My printer will not extrude, What do I do?

First of all, don’t worry.  Chances are that you are not dead in the water, and that an easy fix is around the corner. Chances are that you may have a clogged extruder; if so please follow the protocol in the clogged extruder section of troubleshooting. Another possible explanation could be that the gear in your […]

The CraftBot is still attempting to print but has stopped extruding in the middle of my object.

This is one of those “most inconvenient” situations that can come up at times during 3D printing.  But don’t worry, there is most likely an easy solution to your problem.   Did you run out of filament? is the filament caught up in the extruder gear? Check out the section on Grinding. You may have […]

My Infill (the cross pattern inside my printed object) is a bit weak

Your infill should more-often-than-not not be weak, and the biggest reason for this would be an overall failure to extrude properly; the necessary steps should be taken from the other help sections on how to clean out your extruder or you should make sure that your settings and amount extruded are proper for the nozzle […]

My bed adhesion is terrible/The prints are not sticking to the bed. What do I do?

Three easy fixes are: level the bed again (especially check that the nozzle is not too close or too far from the bed surface), make sure that your printing parameters fit with the materials that you are using (such as the ABS with a 110 Celsius heated build plate), and last-but-not-least, clean the bed of before […]

Bulbous Blobs on my print! How and why?

Where do these little dabs come from?  And how can I make them less noticeable? Every entry point in each layer will cause a blob.  You can make it less obvious if you arrange the entry points in a column, popularly referred to as a “seam”. Click into the “Slice” menu of CraftWare and look […]