I need some help figuring out an issue the Meta PLA. I CANNOT get it to print at all. I’m working with the X1 Carbon, and it seems like no matter the settings I try, I keep getting failures. This is frustrating me because I keep seeing post after post online from people that are saying it prints great, and even on the Bambu Forums, people are saying that they are just using the Bambu Basic PLA setting and getting great prints.
The problem I’m having is that it seems like when the print head goes to start a new line, it takes a few mm of travel before any filament is extruded. One the first layer, this ultimately causes areas of not adhere well which then causes the nozzle to mess up any filament that was already laid down and rips the layer right off the bed. My thought was that because the Meta filament is supposed to be “softer” for a lack of a better term, I’m thinking that when the extruder starts feeding filament into the nozzle, there’s not enough pressure building up at the tip to push any filament out, and it isn’t until after a couple of mm has enough pressure built up to then finally get some to extrude.
I’ve tried changing the retraction settings…I’ve reduced retraction distance, eventually going to zero…I’ve sped up the detraction speed up to 60mm/min…that didn’t work. I’ve changed the flow ratio, I’ve changed the volumetric speeds…nothing is working. Hell I even just left everything on default like everyone is saying with no success whatsoever. Last night I even tried drying the filament for 10 hours at 50C and that hasn’t helped either.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I’d hate to throw a whole roll of filament away but I don’t know what else to do.
Thanks