Hi Everyone,

My name is matt, I'm from Cleveland, Ohio, and I recently purchased a FlashForge Creator Pro 3D printer.

I completed my first print last night, and I'm wondering if you can assist me with tweaks necessary to achieve better results. I've attached some pictures. One, the gray one, is the model I printed with the FlashForge Creator Pro. The other, the white one, is a print I had done at my library with a Makerbot Replicator 2. As you can see, they're noticeably different in terms of quality.

I've read online posts in which details of tweaked settings and such were explained, in order to achieve optimal results. Basically, my problems with the FlashForge print are as follows:

1) There are parts of the model that simply didn't print - they look as though they were "eaten away" from the final product. I've tried to take close ups of said areas for reference. In addition, there are parts of the figure that seem to have accumulated excess bits of filament. Again, I've shown photos for reference. How to I keep this from happening, to create a smoother result?

2) I'm unhappy with the banding, compared to the MakerBot print - what I mean by that is that the "lines" of printed filament are very, very obvious in the FlashForge print. On the MakerBot print, they seem to be more smoothed out and compacted. They're still somewhat visible but certainly not to the degree of the print from the FlashForge.

Help! Haha.

I'd love to know how I can remedy these problems. I really want to stick with the FlashForge Creator Pro - I've heard great things about it and, up until the actual print, I was very happy with it. Any advice you can share would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!


matt
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