In the "It's not much, but it's mine" department. My first print.

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In the “It’s not much, but it’s mine” department. My first print. A 1cm test “Cube”…In quotes, because it’s not really very Cube-y.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33743995@N00/sets/72157640084751156/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33743995@N00/sets/72157640084751156

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Know the feeling, it’s pretty kewl when you start cranking things out.

Now do some calibration and you’ll be off and running :wink:

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If you are using slicer, you want to print with 0% infill, 0 top layers, and 1 parimiter. Then you can measure the wall thickness to see if you are over extruding, X dimensions, Y dimensions and Z dimensions. From that you can determine allot, like how much you want to adjust flow rate, X steps, Y steps, Z steps.

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Yeah this is with nearly zero calibration. I fiddled with initial layer height, and the PLA wouldn’t stick til I got it up to 210 or so.

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IMO you shouldn’t have to crank the temp up so high and it might cause you other problems. I had a piece crystalize and clog my print head. Are you using blue painter’s tape to on the bed? If so, consider swabbing with some rubbing alcohol as well. I’m printing @ 195-200 and at times was at 185. Of course it can vary with different brands of filament, but I need to use a putty knife to get things free from the bed using 3M’s tape.

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Yeah, I’m still in heavy tweaking mode, but with alcohol rubbed blue tape and 190 degrees, the printhead was just pushing plastic around in a big gooey mess.

I’ve upped the print size and the current 3cm cube with infill is looking awesome…not perfect, but very very good for print #5.

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Heh, looks like I was lucky, or have done my homework well. My first print was as good as I could hope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcNJtF4_4K4

Anyway, congrats!

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my 2.5cm infilled cube printed a lot better…well, until the PLA swelled in the extruder. I think I need to greatly speed up extrusion.