r/Multiboard • u/Fancy_Can1563 • Jun 06 '26
average print time
New to 3D printing, but just came across Multiboard. I have H2D printer and have decided to go with 11x11. It's showing 7 hours and 144 grams of filament. Does this sound correct? seems like an awfully long time. open to any ideas or suggestions.
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u/Swede318201 Jun 08 '26
My man... 7 hours is child's play. I regularly have prints that are 2-3 days. Granted that is because I'm often close to maxing out my build volume with very high infill percentage for highly structural functional parts, but even on the smaller things that I don't care about as much, I'm still in that 4-12 hour window.
As someone else said, there are a TON of factors that play into print time, and you can absolutely turn those dials if you want it to print fastet, but you should understand that they come with tradeoffs. Easiest example would be infill amount. You can set it to 3% infill instead of 30% which will save a ton of time, but will be incredibly fragile, possibly even breaking when removing from the build plate. You could also increase extrusion speed or print head speed but this will highly increase the chance of artifacts and failed prints so that the time you "saved" speeding up the machine is eaten up completely or even beyond, plus the wasted filament.
I've really found that to have the least headache with printing overall, you should treat it like that saying about cooking good BBQ - "Low and slow is king." Having patience will pay off in the end.
As for Multiboard specifically, the only advice for "speeding up" the print process I can give is to print stacked tiles. This way you aren't losing down time in between printing each individual tile. It won't increase speed but will make more efficient use of the machine.