1 Topic by talsiri

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Topic: Solid layers issue

I've been printing very regularly on my Solidoodle 3 and haven't had any issues, Changed over to now maybe my 5th or 6th reel of plastic and just changed my Kapton tape on the bed and now for some reason my Solid layers AFTER the 1st solid bottom layer are printing stringy or with breaks along the line. Not quit sure what the problem is as I have checked the feed rate of the extruder and that's spot on leveled the bed again and not sure whats causing it.
Not sure if it matters but the walls are still printing fine and so a supports.

Any help would be fantastic!

2 Reply by n2ri

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Re: Solid layers issue

is the new roll dif material or color or brand from prev roll? thats key to check 1st

Solidoodle 2 with Deluxe kit cover & glass bed with heater. and 2nd board SD2 used not 3rd and alum platform not installed yet still wood. also need cooling fan installed to board. use Repetier Host couple vers. Slic3r also have all free ware STL programs

3 Reply by talsiri

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Re: Solid layers issue

No I've been buying same colour from the same company each time

4 Reply by Serin

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Re: Solid layers issue

Could be a partial clog? Or a weird setting in the slicer you use.
For the clog I'd find something like a guitar string that's smaller than the nozzle size(0.4mm). heat up the hotend, remove the filament and stick the string through the extruder, jiggle.. twist etc etc.

As to the slicer settings, what have you got set for the 'combine infil every * layers' option? decrease it to 2 if it's any higher and run a test print.
Failing that install a different version of the slicer and test again just in case something has glitched.

Of course the others will have other, probably better, solutions.

This is a crowd funding thing that I'm running: http://www.gofundme.com/bvi140 It's for pretty selfish reasons tongue