Hey guys, been a couple days I have been playing around with my flashforge creator pro. I have attached some pictures. Seems the top part of the print is nice, but bottom comes out melted looking.
Look forward to hearing what you all have to say. Thanks in advance!
Hi there!
Could you please share your slicer settings with me? In that way I might see what the problem can be.
Failed prints can be due to several things of course. May I advise you to print a normal size Marvin (2.5cm) with the following settings.
PLA
Temperature (Start with around 195 degrees, when you don’t have good results, set the temperature higher with 5 degrees per time.)
Printing speed 35 mm/s gaan.
Small perimeters 70%
External perimeters 70%
Infill: 45 m/s
Infill: 15% (or no infill at all)
Top solid 35%
Non print moves
Travel 100 mm/s
Layer height
.2
You could also try and tweak the fan settings for the first couple of layers to see if that changes anything!
Good luck 
// Dominic
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Looks like a temperature issue, and why are you printing on a raft, you need good first layer adhesion with the base, a raft is a crutch that tell me you didn’t level your build plate or can’t get your first layer to stick. Also do you have a cooling fan on the left of your print head? If not, you need to add active cooling to your flashforge.
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Hey there, thank you for the reply. I am using abs at 210 right now. How do you remove the bed? It seems to do it on its own. And do you mean add an extra fan beside the printer? Right now it’s the stock setup from the box
Hi Dominic I am currently using ABS. Do you know what is best for that?
This talk post gives some good information regarding printing in ABS with the FlashForge 
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Funny these were the settings I used, before posting it was the article I trained with… but still seem to be having some issues. When looking at the prints it seems the left side is melting more?
How would you remove the raft from the design file?
What slicer are you using?
Hey Chris, I am using replicatorG that came with the machine.
Thanks
I would suggest purchasing Simplify 3D. Much better than ReplicatorG. What are your settings for ABS? I use a build plate temp of 110, extruded temp of 230 for the Flashforge ABS. 15% infill and .2 layer height. I also use a glass plate and PET tape sprayed with hair spray. Aqua net extra hold. Works wonderfully.
Hey Chris,
What glass plate are you referring to? Is this a mod for the machine to make better prints?
Right now I am printing on Blue painters tape but I ordered the Kapton tape too as I heard it yields much better results overall.
I agree with previous comments, the temperature appears to be too high. For ABS aim for around 225-230 C for 0.4mm nozzle. 5-10 degrees higher for smaller nozzles and vice versa for larger diameter. Also you can try slowing the print down and depending on your print software you can enable extruder lift if print time is under X seconds to allow for additional cooling. This ensures you arent laying down plastic on top of an already “squishy” layer that hasnt had a chance to cool. Hope this helps.
Ryan
You can download and print some corners to hold a glass plate on you bed. 8x10 Glass plate corners for Flashforge Creator Pro by fullwoc - Thingiverse here is a link to a redesign I made of a thing on thingiverse to hold a 8.5x11 glass plate from Home Depot (link included on page). You should only use blue tape for PLA. It does not work with ABS. There are many ways to get ABS to stick. You can use Flashforge build tac, build tac, ABS juice, glue stick or hairspray but you should first put down kapton tape or PET tape if you are not using build tac. If using build tac you do not need to put anything else down. Personally I like to print on glass plates so I can easy remove the plate when the job is complete and just pop another glass plate in and continue printing.
One other thing I forgot to mention is that you need to print an x-axis shim if you are going to use glass. 3mm for the Home Depot glass I referred to. Search it on thingivers.
Z-axis… But yea don’t forget the shim
