Review on 🔍 Enhancing Print Quality: Unveiling the OVERTURE Filament Surface Dimensional Accuracy by Jeff Hill

Print Quality: One of the worst PLA filaments I've seen. Liability: absolute crap! Tried several temporary and bed overlays with an adhesion failure rate of 80% compared to 2-5% for Silk PLA. I've tried: Glass, Ultrabase, Masking Tape, Glue Stick Glass, PEI Coated Spring Steel Sheet, Creality Buildtac, and as "why not" I've tried unheated bare glass. Best result of all was masking tape around 75c. Too much effort for PLA.Warmthh? I really don't know what that means. where to start The appearance of it when successfully printed is actually fine. Brilliant white with black speckles, it's more reminiscent of Oreo ice cream than marble or real stone. It looks like this thing is made out of chalk. It prints like chalk. Bed handle is a nightmare. Overhangs on this thread are absolute nonsense. It's called "stone". One would hope that it would actually be stiff, but this thread is one of the softest threads I've used other than TPU. When printing an object with a backing material, the backing material becomes incredibly difficult to remove because the material doesn't break, it flexes before it breaks. Or "gap" might be a better word. Roughly speaking, this texture resembles air-dried cookie dough. I emailed the manufacturer to explain the issues I was having before posting this review, but it's been almost a week and I haven't received a reply. I don't know what wet filament is like, but it arrived on a dry day in a box in another box in its plastic bag still vacuum sealed with a little "silica keep dry" pack and to be honest I typed Filament left outside during a thunderstorm (not in the rain but on a table on my covered porch) and I've never had a problem printing "wet" filament. I'm just assuming the quality of this particular thread is just rubbish. I thought it would look good, but the black dots are so tiny they're almost impossible to notice unless you look at them very closely and make the print big enough to be seen. One of the test patterns I've used is the Eiffel Tower model available on the Thingiverse website and it's a great way to test the adhesion and adhesion of the material to itself. It fell drastically compared to the cheapest PLA I bought on eBay, in every category, IMHO. It stuck to itself so badly that my attempt to hold the model in my hand and remove it from the "raft" I used that was printed on the tape (btw, after cooling it just peeled through tape shrinkage). led to the breakage of the model. At first this is a rather fragile model, but printed from this material it becomes untouchable. I tried going all the way up to 230° with no fan and 30mm print speed to glue everything together and it worked. But VERY bad. The last thing I'm going to say about that. Although I couldn't write to them, this stuff reminds me a lot of chalk. Like plastic chalk. It does not stretch or tear, but crumbles. Just a very poor thing. To be honest I don't leave reviews that often and something must be bothering me enough to take the time to actually write a review. I honestly think it was a waste of money and I took the time to make this review a reality so other people don't fall into the same trap I bought this thread into. I am by no means an "expert” when it comes to material science or even 3D printing. However, I didn't buy my printer yesterday, but have been dealing with electronics and plastic for decades. I've even built my own 3D printers and bought a few too and currently have 6 FDM printers plus my own resin printers not counting. I've printed in PLA, SPLA, PLA+, PETG, ABS, Nylon, HIPS, TPU, TPA, Carbon Fiber, and while they usually fall into the PLA or PETG category as well, I'd like to add. Glow in the dark, magnetic, conductive, wooden and others that I just can't think of and don't want to look at as the list is long enough to display. I have experience. This "Rock" PLA filament from Overture sucks.