Hi,

I have recently been given an Anet A8 and have spent quite a few days trying to wrap my head around it and the Cura software. I have managed to get it to reliably start and complete a print without completely failing but I have noticed that the consistency isn’t great.

I am currently doing a print job now that’s about 80mm tall and you can see at the beginning the quality is almost perfect (ignore the supports). However, eventually it turns to crap and leaves a lot of gaps. I’m not sure what it’s called or what I can do to prevent this either. I’m printing at 30 mm/s at 0.2mm thickness. Fan speed is 70%. Not sure what else to include but let me know.

The other image is of another completed print which has the same issue at 0.1 mm thickness and similar speed. I printed some small support things which I placed over the Z axis rods to stop them wiggling around, so I don’t think it’s to do with those. I have ordered a glass bed and some new filament as I am not sure how old the current filament is.

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if anyone could help that would be awesome as I am trying to design and print a model rocket for a personal project.

Thanks!