3D printing parameters — full table for 25 Porima materials

The complete official Porima print parameters in a single table. All 25 materials from the manufacturer's FDM parameter table: nozzle and bed temperature, recommended nozzle diameter, cooling percentage, drying, required enclosure, declared temperature resistance, difficulty level, abrasiveness and Bambu Lab AMS compatibility.

Most shops give you two numbers per filament: nozzle temperature and bed temperature. That is not enough to set up a slicer profile, and not enough to judge whether a given material can be printed at all on the printer you own. So we publish the manufacturer's entire table, unabridged — including the entries that normally never make it onto a product page. Each material also has its own page with the full set of thirty fields.

Full parameter table — 25 Porima materials

Material Nozzle temp. Bed temp. Nozzle diameter Cooling Drying Enclosure Temp. resistance Difficulty Abrasiveness Bambu AMS
PLA 200–230 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
Tough PLA (PLA+) 210–240 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 100% — fan mandatory 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
Hyper PLA+ 220–250 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
PLA Premium 210–240 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm (Granite 0.6 mm) 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
Silk PLA 230–260 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C easy none Yes
PLA Army 210–240 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
PLA Stone 210–240 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
PLA Pastel 200–230 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
Smart PLA 210–240 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
Eco PLA 200–230 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
PLA Star (Sparkle) 210–240 °C 0–60 °C 0.6 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C very easy none Yes
PLA Wood 210–240 °C 0–60 °C 0.6 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 60 °C easy moderate No
PLA/CF 220–250 °C 50–70 °C 0.4 mm 60–100% 4 h at 55 °C open frame, no enclosure 70 °C medium very high — hardened nozzle Yes
PETG 240–260 °C 60–80 °C 0.4 mm 100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 85 °C easy none Yes
PETG Transparent 240–260 °C 60–80 °C 0.4 mm 80–100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 85 °C easy none Yes
HT PETG 270–300 °C 100–120 °C 0.4 mm 0–10% 6–12 h at 50–60 °C closed or open frame; bed adhesive recommended 125 °C medium none No
ABS 250–280 °C 80–110 °C 0.4 mm 0–40% 6–12 h at 40–60 °C closed frame, 50 °C chamber 100 °C hard none Yes
Eco ABS 250–280 °C 80–110 °C 0.4 mm 0–30% 6–12 h at 40–60 °C closed frame, 50 °C chamber 100 °C hard none Yes
ABS/CF 260–280 °C 80–110 °C 0.4 mm 0–40% 6–12 h at 40–60 °C closed frame, 50 °C chamber 110 °C hard very high — hardened nozzle No
ASA 250–280 °C 90–120 °C 0.4 mm 0–30% 6–12 h at 40–60 °C closed frame, 50 °C chamber 110 °C medium none Not recommended
PC/ABS 260–290 °C 100–120 °C 0.4 mm 0–30% 6–12 h at 40–60 °C closed frame, 50 °C chamber 120 °C very hard none Not recommended
PA (nylon) 260–290 °C 90–120 °C 0.4 mm 30–100% — first 5 layers with no cooling 8–12 h at 65–80 °C — mandatory closed frame with a heated chamber 150 °C very hard moderate No
HIPS 230–270 °C 80–110 °C 0.4 mm 100% — can be reduced not required — non-hygroscopic material open frame, no enclosure 85 °C easy none Not recommended
TPU Flex 98A 230–260 °C 40–60 °C 0.4 mm 40–70% 2–4 h at 40–60 °C open frame, no enclosure 70 °C hard none Not recommended
Easy Flex 240–260 °C 0–60 °C 0.4 mm 100% 2–4 h at 30–40 °C open frame, no enclosure 80–100 °C very easy none Not recommended

Source: the official Porima FDM technical data table (FDM Technical Data). The descriptive ratings (none / low / medium / high) are the manufacturer's own labels, not the result of testing to any standard. Temperature resistance is the manufacturer's own declared figure — it is not HDT, nor any other normed test. The ±0.03 mm diameter tolerance comes from the manufacturer's data, not from the FDM table. See also the print temperature table and the filament drying guide.

How to read this table

Nozzle temperature is a range, not a single value

The manufacturer gives an interval because thermistors differ from printer to printer, and the real temperature of the polymer also depends on print speed and flow. Start in the middle of the range and print a temperature tower. The upper limit gives better layer bonding and more stringing; the lower limit gives cleaner detail and a risk of under-extrusion.

Bed ranges that start at zero

The whole PLA family and Easy Flex are listed at 0–60 °C. Zero means the material will also bond to an unheated bed, provided the surface is right. For PETG the lower limit is 60 °C; for PC/ABS and HT PETG it is 100 °C. That is not a nice to have recommendation, it is the condition for the print staying put.

Cooling is given as a percentage of fan power

PLA and PETG: 100%. ABS, ASA, PC/ABS: 0–40% or less. HT PETG: 0–10%, which is effectively off. Materials with a high working temperature that are cooled too hard will delaminate; PLA with no cooling loses detail and overhangs. For PA the manufacturer adds a separate note: no cooling for the first 5 layers.

Enclosure: when it is required and when it is merely recommended

The table distinguishes four situations. Open frame — nothing needed. Closed frame, 50 °C chamber — ABS, Eco ABS, ABS/CF, ASA and PC/ABS. Closed frame with a heated chamber — PA only. Closed or open frame with bed adhesive — HT PETG.

Temperature resistance is the manufacturer's declared figure, not HDT

This is the most important caveat on this page. Porima does not publish testing to any standard — there is no HDT, no Vicat, no TDS sheet with a measurement method. The figures in the temp. resistance column are the manufacturer's own label and are fit for ranking the materials against one another, not for engineering calculations. If you need a value tied to a standard, tell us what for — we will ask the manufacturer and either give you the answer or tell you that there isn't one.

Abrasiveness decides whether you need a hardened nozzle

PLA/CF and ABS/CF are rated very high for abrasiveness — brass wears out on them within a few dozen hours of printing, and the symptom is creeping under-extrusion at unchanged settings. A hardened, steel or carbide nozzle is mandatory with them. PA and PLA Wood are rated moderate. The remaining 21 materials — none.

Bambu AMS compatibility: Yes, No, Not recommended

This is the field nobody else in Poland publishes, and in practice it decides the purchase, because Bambu Lab printers are very popular here. Yes — the manufacturer permits feeding through the AMS (the whole PLA family except Wood, PETG, PETG Transparent, ABS, Eco ABS, PLA/CF). No — HT PETG, PA, PLA Wood, ABS/CF. Not recommended — ASA, PC/ABS, HIPS, TPU Flex 98A, Easy Flex. The manufacturer does not justify these ratings; with flexible materials it comes down to how the filament is guided through the feeder path, and with ASA and PC/ABS to the fact that they require a closed chamber anyway. Watch out for PLA/CF: it is marked as AMS-compatible, but its abrasiveness is still very high and a hardened nozzle is still required.

Diameter tolerance: ±0.03 mm

This value does not come from the FDM table but from the manufacturer's data, and it applies to every Porima filament. We are not claiming it is the tightest tolerance on the market — it is not. We are only claiming that we know it and publish it, and that diameter variation is the one cause of problems that no slicer setting will compensate for.

Full parameter pages for each material

The pages below carry the complete set of thirty fields from the manufacturer's table, plus practical guidance and a list of the problems typical of that material.

Before you change a parameter

  1. Check in the table whether the material suits your printer at all — enclosure and bed temperature are conditions, not suggestions.
  2. Dry the filament as per the drying column before you start tuning anything.
  3. Set the temperature in the middle of the range and print a temperature tower.
  4. Pick the cooling from the stated interval — the extremes first, then the middle.
  5. With abrasive materials, fit a hardened nozzle before you print the first metre.
  6. Save the working profile under the material and batch name.

The overriding rule: change one parameter at a time.

What this table does not contain

Honestly: the manufacturer does not give tensile strength in MPa, elongation at break, flexural modulus, a numerical impact strength, or HDT or Vicat with a stated standard. There are also no TDS or MSDS sheets in PDF and no RoHS, REACH, UL94 or ISO certificates. We would rather write that plainly than paste in someone else's numbers or generic textbook values for PLA. Everything in the table above comes from the manufacturer's official FDM parameter table and we have not filled in a single gap with our own estimates. The missing data is the subject of an enquiry to Porima — if you need any of it, write to hello@mensa3d.com.

The materials from the table that we carry are in the Porima filaments collection; the full list of the manufacturer's line-up together with availability status is gathered on the full Porima filament range page. Symptoms and causes of common print defects are described in our 3D printing problems database.

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Material is one axis of the choice, application is the other. If you know what the print is for but not yet what to make it from, start here. Each of these collections describes the trade-off you are accepting along with the material.

Parameters are one half of repeatability, the filament is the other. Porima filaments are produced to a ±0.03 mm diameter tolerance, and we publish the manufacturer's full official print data — you don't have to guess it. Our warehouse is near Poznań, in Swarzędz.

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