Printing tiny items?

[Kmot]

I am trying to print a dust cover for an RC wheel, and it is tiny. Only 6mm wide and 2mm tall. I have an Ender 3 Pro and every time I try to make something that small it turns out really bad. I even tried using a 0.2 nozzle and ultra fine setting and it still was no good.

Is it even possible to 3D print such small objects?

 

[Doom!]

Wow, that's tiny! Curious to hear the answer to this one, but it seems like it would be difficult.

 

[MeHurricane]

I knew a guy that put on a .1 or .15 nozzle and tuned for a while and could make a benchy about that size. (Prusa MK3S) It was so small that you really couldn't see it print he said. It just moved around such a small area. If you had an extra printer to tune for such a small size that might be an option. You might see if you can trade out prints with someone with a resin printer since they seem to do small better than FDM.
Hurricane

 

[Kmot]

Thanks guys. Well, I got fed up and just changed back to a .4 nozzle so I could do normal printing. Then I decided to try and tweak the slicer and give it an other shot, and surprisingly it turned out okay. Here it is on a wheel.

 

[Doom!]

Persistence pays off.

 

[DetroitSS]

That small the detail is not gonna be great as the line will only be as narrow as the nozzle you are using. For stuff like that I run on one of my resin printers with abs like resin. Non the less I print things that on everything but my ender 5 plus. If you are using pla run it slow with full part fan a few degrees lower than the maximum for that particular roll of filament you are using. Try a layer height of 1.2 and if you are using cura turn on filter out tiny gaps and set set fill all gaps to non.