Hi there. I'm stressing out here with this printer. It was doing great until one of the thermistors broke. Got it all fixed. Reflashed it with RC6 mbl. Had to adjust the z steps from 1600 to 400. I can print cubes just fine but anything bigger, I'm getting this. It isn't clean. bumpy and throws the extruder out the window to where it would push the filament and the pet tubing out of the titan and just sit there and collect in the back. I did the PID so the temp is doing great now. Just can't figure out why I am getting the bumpiness now. It is ABS white hatchbox. Bed is 90, Hotend at 245. The first layer was amazing. but after that I get this. Any ideas? Thanks
Have you calibrated the filament? http://wiki.e3d-online.com/wiki/Your_First_Print#Calibrating_The_Filament
Yes i did. Printed a 20x20x20 cube just fine. but other things, i get that. Bumpy surface that then throws the filament extrusion out the window and creates a mess with the titan pushing the bowden tube out of the titan and the filament just rolls and rolls up in the back.
Measure the height and Xy dimensions. I found I was skipping z movements and it left lines like that. As they built up, extrusion was worse and worse. Check your filament calibration as suggested by Greg. My z-axis problems and solution are here: https://forum.e3d-online.com/index.php?threads/weird-height-variations.1973/
Well i checked the pot and it was set to .81 holy cow that's high! I lowered it to .65? about and it is working ok for now. Some stringing but much better then it was. No idea how it got to be .81. I set them all at the start. Can they change like that by themselves?
Well after lowering the voltage, it does seem to work. Just have this stringing now. And looks like some were burnt? I used the default s3d settings for Edge filament.
Stringing is primairly caused because of bad retract settings. Also check you temperature as this makes it easier for the filament to flow.
Apart from the stringing, I'd say you've got everything else nicely aligned. There's no visible Z-wobble there at all. Edge does seem quite stringy. The last time I printed it, I used 220/80 and had no stringing. Stringiness seems to come from two things; firstly having the material too liquified, and secondly not cooling it well enough. I'm not sure what the collective thoughts are on part cooling fan with Edge, but I think I cooled it with 100% fan from layer 4 up (thanks socks). The default blower shroud is not as good as the redesigned one from Greg, which gives better all round cooling instead of just cooling from the rear. The other question I have is: why are you using a raft? I'm pretty sure my last Edge print was directly onto UHU and worked just fine at the 220/80 settings I used. I do slow things down considerably for layer one, and increase hot end temp a little for first layer sometimes to try and get a good connection. But I've never used a raft yet on the BigBox.
Very stringy isn't it. I see you've still got the original fan duct on there. Looks like your Edge is being Bowden fed, printing on the left nozzle? Are you still using 245 for Edge? I'm sure that stringiness will be partly the result of the high temp.
Using the default s3d setting for Edge. Temp is 240. It came out alright.. just need to tweak now. Much better then before which is nothing printing! lol Right now it is Foxsmart Grey PLA doing some Fat Dragon Dungeon tiles. Play with the machine after work tonight.
Just ran a bridging test with Edge and I think the 220 setting is too low for Edge. When the head moves a pretty small distance, the oozing Edge cools enough to not stick to the Edge it lands on iniitially. By upping to 230, I fixed that issue but got a little stringiness back.
Well I printed the dungeon pieces, came out not bad. Changed the retraction and printed a client piece, came out awesome! now printing another piece for myminifactory. So far the printing gods are happy.
lol yupper! Well i printed 2 pieces of a myminifactory order and they came out awesome. Getting one going now too and the first layer is pure love. So hope it continues!
