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How to Cool Extruders with Fans on Your 3D Printer
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(Summary description)how to cooling 3D printer? One way is cooling fan, and we can use the heat sink with the thermal grease as the same function.
How to Cool Extruders with Fans on Your 3D Printer
(Summary description)how to cooling 3D printer? One way is cooling fan, and we can use the heat sink with the thermal grease as the same function.
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The golden rule about 3D printing extruders: Use fans. When you start experimenting with printing ultra-tiny objects with fine details or printing objects at great speed, you quickly discover an interesting problem
with the 3D printing of thermoplastic materials: controlling layer temperature.
If you print very tiny parts that have little layer surface area or turn out an object at very high printing spe-
eds so each layer is completed in a matter of seconds, often the layer of plastic just laid down doesn't ha-
ve time to cool. It's still a little molten when the next layer is laid down.
With the radiated heat from the nozzle and more hot plastic being extruded, the model can end up a me-
ssy blob instead of the object you had intended. You can slow down the speed, but this may not resolve
the problem; you shouldn't have to wait even longer to print an object anyway. This is where a controlled
cooling fan can make a massive difference.
The cooling fan used to cool a printed object is usually around 80mm wide. It's controlled by the electron-
ics:In your Slic3r-generated G-code, you can specify how fast a cooling fan runs, and when to turn the
fan on or off.
With a cooling fan fitted, Slic3r can still run the print at full speed — even when printing fine details of a
model.Without a fan, Slic3r would have to instruct the Gcode to slow down to allow for natural cooling of
the plastic before adding more. As you can imagine, fine structures can be tricky to print without a cool-
ing fan.
A fan has the ability to allow bridging of extruded material. This is an essential part of many 3Dprinted objects.
Bridging is when a model has to span a gap, essentially making a bridge in thin air. If you extrude plastic with
nothing underneath it, the extruded material will naturally sag down and sometimes break.
Although you can bridge filament without using a fan, you will usually have some strings of snapped extruded
filament hanging down, and a little sagging. With a fan to help cool the plastic as it's extruded, you can make
a tight bridge and get smart-looking results.
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