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3D Printing Cars In Carbon Fiber PLA

For Christmas I received some Carbon Fiber PLA from Proto-Pasta.  I’ve been trying to figure out what to print with it, so I settled on the Strati, the ‘3d printed car’ from Local Motors: They were cool enough to upload the stl’s for it to Thingiverse.

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Sliced with Simplify 3D.  I had a heck of a time getting it to print however:  To get success, I had to increase my layer thickness to 300 micron (from 200) printing at 220 deg @ 90mm\sec.  I reached out to their support, and they were prompt to reply with suggestions.  I look forward to printing more with it, the finish quality is really cool, almost like 3d-printed coal.