I used to be able to print things. Now for the past 6 months or so I’ve wasted spools upon spools trying to print anything and this always happens. I’m just about ready to sell this machine and give up on the whole thing.
Is there anything glaringly obvious that springs to any of your expert minds?
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Thank you everyone!
With the initial suggestions regarding nozzle cleaning, I watched a couple YouTube videos and did a cold pull on the nozzle. Additionally I did also scrub the plate with dish soap and got it nice and purdy clean. The initial few layers now are going - dare I say - ideally.
Thank you again for your help!
First thing that springs to my mind is bad adhesion. Have you washed the bed with dishsoap recently? Usually not touching the bed with your fingers is enough but sometimes I need to “reset” by giving it a good wash.
When was the last time you replaced your nozzle? Could be a clogged nozzle. Your first layer is quite bad. There’s a lot that could be going wrong. Have you followed Elliot’s tuning guide?
You may want to try calibrating but I’d imagine it’s something with the nozzle. Could be there’s a bit of filament that needs to be cleaned or nozzle is too worn and needs replaced.
People don’t understand that the nozzle needs to be calibrated…
When I see first layer issues like this, my go to steps are:
- Wash the build plate with hot water and soap to remove any built up glue, dry, and reapply a thin layer of glue stick
- Turn the initial layer speed way down, like 10mm/sec, and 20mm/sec for infill.
What, are you me?? I’ve had exactly that problem on exactly the same printbed with exactly the same color filament. It also only started happening a while ago, it was fine before. Ender 3 v3 SE here. I done know why but I fixed it by wiping the printbed with some soap and water and switching to prusa slicer from cura. Works pretty well now, so maybe try that.
It was fixed by removing residue from the print bed which reduced adhesion for the first few layers, pulling the filament up, which gets stuck on the nozzle and is being dragged across the bed.
Clean your bed regularly every couple of prints.
Yeah, I’ve seen that reply too, but only after posting this… Anyway, I do enjoy many of the new features that Prusa slicer has so maybe all the trouble was worth it, don’t think I would have tried it otherwise
Heat up the bed and then do the manual paper level. Check the levelness of the gantry. Then do a automatic bed leveling. Looks like you are using Crealitys shitty build surface that is known to delaminate and bubble with heat. While its warm press around the plate and see of it has bubble spots because if it does then when it auto levels it will be dips and high places. You may want to replace the build surface with a spring steel or glass.
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