pro and it was excellent. Far better than anything I could produce on my own. Thanks for the time and effort you've put into this and for sharing it with us!

Cheers,

Lungman

@lungman   That's a beautiful-looking head and neck you've got there - I'm happy to have helped!

(Time to update your build diary?)

Thanks @Macropod80! Yeah, I think you're right. Updating my build diary has been on my mind for a while so might have to get cracking on that!

Thank you for the file.

I printed it and sliced it in two to save on supports. while it worked out, don't be stingy like me if you can print it in one piece. 

Took a bit of work to get it to fit back together.  Not to hard, but time consuming for no reasons. 

Here it is with filler and sanded. will have to do a bit more work but nearly there

Thank you for a great file!