I’m getting perfect vertical surfaces but horrible horizontal surfaces. I’ve tried messing with the width solid top infill setting in slic3rs and increasing my top layer count but this doesn’t seem to help, any suggestions? This was on a thing-o-matic running the latest sailfish with a .4 mm nozzle.
I had problems with slicer if the filament diameter was set to auto. You might be printing too fast too.
Thanks Stephanie I’ll have to expirement with the speed tonight, I do have my filament diameter set to 1.76 as several measurements with my calipers though.
In situations like this I compare the printed object’s appearance with a GCode viewer output. If the viewer’s output appears better the first thing I check is E-steps-per-mm.
Thanks Neil, I fear this being the issue as I’ve read that this can only be changed via the lcd addon which i lack.
You could tweak Slic3r’s Extrusion Multiplier as a substitute measure. A value above 1.0 should extrude more plastic and increase the infill. Adjust in small increments e.g. +0.05 at a time.
also double check you’re not slipping anywhere and your hob is not clogged.
Increase the overlap if you have that option. That changes the amount the inner layers combine with the walls.