Switching from Direct drive to Bowden

[VoyexTech]

I'm currently switching from a 1.75mm direct drive setup to a 3mm Bowden setup for my 3D printer. I have a 3mm e3d v6 bowden extruder and I have changed my slicer settings for filament size and got the new extruder mointed. What calibration do I need to do besides what I already mentioned and retraction distance?

[bob345]

if everythign else is already set up, then you just need to recal the extruder steps per mm

[Hackentosher]

Yup, I don't think you have anything else except calibration. 

 

Why are you switching from direct drive to bowden? Direct drive usually has better grip, and on 3mm, can do flexibiles better. 

[VoyexTech]

22 hours ago, Hackentosher said:

Yup, I don't think you have anything else except calibration. 

 

Why are you switching from direct drive to bowden? Direct drive usually has better grip, and on 3mm, can do flexibiles better. 

I am switching to Bowden because I have excessive ghosting and my corners are terrible and I have to print at 20mm/s so I want to switch to Bowden to fix this also my entire direct drive extruder setup has the weight of 2 nema 17 stepper motors which is excessive. I was at 1.75mm filament but I moved to 3mm so I can print some flexible filaments at least. Plus my new Bowden setup weights less than half of a stepper motor.