Calibration/Setup Prints and Macro Editing
I'm finally getting my printer set up to actually print and I need some direct help.
The problems I'm having now is first layer calibration. I can't tell if it's the extruder, print settings, z-offset, or what. I would also like to make it not automatically run the bed leveling every time I start a print. Why won't it use the saved calibration profiles?
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Take it one step at a time and eliminate one at a time. First, check your extruder. Using the web interface, heat up your hotend, and then have it extrude a set amount. If it can't extrude into the air, then look more into the extruder.
If it extrudes fine in the air, next make sure your slicer and your configuration match each other in relative extrusion. If one is set to relative extrusion, and the other isn't you will get very little extrusion (or way too much).
If it isn't relative extrusion and it isn't the extruder, then it's time to look at how you are doing your z offset
Well, I said I'd find a way to make it worse, and wouldn't you know it?
For some dumb reason, it just stopped extruding altogether partway through the print.
It can extrude. It doesn't want to, but it can. It keeps catching on something that isn't there.
It's making this stuttering noise. I can't tell what's going on with it. I just opened it up, there's no debris or plugs. There's no deformation. everything is clear.
I've upped the temperature to 220, and that seems to be helping. At least for a time. After it runs for about 50mm, it starts stuttering again. It's not constant, though.
I'm starting to think there's something wrong with the extruder. I cranked it up to 230 and I'm trying to extrude at 20mm/s, and now it's locking up. Not extruding at all.
Could something be wrong with the stepper driver? Or the voltage thing on it?
Wait... no, I just tried retracting it and it moved fine extruding right after, so there has to be something blocking it now...
There's nothing blocking it inside...
So there's nothing blocking it. It's like it doesn't have enough strenght.
where is your spool? how is the filament run into the extruder?
From the back through a tube.
I figured it out. It was the configuration settings. In "printer.cfg," it was set to use "orbiter.cfg,"when it should have been set to "orbiter-2.cfg."
Copy and pasted it in and that got it working.
This redoing the bed mesh every time thing has gotten old.
The infill is atrocious, but the outside is looking... Half decent.
This cooling fan is obnoxiously powerful. 50% is too much.
That cooling fan is a menace. I'm going to have to put a tight clamp on it. It was going... It was going, until it started the overhang on the roof. The fan started blasting at 100%, causing everything to warp and peel, running into the nozzle until it broke the whole thing.
And in trying to pop it off...
I think my filament is wet
the fan is a monster yes i dont run mine at 100% you might wanna chill with it a bit 😄
that layer adhesion is still shit, even at 100% I don't have that problem. I think you're right that your filament is wet or otherwise an issue
Okay, so the first issue with the extruder has been fixed, YAY.
Now onto calibrations. I'm going to stick the old filament in the dehydrator and open up a new one just so I have a controlled baseline.
Ran it again with some brand new PLA+. The results are wildly better now.
Fair bit of stringing, but what I'm noticing most is the rivulets on the sides. What could be causing that? Bad resonance?
This was printed in about 50 minutes.
Small hole in that inner corner. Not sure what did that.
I tried running a resonance and belt tension test. Neither of them did anything, there was no graph in the folder.
In the Console:
Tried updating ratos?