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Solved Print failure analysis anyone?

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  1. Dcbarry

    Dcbarry New Member

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    Would appreciate ideas on what went wrong here. After finally having a few relative successes with smaller parts of the R1 from Mike Kelley's Thingiverse posting (examples included), I decided to print a 5 hour "monster" overnight, the X axis motor mount.

    I'm using a stock R1 (non plus). I am printing this on a "medium setting / PLA" settings with the current version of the Robo version of the Matter Hacker software . The only changes I made were to accommodate the Z-axis, and to add a raft and change the infill to 75%.

    The raft and initial layers seemed to get started OK, although that's harder to see, so after 10 minutes I walked away. But I'm guessing about 20 minutes after I walked away it all went south. You can see there is a middle portion that looked normal, but then it all falls apart again.

    As a side note, I'm printing this direct from the SD card, so not a PC communications issue.
     

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    I assume you have printed taller models before without any issues. At a wild guess "PLA Microclogs"
    If this is something that repeatedly happens exactly the same for that model with every attempt then a model issue would be my next guess (although I know Mike's models are fine so ... not likely it) or the slicer having issues (try a different one).
     
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    Meant to close out thread earlier, Cleared up major problems after completely resetting the matter control settings. No longer getting prints that look like winter snowscape scenes, must have been a settings glitch.
     
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