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Ive had my creator pro for just over 10 months and ive changed a few things, I only use abs not pla and print on a glass bed, I use 1/4" borosilicate glass with the gold kapton tape on that also I use a acetone and abs filament mix to make a sort of glue, prints always stick and have a nice finish on the bottom Abs print temp 220-230 extruder Build plate always 105 c Im using the makerbot software and I print between .20-.25 layer thickness First layer print speed 30mm/s rest of layers between 60-90 I would highly recommended getting a glass build plate as I had the same problems with prints not sticking, or being unreliable. Blue painters tape is garbage
Did you use the GPX plugin after you process your gcode in Cura or slic3r? GitHub - whpthomas/GPX: Gcode to x3g conversion post processor 2, this runs from a command line and is pretty simple
You didn’t mention if you also cleaned it. Releveling is important, but cleaning just as well. I have the dreamer, with the same blue sticky pad I think you mention. Every 3-4 prints I wipe it down with isopropylalcohol to clean it off. The one time I couldn’t be bothered, by print 5-6 or so, it just fell off. Relevel and clean, best I can suggest.
Hi guys - ive had a successful day! I realised that my bed levelling was wrong - I was levelling it so the nozzles were off the paper, rather than just scraping it. This simple change made a huge difference!
The other BIG change was to slow the speeds down - so my Feedrate mm/s was 41, I changed it to 30, and my Travel Feedrate was 56 so I changed that to 36. The first layer or two go down real nice, and then once I see its working I speed it up a touch in the menu settings and its been fantastic.
Really looking forward to getting the glass bed kit that I ordered today as I had ABS turn up in the post!
Ill look into Simplify3D as so many have recommended it!
Just reading through these comments shows me how knowledgeable and kind everyone is, I really appreciate all your comment! Biggest lesson of the day is to eat breakfast. My brain doesnt work without food!
Cheers again 
Hey, glad to see you have it working better now.
If it helps at all, I have a set routine that I have used for the last dozen or so prints that seems to work like a charm for consistent adhesion as well as good, easy release using the blue 3M pad. This is using ABS by the way.
Before every print, I take a paper towel and dab some isopropyl rubbing isopropyl alcohol (70% alchohol type) and give the blue pad a nice rub down. If there are any remnants of plastic on the pad I also take a dab of pure acetone on a paper towel and clean it off. Then next I take a new paper towel and give it four or five squirts of “Garnier Fructis” hairspray (“ultra-strong” hold level “4”) and wipe down the pad. Now I do both of these steps when the pad is cold. After that I start the pre-heating sequence. Within a few seconds of the pre-heating, I take the paper towel, give it another four or fives squirts, then dab the area where the print will be going…making sure to leave more hairspray down than soak it up.
After all of that is done and pre-heating is complete, I’ll start the print. I take some tweezers and pluck any remaining plastic from the nozzle just before it gets ready to print just in case. The prints lay down nice and stick right away. Depending on the scale of the print I will sometimes open the front door and add some cooling using a small fan from about two feet away.
Once the print is done, I take a fine edge scrapper and tap firmly at the base of the print while holding it steady with the other hand. After a few taps the prints just pop off the pad…no fuss no muss!
Anyways, I hope this helps you out some. I learned the hard way about the best methods to adhere to the blue mat. Before I figured out this method, I ruined the pad that came when it shipped after 4 or 5 prints because I tried using ABS “juice” to coat the pad. Even with a super thin coating, when I pulled the print up, it took half the blue pad with it…haha!
Good printing!
How do you set the first layers to go slower? I cant seem to find any speed settings in RepG
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I could have swore when I bought mine it came with pla not abs…also it looks like you are printing to hot and that would explain printing with abs settings and using pla which would come out hot and stringy. I would check into this as it even said in my manual it was pla.Either way it looks like a temp problem for what ever you are printing with.