Pei is easily cut to size by scoring with a hobby knife.
Pei sheet vs glass.
Many people like printing directly on glass because it is easy to remove your print when done and leaves a nice glossy finish on the bottom of the 3d part.
5 mil is about optimal.
If you have a china printer with a bed fleas can surf on you can easily go with a glass surface that instantly gives you better results due to being flat.
Switching to a glass bed isn t a great idea on a prusa for a number of reasons.
Compare properties of unfilled pei and 30 glass fiber reinforced pei.
Pei sheets can be pretty uneven thick sheets more so.
One reason might be that glass is an easy flat surface.
Written by michael dwamena.
Glass reinforcement provides even greater rigidity and dimensional stability while maintaining many of the useful characteristics of basic pei.
Laminate your sheet of pei using 3m 468mp adhesive transfer tape to a glass mirror print bed keeping in mind that 3m 468mp is a very tacky tape that is prone to clumping.
The pinda probe won t work correctly.
Better with thin sheet of pei on glass.
I ve run glass the craptastic preforated sheet that shipped with my printer painter s tape kapton tape and pei and vastly prefer the latter out of all of them.
Adding weight glass sheet to the y axis increases the load on the stepper motor and means it s more likely to perform poorly at higher speeds and or when printing large objects.
How to use it as a 3d print surface.
The world s 1 3d printing magazine for beginners and professionals.
Get these they have adhesive already applied.
Best 3d printer build surface glass vs pei vs buildtak more.
The type of glass you choose does not matter as long as you provide even heating of your glass for example if using.
Use some windex on it if necessary.
Stick to the sheet.
The glass reinforcement yields a product with an exception strength to weight ratio and increased tensile strength.
You can actually lightly sand it with 600 grit sand paper to give your pei sheet some more life.
By peter ferris mar 5 2019.
Everything i ve used just sticks to pei with no glue or hair spray or anything else required.
In 3d printer general.
Choosing the best build surface for your 3d printer can be a confusing task at time which took a while myself to figure out.
3d printing on glass should be done with moderate heating 60 c.
You should also make sure the glass is clean.
