Topic: Filament doesn't stick
Hey,
so I'm very new to this, please forgive me if I missed something obvious. I wanted to print a testpart[0] but as the below video shows, the printer destroys whatever he'd just printed and also the filament does not stick at all to the plattform:
youtube.com /watch?v=i_9YJJrGUUk
After that I fiddled around some more with Repetier and Slic3r. I used the Slic3r config I found on Ian Johnsons Blog[1] but changed the speed for the permiters and outer fillings to 40%. This worked better, but the first few seconds nothing comes out of the nozzle and so some initial parts are missing.
I tried using the anchor start code[2], but it just moved the printing platform down and up and started normally.
I thought about writing my own start code, but before I do that I wanted to ask if there's something else I ought to check first. Why is there nothing coming out at first? Will a anchor start code fix this? Why doesn't the filament stick to the heat bed?
[0]: thingiverse.com /thing:968
[1]: solidoodletips.wordpress.com /2012/08/22/setting-up-repetier-host/
[2]: soliforum.com /topic/231/improved-start-and-end-gcode/