HIPS as part material

[JFettig]

I never see anything anywhere on the internet about running HIPS for anything other than ABS support.

Does anyone ever make parts out of this stuff? How does it compare? I have a spool of green HIPS and I was thinking about making some random stuff from it, I haven't gotten the CHIMERA yet so I can't use it as support.

[Nylocke]

Watch the video on this page: https://www.lulzbot.com/products/hips-3 ... -reel-esun

[bot]

Nice video, but I hate how she pronounces it as the word hips.

Does she say abs? pla? PLAH!

I've noticed people do this with PET as well. What gives? P.E.T.!!!

[Nylocke]

Who doesn't call HIPS HIPS? No one wants to spell out H I P S

I'll go with you on every other plastic, PET, ABS, PLA, HDPE, etc, but HIPS I call HIPS


Oh, and if Ultimachine sold as many colors of HIPS as Lulzbot did in 1.75, I would buy the hell out of it. Natural is so boring, and HIPS seems like a nice material.

[JFettig]

That is the only video I have seen regarding printing regular parts in that material.

There are plenty of colors of HIPS available on Amazon and other places, I have some Gizmo Dorks HIPS that I will try printing soon.

[bot]

Well, Hips it is then I guess.

[Glacian22]

From now on I'm pronouncing ABS as abs, but capslocked because they're amazing six-pack ABS. Example: "Hey guys! I printed this fan shroud out of ABS! Hrrrgh!" That last bit was the shroud flexing.

[jdurand]

Is PC-ABS when you're careful to not make fun of or otherwise insult his/her ABS?

[bot]

[JFettig]

Spent a little time setting this material up this evening printing a single wall part to set up retracts, wipe, etc. The part gets all droopy unless I run the layer fan, only takes 30% fan speed to fix that issue. Seems to print the same at 220c as it does at 240c, with and without the fan(droopy without, good with).

[JFettig]

It seems like I can only get this stuff to print with a layer fan. I haven't been able to print ABS with a layer fan so I'm not sure how I'll make this all work once I have dual extrusion and use this as a support.

[Nylocke]

This has been posted before, and for good reason https://www.lulzbot.com/sites/all/theme ... _Guide.pdf (maybe not helpful now, but in the future)

After looking at that and a few other sources I can't see any reference to a layer fan. Where did you get your material?

Since you're using it as support, is it really important for the support to look nice? you are removing it after all...

[JFettig]

I'm pretty sure I have read that. Support should look nice enough that the abs laying on top a also looks nice.

I might be printing too fast for the size but with the layer fan it seems to work out OK.

I have a spool of Gizmo Dorks HIPS.

[nitewatchman]

I got two spools of GD HIPS yesterday. Price is right. I'll give it a whiz this weekend.

[JFettig]

Just got home, the part with infill and layer fan turned out really nice. Might just have to slow down.