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Hey! im glad you were able to get this solved, your last statement is probably correct. i just clogged my printer this past weekend in a similar manner. Maybe try calibrating the flow, after you get the E-steps cornered.

yo, sorry ive been really busy, (first week of classes) glad to hear you got it to connect, hows the progress going? any new updates?

Best of luck, also my profile is for cura version 4.13 not the new 5 as some parameters have changed on the new one

Firmware, can either be easy or a big pain in my experience. Just leave it for the time being, unless you want to take on that endeavor. hmm... Im honestly not sure how to get it running. You can probably skip it for now. Its most likely okay, assuming everything was factory calibrated. If it were me, Id probably raise the z offset height first. Test. clean the nozzle. test. Then try a different brand of pla. test. then replace the nozzle with a better one if its still not working. I can see some scratch marks on your bed from where the nozzle scraped across it from being too low. I could be that you maybe misshaped the tip of it, and the extrusion isnt coming out smoothly. Or because its clogged or both. heres a great replacement nozzle, but double check it can fit your stock printer/hot end before ordering. Not sure if it can. https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-E3D-Extra-Nozzle-V6-NOZZLE-175-400/dp/B00NAK9TWM not saying this will work for sure but heres my ender 3 profile. print profiles should be created for each printer individually, but its something you can try and see if it helps. If you want a .12 layer height instead of .16, just reduce the height in the "quality tab" DYNAMIC .16.curaprofile

hmm... its probably the cable. try a different one, name brand like anker if you can. What about the double check stuff?

"no" theres nothing in the terminal? or no, to the double check?

to double check, printer is on and cura is closed?

try just switching the baud rate to something wrong, and switch back to the current. Sometimes it connects like that, and nothing pops up on the terminal side on the far right?

screenshot pronterface and send it

As long as it maintains about steady you should be okay. What app are you using to pid tune?

are you just using curas stock preset "super quality .12" profile?

the reference images for my last reply*

PID tune wise, are you using pronterface? If so something people neglect to mention is make sure cura is closed otherwise for whatever reason the printer wont connect. Then check the baud rate, if it still doesn’t connect. Heres the vid I usually reference whe I do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG1Yvt02l1I Clogs: This was a big issue for me when I got my first printer. For me, it ended up being that my z nozzle height was too low to the bed. AND that my original filament choice sucked, and it kept clogging the nozzle. For my ender 3 I landed on this filament and it rarely ever gave me any problems. https://www.amazon.com/HATCHBOX-3D-Filament-Dimensional-Accuracy/dp/B00J0ECR5I/ref=sr_1_9?crid=QVRIKIQP8H78&keywords=pla&qid=1692139057&sprefix=pl%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-9 Its hard to tell from the pics if z offset is an issue, just because of the color of the filament, but you shouldn’t be getting clogs so often, once you get it sorted it shouldn’t be an issue in the future. Actually. The last pic you posted, (I attached it below for reference) See how some of the lines on your skirt is smashed, to where the line almost disappears? This usually means your nozzle is too close to the bed, (the z offset thing I was talking about). Ill check out the project file rn,

Okay, so I just cut the model, and printed only the center part in question. But the STL looks normal in CAD and it prints normally, so atleast you can eliminate that from the list of potential problems.

It could always be the filament. Do you get clogs often? Have you done a PID tune by chance? I recently had a problem where my thermistor was dying, and my prints quality were fluctuating, under extrusion in some places, over extrusion in others. But temp read normally on the display, however after I did a PID tune, the new numbers were far from normal. What layer height and print speeds are you using? Can you save this as a project file and post it for us? (in cura, file, save project) And by chance can I see the bottom of your print? Ill try and print that section your having trouble with to double check if its the gcode for you. But im guessing its probably hardware related.