So I’m 3d printing a master sword from the legend of zelda and I’m using cura to slice it but this keeps happening I know it’s not my printer because I’ve printed pre downloaded projects from a usb flash drive. It has gotten very anoying and a lot of filliment has been wasted so if any one knows how to fix this problem it would be mutch apreciated if you could tell me.
Most likely, your extruder is slipping. I’ve had similar problems. You may need to increase extruder temp, and/or increase extruder tension.
I found an easy way to tell is to hold the filament as it is being fed in. You will feel the motor spin, but not feel the filament move.
If you’ve printed pre-downloaded objects from a flash drive, make sure your settings are all correct. If this is pre-packaged g-code that came from the vendor, open up the gcode in a text editor and look at the top of the file and bottom of the file – find out what it’s sliced in; if Cura, you can import those gcode files in order to copy the settings if I remember correctly.
That’s assuming “it’s not your printer” as you say. What you’re showing is also indicative of a clogged nozzle or a slipping drive gear.
Kinda looks like it’s not extruding enough material. Under extrusion could be caused by a low temp or maybe the gcode is wrong. Honestly I’ve found that most of the time (for me anyway) when something fails it’s because I didn’t have my slicer settings right. Do you have the right nozzel size? Is your nozzel clogged? Dust can clog it. Maybe you extruder motor is going bad. Is it just THIS print or have you tried something else since this failure?
I see underextrusion and bad first layer adhesion.
How is the part oriented on the bed?
If you are using default Cura settings you might have the filament size set to 2.87 (~3 mm) when I bet your printer is using 1.75. That results in major under extrusion when mechanically your printer is fine with pre-configured prints.
Thats underextrusion, just raise your extruder multiplier
I’m with @Jeff_Parish I recon your filament is still set to 2.85mm
@Xenomorpheus it’s printing strait up from the bed but I haven’t tried it on its side yet.
Yeah, some prints are finnicky with the orientation of the object. Is it all one piece or several parts?
As everyone else has said, where your using the files supplied by the manufacturer, they are embedded with the correct value for how much the motors have to move to do a thing (move the y axis, extrude some plastic etc) but you have to calibrate your gcode generator (cura) with these values to get the same result when you generate gcode.
Take a look at this https://www.3dhubs.com/talk/thread/howto-calibrate-tune-and-fine-tune-your-printer-and-filament
There are loads of step by step instructions on how to do it, that’s just the first one I found on Google.