TLDR; Why’s it look like this?
Hello! Total newb here. My wife bought me a 3D printer for father’s day because she knows that I like to tinker with things and I had shown some interest in the one at my son’s school. She purchased me an FLSUN delta 3D printer on Amazon and having received it, as a software engineer I felt pretty confident I could work through the Chinglish instructions and get this thing running. Which, largely, I did with varying degrees of success. That led me to looking up every calibration video and thread I could find and largely that helped produce much better results. However, after hours of looking through threads, I am at a loss. I have an issue on 1 side of the printer that persists no matter what the print settings are. I have leveled, auto-leveled, made adjustments to the printing parameters, but it persists, 3D Hubs has been the greatest source of knowledge to me since I began and I’m hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. Images attached. And thank you for any help you can provide.
Looks too hot.
What slicer, material, temps, speeds etc.
Sorry, I went back to edit this and it wouldn’t let me until it was an approved post.
Pla 1.75mm
Print temp: 1st layer 210 then 195
Bed temp: 1st layer 65 then 55
Retraction 2mm, -0.6 on restart
Print Speed: 50
Layer ht: .1
I had tested my belts last night and found I had a little play on the general side of the printer that this occurs on so I tightened and recalibrated but with similar results.
Temps look ok for PLA.
Possibly slow the print down some.
I would start with a .2 layer and get things dialed in then you can play with lower layer heights.
Thanks, I’ll try that tonight. Out of the box, it’s print speed was set to 65 and I had read that going too slow could produce bad prints. What would be considered too slow or too fast?
I don’t have a Delta so I’m no expert there!! On a smaller print if it is having heat issues you can slow the print speed to help let the layer have more time to cool but if you go too slow then it can start to be an issue also.
I might try around 2000mm/min or so and see what happens.
It looks like you have the settings of a bigger nozzle you actually use. The lines in the first layer are to wide from each other and to much material is extruded.
If you use Cura the width is wrong or else the setting for the nozzle
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