I’m extremely new to 3d printing and thought that I had done enough research to understand what could go wrong but evidently I was mistaken. I’m going to try to provide as much information as I can.
Many of my 3d prints went fine until about a week ago when I started hearing a grinding sound from the extruder trying to burry itself during a print. it was a few layers after starting so I canceled the print and did some recalibrations to see if that might fix it. it didn’t. I saw somewhere that potentially a bit of gcode might cause it when using different filament settings so a swapped back to the regular sovol filament and that did nothing.
what confuses me is the inconsistency of it. sometimes it will grind during the pre print purge line other times it makes it to the first layer before grinding down.
it’s not a nose dive but more like it’s trying to print ever so slightly lower than the bed.
any advise or thoughts would be greatly appreciated but as I am so new to all of this the more simple you could make the explanation the better.
More details please. Which slicer are you using? Which filament? What settings in the slicer? And so on.
I’m using Orca slicer and at present I am testing using what remains of the white PLA filament that came with the printer. using the sovol Generic PLA filament preset and the system preset of 0.20 mm standard sovol sv07.
when the error first occurred I believe I was using PETG from a local company called standard print co and printing using the sovol generic PETG filament.
I think other than that the only thing I changed was the infill to support cubic.
Hello,
I don’t recommend you to do tests with this filament.
In general, it is too dry.
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