Questions tagged [print-quality]
Questions about troubleshooting and achieving certain print-quality. Please include photos of your problem, and also describe what the limits of your 'good' prints are.
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Ender 5 S1 has bad printing quality
So I am relatively new to 3D printing. I have had a few successful prints but over the last few prints, the quality worsened! I am getting these weird holes in my prints. I am using gray creality PLA (...
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Adjust E-step on Ender 3 v2 Neo
I have just calibrated my extruder and everything is ok. When I extrude 100 mm of filament, everything is correct, but when I attach the Bowden tube to the nozzle, the length of filament that is ...
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Help to find out all the failures in first IDEX test
I've just got a brand new Sovol SV04 IDEX printer.
After struggling for days on bed levelling, I came out with an almost decent alignment.
So I printed the well-known boat to test a dual print.
Here ...
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Stacking Multiple Prints with Rigged Top
I have been researching how to stack models using Cura and I was wondering if it would be possible to stack a model like the image below, where the top is not a flat surface. There are a couple of ...
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I have one print that's underextruding, what settings should I change?
I've got one particular print which is causing me problems. I've printed other things without changing the filament or printer, so the problem is at least partially the print itself, which has a lot ...
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I'm having issues stopping tiny cuts and uneven print quality in my prints ever since I upgraded my printer
It has been a few months of trial and error trying to work this out. I made the printer succeed in printing normally, but the quality is terrible. These tiny cuts appear in every print as well as ...
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Ender 3 S1 printing issue - round bottom
I got myself an Ender 3 S1 printer a couple of days ago and I tried printing the following headset stand.
The printing is still in progress. The top doesn't look too bad (unless you know how it could ...
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What are these effects caused by? And can I get rid of them?
I am using a Cobra Max to print PLA. I am trying to print a computer / tablet case.
There are some "defects" in it which look like the print head dragged something.
I have used a ...
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Do bevelled corners hold any practical advantages or disadvantages over square ones for blocky functional prints?
I'm producing a series of brackets to allow a laser cutter to be reliably positioned on a waste board\spoil board in that has a measurement grid on it, and to allow a honeycomb bed to be reliably ...
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Travel path line appeared and I can't make it dissapear
This line has started to appear on my prints. I've tried to revert the settings I've changed back to my original settings but the line is still there. The previous prints didn't have this line as far ...
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raft balling up
Suddenly, I can't seem to print anything on my Flashforge Adventurer 4. No matter what I try, the raft looks like this. I'm re-calibrated and tried all kinds of different heat/speed settings. What am ...
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Adjust shape dimension in UGS G-code software
I am quite new to CNC. May I ask how to reduce the length per pixel for the entire triangle? I want the template length, height, and every dimension to be reduced by 10 times, which means the height ...
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Fail to upload G-code with UGS Plotter Software
Referring to a circle shape G-code online generator for my 2D printer at here, in which I created a 100 mm circle. I downloaded the G-code from the website and try to open it with UGS plotter but it ...
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“Thick layers” on Ender 3 [duplicate]
Every time I print something I get these random bands on my prints that look like layers that are just too thick. I’ve tightened my X-axis belt to the best of my ability, and my Y-axis belt is ...
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Issues with my 3D prints
I've noticed there have been some strange patterns occurring in my prints lately, sort of like warping. I've attached a picture of a Benchy below and an image of a project I'm working on. But as you'...
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Ender 3 Pro Direct Drive weird/small blobs?
I have an Ender 3 Pro with the direct drive upgrade, aluminum extruder (The same problem happened with the plastic one), double-sided bed default black on one side and PEI on the other (Happens with ...
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How to optimize the travel path
This model is essentially a cylinder. However, about mid-way, I break up the cylinder wall into multiple segments, while pretty much keeping to the general shape of a cylinder. Two segments per 90-...
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Bad print quality starting second layer
I have an Ender 3 Pro modded with the Hero Me Gen 6 air ducts, installed a Creality 4.2.7 mainboard, and updated Marlin firmware to the latest for now 2.1.1 version. I'm printing with PLA only.
It was ...
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Green residues are present on all my prints, and the adhesion is pretty bad
It has been three weeks since I first tried to solve this problem. Here's the video. I cleaned the hotend yesterday, as it was fully clogged and full of plastic.
My heatsink seems to be attached good. ...
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CR-10 S4 Possible under extrusion?
I am having some weird wavy wall and pitting on my 3D prints. Second hand printer, no experience with model. I am using the Cura slicer default settings on the standard 0.2 prints. Could this be a ...
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A vertical scar on the print surface, what is the name of this problem?
Printer: Kobra Max
Nozzle: 0.4 mm
Material: PLA
Slicer :Cura
I have printed 1 model 3 times with different settings (different temperatures and different bed temperatures).
Try 1: 190 °C / 50 °C
Try ...
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Layers offset at top and bottom and some inbetween
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem/problems for a couple of days now regarding printing issues caused probably by the Z-axis. I'm new to 3D printing and kind of at a loss about what to do next or ...
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PETG configuration
Recently, I have started to use PETG as my new material, before that I had been using ABS. But I stopped using ABS because of the cracking. I have been printing a lot of calibration cubes and I ...
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Sudden Extreme Z-Banding
I am experiencing an extreme Z-banding issue that has come on all of a sudden.
I'm quite new to 3D printing and I have just taken a deep dive into printer calibration by going through the Teaching ...
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How to keep model flat in resin printing?
I am having some trouble with model adherence to my print bed. As shown in the attached photo, my model is pulled away at the sides leaving it bowed even though it is designed to be flat. Other than ...
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The nozzle keeps clogging, midway through the print while printing with PETG filament
I've recently purchased Creality Ender 3 V2. When I print PLA, I face no issue at all but while printing PETG, the nozzle keeps clogging after the second or third layer. I even tried printing PETG by ...
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What could be the reason of under extrusion on some areas?
When I print the gcode repeatly, under extrusion happens at the same place.
The under extrusion not only occurs on first layer. I noticed the second layer also has some part under extruded, but not at ...
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Why is there some transparency between the layers of my print?
When I'm printing sometimes there is some "transparency" between the layers as you can see in the picture, I'm not sure how to name the problem.
I've looked on google, somes people said It ...
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Prints not sticking to bed or just not extruding?
I'm very new to 3D printing. When my printer was new, I got loads of really good prints, however, now they're all failing.
I suspected that the nozzle was in bad shape, so I replaced it, but even now, ...
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Extra extrusion at seam of print with PETG
I recently purchased a spool of PETG to try working with it. I have managed to dial in most of the settings in Prusaslicer but one, in particular, is giving me a problem. As seen in the photo, the ...
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Consequences of setting the bed temperature too high with PLA?
On a printer with a heated bed, what are the consequences of setting the bed temperature too high went printing with PLA?
a small amount above the recommended setting, 5 Celsius for example
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Why is my Ender 3 v2 knocking & misaligning for high Y?
On my Ender 3 v2 printer I recently and consistently get some knocking.
This happens in only two scenarios.
First, it now occurs all the time when printing the initial test strip gets near the top (...
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Are resonances of belt driven carriage strongly direction dependent? Mitigations?
So, backstory: I setup a tuning print for Klipper input shaper that makes use of matched speed projected onto the opposite axis at junctions, and high instantaneous junction velocity (scv), to allow ...
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Strange looking walls at beginning
I have this strange looking walls but only at the beginning of the wall line. I thought it's underextrusion caused by a clogged nozzle, so I tried cleaning it with a cold pull but it didn't help.
The ...
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Nozzle scratching on second layer
I've been searching for hours for the reason why my Ender 3 Pro, after a perfect first layer, is scratching on the second layer and so on the next few, after that it normalizes and then prints ...
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First layers going funny
I've just bought my first 3D printer (Malyan M200 V2). For the most part, it's been really good and I've had no issues, apart from when printing the first few layers the printer doesn't seem to ...
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Root cause fix for TPU overhang failures
Lately I've been having a lot of trouble with printing overhangs in TPU. The failures are very geometry/toolpath dependent, entirely reproducible in their location (same gcode gives same failures each ...
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Very first 3D prints, but bad quality. What can I do?
To start with, as stated in the title, I am very new to 3D printing.
We're a toy/boardgame shop and we're experimenting with 3D printing because it could open up a huge market for us. To this end, I'm ...
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Print turns into spaghetti on Ender 3 Pro
So I was printing a low poly bunny and all of a sudden the new layers didn't adhere to the other layers. I don't think it was printing an overhang.
I have an ender 3 pro which I use together with Cura....
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Saggy vase walls. What are the tricks to successful vase mode printing?
I've tried printing in vase mode (or "spiralise outer contour" in Cura) and while the floor looks fine, the vertical sides look "saggy"
I'm using a 0.4 mm nozzle, with eSUN PLA+ at ...
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Engraved text (on a cylinder). The printer wasnt able to display the font style correctly,
Printer: Elegoo Mars 3 LCD Resin printer
The letter height is about 3 mm.
I engraved a word (text) on the side of a cylinder (which is about 14 mm in diameter and 4 mm in height). I am not sure about ...
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Do flyback diode filters in stepper circuits improve print quality?
Do the add-on noise reduction boards (variously called Schottky diodes, flyback diodes, noise filters) installed ahead of the stepper motors really improve print quality on FDM printers? I installed ...
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What's causing this lack of layer adhesion after a crash?
I recently had a print failure/crash, where the print stuck to the nozzle and forced molten filament back into the print head, fans, and heater block.
I changed the nozzle for a new 0.4mm same as ...
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X-axis taper problem
Tronxy P802M I believe. PLA. The calibration cube is tapered on one side of the X-axis only. Everything else looks good. The top is almost 1 mm narrower than the bottom, but only on X-axis.
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What is causing these severe print errors on an Ender 3? [closed]
I've noticed a lot of beginners with the Ender 3 are getting blobby prints. The default nozzle temperature with the slicer and printer is 200 °C. The filament's manufacturer's suggested nozzle ...
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Circle isn't in the shape of a circle
Printer doesn't print perfect circles while calicat is perfect and top layers look weird on Ender 3 Pro:
I used Cura and an Ender 3 Pro, eSun PLA+, print at 210 °C.
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Severe blobbing prevents printing. What settings can I change to fix this?
Bought a new printer. When this problem has happened anywhere from the third to the twentieth layer up. An excess of filament suddenly exits the nozzle, often pulling the print from the bed when the ...
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Can't get rid of horizontal layer lines?
I have an Ender 3 V1 3D printer. When I first got the printer and assembled it, I was able to get very good prints. My post is specifically about horizontal layer lines, and initially with my printer, ...
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Under what circumstances are 3D printed parts actually viable with a desktop printer in comparison to other production methods?
As an engineer I was initially interested in making parts. For example I designed and printed a better part for something which wasn't available locally, and even had a client who wanted 150 of them. ...
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Practical overhang limits
What are the real overhang limits? I see a lot online about 45 %, then up to 60 %, but I'm routinely doing them at up to 90 % for "shortish" distances and 80%+ for several centimeters at a ...
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