>Also though depends on the need right? If I'm making a 3-d print of something that I just want to see a very rough mockup in space, I might trade accuracy for speed if it goes from an hour to < 10 min.
Yep, coincidentally I was just reading today about a "crazy" experiment increasing "abnormally" the nozzle hole size on a common printer, JFYI:
I’ve been printing with a 1.2mm nozzle on my printer for about a year now. I love it. The fat traces are strong as hell and I can print at 0.8mm layer height.
However I have to print at 10mm/s and I actually use 0.4mm layers so I’m not sure it’s faster in my case. I’m still limited by my ability to melt plastic.
But I’m building a robot [1] that is 200 hours of print time currently, and I’d love to make it faster.
Yeah...overall your hotend is still limited volumetrically...so overall for volume extruded you are still printing at the same rate.
I feel big nozzles printing wide traces have other benefits like overall strength and such (less welds is my guess) and thicker walls per number of perimeters (again...less welds).
In my shop I keep a .7mm authentic jhead for when I want to use a larger nozzle.
Yep, coincidentally I was just reading today about a "crazy" experiment increasing "abnormally" the nozzle hole size on a common printer, JFYI:
http://www.tridimake.com/2013/07/extremely-fat-extrusion-wit...
of course having both speed and precision would be much better.