First go at a "complicated" print on the Graber-ATX i3.

First go at a “complicated” print on the Graber-ATX i3. Seems to have skipped a few layers, and didn’t print the top. This is at 0.1mm layers. Spoke to a friend and he reckons that the model might have had some defects. Hence skipping so many layers.

There’s nothing wrong with the model; it’s been printed by hundreds and hundreds of people without a problem.

Skipping a few layers could be the result of the drive gear being unable to extrude or some other problem. Did you have a strong fan on it? Sometimes a strong fan can knock the temperature down low enough that the hot end can’t keep up.

@ThantiK thanks for that. Yea there is a desk fan blowing on the platform, and a 40mm fan blowing onto the Hotend continuously. I’m printing a bracket at the moment and changed the layer height to 0.2mm and slowed the print speed down too. It printing a lot better now. Will give the Frog another with these settings.

That is a rather tricky model to print and as @ThantiK says, it has been printed hundreds, if not thousands of times (I have about 30 frogs in different colours and materials at home).

Some slicers apparently have had problems with the original mesh, however. I printed @Jerrill_Johnson 's remeshed version, though, and I know that version is fine. (http://www.thingiverse.com/make:49773)

I did just throw that idea out there, my friend and I are beginners at all of this. Thanks for all of your feedback though. Bracket came out perfectly considering the issues, which seem to be fixed for now.

Watch your nozzle temp as mentioned before, but I’d think is your nozzle cooled down too low it would have jammed much earlier