I have been having endless small issues with my Sovol Zero’s print quality, and I think it’s mainly related to speed. I printed all the parts pictured in this post using the Sovol Zero’s stock 0.18mm profile on PETG with only a minor tweak in speeds and the nature of support material using Overture PETG transparent, which was the only dry filament I had at the time. These parts obviously came out poorly, and I wasn’t sure if it was the speed or something else. I am not entirely sure what to do about it, but no calibration seems to work because it’s moving too fast. The wall quality when moving slow is very consistent and arguably similar to my BBL A1 Mini on stock settings, but so far it’s been nothing but headaches. I am entirely new to 3D printing on Klipper/Marlin so I have no idea what I’m doing, does anyone have an idea on what might be going on?
What speed are you using? That does look too fast, like the top of my Orca max flowrate calibrations when I’m deliberately trying to push past the limits. Try that out to see what you can get away with, but note that as a vase, it doesn’t really care about part cooling, its just seeing what your filament and toolhead can do, so its still possible to overcook normal objects.
I ran one before, and the results I had were inconclusive. I won’t be able to get a good look at the part, but I was able to view the print from its webcam. I’ve attached a picture of what it’s outputting, so not totally sure if it’s accurate. Is there a better way to test this, or is the OrcaSlicer test overall the best?
Provided you’ve already done the temperature tower and flowrate coupons for extrusion multiplier (which is really looking at filament diameter and/or extruder steps/mm), then yes the orca max flow test is the best. PETG is not a fast material.
I tried using the temperature test, but the printer was too fast so the print came out terrible and inconclusive. I’ll try it again with the flow rate results I get and see if that helps
I’ve roughly halved the stock speed settings in the slicer on mine. Not had any issues with print quality at those settings. I believe I set the speeds to the same settings as for the Centauri Carbon.
Pretty sure I found the issue, after increasing temps and running flow calibration again it worked fine so when I went to change it I realized they set the max flow rate to 200mm^3/s! I am recalibrating at a larger value since the printer worked great up to 30mm^3/s, so I think the issue was it never slowed down and caused under extrusion and strain on the motion system.
