I’m pretty new to 3d printing as I just got an Ender 3 Max Neo for Christmas. I’ve been playing around with various filaments from Inland and Creality, but I’m having odd results with the Creality ones.

When using the Creality filaments, my prints get random holes, or outright fail, because of gaps when it’s extruding. The roll is not tangled and my extruder doesn’t appear to be slipping. I’ve tried adjusting speed, temperatures, flow, z offset, etc, but nothing is fixing the random gaps. The Inland filaments are working great and are very consistent. Any help is appreciated.

  • rambos@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I have no experience with that filament, but some of them are crap. For each filament you should find the best temp and flow. You sad you tried diferent settings, but have you done temp/flow/retraction tower calibration? You can try disabling retractions for testing, again some filaments are bad and sometimes retractions are just too frequent (compare by printing exact same model). As others said it can also be wet filament. Some filaments require diferent tension on extruder arm, but you can tell by looking at the teeth marks. At the end you want filament and settings that work best for you, I love polymaker

  • Nanomerce @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    maybe the creality filaments are moist? Do you hear popping noises? if so then try drying em in a dehydrator.

  • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’ve had the same issue with creality filament. I’m sticking with inland. The creality filament just sucks. It’s dry and I’ve spent far too many hours screwing around with settings. I’ve never had to fiddle with settings so much with so little return.

  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Are you sure the extruder isn’t slipping? I had some issues on my ender 3 v1 because I wasn’t extruding hot enough or slow enough, especially with certain brands. That resulted in the filament coming out way slower than expected, but some did come out. It would extrude some, skip to catch up, extrude more.

    • pepsison52895@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Not that I’m aware of as I don’t hear any odd noise from the extruder or see marks on the filament. I’m new to this though so I probably don’t know what to look for. What told you that yours was slipping?

      • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeMEnglish
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        8 months ago

        1. the obvious skipping click noise and the extruder wheel reversing for just a moment.

        2. stop the print, pull out all the filament and there will be small dished out sections. Not the gear teeth impressions, those are normal, but imagine the gear chewing up that filament.

        • pepsison52895@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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          8 months ago

          That’s what I imagined I’d see or hear and I’m not seeing any of that. I’ll take a closer look again though now that I know for sure. Thanks!