Awww… She turned out so beautiful.
After failing twice with silk filament, I switched to PLA Basic and reprinted it on my Flashforge Adventurer 5X using dual-color printing. Took about 3 hours and 10 minutes from start to finish, and honestly, I didn’t expect PLA Basic to look this good.
Now I’m thinking about giving it as a Mother’s Day gift. Do you guys think it works for that?
Been trying to get cleaner top surfaces on my prints for a while and kept ending up with that slightly rough / inconsistent finish, especially on larger flat areas.
I didn’t change anything crazy at first, just started adjusting ironing in Orca-Flashforge bit by bit instead of relying on default settings.
What ended up working better for me:
Ironing: Top surfaces only
Flow: ~10%
Line spacing: ~0.15 mm
Speed: ~20 mm/s
Top layers: 5–6
Fan: high (PLA)
The biggest difference was honestly lowering the flow way more than I expected. Once I stopped treating it like “extra printing” and more like a light surface pass, the top layer started coming out much more consistent.
Still dialing it in depending on model size and geometry, but this feels like a solid baseline for the OrcaSlicer setup on the Flashforge Adventurer 5M.
Not perfect yet, but definitely a noticeable im
provement over stock settings.