What is elephant foot in 3D printing?
Elephant foot is the widening of the bottom layers of the model - the part has „feet" at the plate. Caused by too low Z-offset or high bed temperature.
How to fix
- Raise Z-offset by 0.05 mm
- Lower bed temperature by 5-10 °C (after first layer)
- Enable elephant foot compensation in slicer (0.1-0.3 mm)
- Raft - eliminates contact with hot bed
Prevention
Bambu Lab and Orca have automatic compensation. In Cura it's „First Layer Horizontal Expansion" with negative value.
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