I’m happy to have finally made it into the forum and was hoping for some help to identify whats going on with my 3D prints. I get a weird texture, mainly when its printing walls and vertically, the flats areas seem ok.
The PLA i’m using is called Tecor from Ink Station and is fresh out of the bag so I dont think it’s moisture.
I have a P1S, I recently changed the hotend to a 0.4 Hardened Steel, I heard that can make a difference.
Somethings I have tried already.
Manual calibration of flow rate and dynamics
Changed filament to a different brand
Have tried printing at 200c, 210c, 220c and 230c to compensate incase it’s the new steel nozzle.
Bed temp at 55c
Updated the nozzle type in the settings on the P1S printer.
Let’s be clear: this is NOT what a calibrated filament looks like—quite the opposite. This filament profile has serious flow rate and retraction issues. Also, although PLA typically doesn’t require drying, it may be worth doing so in this case. Just make sure to weigh the filament before and after to verify that moisture was present and was removed. You don’t need a fancy dryer; the cardboard box your filament came in and your printer’s build bed set to 50°C can easily do the job overnight. But weigh it first; otherwise, you’ll just be guessing.
Thanks for the additional data. Bambu Studio does not have true filament calibration. For that you’ll want to load Orca Slicer a variant of Bambu Studio that has baked-in calibration utilities which include the Gcode modifiers.
Both slicers can coexist on the same machine so you won’t have to chose one over the other. But you’ll quickly find out that Orcas was made by hobbyists for hobbyists and aside from the calibration routines it has so many more quality of life enhancements. Although I keep studio on my system, I haven’t used it in over 10 months.
To perform calibrations. Here’s two of my favorite videos that really explain the use of Orca calibration utilities. There are other videos out there that are worth exploring but I believe these two are among the simplest and most straight forward.
