Here are some crappy pictures of prints one and three.
Tips for getting the top to come out better would be great.
@Nuker_Bot_NukerBot_3 check it out
Need closer pictures, can’t quite make out whats going on. But your sides indicate that you’ve got some slop in your belts (90 degree corners aren’t crisp).
Yea sorry for the bad pics. The corners could probably be a tad bit crisper. They are undersized slightly so I’m going to run of a single wall cube and check the wall thickness.
http://richrap.blogspot.com/2012/01/slic3r-is-nicer-part-1-settings-and.html has some of the best visual guides - it really helped me tune my printer.
Your hotend is probably making a crackling noise due to the temperature being too high. Also check your e-steps to make sure your filament moves the correct amount when you say to push filament and adjust your flow ratio based on the filament of the time. The nozzle size and the filament diameter needs to be set correctly. When using a slicer that tries to stay on a specific temperature, higher speed means higher temperature and lower speeds mean you can use a lower temperature…when makes setting such things a pain in the butt.
Congrats. My first print was only half the quality of yours. My software installation on Linux was kind of screwed up and I had multiple copies of things installed, so all my slicer settings were being ignored by the copy that was actually being used.
On a side note, black filament sucks due to all that pigment.
I would try to print at a lower temperature and maybe do some stepper calibration. How did you calibrate your steps in marlin? I have the E3D hotend also thanks for the recomendation by the way and it prints monoprice black at 240° perfectly. Nice to see you finally got it churning stuff out.
Well at a lower temp its a bit better st a slower speed its even better but still not solid.
The layers never fully setup before laying the next layer so it can’t flatten the top layers
@Mike_Ashcraft what bed temperature? You may need a minimum layer time.
No heated bed. Thats the top and yea I’m thinking I need a way to slow the top layers down
ABS or PLA, btw? PLA can take a fan if you want.
Pla
Try a diffuser fan mounted on the hot end assembly and you can keep speeds up without losing quality…or so I have heard. I use only ABS so far, so I do not personnaly Know this.