Yeah, I always use a slightly larger 1st layer than for the rest of the print... didn't even notice that setting earlier. (bad heartless, lol)

Thank you everyone for all the help. It was certainly a mix of solutions that fixed this.

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Humor me and increase the distance from your nozzle and bed. For a .4 nozzle (which should be .48 in settings) it certainly looks like it is too hard to keep up. Your Z endstop needs to be triggered just right and different materials may require a different distance. If it is just a hair too close, the first layer may appear to be over extruding.

You can also try decreasing your temp from 240 to something like 233c. The latter is just throwing darts at the moment.

You nailed it. Which is my mistake, I was positive I already set my Z stop for this new spool of filament. I guess my coffee that day wasnt strong enough.
But ran a few times adjusting my Z stop and got better and better

Thank you everyone for all the help. It was certainly a mix of solutions that fixed this.

I agree with Azerate lift that nozzle.

Do you mean me or wardjr??

You can also try decreasing your temp from 240 to something like 233c. The latter is just throwing darts at the moment.

Should I change my first layer settings?

Try setting your first layer extrusion within advanced settings to about 150% mine is set to 140% default is 200%. yours is set for 100% or same as your top line.

I tried 200 % yesterday and air space between the lines .  and 50% would not even print.
I am with you on this one my first layers are a little funky and I would like to get them tuned better  as well, mine not as extreme as yours.

Ok so I tried to change my first layer width to 150% but no noticeable difference, then tried 200% and looks the same. I made sure to save and reslice of course haha

My brim looks better with 200% but still the object isnt right

Should I change my first layer settings?

Try setting your first layer extrusion within advanced settings to about 150% mine is set to 140% default is 200%. yours is set for 100% or same as your top line.

I tried 200 % yesterday and air space between the lines .  and 50% would not even print.
I am with you on this one my first layers are a little funky and I would like to get them tuned better  as well, mine not as extreme as yours.

leave the flow rate alone while doing the calibrations.. only use that if absolutely necessary.

Every spool will need to be calibrated as every spool will be different. Even 2 spools of the same material, brand & color will be different from each other.
Once you get used to doing the calibration routine, it can be accomplished in under 10-15 minutes.

So I ran the box print and sure enough came up at .54. So I changed my multiplier to .884 and getting .48
I calibrated my extrusion and its set and I also releveled my bed. But my first two layers (only set it to 2) arent flat.
I noticed that only the object layers are messy, my brim layers are nice and flat, but as soon as it starts printing the object, it gets messy.

I tried printing in different parts or my bed incase for some reason only the direct center of my bed somehow bows outwards and makes the nozzle too close to the bed, but thats not it.

Should I change my first layer settings?

Every spool will need to be calibrated as every spool will be different. Even 2 spools of the same material, brand & color will be different from each other.
Once you get used to doing the calibration routine, it can be accomplished in under 10-15 minutes.

sounds like you did the steps/mm calibration, but did you calibrate the filament itself?

measure the diameter of the filament in multiple places over several feet (couple of meters) to get an average diameter - enter that average into your software in the filament settings for "filament diameter".

then print a single wall calibration cube with the extrusion multiplier set at 1 - let it cool, then measure the wall thickness on all 4 walls and average those... the number you are shooting for will correlate with your nozzle size - a 0.4 nozzle should have a wall thickness of 0.48 - my guess is that your wall thickness is going to be larger initially - probably around 0.52-0.55...

once you have your average wall thickness, you need to calculate a new extrusion multiplier - the formula for that is:
desired measurement / actual measurement = extrusion multiplier
example: 0.48 / 0.52 = 0.923xxxxx  (you should not need more than 3 decimal places for this, 2 is usually sufficient however)

enter the new extrusion multiplier in the software and make sure you save!

print the single wall calibration cube again, let cool, and measure the walls again - you should be at your target dimension.

All of that said - I have spool of Hatchbox red ABS that likes to "over-extrude" on the first layer - even after careful calibration. I have found that if I turn the flow rate down a little for just that first layer, I get better results.

Yes i have measured my new spool of filament and got 1.7 instead of 1.78 and already entered that into the program. But I will run the cube test and try what you said and post back. Ill also try turn down the first layer flow rate a bit and see

looks like too much plastic and your nozzle is dragging and looks like the layers are lifting in spots.
clean the bed plate and check the extrusion multiplier in slic3r. may need to lower it a  bit.
Also what is your first layer speed set for.

My first layer speed it currently at 30mm/s

Here are some of my settings sorry if its small

I have but not with this new hatchbox filament, I will do that and post results