3DPrinting

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3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.

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Remember it could always be your filament. (kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago by Cyv_@kbin.social to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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I say having spent the last weekish frustrated that my printer seemed to just be awful at making prints with even loose tolerances all the sudden.

I was using filament that had been left out a month or two, so not long at all, so I thought. Killed the rest of the spool trying to tune things, prints worked perfectly when I got a new spool out.

Goddamnit.

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[–] evidences@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I was trying to print some parts and was having a terrible time, couldn't get anything to stick to the bed and couldn't get anything started. I leveled my bed a couple times, checked and rechecked my z offset just couldn't get a print started. Turns out it was just the two rolls of filament I was trying are just bad filament or something. I switched to a different spool of pla and it immediately started printing fine.