3D Printing Materials aka Filament in realraum

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Use Cleaning Filament when changing to a filament with a different extrusion temperature.

Otherwise lower-temp filament will charcoal inside the hotend at higher temperatures which can obsctruct the hot-end and create back-pressure and can be almost impossible to clean out.

~~HIPS 3mm white~~
- Spool Length: ~140m
- normal price
- nice material strength
- warps on large surface area
- needs raft for less than 4cm² ground surface
Bridge Nylon 3mm aka "bridge"
- Spool Length: 62.7m
- normal price
- awesome material durability and strength
- needs glue and no printbed heat to stick. even so has tendency of warping on large ground surfaces and thus getting loose
- recommended if cheap, small or very durable prints are needed
t-glase clear 3mm
- Spool Length: 56m
- more expensive, double price
- translucent
- brittle
t-glase red 3mm
- Spool Length: 56m
- more expensive, double price
- translucent
- brittle
PLA deep blue 3mm
- Spool Length: ~125m
- normal price
Stainless Steel PLA (proto-pasta)
- Spool Length: ~30m
- really expensive, 5 times usual price.
  actually more than 10 times as expensive as HIPS per meter.
- brittle on small features but durable like PLA and heavy on bigger pieces
- sticks really well on printbed. do not use glue or can forget about getting your print off the bed
Cleaning Filament
- Spool Length: ~5m
- use only for cleaning and when changing filaments
nGen Black/Purple/Silver/Blue von colorFabb
- Spool Length 750g: ~95m
- Spool Length 2200g: 270m
- only slightly more expensive
- least warping so good for precise prints
- sticks really well to printbed
- recommended for big and precise prints

See the Lulzbot Filament Guide on print-settings for various materials.