Comment on Trying to add text to the bottom of prints and the quality is inconsistent
AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 2 months ago
I’m only adding this because I don’t already see someone mentioning it.
My first thought was bed leveling, because that’s always the first thing, especially with weird surface artifacts.
But looking at the bridging “above” the text and the gaps in the interface between the solid infill and your perimeters I suspect that you’ve got some under-extrusion going on.
Have you tuned your filament? If not I recommend giving that a shot and seeing if it doesn’t clear up those issues.
vladmech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do you have any recommendations for tuning filament? I’ve found a few videos I’m going to watch tonight, but one thing that’s interesting is I just switched from a CR-10 to a K1 Max, and at the same time from Simplify3D to Creality Print and checking my old S3D profile, my flow modifier was at 1.0, but on CPrint it’s at 0.95. That seems weird, but also it’s manufacturer software with their printer so I’d assume they know what they’re doing, but then it gives weird prints like this.
AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 2 months ago
I’m excited to introduce you to this if you haven’t seen it!
teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html
I use this as a general guide for every time I buy a new material, manufacturer, and/or color of filament. There’s YouTube videos explaining everything every step of the way.
For a new printer (or significant modifications) I’d go through the whole thing. For new filament, if I haven’t used it before, I do flow calibration, temperature tuning, retraction tuning, pressure/linear advance tuning, and max flow tuning, not necessarily in that order. I’ve found that as I’ve learned and experimented more I’ve branched out into more esoteric tools for some things.
My filament printer is a fairly heavily modified ender 3 pro (spider hotend, direct drive, dual z axis, spring steel bed, solid bed spacers, herome gen 7 cooler, cr touch, stepper driver diodes, and an adxl345 waiting for me to mount and wire it… I think that’s it). So I’m not saying this as a Creality hater, I love my ender, I hate their software and firmware. I had a terrible time with their Marlin firmware and ended up building it myself. I’ve since switched to klipper though and highly recommend it, it got me a reasonable quality benchy in around 30 minutes.
My point there is that I have had a hard time with the default profiles across the board, even before the mods. For filament printing I use Prusaslicer, though I do like Superslicer and Orcaslicer seems nice as well, I just have all my profiles built for Prusaslicer and it generally just works.
vladmech@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is such ridiculously good and interesting information, thank you so much! I know what I’m going to be going through and testing the heck out of this weekend haha