The lighting in the room is horrible sorry.
I’ve only ever used acrylic and oil, water colour in phases. It was definitely hard to get used to and get the structure/colour I want. I followed a video on YouTube and this was the result. Granted it was a little rushed. Any tips/tricks would be helpful, I was definitely struggling haha
Hi all,
I’m pretty new to 3D printing but I got my hands on an Ender 3 V2 a few weeks ago. All the prints up until recently were pretty fine and no failed prints until I changed filament. I thought maybe it was just an unlucky draw in the filament department, so I returned it and got filament from a different brand, same issue unfortunately. I find that there’s always a partial clog(I think?), I believe, from research, that it’s diagnosable from the filament not coming straight out and curling right away. The initial issue was that there was holes everywhere and stringing and consistent spaces between the lines, as well as oozing all the time, perhaps retraction? I’ll list what troubleshooting I’ve tried(assuming I did it right) and I’ll insert pictures of the issues.
- I recalibrated/levelled the bed.
- fiddled around with z- offset (doesn’t seem to be the issue)
-tightened some belts
-tried cleaning the gears of the extruder
-cleaned the hot end
-changed nozzles about 8 times now
- tried tweaking some things in the slicer(temps, flow ratio, speed, etc)
- took apart hot end to get a piece of bowden tube out (prev owner put a piece there and a spacer) and I tried to feed the Bowden tube instead directly to the nozzle(nothing changed)
- the printer came modded with an auto level function so I’ve been using that pretty much before every print just incase
- I bought a filament dehydrator because I thought I got unlucky with the filament twice lol, nothing changed
- I tried cold pulling to see if there was something further up restricting the flow? Although it doesn’t matter now because I took the tube piece out after.
I’m sure there’s something else I’ve tried that I’m not remembering.
It was just weird that when I was using my black PLA+ it was all fine until I switched to a different colour?
Any wisdom would be highly appreciated, I can’t seem to figure it out myself :,)
Edit: there were some mods on the printer the previous owner installed, I will list them here if they’re helpful at all
- auto levelling touch sensor
- dual gear extruder
- 5015 fan