I think superslicer is overextruding your two top layers, causing print failure. I thought that looking at your pictures as the layers look significantly overextruded.
I did a bit of searching. You may be running into the issue shown below. Crank down the flow on your top layers.
Finally got a good print off of it! I slowed the acceleration way down. That made a huge difference in the jerky and it’s no longer skipping steps. Well not for this print anyways lol. Hopefully a lot more to come
Ok now for the actual print. I printed @vicious1 xzyz test and took measurements with my calipers. Time to invest in a larger pair lol. I was at the max for these. Anyways take a look a the numbers for me and tell me if it’s off enough to worry about and if so what steps should I take to fix it. The frame is as square as I can get it with a metric tape measure. So I’m not 100% sure what to mess with next or if I even need to. Relying on you much more experienced guys to let me know. Thank you!!!
I know somewhere Ryan said there was some amount that was “good enough”, but I guess that depends on what you intend to print.
My printer was close enough without the skew correction, but I decided to do it anyway, because why not? Figured I might as well make it as good as I could, whether it was necessary or not
Hey @Jonathjon, your post a few days ago made me pay more attention to my belts. Just noticed unexpected flapping rising/falling belt motion on my right side because my idler is wrong way around , details here, sharing incase you’re having similar issue still. Cheers!
Thanks @azab2c I took a look at that and mine are orientated correctly. It hasn’t been doing it nearly as much as before since I tensioned them a little better. Still trying to get this thing truly square. Printing the bed skew prints now and going to give that a try like @Michael_Melancon suggest.
Does anyone know how to get super slicer to wait until everything is heated up before it starts homing?? I think that’s been throwing me some weird stuff. Bed isn’t sticking well in spots and I think that’s because its being leveled while its still expanding. But I am slicer dumb and cant find anywhere to change that.
I tried adding that, the heat stuff gets put in before it gets to the custom start gcode and there is no wait. I have tried googling it but keep coming up empty.
Looking at it now, I see why I always get a slight hesitation before it starts printing. I just wish it would heat up before it started homing/leveling
Since I went to the 0.6 nozzle, I find that the ooze out empties more of the filament, and about half of my purge line is blank, so my prints probably wouldn’t work without it.
I used to like the prime line that my old Cura profiles gave me better, but currently the PrusaSlicer default is
G1 Z0.28 F240
G92 E0
G1 X2.0 Y140 E10 F1500 ; prime the nozzle
G1 X2.3 Y140 F5000
G92 E0
G1 X2.3 Y10 E10 F1200 ; prime the nozzle
G92 E0
I still need to tweak my start profile a bit as it kinda annoys me the extra delays that are in there, but this is the PrusaSlicer default
G90 ; use absolute coordinates
M83 ; extruder relative mode
M104 S150 ; set temporary nozzle temp to prevent oozing during homing
M140 S{first_layer_bed_temperature[0]} ; set final bed temp
G4 S30 ; allow partial nozzle warmup
G28 ; home all axis
G1 Z50 F240
G1 X2.0 Y10 F3000
M104 S{first_layer_temperature[0]} ; set final nozzle temp
M190 S{first_layer_bed_temperature[0]} ; wait for bed temp to stabilize
M109 S{first_layer_temperature[0]} ; wait for nozzle temp to stabilize
G1 Z0.28 F240
G92 E0
G1 X2.0 Y140 E10 F1500 ; prime the nozzle
G1 X2.3 Y140 F5000
G92 E0
G1 X2.3 Y10 E10 F1200 ; prime the nozzle
G92 E0
It does a partial warmup only to 150 so it doesn’t start oozing before the Z home.
I don’t really like this G4 S30 dwell command it has, but I also haven’t taken the time to make it better.
I would probably prefer if it looked something like:
G90 ; use absolute coordinates
M83 ; extruder relative mode
M140 S{first_layer_bed_temperature[0]} ; set final bed temp
M104 S150 ; set temporary nozzle temp to prevent oozing during homing
M109 S150 ; set temporary nozzle temp to prevent oozing during homing
M190 S{first_layer_bed_temperature[0]} ; wait for bed temp to stabilize
G28 ; home all axis
G1 Z50 F240
G1 X2.0 Y10 F3000
M104 S{first_layer_temperature[0]} ; set final nozzle temp
M109 S{first_layer_temperature[0]} ; wait for nozzle temp to stabilize
G1 Z0.28 F240
G92 E0
G1 X2.0 Y140 E10 F1500 ; prime the nozzle
G1 X2.3 Y140 F5000
G92 E0
G1 X2.3 Y10 E10 F1200 ; prime the nozzle
G92 E0
just to optimize the waiting a little bit. (I just made those changes in this editor…so careful of any errors lol )
Thanks for the gcode @Michael_Melancon! I put it in this morning and now its heating before it does anything else. I also left your 30s pause in there. My bed is 1/4" aluminum plate with glass on top of that. Let that heat soak in and give it just a little bit longer to hopefully stabilize before all the leveling starts lol.
I heat up the bed first. I wait for it to get to temp. Once I get to temp, I set the nozzle temp. Then I immediately go into homing the axis. After homing x,y, and z, I do the auto-z level.
Usually by the time all the homing and leveling is finished, the hot end is up to temperature.
I do run a purge command that runs along the edge of the bed and then does the ‘swipe’ across the edge to wipe the nozzle.
I still do a skirt, but the skirt is usually more to give me a chance to make sure my microsteps are still set correctly fro the first layer.
No it didn’t. I bought this at the time where silent drivers weren’t a thing yet and TL Smoothers were all the rage.
BL Touch was still fairly new I think.
I looked at the CR Touch a bit. Every time I think about adding more stuff to this printer, I look at all these $200 printers that have all of these features and tell myself I’m not spending any more on it.
I was super into a Voron 2.4 when I found it, until I also found the price.
I really just want one with a bigger bed and a few of the new features. It serves it’s purpose now so it’s hard to justify the cost of a new one. I guess I’ll wait til this one dies.
I really want to be able to print more things, like TPU, ASA, etc.
Maybe when the time comes, you and @azab2c will have made it super easy for me already