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Update: It is fixed, and was having issues through human error.
I kept thinking that it would make sense if this were an issue with the print bed because that's what it looked like. The first thing that I did was relevel it, but it didn't fix the problem. But it dawned on me this morning that I leveled the print bed using the closest spare "piece of paper", which was a thick photograph. Sure enough, after leveling the print bed with a sheet of printer paper, the first layer of my print is looking great!
Moral of the story: Don't level your print bed using a photo as your piece of paper.
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Even better - once you level it once don't re-run the procedure and instead just turn the knobs until you get perfect bottom layer. Here's my bottom layer guide:
Here are examples where the bed is too close to the nozzle (0mm off the bed) to too far apart (.35mm example where it completely fails similar to your print).
I prefer a skirt like the blue filament above where it is well squished and sticks well. The more squished it is the better it sticks. On rare occasions I can't have even .1mm of brim on the part so I can't squish it at all for dimensional reasons - so parts fit. In those rare cases I am more for the red line amount of thickness.
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Update: It is fixed, and was having issues through human error.
I kept thinking that it would make sense if this were an issue with the print bed because that's what it looked like. The first thing that I did was relevel it, but it didn't fix the problem. But it dawned on me this morning that I leveled the print bed using the closest spare "piece of paper", which was a thick photograph. Sure enough, after leveling the print bed with a sheet of printer paper, the first layer of my print is looking great!
Moral of the story: Don't level your print bed using a photo as your piece of paper.
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Even better - once you level it once don't re-run the procedure and instead just turn the knobs until you get perfect bottom layer. Here's my bottom layer guide:
Here are examples where the bed is too close to the nozzle (0mm off the bed) to too far apart (.35mm example where it completely fails similar to your print).
I prefer a skirt like the blue filament above where it is well squished and sticks well. The more squished it is the better it sticks. On rare occasions I can't have even .1mm of brim on the part so I can't squish it at all for dimensional reasons - so parts fit. In those rare cases I am more for the red line amount of thickness.
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