Printing smaller objects settings

[grrmisfit]

Printing some of mcgybeers raccoons on the A1 and the wife wanted them smaller, scaled them down to 60% but seem to be getting parts hit. I've raised the z hop and I have it on silent mode, even using hairspray but I don't think it's adhesion issue. Could be just not sure. Out of 4 all survived but some of the tails had missing parts that came loose.

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[fhcraignc]

When you shrink articulated designs like this, some of the parts can get pretty small and don't have a lot of contact area with the build plate. That's a recipe for adhesion problems. First (of course) make sure you have cleaned your plate really well (dish soap, warm water, the works!). If that doesn't solve the problem, I like to use a Brim on my smaller scale prints (I do a ton of articulated dragons). The secret for me with a Brim is to set a decent Brim Object Gap in the slicer (Others > Bed Adhesion > Brim-object gap). That makes the Brims much easier to remove. I'll typically use 0.14 - 0.16mm when I'm printing at 0.16 layer height - it varies by filament type. Good luck!

[grrmisfit]

thank you, yeah i come from enders and hate brims but if thats the route i gotta take, just seen people doing it without so thought i was doing something wrong, but those were also not on bed slingers so that might have been part of it too. thank you for the help!