The holidays are fast approaching and with that the demands for seasonal decorations! This is the perfect time to test metallized PLA. Eryone asked me to test their new PLA "Silk"!
Let's see the result together!
PLA Silk ?
The term "silk" refers to the texture of this PLA which is very soft and regular. Once printed, the layers are less visible than with conventional PLA and the reflection is more pronounced.
It is a perfect filament to have an excellent rendering from the beginning with the least post-treatment possible.
Eryone provided me with the Gold filament in test, with a rendering very close to gold (it is the first time I have a real "Gold" filament that gives the expected color!)
Prints
Pikachu
We stay constant in filament testing because a test without Pokémon would not be a test 🙃
The model is not easy to print: the nozzle spends its time travelling between the tail and the body of the Pokémon, leaving a little filament behind it between moves.
Printing parameters
- Cura 4.3
- Extrusion temperature: 200°C
- Heating bed temperature: 60°C
- Infill: 15% Gyroid
- Printing speed 60mm/s
- Z-hop enabled
- Layers thickness: 0.02mm
Maneki-Neko
Here I took back the lucky cat from Japanese folklore: Maneki-Neko that I had already printed during the SOVB3D filament test.
Printing parameters
- Cura 4.3
- Extrusion temperature: 196°C
- Heating bed temperature: 60°C
- Infill: 15% Gyroid
- Printing speed 60mm/s
- Z-hop enabled
- Layers thickness: 0.01mm
For fun, I also printed it with Anycubic's "Gold" filament, which is anything but gold, a picture is better than a long speech:
On the left the filament PLA "bronze" of SOVB, in the middle the PLA "Gold" of Anycubic, on the right the PLA "Silk Gold" of Eryone
Christmas Reindeer
Christmas is fast approaching and this golden filament is in the theme of the celebration. Decorations sold in stores are sold at crazy prices so why not make them ourselves? The model used is this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2687049 it solves a problem that occurs 1/3 of the way through the print: one of the legs tends to come off the bed...
Printing parameters
- Cura 4.4
- Extrusion temperature: 196°C
- Heating bed temperature: 60°C
- Infill: 15% Gyroid
- Printing speed 60mm/s
- Linear advance configured and optimized
- Shrinkage of 0.75mm
- Print size: 50% of the original
- Layers thickness: 0.01mm
Conclusion
I don't have much to say about this filament: it's of good quality, it melts fast (a little too fast, don't hesitate to put a temperature close to the minimum recommended by the manufacturer to avoid having too much stringing/oozing.
It should be noted that it is a filament, by its nature, which tends to quickly mark defects so you will get much better results by printing slowly.
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