Print quality issue driving me batty

Hi there,

I am getting a problem recently that is affecting all prints. I have not found the best term for this.

I am having filament





not connect with the previous layer and starts forming filament loops. Sometimes it happens on first layer or other times on particular parts of the print. See picture for examples:

From what I can tell, the filament is not sticking to the plate/your print?

The first picture with the octopus where a bit of the tentacle has these mistakes, looks like it 1. did not stick properly to the plate or 2. it came loose after a few layers. Had something similar happen with an articulated figure. Solved by cleaning the build plate (ideally water and soap, but sometimes that is not enough).

The other pictures are a bit tricky, because I am not sure how they were printed? I guess they have a brim? By the way, what happened to the supports? The printer can print steep angles like 30° or less, but not right angles. Maybe enable tree supports in the settings and that solves it? Maybe you can provide some screenshots in the slicer of the sliced file?

There is two solutions to the problem available.
First is to just keep banging your head against a solid wall until all problems goes away.
The second is the funny fact that going back to an earlier Studio release often results in those 3MF files printing flawless again…
If ‘suddenly’ prints no longer print the way they should one should always wonder if they recently installed a new Studio version before wondering what they did wrong…
Doing this really helps preventing having to revert to solution number one in order to fix things…

Just a thought, but a lot of the issues seem to be happening with overhangs.
Does your print head fan spin at all?
Pull the fan plate off the print head and see if the ribbon cable is unplugged.

As it’s possible the fan may have gotten disconnected from the head, so it’s not cooling the filament when printing, so the overhangs just droop and create a mess.

You may also need to clean your print bed with soap and water if first layers are failing to stick.