Why am I getting this extrusion issue?

Using an E3D. Printed fine the other day but now I'm getting weird uneven extrusion. Printing at 210 and I've tried various speeds. Any clue what is causing this and how I can fix?

 

Also, it extrudes fine when I test it using manual controls.

 

one problem could be your initial layer height setting.. your print trace shouldn't look like a round bead of filament. should be more of a flat bead but its hard to tell from the photo.

 

whats a good setting for the initial layer height?

 

thickness of a sheet of paper seems to always work for me.

 

Bed doesn't look level, looks like highs and lows there.

Mine was doing similar but then my hotend turned into a luke-warm end and killed any headway in figuring it out.

what I did figure out while waiting....put straight edge on bed, check flatness. Level the bed on all 4 corners.

 

My bed is cracked at the moment so the tape is helping to secure it. Can't fully level until the new one arrives unfortunately :/

 

That's the problem. It needs tension to get flat from what ive seen

 

Well, sometimes too the bed will look fine and the filament will stop higher up on the print. Are you sure its not an issue with the extruder?

 

I thought the same thing. Then i ran straight edge and it made sense..it was way off. Im willing to bet that's your entire problem. Go ahead and put straight edge on it and see how flat it is.