- This is by far my most requested video
over the past few months.
So here it is, the Monoprice Delta Mini
3D printer Cura settings video.
I know that finding settings and information
on this printer can sometimes be a little bit difficult,
so these are the settings that I've been using in Cura 3.2.
If they change, or if I update them in the future,
I will update them in the description.
So, as a great man once said, let's just jump into it.
The number one resource for answers
with pretty much anything to do with
the Monoprice Delta Mini is this
website right here, mpminidelta.com.
I have nothing to do with this website,
but it's so well organized, it's so well laid out,
and it gives you pretty much everything you need to know
about this specific printer.
There is an entire slicing section where they give you
settings for Cura, MatterControl, Simplefy3D and Slic3r.
So, for today we're gonna go into Cura,
and this is where you can download for
Windows, macOS or Linux, the newest version of Cura.
And you just download the profile
and install it into your computer.
Up until I got the Delta Mini,
I was using an older version of Cura
with the Monoprice Select Mini,
but the Delta works very well with newer version of Cura.
And the newest version just gives you
a lot more options and control.
And the interface is just prettier.
So now that we've added the Monoprice Delta Mini to Cura,
we can click on machine settings,
and you can see the actual settings,
so if you didn't want download the profile
and you just want type these in yourself,
you can create a new profile from scratch.
The x, y and z, width, depth and height,
are 110, 110 and 120 millimeters.
The x min and y min, and x max and y max,
are 20, 10, 10, 10.
It's an elliptic build plate that originates at the center.
It is a heated bed with one extruder.
And this is also where you can start playing around
with your Gcode if you feel like it.
The G-29 code is really the one that
you might play with the most.
This has to do with leveling the bed.
Unfortunately, I don't have a be all end all
perfect setting for this because,
I've been experimenting with it a lot myself.
If my settings change in the future,
I will update them in the description of this video.
And then the extruder is a .4 millimeter nozzle
with 1.75 millimeters.
And then you can jump down over here
into the print settings.
You should see a print area that looks very similar to
your actual Delta Mini printer.
And on the side there are all of the settings.
So I'm gonna walk through those pages with you right now
and just show you what I've been using.
So, the first thing we'll do is quality.
We'll keep a layer height of .1 millimeters,
and one of the best things about Cura is,
if you hold the mouse over any setting,
it will give you a description of what that setting does,
what it affects, I really appreciate this.
For shell, I've been leaving the default 1.2 millimeter,
and .2 millimeter thicknesses
and those have been giving good results.
Infill will change depending on your print.
Unless it's a very specialized situation,
I never go below 15% infill.
I usually always do 15 or 20 on basic prints,
and then if I need something really strong,
that's where you go up to 50, 60, 70,
even beyond in terms of infill.
But for just simple prints I usually keep it between
15 or 20, but again, this setting is going to change
depending on what you're printing.
When it comes to material, assuming you're using PLA,
which is the easiest material to print with,
keeping the printing temperature at 200 degrees
usually gives you nice results.
Keeping the build plate at 60
usually also gives good adhesion.
The diameter for standard PLA is 1.75,
the flow should be 100,
and you do want to enable retraction
to avoid stringing and all that nastiness.
So when it comes to speed, the Delta is a very fast printer.
So, if you're getting good results,
you could always come back and increase this a little bit
to see if you can increase your print speed.
I've been having good luck with 150 millimeters per second.
And then travel speed should be a little bit slower
just to avoid causing any errors.
For cooling, you definitely want to enable cooling.
This will make sure that the fans run,
and keep the filament cool as soon as it's extruded.
If you click generate support,
Cura will give you a few options of either
generating support everywhere,
which means anywhere that there's more than a
45 degree overhang, it's going to create a support.
If you do support touching the build plate,
then it will only create supports on overhangs
that would go directly over the build plate,
but not the model itself.
For build plate adhesion,
your options haven't really changed
since the older version of Cura.
Personally, since I have been having some
leveling issues with the Delta Mini,
I've been printing pretty much everything with a raft
because I've found that by the time that raft is complete
all the issues have been ironed out,
and then the model itself prints very very high quality,
and the raft just kinda takes up any first layer issues
that might otherwise transfer to the model.
So I do recommend rafts for most models
but it's not required.
And that's pretty much all there is to it.
I've also been using Simplefy3D with the Delta Mini
and I've been getting really good results with that.
So I may do another video with
those specific settings in the future.
In the meantime, I hope this was helpful.
I hope this answers questions
you might have about the printer.
I will put all of the relevant links and information
down in the description below.
But in the meantime, thank you for watching.
Good luck, happy printing,
and I will see you guys next time.
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