Extruder crash
I did my first large size print - a cover for some instruments. 8" x 3" flat base with a 1/2 radius to vertical side walls 1" high.
The flat base printed beautifully with 7 layers. It finished the 7th and started on the rim. The extruder crashed into the rim and the print stopped. I'm at a bit of a loss for how to deal with that because it's obviously not a bed to extruder calibration issue because the bottom layers were perfect. Ideas?
Re: Extruder crash
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Peter
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Re: Extruder crash
The printer is a MK3 Kit.
What seemed to happen is the extruder printed the rim and then attempted to cross back over the printed section and hit it. The face of the cover that I was printing was well stuck down to the bed. I'm trying to figure out whether the problem was a random event, some kind of fault in the g-code or bad z calibration or something else. It takes an hour of printing to get to this point and so I'd hate to have to try again and get the same result.
Re: Extruder crash
I cold see there being a few different reasons, at least its only an hour. and a inch tall. wait in inch tall, this is a metric machine :D.
did it come loose from the bed?
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