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    Kweakui

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    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      Thanks a lot guys, I'm going through re-calibrating the printer. I have 2 rolls of PLA, but they're pretty brittle (probably because I just let them out in the open for the last year or so), so I'm going to figure out if I can fix it, if not, I'll have to order some more. Either way, I'll update this when I have a chance.

      Thanks again!

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      So The benchy printed, I still need to do some tweaking to get it printing perfectly, but it's printing now which is important, in celebration, I did a 14 hour print, a little planter with multiple compartments.

      It printed out almost perfectly.

      Thanks so much guys, your help was what got me back up and running.

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui

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    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      @Phaedrux True.

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      @Phaedrux I'm using the official creality glass bed, it has some coating on it that's supposed to help prints stick when hot and release when cool, but it still has issues some times, I'll try a cleaning before each print and see if that helps any. In the beginning, I don't remember having to clean the bed every time and it was sticking great.

      I'll try to bump it up a bit to see what happens (I can also measure the temp at the surface of the bed, so I can base the setting on that when I do).

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      So The benchy printed, I still need to do some tweaking to get it printing perfectly, but it's printing now which is important, in celebration, I did a 14 hour print, a little planter with multiple compartments.

      It printed out almost perfectly.

      Thanks so much guys, your help was what got me back up and running.

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      So I lowered the first layer speed (down to 15mm) I also bumped up the temp of the plate by 5 degrees (65 now) and the only way I was able to get it to stick was using a layer of glue stick, it's printing a benchy now, I'll see what it looks like after..

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      I'll try lowering the speed of the first layer, I tried printing a benchy, the brim seemed to print fine, but the actual benchy wouldn't stick in the middle of the bed. I'll also try upping the bed temp and nozzle a bit.

      I did go through the bed and nozzle calibration while doing the rest, I think they're well calibrated now.

      I'll get this eventually...

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      I'm a heck of a lot farther now thanks to your help guys, it printed out the test cube, there's still some dialing in for me to do I think, I'm still not convinced it's properly compensating, but I'm going to re-level the bed again and get that back corner in line as much as I can.

      In the 21 mm of the test cube (box?) that it printed, the front looks pretty great but the sides have a bit of wobble to them and the back has these weird artifacts, here's a picture.

      IMG_20200708_171517.jpg

      I think those might be down to Slicer settings, it looks like it does some sort of wipe at those points.

      I'm going to try printing a few other things and see how to dial in all the settings.

      If you guys have any suggestions, I'd welcome them.

      Thanks for all your help!

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      @Kweakui @Phaedrux Ok, cleaning definitely helped (should have tried that first), it still doesn't look like it's trying to compensate though as the part close to that back corner is definitely too close to the bed.

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      I'm calling G29 S1 in the start code of the slicer

      I ran G29 to generate the heightmap manually just before starting the print.

      Here's a screengrab of the heightmap, that back corner looks a bit high, the back corner of the print is where the nozzle looks too close to the bed, Maybe a re-levelling is in order? But the printer should be compensating for that unless I don't have enough data points?

      4596236c-3e62-453b-89b5-0c7a68cada08-image.png

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      It appears that putting the filament in a freezer bag with a couple of silica gel packs for a few days fixed the brittleness.

      So I went through the calibration steps at https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Guide/Ender+3+Pro+and+Duet+Maestro+Guide+Part+4:+Calibration/40 and the BLtouch part. I got to the part of printing the test cube, the first layer still isn't sticking properly and I'm not sure the compensation is working, if I look at the first layer it's trying to put down, some of the areas are laying down ok but others look like the nozzle is too close to the bed. I don't see the Z axis screw moving at all when printing, it gets most of the way through the layer, but then a part of it either doesn't stick or comes unstuck and gets pulled by the nozzle and takes the rest of the layer with it.

      I ran the mesh bed compensation to generate the height map and it looks ok I think, I did all the flow rate and esteps calibrations, the bed is as level as I can get it.

      I tried Baby steps and it doesn't seem to be helping, I'll keep messing around with it, but some help would be good. Let me know if you need me to post settings or anything.

      I'm prinintg PLA at 210 with a bed temp of 60 at the moment, the first lines that get printed on the side from Cura seem to go down fine, but when it starts printing on the bed is when things start to degrade, this is on the creality glass bed as well.

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui
    • RE: Pretty much at my wit's end

      Thanks a lot guys, I'm going through re-calibrating the printer. I have 2 rolls of PLA, but they're pretty brittle (probably because I just let them out in the open for the last year or so), so I'm going to figure out if I can fix it, if not, I'll have to order some more. Either way, I'll update this when I have a chance.

      Thanks again!

      posted in Tuning and tweaking
      Kweakuiundefined
      Kweakui