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Note before printing so you can decide whether to print or not:This is a 6.3hr print.Use Clear/Transparent TPU (95a) ONLY. Why? Colored TPU may have chemicals to create the color and that color may be detrimental to your buddies health. Clear does not have additions. Supposedly.I cannot guarantee your print will float, but if you follow how I printed, you most likely will have successful flotation since it was created hollow.I created this hollow, as stated, and it will be bridging without bridges added in the slice. You can try, it&#39;s your time.When sliced, it will tell you there are floating regions, you better have your equipment dialed in because you will skip/ignore the support. This will cause some minor stringing. If you have a lot of stringing, you don&#39;t have your machine dialed in. The stringing you will have is easily eliminated with a small torch that you fire and sweep the print areas with stringing, not a flashlight (what you call a torch) for those of you in Europe ;).There will be a couple of small seam clumps at the entry hole that you should nip off before introducing to your buddy, just to be on the safe side keeping him/her safe from catching it.&nbsp;Orientation:The top ring should be down on the plate and the dome up.&nbsp;Printing:Set your filament to Bambu TPU 95a, even if you are using an off brand. I use only off brand TPU 95a and use this setting successfully.In the setting for that filament, make sure the preset of the recommended nozzle temp is set to 200 min and 250 max, nozzle at 230 and 230, Textured Plate 45 and 45. I use an Effect Plate and have not tried with the Textured Plate so I do not know how this print will work on the standard Textured PEI Plate. My TPU prints have had success on the Effect plates so I only use the Effect Plate, why use anything else with TPU? Effects are prettier :D &nbsp;Plate Type: Set it to the Textured Plate setting, even if using the Effect Plate.&nbsp;Quality: .16mm Optimal and keep everything defaulted except, Strength&nbsp;Strength: Walls: 3Top Pattern: Monotonic LineTop layers: 3Bottom Pattern: Monotonic LineBottom layers: 3Internal Solid Infill Pattern: RectilinearSparse Infill Density: 15%Sparse Infill Pattern: Concentric&nbsp;Slice and watch your first layers as normal. If you want to wait it out and see if the layer where the ring area tops out, that will take place around the 1hr 20 minute mark. There is where the potential for failure may occur, other than your first layer adhesion since TPU is finicky and some can, and some cannot get it right. My settings may not work for you, but they worked for me. Happy printing.&nbsp;

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