Tips for fixing warping and delamination in 3D printing?

[Rohawk1]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

If your bed isn't enclosed you might have a bad time. That is the biggest issue with warping in my experience. You can also mitigate it by printing with rafts on or by adding circles to the corners and then cutting them off after the print. With ABS there's always going to be a little warping, if you can't tolerate the warping consider doing secondary operations on the part (be mindful of wall thickness and infill here.

I agree with Andrew about having the bed enclosed, but printers like the ones mentioned above do not have enclosed spaces and lose a lot of heat, so they warp.. Although what do you suggest for secondary operations? Printing more and then cutting away plastic? What sort of parameters have worked for you in the past concerning infill and such?

Originally Posted by yash101

ABS does not warp is printed correctly. Our school printer, the Dimension 1200ES rarely exhibits warping. However, it could be because that printer is like $10,000!

Yeah we have access to several Stratasys machines, which never delaminate, but I am trying to find a reliable solution for ABS in consumer printers, such as the cube or makergear.. And with PLA, I have found that blue painter's tape works amazingly well and you don't have to replace it every print. Hair spray has kind of worked for me in the past but I haven't tried that Aqua Net brand yet.. Maybe this is a dumb idea, but is it possible to find the amount of heat lost in the plastic and maybe keep that environment around the part at a stable temperature with a heat lamp or something? Just a thought.