Hi everyone - does anyone know what would have caused this to start happening on my new printer? I’ve only printed the parts for the early bird accessories so far and now my real-world prints are turning out like this, which is getting worse each attempt:
I’ve re-run the calibration and it hasn’t helped. I feel like the belts might be loose but the documentation indicates that the printer will tell me if they are.
Cheers
If you were to print this again would this issue occur again in the exact same place?
ie; it will always occur on the same side of the part regardless of how it’s oriented in the slicer.
Try printing in a different location on the build plate, if this issue follows it’s likely something in the slicer settings. If it doesn’t it may be something hardware related…
The pictures aren’t great so I’m kind of guessing here but it looks like something is causing under-extrusion in that area which will cause the layer not to stick and get pulled around by the print head. Check the PTFE tube your filament runs through for creases/bending. It may be as simple as this being caused by a pinch point at certain locations during printing.
It could be an issue with bed leveling. I’ve seen a couple of posts about print beds being warped from the factory. However, this would be a real oddity.
There are several things that could cause this but I’m leaning toward something restricting the filament.
Let me know if any of this was helpful!
I think you are right about under extrusion. I started another print using 0.98 as the extrusion multiplier and so far it’s printing flawlessly. I was using the polymaker profile with 0.95 before, since it worked very well for the early bird parts.
However, I changed multiple variables at once so I can’t be 100% sure that that’s the thing that is helping the most or not - I also followed the belt tensioning guide for the X1 and ran the calibration again and bed level again afterwards.
To answer some of your questions, yes, it was repeatable regardless of the orientation of the model. I did not try moving it around on the bed though, but I do suspect that the PTFE tube is being pulled at a harsher angle at that part of the print.
The distance between the top of the printhead and the top glass is odd… Which is why I thought to bring it up.
I was looking at the last pic when you stopped after the first layer closer and it looks like it’s likely an under-extrusion issue.
I do a lot of troubleshooting on integrated systems and the biggest mistake you can make is changing more than one thing at a time! 
I love Polymaker PLA+ but it prints terribly from the P1P with default settings
I’m not sure what you mean by this as there’s no glass on the printer or in the photos, but I’m glad you pointed me in the right direction 
Didn’t realize I was in the p1p forum! Just saw it on the main page and clicked it.
Glad you got it all figured out!
Best of luck!
did you figure this out?? my P1P just started doing this exact thing today. been printing flawlessly for 3 weeks then anything with even a slight outwards angle prints awful.
Hi, did you fix the problem?
@tannerhoplock @Daniel49078 yes - see the third post. Just needed to use a higher Flow Ratio in the filament profile. I mistakenly used the PolyTerra profile which was only 0.95 when I should have used Generic which is 0.98.
