With that said, z-offset is the same only for a few weeks to a month. Where, when I find the right z setting it will print just fine until one day the problem comes back.
Last night I included a picture of last nights print, but I failed to upload it somehow. I shall try again and you will see the randomness of it. This time with a z-offset of only -0.03. The print started left to right. Starting with the J and completing that.
Then moving on to, Jack, where you can see a pretty nice outline layer followed by the start of an infill and shortly after, the motor just stopped and I began to just hand feed it a little just to see what will happen when it needs to retract and move to a different spot. It came back from break and retracted! Started to fill in just a little around the 3 o'clock position and then stops again. Retracted again going down to the teeth filling that in, which just filled in with oozing plastic...(lunch time maybe?)
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Qe9auF]After jack was "done," it moved over to the right which is the start of a knob. So you can see it do a great inner and outer perimeter. Started a really nice infill, retracted to the 5 o'clock position and... took a union mandated break.
As far as trouble shooting this print with the factory file, I unfortunately let the frustration get to me and removed models from the build plate, closed up S3D, turned off the computer, and turned off the printer.
I would like to extend a token of gratitude and thank you for your time looking into my mess.
I feel compel to use this program since I forked over the $$$, but I can slice it in Slic3r just fine. I just keep forcing myself to use this and figure it out.
