hi im wondering if anyone can help me my printer doesn’t fill in straight lines very well it cuts out . Hard to explain so I took a pic. It’s does all the walls and infills ok it’s just the base straight lines infill . If anyone could help it would be most appreciated . I no u might need more info so please ask
thanks mark
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It may be caused by the bed being in-level, or it could be caused by either the extruder temperatureis too low and it can’t melt enough plastic fast enough or your trying to print faster then the extruder can handle, I had a similar problem so I raised the temperature from 218 to 221(I use PLA) and I lowered my print speeds and now it prints fine.
hope this is useful, good luck
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Level the bed it takes some time took me about 7+ prints before I got it right.
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I would agree that either your bed isn’t level or the temp and speed ar incorrect. Try running the bed level again then once you can slide a pice of paper between the bed and nozzle manually move the print head about the build plate and see if the gap is the same in various places.
For the temp and speed I would adjust them one at a time and try. If you are using Simplify 3D try 1500.0 for your speed and if this works slowly increase from there. For the Temp I use PLA and I print with the bed at 55C and the nozzle at 195C and I get smooth prints.
Also It looks like you are printing on to the gold Kapton tape of the print bed. I was told never to print on to this and use painters tape. The stuff I use if the Blue tape from B&Q
Hope this helps
Thanks for the reply. It’s on a glass bed on top of the kapton tape. I’ll try temps and speeds tomorrow
Oh and I’m using makerbot desktop
Classic underextrusion. You need to practice your settings on a smaller model, printing at 100% infill. Say a 10mm cube.
The reason your edges look good is that they are squished better.
Increase your infill extrusion multiplier.
Oh thank you I’ll give that a try
I’m using makerbot desktop . Any ideas how I change the infill extruder multiplier ?
