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Larger nozzles do kick ass. I personally use my 0.6 nozzles pretty heavily. As others have mentioned though, there are definitely scenarios where you'll really want or even need to drop to a smaller size. My printer hates trying to print PETG at higher sizes for example, maybe my hot end isn't powerful enough.
I printed some tiny but detailed board game pieces recently, I don't think I'd get the detail I wanted with a 0.8. I also have Revo installed so I'm okay with swapping nozzles frequently.
For years now, I've always want to see someone try a dual nozzle setup. Same material, same filament, but two nozzles sizes.
Small nozzle for outer perimeter at a low layer height.
Large nozzle for inner perimeter and infill at higher layer heights.
Maybe in the future, someone will find a way to control nozzle size dynamically.
I tried .8 nozzle for a while, but my vanilla hot end just can't keep up at higher speed.
Ever try 1.0?
Ever try 1.0........
On weed?
I could not get a 0.6 to stop oozing and stringing with petg and pla. Just couldn't so switched back to 0.4. Dragon hot end w. Bowden tube after titan extruder.
can't believe it - I was stringing and clogging with 0.4 (likely trouble with retraction but tuned to hell and back) but running same parts at 0.8 (granted not detailed, but functional big parts) without stringing, same retraction settings, and 40% print time it's wild
Goodbye, filament money! Good grief do big prints chew through supply.
3d printer go brrrrrrrrrrt
Dang, I have .8s for all my hotends but haven't got around to trying them. Some day though.
Thanks for the motivation.
When you have big shit to print try it, I've cut 20h parts down to 9h
Yeah totally get it, going to .6 already forced me to switch to 5kg spools on my commonly used filament.
Any troubles keeping up with extruding through a .8? Having a reason to spend money on a higher performance hot end was my main worry from using it.