I am new to 3d printing and most things I have been easily able to look up but one basic yet puzzling thing I cant find any simple answer to is how to adjust print settings to get an average print speed. every post and filament just says print at X MMs speed. but there seems to be no general slicing setting to tell it to just print an average of a certain speed. just a lot of very specific speed settings. is there any general guide to “for PLA for this setting you take target speed and add 10, this one you subtract 20,” ect ect So far I have been just using the very stock speed settings in orca and creality slicer and I know that’s much slower than my printer and my filaments are capable of. Sadly this seems to be in the power user “its so trivial there is no point in talking about it” realm but yeah it very much isnt. Any help on this subject would be very appreciated as I look to fine tune my prints!
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You can go faster, but you’ll trade off print quality and machine life (vibration, under-extrusion, wear). The real ceiling isn’t “X mm/s”; it’s the volumetric flow of your hotend/filament. With standard PLA you’re typically at 6–12 mm³/s (≈ 70–130 mm/s . The headline 400–500 mm/s needs ~36–45 mm³/s, so only with a high-flow hotend + “Hyper” PLA + strong cooling + input-shaper.Therefore: I suggest to stick to the Generic PLA profile for most spools (Max Volumetric Flow ≈ 8–12 mm³/s depending of the printer). Move to the Hyper PLA profile only if your hardware and filament sustain >20–30 mm³/s.
Q=v×h×w with Q the volumetric flow
v the speed
h the layer height
w the layer width