I am am moderately to very experienced in 3D printing, though I have not printed in years. Started with the OG Makerbot dual extrusion printer, then upgraded to a Lulzbot Taz5 a while later. It’s been in my garage for 3 years after a move and technology has grown by leaps and bounds. Youtube reviews said the X1C was best in class so I bought that, set it up, and started printing yesterday.
One of the first things I did was design and print a poop catcher. The ones I saw online didn’t have the ‘holes’ for the size magnets I had, so I made my own in Fusion.
It has these weird banding issues on the layers that contain the ‘dents’ for the holes. I played with a few print settings (mostly speed?) but didn’t change too much. Printed with a 3rd party PLA (using the AMS, and set it to the Generic PLA filament).
Anyone know what could be causing this? Nothing else I’ve printed has had issues like this.
I suspect it was the speed settings, as you’ve pointed out. But check the following…
Was the correct nozzle selected? 0.4mm, 0.6mm, etc
Was a custom filament preset created for the nozzle temperature for the non-Bambu PLA?
What Process preset was used? 0.2mm Standard @BBL X1C
Did you use the Classic or Arachne wall generator?
Did the speed change at these levels? (a shot in the dark - but check)
Standard settings work really well. Perhaps cut out just the two centimeters spanning the top row of magnets and test with the standard 0.2mm settings and see what happens - it’s a cheap, quick test.
Thanks for the tips. Honestly, I’ve no idea what the settings were that I used. It was the first non-test print that I did, and I was excited to get it printed. So unfortunately, no idea what settings I used.
I’ll load it up again later today and see if I (fingers crossed) actually saved the project. I likely did not, as it was a one and done print. I’ve a bad habit of deleting whats on the print bed, then importing a new model. Not used to how new slicers have models and settings in a single project file, I’ve already accidentally saved over a project, and later loaded it, and wondered why the hell a benchy instead of a ring was in my “Spool Adapter Ring” project file. Oops.
