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Review on ๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ OVERTURE Dimensionally Accurate Filament Consumables: Leading 3D Printing Supplies for Additive Manufacturing by Anthony Jagers

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Not the best, but the best for the price

Overture ABS performed well in our unofficial test, but another more expensive brand outperformed it in terms of final quality. For the price, the Overture was the best we tried, but the price difference is only 25% to go higher. The settings below worked best for all brands we tried and worked well for Overture. To their credit, we only found out about the very important retraction settings from a note in the Overture box. The overture also included a print area. It works well, but another brand we tested completely ruined it, so we can't say for sure how many prints the Overture interface will give you. We are grateful for Overture's finish because if we don't use it, another brand would ruin our car's finish and we would have to buy a new part. Either way, masking tape with cheap hairspray works just as well as the Overture finish. Settings: Snapmaker 2.0 printer. Masking tape with cheap hairspray for the surface (best result of several methods tried). and if it works at 100, then why heat?) Pressure temperature: 245 C (tried both 235 and 240, but 245 gave us the best result) Thickness of the top 1.92 mm (this turned out to be important - it turned out turns out to be fewer small gaps on a wide flat surface) 45% infill density (yes that's a lot - we've tried 15% and 30% and gotten gaps with other brands, we left this setting at 45 as we went further, so we can't tell if lower fills will work with this brand or not) IMPORTANT: enable retract, enable retract at shift change, retract distance 1mm (direct drive nozzle), retract speed 35mm). These retraction settings do a good job of reducing tension. With the Overture brand, YOU HAVE NO stretch. Plate Adhesion: None (cheap hairspray tape will do the job for you; cheap hairspray will produce a better surface texture than a good material).

Pros
  • 3D Printing Filament
Cons
  • So far so good