Calibration and Printing Issues

Snapmaker 2.0 (3-in-1)
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Help please!
I’m just not getting this. I’ve spent days calibrating. I’ve gone through all the calibrations I can find online.

• Printing Temperature (Nozzle): 210
• Build Plate (Bed) Temperature: 70
• Flow Rate: 95.24
• Retraction Distance: 0.5
• Retraction Speed / Prime Speed: 40
• Z Hop: .2

Despite all my calibration prints coming out well, at least from what I can tell, every time I try to actually print something, I have problems. In this case stringing. There was virtually no stringing at all on my test.

This is the Snapmaker PLA that came with the machine, it’s in a filament dryer as well.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Nozzle at 210 might be too hot. I get less stringing at 190 vs. 210. Have you printed a temperature tower? If not, @xchrisd ‘s 3D Print Guide has some downloadable GCode.

It looks like a lot of stringing, but nothing that can’t be cleaned up post print. But I’m also seeing your overhangs curl a bit, which also says “too hot” to me.

Is that skirt solid? It looks like it tore on the left side of that picture.

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I usually print snap pla at 205. Did you dried your filament?

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Do not forget to calibrate your e steps:

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Adding to what others wrote: Try a larger retraction distance, 2mm or so…

And: IHMO you do not have much stringing, at least not in the photo. It should be easy to remove. One trick is to very quickly pass the flame of a gas torch over the print - it melts the strings away easily. Be careful of course not to melt your print, especially thin parts may suffer.

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There was definitely curling, I did print a temp tower, which was what landed me where I was, but will lower it.

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Thanks, I did do that already.

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Thanks

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Yes, dried it. I think it might have been too hot.