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jsallay
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Globs with flexible filament

I am trying to print the following item without much success https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2071698

I am using Gray Sainsmart TPU.

The first time I printed it, I used the SemiFlex filament settings and I got this result:

The outside is nearly perfect, but the inside has big globs and a lot of stringing.

Next I turned off all of the retraction settings.

This made a huge difference in the stringing, but the globs are still there.  You can see that they occur on the back side of the circular indents in the model.

I have printed this at least a dozen times changing the temperature and print speeds.  I also baked the filament for an hour.  I am able to pretty much get rid all of the stringing, but nothing I've done has any impact on the globs.  My guess is that the nozzle is over-extruding either when it starts or finishes travel between points.  I don't see any settings that would let me reduce the amount of filament extruded in these cases.

Posted : 09/09/2019 11:38 pm
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