Printable card
Temperature tower scorecard
Score each block, then let the rules pick the temperature: click the cells on screen, or print the card and use a pen. How to judge each feature: temperature tower guide.
Write down too: filament brand, type, colour, the file (coarse 10 °C or fine 5 °C), nozzle, test flow (10 mm³/s), date. A card without them is useless next month.
The columns follow the hexagonal tower model v2.3.0, in reading order: Strings first (before you touch the tower), the Flag last. Label and Surface only confirm; the Hole column is not counted at all. Pick your file in the menu (coarse files have 10 °C steps, fine files 5 °C). TPU: mark the Flag column – on every block. Printed on A4: the rules on page 1, the whole grid on page 2.
How the best block is chosen
- Hold the tower with the engraved numbers facing you. Score each block on its own, above its bottom 1 mm (there the temperature was still changing): ✓ pass, H fails because it is too hot, C fails because it is too cold, – cannot judge (damaged, not printed, not scored for this material).
- Strings first, before you touch the tower: brushing or handling removes them.
- Strength first. A block whose snap flag fails is out, however good it looks: a part that splits between layers is never the right answer. (TPU: the flag is not scored; skip this rule.)
- Among the blocks left, the one with the most ✓ wins. The Hole column is not counted: mark it to see whether it agrees, it never adds a ✓ and never breaks a tie.
- Tie: the block with fewer failures (H + C) wins.
- Still a tie: the cooler block wins.
- Note: for parts that must be strong, go one block hotter than the block the rules picked.
- Not every column changes. At the tower's flow and over a wide range, the strings usually show the hot end, and the smooth face and the top of the bridge show the cold end; the label, the hole and the ramp may look the same on every block. A column that does not change gets ✓ on every block: the flag and the columns that do change decide. The hole is never counted.
- Sanity check: H marks belong at the bottom (hot end) and C marks at the top (cold end). An H above a C, or marks scattered at random, means something other than temperature is at work: see Troubleshooting.
✓PassHFail: too hotCFail: too cold–Not scoredHole: not counted
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Click a cell to cycle: blank → ✓ pass → H too hot → C too cold → – not scored. On paper, write the letter in the box. Block 1 is the bottom of the tower, the hottest.