Comment on My outer walls are printing fine, but my infills are super wispy
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A couple thoughts:
Overall this looks like under-extrusion, I’d try a few things:
- Check the flow rate in your slicer. Make sure it didn’t get bumped down by accident.
- Check the filament diameter in the slicer. This getting set wrong can cause all kinds of headaches.
- Slow down the print. The extuder may not be able to push plastic fast enough to keep up with what you are trying to do.
- Raise the tool temperature. The plastic may not be melted enough to flow well.
- Check for a clogged nozzle. Try doing a cold pull to clear the nozzle. Google “cold pull” for good instructions on how to do one.
- Watch for the extruder slipping while printing. If the extruder has worn, it’s teeth may not be engaging the filament well and not pushing it as expected.
- Try different filament. Maybe you have a bad batch and it’s just giving you problems.
- Replace the nozzle. They do wear out and start causing funny problems.
yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I try to keep most cura settings pretty default, i think everythings as it should be so it may def be hardware or filament related. I really hope it’s not the latter since i’m super on a time crunch right now lol
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do give the settings a once over. I had some really weird printing problems when Cura got set to a 2.8mm filament setting. And I really have no idea how it got changed. Prints got much better when I found and fixed that.
yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just tried them on default, problem now is after putting on a fresh new .4 nozzle the extruder can’t even get it through anymore, I even tried manually pushing the filament and it wouldnt budge, Im beginning to think I’m gonna have to disassemble the whole hotend and clean it all