3D Printing Discussions, Questions and Debugging

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they have a fucked up layer again.

Not the same place as the other ones

Here is the file of what i’m trying to print and my current setting i use in cura, if somebody wants to have a look at it?

Tremendous Wolt(1).stl (5.2 KB) xsynatic.curaprofile (3.3 KB)

Got a Cura issue. I set my wall speed to 80 mm/s. But when I go to the preview and see the feed rate, it shows really slow, around 15 mm/s. All of a sudden my prints are printing really slow.

Any ideas?

thanks.

Look under the hidden settings. I had that issue too where i set everything to 25mm/s but outer walls printed at 50mm/s

The latest print did a 99% flawless job

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i get this sound that’s coming from my extruder on my ender 3 pro
is it because i print too fast? print speed is 80mm/s and a bit lower for some parts
audio on


that white stuff is glue

Yes, printing too fast, especially with that extruder. Get a bmg clone extruder, it pushes the filament from both sides instead of one side being a bearing. You can try increasing hot end temp a bit but I’d expect to still get some “binding” as it’s referred to.

ok thanks

When I get a bmg extruder I’m thinking of making it direct drive
I saw this motor


Would it be better since it weighs less?

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For direct drive that would be better. I think i use the exact same motor. Check the ender 3 all metal direct drive upgrade thread for more info.

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@xsynatic,

  1. I don’t recommend to enable “outer before inner walls”
  2. Enable compensate for wall overlaps
  3. Reduce skin overlap percentage. I have it at 10%
  4. Reduce infill overlap percentage if you see filament sticking to nozzle too much
  5. For PLA print at 215. Higher temperature reduces internal strain and prevents lifting and layer separation
  6. For PLA you can go up to 80mm/sec on infill and 40mm/sec everywhere else without significant deterioration in quality
  7. enable “equalize filament flow”
  8. use zhop only when using sticky filaments. PLA doesn’t need zhop. Use 0.4mm zhop if at all.
  9. Retraction distance of 10mm is just too much. Use 6mm or lower.
  10. Disable combing. It just lets filament ooze all over the place.
  11. Use moderate cooling. It’s a good thing. The layers don’t curl up.
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I think these are all the speed settings. Have outer wall set to 80 but in the preview it is around 15 mm/s. Not sure why it is doing this. Any ideas?

Cooling time minimum? Small perimeter minimum?

Those are worth checking.

Dunno where they are in Cura though, I use slic3r primarily.

i had it at 75% before because i always had those gaps between the layers like here

will do.

i just enabled it yesterday again because i think thats the reason the prints failed. It seemed that the extruder scraped on the print after being finished with the skin overlap correction. Once i enabled ut, it didn’t get knocked over.

also set yesterday with a random number Will change!

for the rest i’ll update the profile later.

Thank you

If you have gaps in infill then increase infill flow %

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Did you ever print a calibration cube ?
If not print the 20mm Cube and measure all of the Axis for the correct dimension.
If your cube comes out too small you should increase your multiplier for more filament flow.

Maybe also your nozzle hole diameter is set wrong.

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Anyone have issues in Cura with supports not touching the model?

It shouldn’t touch the model otherwise it won’t be support.

If the support touches the model you would not be able to remove it afterwards…
But you can reduce the distance to 0,1mm if that makes you more confident :slight_smile:

Hi, I have some issues printing thin walls with PLA on my Prusa Mini.
I also have several problems with Flex, but thats an other story.
First i need some positive results before i go into enrage, hehe.
Probably some of the last posts had the same issues.
Tomorrow i wil read this topic backwards, maybe i will find some answers too.

For now i will share my problem.

When i print an 20 x 20 x 20 cube everything looks good so far.

Infill Flow? Overlap? Different Perimeters?
I am rather new in this area.
So many… So many Settings… Settings everywhere!