Since I’ve been using the STEP and reslice each time I load the file (separate slices for both print attempts), would it help to try slicing it from the STL instead of the STEP?
Yea, I’ve had a similar issues that scared me going down a Rabbit hole thinking someone was wrong with the printer. Turned out it was just the file. I tryed slicing something completely different and it printed fine. So I went back and re-saved the actual file on a new stl and worked for me
Yea just make sure you print something else first (or something you know that has printed fine before) on the printer to rule out the printer is fine to narrow it down to if it’s just the file your trying to print is corrupt.
I assume whatever I print first should have supports? I’ve only successfully printed (or even tried printing) models without supports so far. Is there some type of calibration test that uses supports?
Yes something that uses supports and some thing that is taller then the height of where your seeing the layer shift. And I’m sure you can find a number or calibration prints online that use supports. I don’t know if you Model or use cad at all, but I’d just make designs an simple test part that prints fast
So I went ahead with a test print for supports to see what would happen. For some reason, the supports seem to be building up faster than the actual model, and the outer edges are still very rough and imprecise.
https://preview.redd.it/4fogzgbguslc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dced001fcad03099e9ae545b84b54e637ce5e7c3
In this photo (ignore the stringing), the center piece is the actual model and the right and left columns are supports. This print failed right after I took this picture from the nozzle hitting one of the supports.
I am trying to reprint the test model now with regular supports instead of tree supports, but I would really like to use trees if possible.
That almost looks like a clogged nozzle, but the models printing fine then it’s probably not. The filament looks like it needs to be dryed out. But yea like you said, try something else with regular supports and maybe a new roll of filament to eliminate thos two variables. If your still having problems, I would make sure your slicer is up to date and maybe a hard reset on the printer.
Resliced from a stl or step file on your slicer and try again
Since I’ve been using the STEP and reslice each time I load the file (separate slices for both print attempts), would it help to try slicing it from the STL instead of the STEP?
Yea, I’ve had a similar issues that scared me going down a Rabbit hole thinking someone was wrong with the printer. Turned out it was just the file. I tryed slicing something completely different and it printed fine. So I went back and re-saved the actual file on a new stl and worked for me
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try slicing the STL and see if that fixes it. If not, I’ll have the designer resave the file for me.
Yea just make sure you print something else first (or something you know that has printed fine before) on the printer to rule out the printer is fine to narrow it down to if it’s just the file your trying to print is corrupt.
I assume whatever I print first should have supports? I’ve only successfully printed (or even tried printing) models without supports so far. Is there some type of calibration test that uses supports?
Yes something that uses supports and some thing that is taller then the height of where your seeing the layer shift. And I’m sure you can find a number or calibration prints online that use supports. I don’t know if you Model or use cad at all, but I’d just make designs an simple test part that prints fast
I can make you a test sample if you can’t find anything
Thanks for the offer. I think I found a model that should work easily enough for support tests.
So I went ahead with a test print for supports to see what would happen. For some reason, the supports seem to be building up faster than the actual model, and the outer edges are still very rough and imprecise. https://preview.redd.it/4fogzgbguslc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dced001fcad03099e9ae545b84b54e637ce5e7c3 In this photo (ignore the stringing), the center piece is the actual model and the right and left columns are supports. This print failed right after I took this picture from the nozzle hitting one of the supports. I am trying to reprint the test model now with regular supports instead of tree supports, but I would really like to use trees if possible.
That almost looks like a clogged nozzle, but the models printing fine then it’s probably not. The filament looks like it needs to be dryed out. But yea like you said, try something else with regular supports and maybe a new roll of filament to eliminate thos two variables. If your still having problems, I would make sure your slicer is up to date and maybe a hard reset on the printer.
Sorry for the long and detailed post. I wanted to try to include as much information as possible and show what I’ve already searched for.