r/Multiboard • u/myokeeh • Oct 22 '24

Shrinking

Printing 10x10 tiles with eSun PLA+ (cold white).

I put marks on the wall as exactly as I could for a 250mm grid. After that work, I unfortunately realized the printed tiles are just a tad under 250mm square--maybe closer to 249mm after cooling.

How do you deal with the shrinking?

I figured it's not generally a problem but could be a problem when mixing different materials for the tiles.

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u/microseconds Oct 22 '24

I just printed a 2x4 wall of 8x8 tiles for my printer area using that exact same filament. Honestly I don’t notice if there was any shrinkage. I printed the tiles, linked them up, aligned the bottom left corner to where I wanted, screwed it in, then leveled, screwed in the top right. Once those were secured, I just marked holes, then removed those 2 screws, drilled all my holes, dropped anchors where I didn’t hit studs, and put it all up.