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Mar 2017

I didn’t have the time to level it, but I made this little print (see pictures below?).

I’m sorry about my camera, it’s horrible (wouldn’t expect more from a 160 Euro phone lol)

I made this little “thing” by making a 20mmx20mmx20mm cube and then stopping the print at about 25%.

The infill density was 100%, and the speeds were all 35mm (except the “Travel”)

Layer Hight was actually 0.1mm.

The “wall” (perimeters?) where heck a clean and strong, just the center/infill was rubbish.

I pulled the thing apart and this is what I found as well:

the 3 perimeter layers were strong and as clean as expected.

The 3 bottom layers were strong enough, and almost as clean as expected (could be better, but not a big deal)

I hope I could provide you with enough information right now :slight_smile:

Just as I thought, wispy infill. Decrease your speed for infill, lower temp, not sure what the auto setting for speed is doing. But you are definitely printing faster than your extruder can push infill out!

I doubt it. I could see crappy pla causing some issues, but this is simply your extruder not extruding.

Go the other direction with temp, see what happens.

Your gear is slipping, your extruder is clogging, your settings are way off, SOMETHING is happening that is keeping your prints from working.

Sorry for the late response, on my weekends I’m often the property of my girlfriend during the weekends haha.

Anyways, I’m downloading the Repetier from Velleman (the one preconfigured for the K8400) to see if that will help me further (I don’t really care about the software, as long as it works).

I’ll report back after I had the time to print (it’s past 2200 right now, so I’m not allowed to print T_T)

I’ve been playing around with it all for the past few days, and unfortunately, the results are mixed…

I managed to get off 1 “decent” print, then after printing the same thing again (same Gcode and stuff), it all went downhill again.

I even changed out the PLA with ones I had on my work (from German RepRap to ColorFabb to InnoFil3D).

Still, no success.

I’ve decided to put the thing away for a while so I can focus on other things for a while (I might get a solution later on?).

Thanks for the help anyways :smiley: