- Polymaker PolySmooth PVB Filament 1.75mm 0.75kg Transparent - Print Like PLA Filament, Easy Smoothable Post Process with IPA Alcohol, Work with Polysher

This works very well, and is a little tricky to make really clear. I over applied the alcohol on my first print and it totally melted. On its own it works very well and makes a translucent print. It sometimes makes tiny bubbles in the print.

I absolutely love polysmooth filament! It Prints exactly like PLA, and doesn't take anything special, just some 95%+ isopropyl to smooth it significantly. For colors, the red looks a little more orange than red, until you smooth it, and it goes back to a sort of bell pepper red. White (and red actually) is a tad translucent at only two walls thick. Grey is definitely more blue than grey. It works great in the Bambu AMS and the multicolor printing doesn't seem to bleed much, if at all, when smoothing. It's definitely my preferred filament for all finishing cosplay applications, because I can skip bondo and filler, as long as you print with at least three walls thick, it's pretty hard to sand through the layers. Joining pieces is pretty easy too, because you can make a sort of 3D gloop out of scraps of filament and some alcohol. Turn it into a paste, wipe it on and let it dry and then sand and smooth as normal! This stuff is really just a better version of ABS, as long as heat tolerance isn't your main concern (again, it melts at a normal PLA temperatures)

PVB prints very nicely on my P2S with stock generic PLA settings. I did run the bed at 75 C because that is what is suggested online (textured PEI standard plate.) The price is of course higher for less mass of filament but I wanted something I could smooth if needed. I ran a drying cycle for 6 h at 50C and it printed fine. Wish I hadn’t tore the bag at the wrong end for sealing out moisture so I will have to vacuum pack it with some silica gel to keep the moisture content low. Good stuff to have around for smooth prints but it won’t be my daily driver for sure. No idea about the Polysher accessory.

Update. After respoiling, it is completely garbage. FU for using a non-standard spool size that doesn't work in anycubic ace-pro Others having issues obviously left it out for a few hours. You need an enclosure to print it. I have one. So it is your fault I wasted my $ on this garbage Spool is odd size and does not fit in anycubic ace pro. Had to respool by hand! Aweful. And now my skin oil is on the filament. 4 hours of boring work keeping the coil tight so it won't mess up and get stuck. Prints fine If you have an enclosure that requires this specific size, and can't print the normal spool size, this is perfect for you

I’m loving this filament. I don’t have the “polysher” so I submerse 3D printed object into IPA for a minute (depending on how smooth I want it), and it works really well. Since price is lower than when it started, I think it’s a pretty good deal. Just make sure that you keep either use right away, or have a filament dryer, since it’s prone to moisture.

Filament isn’t too bad but dry before use. It is also wound on the spool terribly. It had multiple tangles through out the entire reel. This caused layer shifts every time it kinked and pulled on the motor. So it basically ruined everything I printed with it. Haven’t even started trying to vapor smooth yet because it’s really not worth the price for these problems. I’ll just buy ASA OR ABS and vapor smooth.

I think it's a more stable material than the Bambu matte PLA that I've been using. With just a minor change to the speed (40mm/s), I've not swapped any other settings. Prints like a dream on my A1 with the exception of the spool jumping that I encountered. A quick cobbling of stuff lying on my bench solved that issue, but also has me looking to print a more permanent solution. Processed a 1:1 skull that was printed at 1:6 scale, spritzing it with 99% IPA in a repurposed eyeglass cleaner aerosol pump sprayer about half a dozen times (in open air over a 30 minutes period). Probably could have spent more time on it to remove more layer lines on the sides, but the results left me with only minimal sanding to clean up a couple of bad spots paint couldn't cover in a typical 0.4 print in PLA. Ultimately this is behaving exactly as expected. It's a game changing product for sure.

Waste of money. Spraying 99% alcohol with a sprayer does nothing. Even a very fine mist. It actually just makes pockmarks all over it. The only way to use this is with their chamber and vapor deposition. Otherwise it's useless. It's just an expensive pla with higher temperature print

Prints OK and completely dissolves (I left it over night and had just water left in the tray I used).

Once settings are dialed, prints very well and can be smoothed with IPA as advertised.

I encourage all buyers to request a policy for circular economy adherence, so all plastic waste is collected from customers and returned to seller. Exactly like Nespresso did with the capsules. As you buy new capsules they collect your bag with used ones. The product is good but lacks the circular economy which should be mandatory!

Watch your prints very closely, after I printed 4 parts the spool was badly tangled and ruined the print. The rest of the spool appears to be badly wound.