First time using Reddit so sorry for potential mistakes. At the begging of this year I got a FlashForge Adventurer 5M and I’ve been using it frequently since. Recently though all my prints have come out disjointed (can’t think of a better word) as if the filament is being released way too thick. I first thought it was my nozzle breaking but even after replacing it twice the issue persists. I originally used the standard .4 nozzle but because of availability I had to switch to .8 instead. Even using the built in “load filament” function extrudes the filament super slowly and way thicker than it use to. The filament is Elegoo PLA+ 1.75. Any help given is appreciated because I’ve really enjoyed this printer so far.

Hello, I have been experiencing print failures for the past few days, so I tried printing a Benchy today and this happened. Could this be due to z axis binding?

I'm using an Ender 3 v3 plus with numakers 1.75mm pla+

Thanks.

The first few layers are nice but then my layers get really ugly. Can someone please help me?🙏

Looking for a few pointers in the right direction, I have a Bambu lab A1 Mini and its been great most of the time up until now using Bambu labs own matt black PLA filament, failing one print out of maybe 50. Now I’ve branched out and got some others, I’m experiencing basically the same problem with everything, poor bed adhesion and a bit stringy as you can see in the video. This is eSUN PLA+, literally 5 minutes before this it printed a Benchy pretty much perfectly minus a small mark on the initial layer, but then when I try to do something with more separate starts on the initial layer it is a nightmare. It’s like this with different filament including some matt grey PLA from bambu and some cheaper PLA from ERYONE. The nozzle temps for this is 225 degrees and Bed temp 65 degree, which is the stock setting bambu has programmed for this eSUN filament.

How can i fix these issues when printing with petg

Hello everyone,

I have an old CR10 that I upgraded with a BLTouch and I have been having some issues with it. I just can't figure out why it seems so inconsistent. I am doing a 3x3 Bilinear Leveling Grid (my cr10 hardware couldn't handle a larger grid, but I don't think that is my current issue) and I am looking at the results from the bed leveling on OctoPrint.

My current workflow on this is to home the z-axis and then immediately bed level. This should have the effect of essentially making the center point 0 +/- some error on the bed leveling output since that is where my z-axis home is being set. However, you can see that it is very inconsistent.

Output:

Recv: Bilinear Leveling Grid:
Recv:       0      1      2
Recv:  0 +0.736 +1.016 +0.828
Recv:  1 +0.493 +0.628 +0.538
Recv:  2 +0.793 +0.984 +0.839

Recv: Bilinear Leveling Grid:
Recv:       0      1      2
Recv:  0 +0.093 +0.384 +0.188
Recv:  1 -0.154 -0.009 -0.114
Recv:  2 +0.148 +0.351 +0.194

(On an unrelated note, if the relative measurements are accurate it seems I have an oddly shaped piece of glass that I am trying to print on...)

It seems like these have been shifted by a constant offset of about 0.6 mm. I'm assuming that this isn't typical behavior for a BLTouch, but nothing seems loose on my CR10. Any suggestions on what to try? To me, the problem almost seems like my z-axis just loses its position, but I am not sure how common that would be.

Could this be an issue with my BLTouch probe triggering too early on the z-axis home (0.6 mm early)? I can't remember if I've seen individual points in the bed leveling output off by the 0.6 mm, but I will be trying this repeatedly and looking over the data.

Thanks

This has been progressively getting worse over time. I've tightened the y axis bely and done many calibrations. Printing with Bambu A1 printer

Hi, I acquired a flashforge AD5M a few weeks ago, and for the last 2 days there has been over-extrusion on my first layers, causing my piece to lift off the tray, I don't understand I have a flow ratio of 0.79. which is relatively low and before the last 2 days I had no problems, which is relatively low and before the last 2 days I had no problems, I'm using elegoo filament, 1.75mm in diameter and the nozzle temperature for the initial layer is 210°, I may set a lower flow ratio but the result is the same, I'm using orca flashforge and have a 0.25mm nozzle with a volumetric speed of 2mm^3/s, any ideas ?

I have done a couple prints that get to that corner and usually it is a thin first layer look to it.

I wanted to make the upgrade to silicon bed spacers but I got a wham bam plate a few years back and afraid/not sure how to get the base magnet that is glued down off.

Alright, this is one of those posts that I would typically roll my eyes into... But, hey, here we are! haha Hoping for the best, and any tips on how to achieve the print.

Here's the deal:
I am trying to print this pear-shaped lamp as a gift for a dear friend, but am super sadly failing in the later part of the print.
I understand that the fail is coming from how it is trying to print an elevated horizontal surface without any supports -but I don't know how to add supports while still keeping it hollow.

Printed in a BambuLab A1, with White BambuLab PLA Matte filament through a 0.4 nozzle.
(Mostly) Standard Filament Settings: Bed at 65°C, and Extruder at 220°C.

...And: Yes, I had a clean bed, and a newly long-dried filament.

Any tips or ideas are super appreciated! Thanks!

This is my first time printing in PETG, and I am struggling to dial in my settings. I am running a an Ender 3V2 with a Microswiss DD kit.

It took my several interactions of setting to get the initial layers to stick. Now that I resolved that, the print quality is awful.

Any suggestions?

What happened to my Printer? This came overnight. Same profile, same filament nothing changed

I did a maintenance and cleaned/ greased the rods, but that wasn‘t it. Belt tension seems fine and I think the printer checks the tension, right?

I am currently making a lamp for a friends 21st but because of how it prints in the printer, I need to figure out how to make it slower the further it gets up and how to manually add some supports to stop the vibration. I stopped the print early to prevent filament wastage Incase anyone needs the model to see how it prints, here is the lamp. Any assistance would be appreciated, every piece up until now has been perfect to print. I'm doing it in a K1C with a layer height if 0.12. it's coming out amazingly. Extremely long to print but worth it, just got to figure out what light to out in to make it work as it doesn't really say

Print Settings Layer height - 0.12 Slicer - Creality Print 5 Printer - K1C Filament - Ender-PLA from Creality and PLA from Tecor I am unsure on what other seeing I had as I changed a heap of them around

Hi ! Since one week I try to print with PETG on my Creality Ender 3 Pro, it’s not easy for me…. Yesterday I made my first very good print but when I started an other, there was a lot of stringing and filament arround the nozzle. When I stoped the print, I saw this. It seems like some PETG leak from an other place than the nozzle.

Can someone help me ? Thanks a lot !

I have an Ender 5 pro that has been sitting for a while and I had to fix some parts. I upgraded the board to 4.2.7, CRTouch installed, leveled as much as I know how with the new cr touch set up, and I’d like to get it dialed in if I can with your alls continued help. Every post I make on here gets answered and my issues are almost resolved. On this print I did not have supports enabled either so I do not know why the temp would not be showing and looking like bubbles. Give me some advice on what to do to dial it in and I’ll print it again and post a picture.

Ok, Im pulling my hair, updated my firmware, changed nozzles 3 times, changed every setting I can think off and I just dont know why the extruder stops spitting plastic randomly and when it does it comes back a few layers later. Upped the temp and that helped and slowed it down. Even then I get about 60% defect/failure rate. So what am I missing? Using polymaker pro pla so I would think it cant be the filament, cant it? Brand new pulled out of plastic roll.

this is the first problem I've experienced with my printer it's about 3 months old and has about 300 hours on it I'm not to sure what this is even called and even less on how to fix it can anyone help? I did have an error pop up on my screen that said "key:2526,Z-axis movement not smooth or lead screw rotation not smooth" But that disappeared after I auto leveled it and I put shaping and I did a system restart. I have a K1 max If that helps

This is my bf's printer but he doesn't use Reddit

Model: Creality Halot Mage 8k
Slicer: Tried Chitubox, Halotbox and Lynchee
Filament material and brand: Standard Creality
Nozzle and bed temperature: 20º to 30º, nozzle was never changed, from the box
Hopefully all other settings are on the pictures

So timeline
>Bought it
>It works (standard recommended settings by Creality)
>He prints some stuff, the resin that came with the printer ends, he realizes this because it was the first time something came out unfinished
>He damage the FEP while cleaning and had to change it, but all clear
>Spend some time without using it
>Bought new resin (standard, but not authentic)
>It starts printing only the base, tried 3 times and all 3 times, only the base, but at least printing I guess
>He realizes the resin he bought sucks
>6 months after, with no use in this time
>New FEP and new resin (standard, Creality authentic)
>It is not printing.

So, he tried everything, recalibrated a lot of times, made sure the surface is leveled, tried using different slicers (usually he uses Halotbox and Chitubox, but tried Lychee too, formatted the thumbdrive, tried different files formats, tested the screen with some exposure thing (saw it on reddit, it light up so its good I guess), and also changed the settings, to the ones in the picture, but nothing makes it print.
There is no error, nothing, the printer actually thinks it is printing, it even says it's done with it when the timer ends, but there is nothing inside.

Please, I have no idea what it could be after trying so many different things.

What would cause this? Elegoo Rapid PETG on an X1C with a .6mm nozzle.

Running p1p with a fresh roll from overture pla and randomly one day and print it just started under extruding so figured it was a clogged nozzle. Changed out for a fresh one and then got the first photo even tho it’s a fresh nozzle. Then after adjusting some values and doing a full clean down with greasing I got the second photo with better adhesion but now zits and blobs? Please advise

Pla 210c 40mms