Tips for printing and being able to get of base easily I'm very new to 3D printing and I've had numerous failed prints. Sometimes, the print is good but while trying to get it off the base I end up bending or breaking the print.

My question is: How to I print and make it easier to release from the plate?

I'm printing with PETG, PLA and ABS. At the moment, it's PETG that is giving me trouble.

My printer is a QIDITECH Dual Extruder.

I found this:

https://all3dp.com/1/remove-3d-print-from-bed-stuck-glass/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6fudqMEGyI

I haven't tried any of the proposed solutions yet.
The all3dp article you linked to is very comprehensive and shows what are the "approaches" to print removal, rather than just the tools.  For the sake of keeping all info accessible here, the article highlight these 6 approaches:


Brute force
Wedge the joint apart
Thermal difference
Chemical reaction
Mechanical cut
Bed warping


To that list I would add a final class of solutions that I would call "sacrificial surface": use some removable substrate like painter's tape and remove that from the bed rather than the print from it.  Once the print+surface is off the printer than is normally very easy to scrape or sand the material off the print.