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Hello!

I am the young creator of the first 3D printed strategy boardgame : Arkem Chronicles !

As I am trying to look for the best 3D printer to print my game, I am conducting a benchmark between different open source 3D printers to list to best ones.

John, from seemecnc, has recommended me to contact the community in the forum, that I do !

If somebody who has built and calibrated its Rostock well and want to show its skills, I would be very happy to give him two samples making one character of the alpha version of the game.

The size constraints are as well:

Sample 1: 27x15x18mm in inch : 1,06 X 0,59 X 0,70
Sample 2: 33x13x26mm in inch : 1,29 X 0,51 X 1,02

Time limit: the best quality with no more than 90minutes spent on the printing time for the two parts.

If you are interested, mp me !

Regards,

John
Some pictures there https://www.facebook.com/ArkemChronicles?fref=ts

I think you're going to find the extruder type will have a big impact on your final print quality. From what I'm seeing so far - bowden type extruders work best if you don't use retraction often. The direct-drive extruders I've used had no issue with retraction.

Unfortunately my printer is far from calibrated enough to produce a quality print of an intricate item. Good luck!

Are you looking to prototype the pieces or use them as production pieces. If simply prototype and send off to a company for mass production injection mold run, at that size you are probably better off looking at a SLS printer like the FormLabs printer. There are several derivatives of this type of resin-curing tech, some using DLP projectors to flash an entire layer at once. The are extremely accurate and produce amazingly fine features. However, the cost of resins in comparison to filaments is much higher. So if you were planning on doing a limited production run from the printer itself, you are probably looking at a FDM (or any of the other acronyms for essentially the same process) printer and try to fine tune it as much as possible. My Ultimaker does a pretty good job with prints on the small scale side of things, FWIW...