<p>ABS is a very strong material, but it also has some downsides. One of them, which is the necessity of having a printer with enclosure, completely discouraged me from using it, as it would be a waste of money. This is quite sad, because I cannot make prints that will be able to withstand a large load of tension without breaking. </p>

<p>Is there any way to print ABS without any enclosure? Maybe there are several types of this material and some are easier to print?</p>

[{'answer_id': 10376, 'author': 'Sean Houlihane', 'author_id': 4927, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/4927', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': "<p>There is no requirement for an enclosure when printing ABS. Like many things in FDM, there are improvements to be made, but there is a scale of what is possible.</p>\n\n<p>A heated bed is much more necessary (for similar reasons, the thermal expansion is significant and without a heated bed you have very high risk of warping).</p>\n\n<p>An enclosure is important for high quality, large ABS prints. Otherwise, a warm location which is free of drafts will be fine, particularly for parts which are only a few cm high.</p>\n\n<p>If you're not using an enclosure, the part cooling fan should probably <em>not</em> be used to print ABS. You should also be aware that ABS tends to generate more noticeable fumes than PLA (although this varies with product, and how sensitive you are).</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 10382, 'author': 'cmm', 'author_id': 2082, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/2082', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I print ABS in my basement in an unenclosed Prusa3D i3m3s, just as I print other filaments.  Perhaps an enclosure would be helpful, but I don't have problems as it is.  Your experience may vary.</p>\n\n<p>Before that I printed ABS on a large home-brew delta machine.  No problems related to lack of enclosure.</p>\n\n<p>Before that I printed ABS on a Thing-o-Matic, also with no problems.</p>\n\n<p>I'm not saying that every print was perfect, but in the first two (chronologically) cases, the enclosure was not the largest contributor to print artifacts.</p>\n"}]
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