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Industrial Smooth Surface Settings
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Settings with ironing worked down to perfection to create stunningly smooth surfaces and overall prints that almost look like they were cast from PLA instead of printed. There are two print profiles: Textured and Smooth. Textured uses the adhesion of a textured plate to create a standard first layer. Since the smooth plate is notoriously horrible with bed adhesion if not maintained properly, I made a first layer with the Hilbert Curve pattern to minimize travel moves, since there's a chance of bed adhesion loss every time the nozzle has to stop and re-extrude in a different place. This method also makes the nozzle lines on the smooth plate completely invisible. Both profiles work with both plates if the build plate is maintained/glued properly, but they are optimized for quality and minimal print time for their respective plates. It's only 20-30 minutes out of your day and 2 grams of filament off your spool, so give it a try! 9/23/24: Apparently, most of you are not having the smooth p
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