I've had several items printed in White, Strong & Flexible material and all of them have the same error in printing on the bottom surface. The outer edges are rounded off (and missing material) and there's a visible raised edge offset inwards from all the outer edges of the part:

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Here's a shot of the top end of the part; it printed perfectly with nice sharp edges:

Does anyone know why this happens? Is there anything that can be done with the 3D printer to get the bottom faces to print the same as the top?

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[Updated on: Mon, 21 March 2011 03:31 UTC]

Yes, same issue here.
See on this die (depth of the numbers is 0.75 mm, more than the minimum detail and even that the wall thickness in Strong and Flexible).
The top and bottom are printed very differently. The number 2 is not readable, and thus I consider this print as a fail. The 13 in the opposite face is instead over-indented (or super-sharp).


Concerning the printing orientation, does the operator only turn the models by 90°? For instance, on a cubic die, if I want to avoid a number being on an horizontal plan, can I position the cube with on vertex up? Or is it useless because the operator can position back the cube so that two faces are horizontal?

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