Stick to the sheet.
Pei sheet vs glass.
How to use it as a 3d print surface.
The type of glass you choose does not matter as long as you provide even heating of your glass for example if using.
The pinda probe won t work correctly.
Pei is easily cut to size by scoring with a hobby knife.
5 mil is about optimal.
Use some windex on it if necessary.
If you have a china printer with a bed fleas can surf on you can easily go with a glass surface that instantly gives you better results due to being flat.
The glass reinforcement yields a product with an exception strength to weight ratio and increased tensile strength.
3d printing on glass should be done with moderate heating 60 c.
Get these they have adhesive already applied.
Compare properties of unfilled pei and 30 glass fiber reinforced pei.
Laminate your sheet of pei using 3m 468mp adhesive transfer tape to a glass mirror print bed keeping in mind that 3m 468mp is a very tacky tape that is prone to clumping.
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Pei sheet 3d printing.
On the same printer gluing on a pei sheet will still leave the surface it had before.
Best 3d printer build surface glass vs pei vs buildtak more.
Switching to a glass bed isn t a great idea on a prusa for a number of reasons.
Heated glass print bed.
By peter ferris mar 5 2019.
Pei sheets can be pretty uneven thick sheets more so.
Many people like printing directly on glass because it is easy to remove your print when done and leaves a nice glossy finish on the bottom of the 3d part.
One reason might be that glass is an easy flat surface.
Adding weight glass sheet to the y axis increases the load on the stepper motor and means it s more likely to perform poorly at higher speeds and or when printing large objects.
I ve run glass the craptastic preforated sheet that shipped with my printer painter s tape kapton tape and pei and vastly prefer the latter out of all of them.
You should also make sure the glass is clean.
Glass reinforcement provides even greater rigidity and dimensional stability while maintaining many of the useful characteristics of basic pei.
Better with thin sheet of pei on glass.
You can actually lightly sand it with 600 grit sand paper to give your pei sheet some more life.
Choosing the best build surface for your 3d printer can be a confusing task at time which took a while myself to figure out.
