Hi there. I got a Sovol SV06 printer for Christmas so I’ve had it for about 3 weeks. I’m brand new to this and have no clue what I’m doing, so bear with me. The filament that came with the printer worked fine with absolutely zero issues. I recently purchased this spool of filament when we ran out. I’m just trying to print a simple cube, and it looks like the filament doesn’t stick to the bed properly and gets pulled around. The bed is 60, the hotend is 200. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to calibrate it or something when I get new filament. I really need the ELI5 version as I’m brand new to 3d printing of any sort.
Did you clean the bed before printing?
Yes. I don’t believe that’s the issue. It worked perfectly fine with the old filament, but is super screwy now with the new stuff.
I’m going to second that it didn’t stick. Cubes are a little rough to do because the sharp 90degree corners like to lift. A “right now” solution is to put “mouse ears” or a brim on the print to keep it stuck… but there are a few other things to check to get the best result.
Changing filament will mean sometimes changing the temperatures to get good bed adhesion, for Sovol PLA I ran the bed at 65 and hotend at 230 for first layer, dropping to the 200 for all other layers.
But it can be as simple as you touched the bed once near the location the cube was, sometimes cleaning the surface works, or even just moving the item to a different part of the bed to get it finished for now.
Z-height has a HUGE impact on making the first layer stick too, for the limited time it takes I’d re-calibrate that with the old single sheet of paper trick. The SV06 has twin screws so its pretty vulnerable to ending up on a bit of an angle just because it got bumped while off.. or even just after you’ve run a whole bunch of jobs.. I recommend turning off the Z motors and manually turning one side up till it starts to bind, then counting turns down till it starts to bind, and going back halfway, then leveling the bed vs that with “corners” mode. Then redo “bed mesh”. Running the automatic head level each time you start the printer for the day afterwards is suitable afterwards.. if you wait for the bed to be ~35’c or less before removing the parts it shouldn’t need any force, and it should be many months before you have to do manual relevel again (just watch the first layer go down, and you’ll see if its not evenly squished or not sticking), I recommend printing out a little PLA bed scraper to keep your hands full so you don’t touch things with your fingers or be tempted to yank hard to get parts off while they are just a little too hot still. A reminder here that bed leveling/mesh should be done at printing temperature, it will change with expansion.
Also check tension on the belts and wheels, if it wobbles or skipped a step it’ll print spidery mess, I had the brass clip slip on the end of the bed belt on my SV07 after the end of its first week and that caused the same experience of just suddenly wouldn’t print, re-crimping it (I just dodgy operator it with long nose pliers) and retighten and it was printing better than ever.
Trying to run the first layer too fast can also cause it to not stick, I run mine about half as fast as later layers.
If all of that seems right and it still won’t stick, your into more troubleshooting, check for nozzle clogs (it can be just a little bit and not coming out right), check that the extruder gear is tensioned right and not slipping. That the beds actually evenly at temperature ect ect. Often we stall our own troubleshooting because the thing we think was the primary change was a red herring.. yes you changed filament, but the reason it might not print right could be totally unrelated, or something else you just bumped during the change (again one hand on the bed while loading and unloading, and instantly that oil will stop it sticking).
Can you provide some tutorials for these? Like I said I’ve owned my printer for about 2 weeks, so not sure how to do that stuff. I appreciate your help.
I made some video of the cube print. The cube print is pretty small but we’re just trying any print, and it all messes up. It doesn’t look like it sticks at all. I didn’t get video of it but when I canceled the print, the nozzle went up and pulled the whole print with it.
Hi,
Not sure but it seems to me your nozzle is much too high.
You will probably need to adjust the Zoffset.
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Can you provide a tutorial or explanation on how to do that? As I said I’m brand new to this.
First of all, did you perform an automatic leveling?
That is your “other” account…right..??
Lol, that’s my son’s account. We’re both trying to sort it out.
Not yet. Can you explain how I do that?
Maybe there:
I followed the instructions to the letter here and the same issue is happening as in the video I posted up above. It looks like the nozzle is way too high above the bed.
Read this & look at the pics that I posted.
Checked that out, but it didn’t help and doesn’t seem to be relevant to my issue.
Then read it again, but slower this time.
Half that process (after swapping the sensor) is setting the Z
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Wow. That was pretty rude. Okay, never mind. Forget I asked. I read it repeatedly, and it’s really just not relevant to my issue as I said before. I’ll go find somewhere else that’s actually helpful.