Hello! Hope I can find a solution to my problem.
I have had my Creative Pro for a while and all was great. Up until last week when it stop printing. Basically the filament has tension but it’s not being fed during the printing process.
At first I thought it was a nozzle problem, so I cleaned it out and reset the filament. The problem persisted so I then cleaned out the gear drive. Thereafter I tried using an old file that had printed successfully. That didn’t work either so then I reset the bed and did a factory reset. The problem still happened on a number of prints.
Issue is that during the filament load and unload process the gear drive grips the filament and feeds it through so I know that the gear drive does work it just won’t when a print is being executed.
The printer is using a hatchbox PLA filament set to 210 degrees and the hotbed at 50. I get the same problem on either the left or right extruder.
I hope someone can help me out with this pesky problem.
210 is a bit hot for PLA to start with. Hatchbox will do fine at 195-205.
With that said a few questions. What slicer?
What change or was changed before this started and I know everyone says “nothing changed” but obviously something is different so try to think about anything even if it seems unrelated.
When does this happen? Only at the start of a print or all through many layers?
What print speeds?
Print speed 55
Slicer is the native one, FlashPrint
It starts from the get go no extrusion during the “printing process”
I can’t really tell what I changed recently. I didn’t start using new slicing software or change any of the hardware. The only real difference is that it hadn’t been printing for a little while.
Thanks for replying to my thread
Ok, here is what I would do.
Make sure you have the latest version of Flashprint.
Do a layer height of .2-.3 and an first layer of .27 and drop the speed to 35mm/s.
Do a bed level then turn the screws to lower the bed some so you can see “daylight” between the nozzle and the bed. Basically get some gap there. The idea is to give it plenty of room to extrude so we can test it.
Get a basic print such as a cube, slice it with the default PLA setting other than change to the speed I mention above. Use the left side for PLA.
Run the print and see how it goes. If it does start to extrude it may make a mess of the first layers but that is ok since we want to see if it continues to extrude. Let it go for a bit. If it works then redo the level but be sure to not get the bed too close to the nozzles.
How are you doing the leveling?
Leveling looks good. I’ll implement all this tonight when I get back to tinkering with the beast. Thank you for the feedback.
