In this video we’re printing an Artillery Sidewinder X1 test cube using ICE filaments Daring Darkgreen filament. Printed using the standard test cube off the original Artillery memory stick with default printer settings. A nice shade of mid to dark green PLA filament. I am very impressed with the colour and I am impressed with […]
This is my fourth attempt at what I considered to be a fantastic little ‘torture test’ for the Artillery Sidewinder X1 printer. I realised I couldn’t solve this on my own so I sought help from a group on Facebook. Others kindly suggested different print settings and especially on the subject of retraction. I applied […]
In this third test using the ‘Temperature Tower’ I have adjusted the print settings in Cura which should reduce the stringing. I looked specifically at the retraction settings so that the print head could retract filament prior to moving between each of the upright towers. I followed the same pre-printing process as before: I imported […]
In this second test using the ‘Temperature Tower’ I have adjusted my model to improve the simplicity of the test and removed the overhang that was making the model unstable. There are three separate towers, one square, one round and one star-shaped with a number of cutouts to check the print accuracy at different temperatures. […]
In my previous ‘Overhang Test’ on the Artillery Sidewinder X1 I noticed the print was ‘stringy’. I tried adding retraction and this didn’t work so I wondered if this was something to do with print temperature and the best way of checking this is to come up with another test. In this video I create […]
In this test I wanted to check how much of an angle of overhang I could print successfully on my Artillery Sidewinder X1 3D printer. I have produced my own model specifically to test the overhang and created it in Blender. The first part of the video shows how I construct the 3D model and […]
I bought the ICE Filaments ‘Obstinate Orange’ because I have other filaments by ICE and I liked the vibrancy of the colour and I had a very specific project in mind – our logo. In this video I show how I created the 3D object in Blender, used boolean modifiers to cut out the text […]
I already have light grey and black filament so I wanted something in between, something like a mid to dark grey. I’ve been impressed with ICE Filaments colours so far and opted for the ICE Filaments ‘Gentle Grey’ PLA filament. I am very impressed with the colour and I am impressed with the print quality […]
I wanted some silver PLA to add to my collection and I was very impressed with the example pictures of this particular Sunlu Silver Silk filament. As a way of testing the output and checking for consistency I print the Artillery test cube to how it will come out in relation to other brand and […]
I’ve just added the Verbatim Transparent PLA filament to my collection and as with each new filament I buy, I am printing an Artillery test cube as a test using the exact same model on the exact same Artillery Sidewinder X1 3D printer so I can assess how it will print with the same settings […]