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I have been printing the Shuttle from the Starship 3 kickstarter and I have reached the point where I need to print the cockpit window. I have some transparent PLA and have been working on getting it printed. The advice on the web seems to be print it as hot as the filament allows there seems to be a difference of option on some of the other setting, some say print in large layers and others as small as possible.
Anyway the result of my first effort printed at 0.2mm was this:
I then polished it using some 1500 grit sandpaper which I had, and it ended up looking like this:
Does anyone know a way to get this to print clear? Any help would greatly appreciated, I am using a Prusa I3 mk2s if that is any help and slowed down the speed to 24mm/s and turned of the model cooling and had a 100% fill using the setting mainly from here (although not the layer height):
Just in case you were wondering the full model looks like this (no engines or interior yet):
Thanks for the advice, I’ve tried to sand it smooth using different grits of sandpaper and although now quite smooth to the touch its still pretty opaque.
Strangely while looking for the sandpaper I found a spool of PETG natural so I am going to try that. I haven’t tried anything other than PLA before so wish me luck.
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