[What is the problem here?]

4 minutes ago, Smithy said:

You have to find your optimal settings for temperature, layer height and print speed. Changing one of these parameters directly reflects the amount of extruded material

 

Most of my settings are default, yes, but I'll try and experiment more.

For now I primed the tiles and used some putty, and 2 paint coats later it looks more as a tile terrace.

 

I ordered a borosilicate glass plate for my Ender and a metal extruder upgrade, which according to users should improve print quality.

 

Thanks again for the help!

[What is the problem here?]

Thanks for your help, I used the thin paper between nozzle and bed method, by adjusting the 4 screws under the bed to level the bed.

When I make the bed level on all sides, in the middle there is noticably more of a gap between the bed/paper/nozzle.

When I make the bed level in the middle, the nozzle scratches the bed on all sides of the bed in a way I do not like it, and think it will damage the bed as well as th nozzle.

 

So I i guess my bed is warped.

 

I made a 1x0.3 layer print : 

 

 

 

It looks ok, except from the strange line on the left side of the square?

And the diagonal lines are not melted together, they are all loose strings like a gitar.

 

Perhaps that has something to do with the temperature, I lowered it to 190 degrees, to solve another problem.

 

 

[Tiles are not solid]

Hi,

 

For a miniature diorama build scale 1:100 I made a tilesfloor with brickwork in between.

The model I made in Blender, the height of the tilesfloor is 0.6mm.

 

 

In cura after I prepared the model I made a zoomed in screenshot in layer view to check how the tiles are filled and be printed.

As you can see in the screenshot, it seems solid, it builds one tile with 3 squares and fills them with diagonal lines

 

 

The actual print, shows after a layer of grey primer, that there is a space between the outer square and the rest of the tile, it does not connect with the rest of the inner tile, so it looks like a small frame of some kind.

 

 

 

The cura settings show in above cura screenshot.

Does anyone know why the actual print differs from the layer view in cura? Why are the squares printed with a tiny bit of space in between, it should be one solid mass.

The tile size is 5x5x0.6mm. 

 

I'm printing with an Ender 3.

 

Thanks in advance.

Martijn.

[What is the problem here?]

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15 hours ago, yellowshark said:

It would be interesting to see the result if you set the height to 1.2mm and printed 4x0.3 layers. 

 

 

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15 hours ago, yellowshark said:

s an example if you are printing 20% infill and 0.3 layers and specify 3 top layers you will just about get a smooth top layer

 

 

Hi,

 

I did as you said, a printheight of 1.2mm with 4x 0.3 mm layers and 20% infill and 3 top layers.

 

 

As I was watching I noticed that in layers 1 and 2 there was no adhesion to the printbed at certain points. Do you call this underextrusion?

 

 

As of layers 3 and 4, everything was printed normally.

 

 

I made some pictures of top and bottom.

 

I'm priming the print right now, end result will be shown soon!

 

Thanks.

[What is the problem here?]

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49 minutes ago, yellowshark said:

What is the Z height? What layer height are you using?

 

 

The height is 0,6 mm and they layer height is extra fine in cura .06 mm.

It has 8 layers in total.

[What is the problem here?]

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11 minutes ago, Smithy said:

I don't know how this object should look like

 

 

Thanks for your reply, some of the square tiles look as they should, flat and smooth.

The majority of the tiles however have 'frayed' top layer, this is not how I intended it.

 

 

[What is the problem here?]

Hi,

 

Below the picture shows my finished print on my Ender 3.

The problem is, that most of the squares have a damaged, misformed toplayer.

The top layers should be flat, like some of the other squares are,

 

What can be the problem here, I calibrated my print bed, but I think in the middle some of the areas of the print bed are not really leveled as the areas on the sides. Perhaps a warped print bed?

Can that cause top layer problems shown on the picture below?

 

What can I do besides buy a glass print bed?

 

Thank you.

Regards,

Martijn.

 

[Model is greyed in Cura]

Thanks, I used an incorrect screenshot after I changed something in the properties the Prepare button appeared again.

As you can see, is has been sliced but there are no layers visible.

[Model is greyed in Cura]

Hi,

I made a panel of rails in Blender and exported it as a .stl file which I opened into Cura.

!st picture is how it shows in Blender, the rails are all the same width height and lenght: 4mm 

 

 

2nd picture shows how it imports into cura in the Solid view:

 

 

3rd picture shows the Layer view after I hit the prepare button:

You can see it shows the model in Grey colour, although it says the model consists of 7 lines there is no actual model printed.

 

 

Perhaps this has something to do with line thickness, and/or wall thickness?

I played and changed a lot of values of the line and wall thickness in the quality and shell properties, but it has no effect, the model remains Grey and cannot be printed.

 

My 3D printer is an Ender 3.

 

Can anyone help me figuring this out?

Thanks in advance!

 

Regards

Martijn.

 

 

[Printing a support structure inside the mesh]

Yes thanks for your tips and info, you're right, it is hardly visible.

 

[Printing a support structure inside the mesh]

Thank you, yes I already experimented and printed with infill, but instead of the whole cube be filled, perhaps it is possible to create an infill structure that matches the shape of the inset top shape?

[Printing a support structure inside the mesh]

Hi, I'm using Cura 3.5.0 and I have a question about printing a support structure inside the mesh.

I made a cube and on every 6 sides created an inset number ; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

 

On layer 71 it starts to print the underlying layer for the indented number 1, here is the problem, this is the top side of the cube.

So it starts to print this layer in thin air.

 

So I lfound the option support placement, which is not helping me to create an in mesh support structure that holds the shape of the number 1 printed in the top side of the cube.

I attached an image screenshot of layer 71 printed in thin air whilst the support option is set to everywhere.

 

Hopefully can anyone give me a tip to achieve this.

 

Thank you.

 

Regards

MaMo.