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Thanks all--I opened it up, heated the extruder to 230C, and pulled the extraneous filament piece by piece out of the extruder with tweezers. Working fine now.

Hey Raimond,

So as a last-ditch effort to figure out the problem with my printer, I swapped the X and Y stepper motor wires. Oddly enough, that fixed the problem--it didn't cause the Y motor to...

Hey everyone,

I was trying to load a new filament into my right extruder of my FFCP and encountered a problem. I had very little filament left on the old spool so I tried to unload it but got a...

Yeah I've seen the wet taping stuff which is super cool I just haven't had the patience for it...does it really work that well? Also, I have a print that's been going for about 17 hrs and even...

For all the people out there who put kapton tape down on their print bed, I just discovered a little thing you can do when preparing the bed for a print.

Okay, so you know how there are always...

I think when you're printing something that small slowing down the speed won't help you in terms of letting the layers cool. Basically you've got a hot extruder head pressing up against a small...

Anyone here using Buildtak on their print bed for ABS builds? I'm wondering how effective it is--how often do you have to replace it, do you get air bubbles under it, do you need to put anything...

Out of curiosity, why did you return it?

These are the teeth I'm talking about:
http://3dprintboard.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4499&stc=1
I'm saying that if those aren't really tight, then the tension in the gantry belt will cause it...

Okay. I only ask because my Makerbot Desktop has a catastrophic bug that is causing my printer to get reeeally screwed up if I make any modifications to the part in the slicer. As in, once I import...

Yeah I see the spring on that gantry belt, but if his gantry belt is slipping then it will probably just keep loosening itself until he clamps those teeth down tighter.

If you're getting a slip in your y-axis belt, tightening by moving the stepper may not be a permanent solution. What I did when I had belt slippage was to re-grip the belt. Where the belt connects...

As a follow-up, has anyone encountered any notable bugs in any of the software they've used?

I'm curious--are any of you guys using Simplify3D as your slicer with a FlashForge printer? I'm looking to switch slicers since Makerbot Desktop has been giving me serious problems, and I want to...

Wow I feel like an idiot, I completely misread your original post and thought you were having a sticking issue--your photos are a little ambiguous. Good news though is that I ALSO used to have that...

I used to have the exact same problem when doing really small detailed jobs, very similar footprint to the ones you show in those pictures. What has COMPLETELY solved the issue for me was ABS...

I've had the Creator Pro since September and have accumulated 145 hrs of print time on it. When it first shipped it had some issues with the Z motor and the XY limit switches but once I fixed those...

That is a setting in the gcode file generated by the ReplicatorG slicing software--you might try downloading that.

I've been using 3.4.1 and still having the issues.

It's not the belt or a jam or anything (read through my various replies here for more details on it, that video shows the motor behavior after starting a print job and cancelling)--the motor operates...

Ah, thank you for finding that link! I've been searching high and low for an old version. I'm downloading now and going to give it a try, as well as giving ReplicatorG a try for sanity's sake. I'm...

I have the FlashForge Creator Pro printer (Makerbot Replicator Dual knockoff). The time of slicing isn't the real problem for me right now (although, as I mentioned, a 2 MB STL only got to 20%...

Sorry I should clarify--the object I was printing wasn't smaller itself (it was roughly the same size as the original I was trying to do), it's that the .stl file of the second object was much...

Interesting. When you say you've seen the same thing, you mean you've been experiencing this problem too? Have you been able to generate x3g's for any stl's over a couple hundred KB? I don't think...

Yes, if you create a custom profile you can adjust all the settings and get very fine-tuned results. You go to settings and click "Create Profile", name it, then go to "Edit Profile" and a text file...