What the bleep?
One of your axis motors skipped. You can slow things down a little bit, or turn just travel moves down, there are a couple of different solutions to this. Nozzle could have hit a curl and bounced over it, so cooling would solve that issue, etc.
It looks like right now I have auto cooling enabled. Should I just run the fan all the time at a certain speed? I noticed this issue where it was getting caught on another print job. All the pieces were shifted like above.
This is a brand new extruder.
Speeds:
Perimeters: 20
Small Perimeters: 20
External Perimeters: 90%
Infill: 30
Solid Infill: 30
Top Solid Infill: 30
Travel: 70
First Layer Speed: 85%
Layer Height 0.2064
First Layer Height 0.35
Do I need to adjust any of these settings?
What slicer are you using? I have just found that KISSlicer on Ubuntu with 1GB ram cannot handle overly complex/large objects. I had a couple files that kicked over and I spent too much time fiddling with printer settings/lubrication/power trim adjustments, only to find that if I split the files into smaller jobs it ran fine.
The kick would happen at the same point for the same file, but at a different point for a different file. It appears there would be some g-code that would cause the printer to try and do something it couldn’t, causing a motor to stall (I happened to be there one time and heard/saw it), thus causing the kick.
The errors would happen 1-5 hours into a 10+ hour print. After separating or splitting objects into smaller jobs, I was successfully completing 12 hour prints with no shifting.
Sorry for hi-jacking the thread, while most of the time a kick like that is hardware related, @Nathan_Walkner will have a tough time convincing me it wasn’t a bug in KISSlicer that caused a print to fail 3 times in what appeared to be the exact same x/y/z location all 3 times. And those same 2 pieces printed without error when separated. This behemoth took over 120 hours of printing… https://twitter.com/ehud42/status/608085276674527232 Note the failures in the garbage can and the successes on the table.
It looks like the pieces were peeling off and getting caught causing the belt to slip. I cleaned the plate really well and I’m starting the job again. The first time I ever printed this, it printed flawlessly.
What’s everyone’s opinion on cooling? Could I run the fan all the time? If so what percentage?
I might try just running the fan at a higher rate of speed for a few print jobs and see what happens.
Ahh speaking of the Euth V2 I’ve gotten a ton of that stuff already. I’m still waiting for the Misumi order, built plate, and boro glass. I need to get busy and print the 3D printed pieces instead of this puzzle.
Looks like it will finish printing this time. About another 3 hours to go. 