How to avoid these gaps?

[René @3dnerd]

Hi,

today I tried to print a tongue for a dino of my little daughter.
But as you can see there are gaps in the print.
I printed in normal mode, 10% infill, orange PLA (original from Robox)

If I examin the gcode everything looks well, no gaps in the print path.

The printjob folder I attached as zip.

Thanks for any help!

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[robyneil @robyneil My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

I got the same gaps at the highest part of this elephant’s body:

http://www.thingiverse.com/make:109775

probably because I think I was only using infill of 3% instead of the default 20% for Draft…was saving filament but legs and head where articulated nicely after some cleanup. Maybe increase infill percentage???

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[StreatSi @streatsi]

Try increasing the number of perimeters an increase the solid top perimeter no.

[René @3dnerd]

Hi,

thanks to all.
I increased percentage of infill. I tried with 40% and the print is clean now without any gaps. I think I will also print some test with lower infill that I can see at which percentage of infill these gaps will appear again.

For now I am happy, thanks!

[René @3dnerd]

Hi,

just to let you know. Today I did two more tests. One with normal mode, 40% infill, honeycomb. The 2nd one I did in fine mode, 20% infill, honeycomp.
Both printed well without any gaps.

The result is great and you can see it here:

• This reply was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by  René.

[René @3dnerd]

Hi,

just to let you know. Today I did two more tests. One with normal mode, 40% infill, honeycomb. The 2nd one I did in fine mode, 20% infill, honeycomp.
Both printed well without any gaps.

The result is great and you can see it here:

http://www.cel-robox.com/forums/topic/happy-end-with-happy-meal-and-robox

[robyneil @robyneil My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

Woot! The precision looks great on Fine. I was gonna wait for AM 1.01 Cura before trying out more complicated prints but this encourages me to try out some more complex models with honeycomb infill. I can always use them to compare against the Cura version. Thanks for sharing.

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