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paulsroom 2 weeks, 5 days ago.
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I thought I’d have a go at printing this amazing lotus flower design and managed a half-right result. I used ABS and for some reason the print only got a little way printing the inner leaves and then gave up. It continued to print the outer leaves okay and at some point it returned to printing the inner leaves. But by that time the nozzles were too high to adhere on anything, so it just printed a kind of unconnected spider’s web in the centre.
I suppose I could simply take the .stl file into a CAD program and remove the inner leaves and then reprint just the outer leaves. In this state it just requires a very small amount of clean-up, but otherwise it’s okay. I’m wondering if I might get a more complete result with PLA. If I change to something like FabbColor, then I won’t change again. The guy on thingiverse printed it on a Cube 3, with I presume their filaments.
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This topic was modified 2 weeks, 6 days ago by paulsroom.
@paulsroom That behavior usually points to a slicing error. What slicer are you using?
I operate two Betas and one Production Robox.
@bhudson Yes, I did wonder that it might be a slicer error as I couldn’t really understand why it should start printing in the middle, then stop. I was going to view it in a gcode viewer. I believe that the original part was printed using Slic3r and I used Cura.
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This reply was modified 2 weeks, 6 days ago by paulsroom.
if the wall thickness is less than the nozzle diameter (or more correctly the extrusion width setting) then the slicing engine will produce nothing rather than print beyond the model boundary.
Did you scale the model?
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