Questions tagged [troubleshooting]
Use this tag when a logical or systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it is requested.
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Ender3 Pro - Able to get hot end to 220 when setting the temperature manually, but I'm getting an E1 error when I try to run G-code
I just started having this issue today. I have a Creality Ender3 Pro with a CR Touch recently installed. I started a print this morning that failed because it was stuck at 203 °C, when it was trying ...
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"Validate Mesh" in Marlin causes whole test print to be offset from the bed (home)
I have enabled UBL in Marlin firmware for my Ender 3 Pro and generated a mesh which probed the whole bed normally as expected. However when I use the menu option to Validate Mesh, the whole test ...
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Entire Print Shifted
Can anyone tell me what would cause an entire print to be shifted about 8mm?
I have a new Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro (which is doing an awesome job so far!).
I started printing this Treasure Chest Puzzle ...
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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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Ender 3 v2 won't boot up after installing Sprite extruder
I installed a Sprite direct drive extruder everything went together fine but it would give a mintemp error code and say to restart. After I checked all the wiring again and restarted it 10 times no ...
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Cura "Print Thin Walls" patchy result
I have a model of a building that has a fence around the roof. The fencing must have Print Thin Walls enabled to print at all, but the result is patchy:
You can see the blue outline of the fencing ...
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Major Y-axis skipping (Anycubic Kobra)
I have recently purchased an Anycubic Kobra, and the first two prints worked out fine. On the third print, the Y-axis belt snapped, so I contacted Anycubic support and they gave me a replacement one. ...
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Creality Ender-3 V2 Not Doing Anything (Hard to Explain)
I’ve recently obtained a Creality Ender-3 V2 3D printer and have tried setting it up. With it came 2 modifications (CR Touch auto bed leveling kit and dual Z-axis kit).
The installation of the dual Z-...
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What could have caused this damage?
My Dremel 3D45 stopped the extrusion. I removed the nozzle thinking about it was clogged. But still it didn't solve. Also the nozzle was harder to remove than usual.
So I removed the bottom cover and ...
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How to get PLA to stick to PVA supports
I recently picked up a Tenlog TL-D3 Pro IDEX extrusion seemed fun - and is fun! Spent some time tweaking things so that it would print two-color prints with two different colors of PLA, and got things ...
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CR Touch install help
I bought my son an Ender 3 Pro and a CR touch. I am trying to get this setup to print for him despite having zero experience with 3D printing and at a loss with the installation.
Here are the details:
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How to solve broken FEP
I have a Creality LD-006 resin printer and my FEP breaks very often. When I'm printing I heard a hard "tac¨" (it's because the cured resin is taking of the FEP when the printing bed goes up)....
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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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Activating Conan run environment and running CuraEngine from command line
I apologize first if this is a super basic question to most, I am currently a computer science student in my last semester before an Associate's degree with little knowledge of the command line and ...
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Ender 3 first layer inconsistent layer lines
I was running my Ender 3 just fine with good first-layer adhesion/everything else but my setup changed after my Pi SD card got corrupted so I had to re-install and reconfigure my bed leveling via ...
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Cause of print errors with PC + CF?
I simply don't have a lot of experience with 3D FDM printing and additionally Priline PC+CF filament.
It does print relatively easily. But a coworker wanted a Batman symbol for his daughter. Now I'm ...
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Ender 3 Pro bed is lower in the middle
I just purchased this Ender 3 Pro about 1 week ago and since then I've been having nightmares with leveling/tramming the printer bed. From having to tram it again after every print to not being able ...
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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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E1 printer halted error
I changed the hot end from the stock Creality CR-10 v2 to an e3D v6. Since it uses a type 5 thermistor, I had to change the firmware; after a quick search I found the TH3D firmware which I used, I did ...
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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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Is my stepper motor driver to blame?
I have a Mooz-2 3D printer from dobot (an obscure chinese brand) that I got from kickstarter. I've done numerous upgrades over the years, including a full-metal hotend, dual z-axis and a custom power ...
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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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Can I cancel a G26 that’s already underway?
I’m spending hours trying to get a bed mesh that gives me a reliable first layer. I’ve got CHEP’s concentric square pattern printing reliably, but real objects still fail, and the G26 test pattern in ...
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MKS Gen L v1.0 smoking when I heat up the build plate
When I boot the Flsun Cube F5 with an MKS Gen L v1.0 controller board, it boots fine; it beeps, and all the LEDs come on. When I heat the hotend it works beautifully, and once up to temperature, the ...
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Infill troubles and extrusion stops mid print
So the last ten days were suddenly wrought with problems, from these strange infill deviations to my prints failing due to the extruder just stopping while the print head continues on. I'm getting ...
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My printer clogs after Printing TPU! How can I fix it back up?
After printing some parts in TPU, I encountered continuous clogging after returning to PLA. Not right out of the bat, but after about an hour or such, all prints I started since the swap back clog ...
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Large infill top layer almost immediately gets ruined trying to bridge
Info about the prints:
Using PrusaSlicer with 0.1 mm layer height
Using PETG, 1.75 mm
240 °C nozzle, 90 °C bed
0.4 mm hardened steel nozzle
Printing at 40 mm/s
9 top layers, 7 bottom layers
Using 15 %...
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Layers peeling off in resin prints
I'm having some issues with my Creality HALOT-ONE. As you can see in the photo, it seems that the layers after the bottom layer are peeling off. I have to remark that the bottom layer sticks very well ...
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Creality Ender 6 Heating Failed
There is a message on my Ender 6 that is telling my that my heating failed. This happened last night in the middle of a print. I have cycled the power like the screen says but the nozzle does not heat ...
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Creality Ender 6 does not boot beyond the boot screen
My Creality Ender 6 has stopped moving beyond the boot screen.
It kind of happened suddenly. Another thing is that I have a red light on the motherboard at the D2 location that is turned on ...
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Flashforge adventurer 3 will not home or calibrate
I had a piece of filament break off in the tube and could not unload it so I removed the extruder and pulled out the piece. Reloaded filament and started to recalibrate. The head went to left and ...
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Trouble with polycarbonate print on Ender 3 Pro - What could be the cause?
I performed a polycarbonate modification on my Ender 3 Pro (heated chamber, external electronics, all-metal hotend, new thermistor, PID-tuning, dry-box, actively cooled motors through Peltier cooling, ...
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What could be the cause of these resin prints looking wonky?
I don't know how to describe it, but when I print on my Phrozen Sonic Mini with this resin, this happens (it's Siraya tech, but it happens with regular resin too). The bottom half, the stuff furthest ...
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Printer stops printing at the same spot for every model
The 3D printer I'm using (Creality Ender 3 v2) stops printing at approximately the same height and no matter which model I try to print. When it stops, it does not go to park position or auto home, it ...
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PLA Globbing up on the Extruder Nozzle
My Ender 3 was printing great. However, I'm now getting all sorts of globbing up on the Extruder nozzle. This is causing the prints to fail, and if I come back after a print I'm often getting 1/3 of ...
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Nozzle scraping bed on Ender 3 with CR Touch
I just got into the world of 3D printing and I'm extremely new to it and everything related and I'm not 100 % sure what I am actually doing (like all the code stuff too). I did one successful print on ...
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Thermal Runaway issues on Ender 3 Pro even after replacing thermistor and heater cartridge
I have an Ender 3 Pro with the BTT SKR E3 V2.0 mini with Marlin firmware 2.0.8.2.x.
I am trying to print PETG, which requires decently high temperatures.
I initially replaced the stock board after a ...
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Resin LCD print not printing first layers properly, resulting in a reduction of the height of the object
Printer: Elegoo Mars 3 LCD Resin Printer
I have a similar problem to this question, First / bottom layers not printing? and this issue on Reddit, Elegoo Saturn Squishing Bottom Layers Together - ...
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Print Fail: Partial Mess - What are possible causes?
Can anyone help explain what might be wrong to do this? I am printing a bunch of the same item.
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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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Ender 3: Extruder Stepper Motor - Hand Turn
Should I be able to hand turn the stepper motor for the extruder of an Ender 3?
Trying to figure out why the motor isn’t turning on a new to me, never used, but out-of-warranty Ender 3.
Swapping ...
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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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Problems with underextrusion
I have a problem with, what I think is underextrusion (see attached photos), but I'd like to ask you If my assumption is correct. If it is underextrusion could you advice me which slicer settings ...
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Prints on bed are missing parts
I'm new to 3D printing, I have printed the cat that comes on the SD card on my Ender 3 and it's amazing the level of detail. After that, I tried to print another figure and I don't know what I'm doing ...
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G29 Error results in SLOW Probe fail! - Triggered early
I am having an issue with my BLTouch when autoleveling. It fails and I received:
SLOW Probe fail! - Triggered early.
However, it seems to work correctly with G28 (...
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Method to easily connect objects that are slightly spatially separate in .obj file
I am interested in printing a brain that contains 696 parcels (i.e., chunks that break up the total brain).
The .obj file was created such that each of these parcels are spatially separate. Do you ...
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BLTouch error on pronterface, nothing connected to the board
This is a brand new Two Trees Bluer Plus 3D printer. Default, it has a 3DTouch probe installed.
Printer is broken now, I couldn't use it even for a week...
In middle of a long print, our home fuse ...
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Ender 3 with BLTouch ignores Z0
I have a problem with my E 3nder3 (3DTouch, Skr mini e3 v1.2, Dragon hotend with afterburner mount, other parts are original), where after using ABL, at the start of the print the Z-axis just seems to ...
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Why is my PSU turning on and off automatically?
I have 12 V/30 A PSU. I have also installed the firmware onto the Arduino Mega2560. But the problem is that the display on the LCD keeps turning on and off automatically (it's stuck on the Marlin logo ...
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Stepper motors on the extruder and Z-axis seem to freeze up during any fast movements
OK here's some background of the problem:
Symptoms:
All retracts on the extruder produce a screeching noise. The extruder extrudes normally all other times.
Any fast move on the Z-axis also produces ...
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