Printing trouble, please help!

[Nofear202]

Hello,

I am having trouble printing this yoda bottle opener (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:864391). I am doing this on a Makergear M2 dual extruder setup. My extruder temperature is 215 degrees and my build plate is 70 degrees. I have kapton tape on my build plate.
It looks like the printer is skipping up on these prints. On the second print I stayed and watched. Nothing got caught or hung up and the filament was feeding fine. I have an ooze shield set up as well.

Thanks

[JoeJ]

That part looks like a simple single-extruder model. I would think you would only want to print it with one extruder. Ooze shields are really only needed for dual-extruder prints. So first of all, I would click "edit process settings" and change your "Auto-Configure Extruders" option to either right-only or left-only depending on which one you need. This will only heat up one extruder. Since the other will be at room temperature, there is no need for the ooze shield.

Next, if your filament isn't extruding evenly, then you likely either have a nozzle clog or you need to turn up the temperature. Try extruding at 230C and see if it prints any better.

[Nofear202]

Ok, I did what you said I changed the extruder temp to 230 degrees. I selected just the single right extruder for the print. The print came out a lot better but it still has some gaps in it. I used supports for this model.
What can I do?

Thanks

[JoeJ]

What plastic are you using? I just tried printing that part with the stock S3D "right extruder only" profile using MakerGear's filament and it turned out very nicely.

Not sure what settings you would have different from that, although, it's possible you have extruder issues that are showing up in the print as well since the stock settings are working fine on my machine

[Nofear202]

I'm using PLA plastic and the only thing I changed in the settings is the extruder temperature. But I just printed out a two colored traffic cone and it came out nice. (It's the bigger one)

[Rebekah_harper]

Possibly printing too fast.

Sometimes the skipping is actually moisture in the filament.

It might be a height issue. You can adjust through the gcode tab. - brings it closer to the nozzle.