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Answered Top layer/Infill Issues

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting' started by Victoria Nedbal, Nov 19, 2018.

  1. Victoria Nedbal

    Victoria Nedbal Member

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    Hello All,

    My Robo R1+ has been printing fine up until now and I am unsure of what has changed. I had an overnight print last night that everything but one part came out fine. I tried to reprint the part that failed and it doesn't seem to be printing right. I started to print some test cubes and the top layers seem to be caving in. I cut the cube to see if the infill is not printing right and this is what it looks like. This is my second test going from 10% to 30% infill.

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    Are there settings I need to change or something wrong with the printer itself?
     
    #1 Victoria Nedbal, Nov 19, 2018
  2. WheresWaldo

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    Less infill means your printer has to bridge better, but also you need to make sure you have enough top layers. Usually all us admins recommend that you have at the very least a 1 mm thick top. So if you are using 0.20 layers, that will mean 5 MINIMUM, 6 would be just a bit better.
     
    #2 WheresWaldo, Nov 19, 2018
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    Ditto

    And you may be printing a bit hot which makes bridging a challenge :)
     
    #3 mark tomlinson, Nov 19, 2018
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