MK3 Anti Vibration Dampers

I recently had to move my printer to another location in the house and my new work surface was more of a sounding board than a work surface. I decided to design newer antivibration feet for my I3MK3 to try and reduce the noise level when printing.

This design helped cut down on the print noise I was getting. Unfortunately I have no way of quantifying the noise reduction, but it did help. If I had to guess, the noise was reduced by almost half based on what I heard. Your mileage may vary!

The other thing I observed, was some of the ringing lines in some of my prints was also reduced. As far as I'm concerned it was a win-win for me.

Here are the settings that I used:

• .20 mm layer height
• .4 mm nozzle
• 15% infill
• Gyroid infill pattern
• Rafts: No
• Supports: No
• 2 perimeter
• 3 Layers top and bottom

My gcode is set to print 2 feet at a time to keep the print time manageable. You will need four (4) feet.

I used Overature TPU and the included gcode is for this filament, but you can experiment with other flexible filaments if you wish. You can also try reducing the infill level and see if that helps as well. Perhaps you can report back if you see different results with your settings.