Sam-Nicolai Johnston

Changed a reel, purged it. Then proceeded to print a shape. The reel is PLA Polar White, with a normal nozzle temp of 185°C. But it is printing at ~215°C! See picture for more details. BTW, the screen shot was NOT taken on the first layer. I don’t understand how I could correct this error.

Should I just use the M104 command at every start of a…[Read more]

Hello,

My material tube, that goes from the start of the print chamber to the print head got undone at the start of the print chamber. I didn’t realize until the print was completely finished. So there was material everywhere and the print failed obviously. You can see the pictures, it explains better.

I tried to plug back in the plastic tube…[Read more]

Hello,

I am having problems with many of my prints (on fine setting):

In a certain section of the PEI bed, on the first layer, a complete section is almost transparent/translucent. This is pretty much corrected on the second layer. You can see in the middle of the second image I included that the perimeter is almost invisible. A big chunk of…[Read more]

Hello,

I seem to have a problem with Automaker. I have a part that I want to print at 30% of it’s designed size. But when I scale it to 30%, the part appears red. I thought that the red color was an indication that the part was too big. When I scale it to 29% everything is fine, as expected. When I scale it to 33% for example, everything is fine…[Read more]