<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>No, it allows you to use smaller-diameter nozzles, which in turn gets you the higher resolution because the filament is smaller to start with. It's easier press cold 1.75mm thru a 0.25mm nozzle than starting from 3.0mm.</div><div><br></div><div>In theory you can print faster because there's less volume of material to heat on-the-fly.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew.</div><div><br></div><div>If your positioning system isn't up to the job though,</div><br><div><div>On 2011-01-21, at 8:51 AM, Darcy Whyte wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">So you're saying that the source filament affects the precision?<div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12px; "><ul id="variants" style="list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Tom Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.i.burns@gmail.com">tom.i.burns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
if you need the higher resolution for your parts<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com" target="_blank">darcy@siteware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><p>Thanks<br>
Can you think of a reason to get the smaller extruder? </p><div><div></div><div><p>On Jan 20, 2011 7:05 PM, "Andrew Plumb" <<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org" target="_blank">andrew@plumb.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></p><div style="word-wrap:break-word">It's 3mm filament at present.<div>
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<div><br><div><p><font color="#500050">On 2011-01-20, at 6:27 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
</font></p><blockquote type="cite"><p><font color="#500050">> Does the makerbot in M70 use 1.75mm or 3mm plastic?
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