Help Prints Warping

[ralphzoontjens]

Hi Zeki, I have experienced this on some other printers.
What can cause it are belts being too loose so that with enough friction between the nozzle and the print they will create these skippings.
For lessening the friction you can
- adjust the flow rate of the filament, so that the layers are printed at the exact specified thickness
- calibrate the print bed height
- use a Z-hop slicer setting so the nozzle avoids the print when traveling

Also tighten your belts.

In case it is related to your motors, check your motor driver voltage and see if you can find an XY-jerk setting in your printer's firmware, if you lower this then the printer won't lose track of its position if the motors have to make tiny movements such as in filling tiny areas in between your print's walls. For example your wall is set as 0.9mm which leaves 0.1mm infill space with 2 walls and a 0.4mm nozzle. This causes tiny zigzag movements and that can cause the offsets.

[zekiguy123]

Thanks-
I fixed that problem but my printer keeps having other problems. I contacted M3D and am getting help from them.

Hi Zeki, I have experienced this on some other printers.
What can cause it are belts being too loose so that with enough friction between the nozzle and the print they will create these skippings.
For lessening the friction you can
- adjust the flow rate of the filament, so that the layers are printed at the exact specified thickness
- calibrate the print bed height
- use a Z-hop slicer setting so the nozzle avoids the print when traveling

Also tighten your belts.

In case it is related to your motors, check your motor driver voltage and see if you can find an XY-jerk setting in your printer's firmware, if you lower this then the printer won't lose track of its position if the motors have to make tiny movements such as in filling tiny areas in between your print's walls. For example your wall is set as 0.9mm which leaves 0.1mm infill space with 2 walls and a 0.4mm nozzle. This causes tiny zigzag movements and that can cause the offsets.