Hi folks,
I got my Snapmaker 2.0 last week and finished assembly yesterday. First Project should be a small character from Star Wars.
On the first attempt even the first line of filament would not stick to the heat bed. So I did recalibrate the Z-Value with less offset. Next try it started nicely with good adherence of the filament for the baseplate and even half of the boots of the statue.
This morning I saw that after that the adherence of the filament obviously got lost and I found (beside of baseplate and half of the boots) just a bunch of filaments that stuck together.
Any advises how to get use to that problem. As this is my first 3-D printer I donāt have any idea what the problem could be and how to solve thisā¦
Hi again, unfortunately I donāt have photos from the first print with the Star Wars character. It took me some efforts to get this thing away from the baseplate as it stuck unbelievable.
All prints are made with the PLA coming along with the printer, Bet initial 70Ā°, then 60Ā°. Nozzle 200Ā°
Yesterday I did a new attempt trying to print these small cube I found somewhere here in a tutorial.
Before doing that I calibrated the Extruder and the heat bed (@60Ā°C) again. I cleaned the print area with Isopropyl Alcohol.
Problem with the cube was that the brim would not stick to the plate and the first layer as you can see on the photo did not stick either. After printing a pretty neat middle part at the end the cube lost adherence to the plate ā¦
I did a leveling @ 60Ā° again and tried to print two bearings from a filament spool holder. Brim was fine, Beside the fact that adherence got lost at 3/4 of the print it seems that the first layers are ok and then a couple of layers does not fit, then its getting better again. I hope you can see that on the pictures (can try to make better pictures in case). For that print I cleaned the first layer to 125%.
Today I gave it another try with the cube. I did a re-level again and it seems Iām on the right way. The cube came out really nice for the beginning and it came off the platform easily, maybe due to the Alcohol (not that I had some ).
One other thing bothers me, I bought my 350 with the enclosure. Using the 1 kg Spool that came along with the printer there is really strong tension on the filament inside the housing. Due to the long way and even the need to get through the hole in the enclosure I guess its really hard for the extruder to pull the filament. Iām not sure if, left like this, itās a good idea?!
Do you guys use a spool adapter?
Iāve seen other people post about the filament tension on the v2. There are severalposts about people having the same concern with some good suggestions. Those are two I found doing a forum search (the magnifying glass icon in the upper right) for ā2.0 filamentā.
Regarding your first print, most figures Iāve seen will require support of some sort. If the model includes areas that would need to start printing in mid-air, itās not going to work out of the box. Hereās an example: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3989757. The modelās hands and cape arenāt going to start printing correctly. Since they start in mid air, the extruder will just create filament spaghetti, and that spaghetti will just float around until it gets scaped off on something. If you enable the supports feature, Luban will generate some scaffolding that will allow those areas to be printed. For that model, I think the āTouched Buildplateā support would be sufficient, but Iād want to examine the modelās layers to be sure I didnāt need āEverywhereā support. From the first model, I canāt tell if the hand holding the blaster pistol and the cape start over the buildplate or the base. If they start over the base, you will need āEverywhereā support.
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