stops extruding after first layer? (Page 1 of 2)

Does it do this on all prints including one of the sample prints?

Try the keychain since it is quick, and see if it does the same thing. I ask you to do this to eliminate the possibility of it being the Gcode. If all prints including samples do it, then it is hardware. But if the samples do not do it then it is an issue with your gcode, maybe the header.

If you can post the header of one of your gcode files along with the first 10 to 20 lines.

Is it always the second layer or is their a variation? The only things that can affect it hardware wise, is temperature being too low or the extruder motor is stopping. This can be caused by the sensor thinking you are out of filament but that should throw up an alarm. Or the four pin harness going in to the motor could have an intermittent open but his would cause it to be more random. If it is specific and at a certain time it could also be temperature related. Is the stepper motor really hot I mean nearly to hot to touch when it stops? The display should show you the current temp. So see what it is when it stops.

Found today when printing long objects positioned left to right on the bed all is ok, but when printing with the objects positioned front of bed to rear, extruder gets clogged?  I have found the glass bed to be higher in the middle vs the edges by a lot. I glass seems to be not truly flat.

So should I put more of a gap between the bed and tip?

Hi thanks for your help. Not sure what a motor driver is? I know what the motor is lol, but not the driver.
I think I know what the problem may be. I am using 3rd party filament from florida-filaments com and I have the spool holder on the top of the machine. I have the filament routed through the lid opening ( where you would put your hand to lift the lid) and found when pulling the filament toward the front edge of the bed, the filament has to make a sharp u shape bend through the lid opening. I found I had to pull kind of hard to get the filament to the front edge area of the bed. Even though the spool holder I made has bearings, still kind of hard to pull filament at such a sharp bend.  I think that is why the motor is getting hot. I am not sure how strong of a pull, a motor can pull filament?  thoughts?

I am going to mount the spool holder directly behind the machine tomorrow and drill a hole straight into the stock xzy filament grommet tube, and run my filament through there for less stress pull on the filament and see what happens.

what are the benefits to A different extruder? New here and interested.

well I made it where there is no resistance on the filament pull and still same problem. It stops printing mid print on any brand filament. I am at a loss.

Also note the bigger prints have a lot of small circles that and shapes where the extruder has to stop and start.

This may be a shot in the dark but could it be the connector for the hot end?

I forgot to ask, or did not notice but are you on stock firmware or Repetier?

Ok not what I thought. Repetier firmware seems to have communication protocol error in it where it does not tell the software when the printers buffer is full. So it just streams all the file to the printer and the printer will just print whatever got loaded to the buffer and just stop like it is done. In its mind it is. Have not figured out what causes it. Work around is just to print from the SD card. That wont help you either since you confirmed samples on the printer do the same.