Ringing is what we call the small waves or shadows that usually appear around sharp corners on a print. It’s often very apparent if you have text on your print as you will see what looks like shadows of the text. This happens when the print head makes a sudden direction change and the […]
If your filament is getting eaten up by the gear before it enters the extruder channel to be heated up (AKA “grinding”), the most likely cause is an entirely or partially clogged extruder. If this is the case you will need to consult the tips on “How to fix a clogged extruder”. If the […]
That “squished” bit of print materials that occurs right where the print touches the heated bed -that’s what we call “Elephant Foot”, and if you are a very detail oriented user, or if your specific print, and it’s after print use requires of you to be very precise, you may want to use a few […]
You can browse through different designs on: https://www.thingiverse.com/ https://www.myminifactory.com https://pinshape.com http://www.yeggi.com/ If you have a custom print and wish to share your work, feel free to upload it and pass the joy along!
This is a measure of the accuracy in which the extruder moves along the X,Y axes. It is not the layer height (which the CraftBot is able to print at 50 microns/layer when a .25mm nozzle is used). This Positioning precision value however, can be as low as a 4 micron accuracy!
