What have I done wrong ?

[Entity]

Tried makerware but soooo many settings in there that I don't yet understand, lowered bed temp to 105 and that helped marginally.

Start of prints looks like a bowl so like you suggested, think heat is an issue, the FFCP has a cooling fan but didn't thinkit was a good idea to activate when using ABS ? nor do I know how yet either. So doing bulk of experiments on the old FFCX and final working prints on FFCP. Will try duplicating prints and see how that goes.

Thanks for your help and taking the time out to reply, shall post results tomorrow.

Cheers

[Sebastian Finke]

Tried makerware but soooo many settings in there that I don't yet understand

Change that by reading reading reading. If you don't understand what a parameter does then google it and the top link (or one of the top links) will take you to the relevant page explaining all the settings. The effort is worth it.

... lowered bed temp to 105 and that helped marginally.

Still too high. ABS on a Flashforge requires 95 degrees max bed temp.

Start of prints looks like a bowl

Poor start geometry for 3D printer, support may help here (with an added raft). Can you print it with the bowl facing up?


CA is correct, switch to Makerware. Can you upload the model?

[ffvader]

Still too high. ABS on a Flashforge requires 95 degrees max bed temp.

i think that is subjective.
it depends on your printing platform.
if you have glass with glue, or tape, or buildtak directly on your build plate..
etc.
it will vary based on what you are printing on and how many layers you have on top of that and what material you are using.
some thing conduct heat better than others.

If you set your bed at 95 and hit with an infrared thermometer it should read ~95, but if you have 1/8 glass or 1/4 glass or something else.
maybe with tape on that or PEI or something. that won't read 95

for abs i set my bed to 110, using 1/4 glass with hair spray and have no issues to speak of.