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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by peregrin5@lemm.ee to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
 

PETG has always been more fraught than PLA for me but as of late it just looks like a mess.

I'm just trying to do calibration at this point and I'm getting this mess on the pressure advance test in Orca Slicer.

https://imgur.com/a/zbEn5FR

I get so much stringing, boogers, and just terrible prints. It didn't used to be this bad. Any tips?

I'm using a Snapmaker Artisan.

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[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm using an Orca profile for the Snapmaker printer but other than that I'm not sure. Kind of just trusting they set that part up correctly.

[–] scytale@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah it should be, how well did it go last time you printed Pla? There are so many things that can go wrong, just trying to eliminate some. (Drying filament never hurts so long as you actually have a dryer and don’t just stick it in the oven and hope for the best)

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

PLA worked fine. I just bought and loaded some new PETG btw and it prints pretty well so I think everyone is right that the filament is just really old/wet.

Threw 80 bucks out to get a dryer.

[–] scytale@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Probably a good idea long term, my region is semi-arid and I still find I need it from time to time

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