I just about pulled all my hair out tonight, my bed seems to be warped between point 3 and point 4. I was trying to print this modified: 8-slot mini taco holder by ctgreybeard - Thingiverse
to be bigger since it says it is mini. I want to use it with full sized taco shells. I tried to print in on the x axis and it covered all the with except for about 1/2 inch on each side. It would start out fine on the left side and work ok up to about an inch and a half to the other side (right side) mid way of the bed. I started and the extrusion would just about disappear on the end, especially the skirt. What extruded would not stick. I re-applied the magicgoo and try again. I would re-level the bed and go around at least 3 times. At one point, I did point 1 and disengaged the motor and slid it to the far right and it was so tight that it probably scored the bed lightly. Since I damaged the bed plate, I am not sure that it is the fault of washing the plate hot in cold water. So, when I get the new bed plate I will check to see if it is still high between point 3 and point 4 on that line.
Now to get back to the print, I changed the orientation to the y axis. This helped but the support legs looked like pegs instead of having a shoe shape. I kept it printing out of curiosity and it finally formed the shoe, but the shoes toward started lifting off the plate and so did some of the cradles. I aborted, started again raised the temp of bed and the nozzle, but same happened. This time I reversed the side the legs were on. To my surprise, this worked. Why?
I just about pulled all my hair out tonight, my bed seems to be warped between point 3 and point 4. I was trying to print this modified: 8-slot mini taco holder by ctgreybeard - Thingiverse
to be bigger since it says it is mini. I want to use it with full sized taco shells. I tried to print in on the x axis and it covered all the with except for about 1/2 inch on each side. It would start out fine on the left side and work ok up to about an inch and a half to the other side (right side) mid way of the bed. I started and the extrusion would just about disappear on the end, especially the skirt. What extruded would not stick. I re-applied the magicgoo and try again. I would re-level the bed and go around at least 3 times. At one point, I did point 1 and disengaged the motor and slid it to the far right and it was so tight that it probably scored the bed lightly. Since I damaged the bed plate, I am not sure that it is the fault of washing the plate hot in cold water. So, when I get the new bed plate I will check to see if it is still high between point 3 and point 4 on that line.
Now to get back to the print, I changed the orientation to the y axis. This helped but the support legs looked like pegs instead of having a shoe shape. I kept it printing out of curiosity and it finally formed the shoe, but the shoes toward started lifting off the plate and so did some of the cradles. I aborted, started again raised the temp of bed and the nozzle, but same happened. This time I reversed the side the legs were on. To my surprise, this worked. Why?
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I just about pulled all my hair out tonight, my bed seems to be warped between point 3 and point 4. I was trying to print this modified: 8-slot mini taco holder by ctgreybeard - Thingiverse
to be bigger since it says it is mini. I want to use it with full sized taco shells. I tried to print in on the x axis and it covered all the with except for about 1/2 inch on each side. It would start out fine on the left side and work ok up to about an inch and a half to the other side (right side) mid way of the bed. I started and the extrusion would just about disappear on the end, especially the skirt. What extruded would not stick. I re-applied the magicgoo and try again. I would re-level the bed and go around at least 3 times. At one point, I did point 1 and disengaged the motor and slid it to the far right and it was so tight that it probably scored the bed lightly. Since I damaged the bed plate, I am not sure that it is the fault of washing the plate hot in cold water. So, when I get the new bed plate I will check to see if it is still high between point 3 and point 4 on that line.
Now to get back to the print, I changed the orientation to the y axis. This helped but the support legs looked like pegs instead of having a shoe shape. I kept it printing out of curiosity and it finally formed the shoe, but the shoes toward started lifting off the plate and so did some of the cradles. I aborted, started again raised the temp of bed and the nozzle, but same happened. This time I reversed the side the legs were on. To my surprise, this worked. Why?
Have you used the edge of a ruler to check the flatness of the bed?
Simple answer, YES.
Now that said, I got up this morning to spaghetti. I went to bed last nitht with a 9 hour print. It broke loose almost immediately after I turned the lights off. Since it is Halloween, I guess it was goblins. After I cleaned it up, I laded another layer of Magigoo, and then decided to level the bed first. I started and found it was way off for some reason, but the spider web in the mat were a lot more pronounced. Anyway, I started the print and while I was waiting, the cat wanted out, so when I opened the door I had a package. It was the new JG Makers mat. The print was started at this time and I noticed that the points were not sticking. I aborted, decided to change filament and replaced the mat, leveled and cleaned with alcohol. I laid down a layer of Magigoo and started a print. I was terrible so I stopped, layed down another layer, made sure filament was in the extruder and started again. That is where I am at this point. Waiting to see if it is a good print. I did change some of the parameters of the model, Basically smaller, but still by looks big enough.
Been printing 2 in squares for about 24 hours, and never got satisfied. In the long stroke of the square the filament peals up. I tried and tried, but could not resolve, I increased the speed, flow, and decreased them both. Changed temperature of hot end and bed. No satisfaction. Like the 8 slot taco holder I gave up. I tried the 6 slot taco holder. It would not stick either. Made some more changes and tried again. This time it would stick, the lines were thin and crisp in the skirt and the print. But! The print z axis would not increment. It stayed at .3 I remembered changing the Z offset to 0. I set it back to .2 and sliced again. This time it incremented to .5 and stayed there. Staying at .2 for as long as it did seemed to mark the bed when the well stuck print was pilled off. I did not want to see it scored like when the nozzle did not seat properly and dropped down, so I stopped, shut the printer off. I then was going to uninstall Cura, and reinstall it. Before doing this I out of courtesy checked for updates. There is one. I downloaded and Installed. It wanted to delete 4.11 and I let it, deleting the data also. There was a problem with that. I had to reinstall my printer profiles. Geeeteck is in the list. Artist-D is not. I finally got to the point where I was going to put the extruder steps in and could not find but one value, the one for extruder 2. I basically could guess what the value for extruder 1 was, but not exactly… I did get the flow rate for extruder down to 125 and everything neatness of lines on print look great, not like before. I am now 3 and a half hours into the 6 taco holder. Three more hours, printing a lot faster, because I wanted to see what would happen, not expecting to get this far. Timed out better quit.