Solid Infill not meeting Perimeter (Page 1 of 2)

.42 width is what you are looking for.  You need to increase your output either with the extrusion multiplier or filament width

I had a problem like that because my extruder was not feeding properly.  from factory these extruders are not constrained on the speed at which the move.  What was happening was on retract/prime it was not actually moving as far as it thought it was, causing a period of low infill.  When I set eeprom max feedrate mm/s on E: 15, I no longer had problems like that.

That being said mostly what I was seeing was only around interior hole perimeters.  pastprimitive is probably right you need to check your belt tension.

As per nlancaster's suggestion I set max feedrate mm/s On E :15 , all this achieved was a slower print job.

The actual result is almost identical, if I didnt number my calibrations you wouldnt know which was which.

see pic:

is this a solidoodle 3?  just curious.  Another thing you may try is a different filament.  I calibrated my printer with sainsmart black, and when i switched to red, i had to adjust several of the settings.  I still dont have the red printing as well as the black.  the red seems to have more problems with thin walls than what the black does.

Hunter has really hit the nail on the head. There is no 'if this is wrong, do this' sort of guide. There is for a few things, but the answers are never in absolutes.

I've tensioned my belts, and have them even. Other tests seem to support he fact that I've got my calibration of x and y axis correct. I've done the filament feedrate calibration, twice. I may try my original filament profile as a comparison....

It's an SD3, fully enclosed with an Ikea thermometer sitting inside that tells me it's ambient operating temp is around 40-42C. A borosilicate glass sheet has helped me achieve really good adhesion and also enabled me to get my bed nice and level.

New filament arrived today, and I was trying to not introduce another variable into the mix before I had this problem resolved. But I may give it a go and see if there is a difference. Though it really looks like a problem with the positioning, not the flow.

(i hope they're not famous last words)

Thanks Tony, I've already come to the same conclusion as you, but I find it very odd that I can have my X/Y calibrated so perfectly and yet still get this issue.

Interestingly on my calibration disk test I didn't have the problem arise. The main difference there was the use of solid infill and .1mm layer height.

I've done the Y axis pulleys, twice now as per the instructional video and as far as I can tell there is no binding or skipping. A cube is a cube, a single wall print like the maze challenge comes out almost perfect.

Anyway, I'm under orders from my GF to start paying her a bit more attention again, so I might not be doing so much work on the printer tonight I'll post any tests or results I do get a chance to do though, and hopefully this thread will eventually get to the bottom of the problem.

Here's a screen shot of my first layer code as simulated.  I would think if the code were incorrect, it would show up here.  Although I could be wrong, i've seen stranger things happen.

As for lifting, My first layer never has gaps that large.  I set my first layer print at 200% (advanced tab) on large prints and 150% on all others.  The second layer will usually drag on the first layer because i'm pressing it down so hard but i don't worry too much about it.  My goal is to get it to stick.  I usually will have to heat cycle the bed to get my prints off.  It's the stock SD3 bed with a little hairspray.

http://vimeo.com/72809500

Random suggestion to humor the peanut gallery....

What happens if you set all the widths in Advanced to be 0, leaving slic3r to figure it out ?

I ask because Slic3r will try and slice the model using wall widths of whats spec'ed in Advanced... if you have a model with a .5 wall, but have .42 wall widths, then Slic3r has to make a decision which it tends to do wall-by-wall rather than model-wide as to how it handles the wall meeting the infill... Sometimes it does a good job, sometimes it doesn't.

Anyway... set all of advanced to 0, reslice it, and see if that works... we can worry about the specifics of hows and whys later if it indeed fixes anything for you

Actually i think you have a calibration issue like we have in this post:

http://www.soliforum.com/post/33892/#p33892

Can you print a circle and check if you get the same issue as in this post.

your circle is not as round as it should be. You do have bumps and flats on the lower right und upper left corner. You can see it with the coin inserted very well.

this sounds like a great suggestion.  let us know how it goes.

I printed my iphone case and i'm having the same issue you are, although not quite as bad.  And it's primarily on two arcs that are located diagonal to one another.  the other two arcs (case corners) are nice and tight. I'm moving down the mechanical route, I think i may have something loose, like a carriage or something.  I have been racking my brain trying to identify any mechanical characteristics that are unique to the two corner arcs that are not meeting correctly as compared to the two corner arcs that are good.
I have calibrated and calibrated and for the most part, my prints are good.  I think now that i've been printing for a few weeks i'm getting really picky.  It's also the challenge of being able to say, 'ah I know what causes that'..

Hi Adrian, no change when I tried those settings. 

Rotating the part eliminates the problem, but potentially would just make it appear on another section.

I've narrowed it down to when the print head approaches the same edge from two different directions.

Talking to a CNC builder at work he's inclined to blame the GCode.. so I'm going to slice it with Skeinforge and test that. Or maybe there is some weird driver issue that causes it.

I'm very puzzled and since no one else has tried to print the test STL I cant tell if it's confined to my printer.

Even worse, the only time I get to sit on the forums and brainstorm is when I'm at work, not when I'm at home and able to print.

What John is seeing sounds exactly like my issue.