Nant-3D Filament – PLA – 30 Percent Natural, 1.75 mm

I liked the colour, and thought it would be good for printing fossil replicas for my paleontologist husband to work from. I did actest print (doorstop), and it was beautiful. It looks and feels like ceramic. Obviously, with correct levelling and settings, it is really hard to see the print layers. The photos are of the item straight off the printer.It does feel a little rougher than regular PLA , and after use, I ran a cleaner filament through just to be safe.Would buy more.

UPDATE- I've had some issues with a few of my rolls recently. First, I've had a roll with the same issue described in another review, with blobs. There was a gigantic blob right in the middle of a roll that ruined my print. I trimmed it off and started over, but I was still getting intermittent printer jams. I finally broke out the calipers and this roll diameter is all over the place, up to 2mm in some places and my direct drive just won't handle that much variance. The other issue I had was I was about halfway through a roll of natural color when I started noticing a slight blue tint creeping in. This was in addition to a really shoddy winding job by the company. I was really having to nurse this roll along. I ended up unwinding more and found that there was an entire section that was turning blue. I like the results when this stuff is working, but they really need to up their quality control.Old Review-I bought this a while back and just got around to using it. I liked the fact that it was more environmentally friendly that regular PLA and I liked the color of the natural. I held off on using it because I couldn't find the right project for it, but I finally found something. This is where the extra effort comes in. It is extremely hydroscopic, so you have to dry it for a minimum of six hours prior to use. The second thing is it has pretty significant stringing. I printed at 205 degrees and next time I'll probably lower it by five degrees to see if that helps. That said, I abosolutely love the results. The color was the perfect off white and you can't see the layers at all. The stringing cleaned up extremely easy and a little bit of scraping with my fingernail and light sanding got rid of all evidence. Even with the extra steps, I would definitely buy this again. I'm pretty sure that they give you more than the one kilo on the spool as well. Speaking of the spool, the only other negative I can cite is it they use a solid-sided spool, which just seems a waste coming from a company that touts being environmentally conscious. The other reason I dislike solid spools is it makes it very difficult to gauge how much filament you have left when you're getting low.

It's cloged every nozzle I've used. And the filliment quality control needs some work. Some parts are to big and get stuck and break off causing the printer to run dry.

First off, I absolutely love the color and the matte texture. It's unique and I love it enough to not throw out the roll... but I've thrown away about half the prints / every now and then I just have to trim a few meters off the roll and pitch them because of huge lumps all throughout the filament (see photo). They're big enough that they can't even begin to enter the bowden tube. It's mostly a pain when I'm trying to print a big piece (like one of the larger panels on the modular synth in the other photo) because I just have to constantly keep watch and I have to pause the print, trim out a few meters, and then re-feed in the fresh end if I don't want to trash the whole print.The worst is when a piece is big enough to get partially stuck in the bowden tube, just enough that I have to disassemble the whole thing. It also clogs the .6mm nozzle pretty regularly if it's hot but not extruding (due to the aforementioned block in the tube.Again, the color's great and the texture is great... but the dimensional accuracy is just wretched. I've never run into this with any other filament before.

When I saw that this PLA uses 30% oolite, which is pretty much reef tank sand, I started thinking. I heard mixed things about using PLA in a saltwater aquarium, but I was thinking that maybe the oolite would work like reef rock a little and help keep the PLA stable in the tank, as well as do other rock things. Well I'm glad I looked into it! The parts have been put into 2 different reef systems for over a week now, and so far so good. Nothing has been affected in either tanks. Frags glue on perfectly, crabs crawl over it, and fish don't mind. This stuff prints just like normal PLA. I even use more normal PLA settings with no changes. Adhesion was no issue on a PEI bed. Parts sink with no issues when printed with 100% infill. When I ordered they only had the natural color, but now I'm definitely gonna get the black to match my sand bed. Will update review if anything changes.

Absolute worst filament ever. Buyer beware.Every time I tried to use this filament it messed up and jammed in my printer.

I’ve not had one single print succeed. I had such high hopes for this for printing stuff for my bearded dragon. It clogged my machine and just keeps failing. I’m so disappointed and it’s just not worth the hassle.My machine is a Anycubic mega zero 2.0 with a heated bed, if you have the same machine as me I do not recommend