SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Squiggly Prints

Re: Squiggly Prints

2013-01-31T19:26:34Z

perlguy wrote:

I've not had any problems like this until today.
How can I tell if my Z-Tab is calibrated, and how do I calibrate it?

We have a video here: http://wiki.solidoodle.com/first-layers … e-z-offset

Re: Squiggly Prints

2013-01-30T20:04:50Z

You didn't happen to wind up the speed and decrease the cool time did you? I can get something like this when I all but turn off cool in skeinforge, meaning that the layer below isn't solid enough yet to put down the next layer. I agree it looks as though you're extruding more material than can fit but the wavyness doesn't really make sense.

Re: Squiggly Prints

2013-01-30T18:52:28Z

It looks like the layer changes became too big at some point, as if Z steps/mm changed mid print. Do you have a dial indicator, or some way to measure how far the Z moves?

Re: Squiggly Prints

2013-01-30T18:52:02Z

I've not had any problems like this until today.

How can I tell if my Z-Tab is calibrated, and how do I calibrate it?

Re: Squiggly Prints

2013-01-30T18:46:44Z

perlguy wrote:

I have not seen this before from my printer...
Am I running too hot? Too cold? Is it caused by a partial clog?

Weird. Is your Z-tab calibrated?

Squiggly Prints

2013-01-30T18:13:01Z

I have not seen this before from my printer...

Am I running too hot? Too cold? Is it caused by a partial clog?