Print Quality Degrading mid-print
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2017 3:19 pm
Hi folks,
Have had a Rostock Max v3 running quite well since October. Happy with the quality of prints and the tolerances that this machine can produce.
Recently, prints have begun to get very grainy during the last hour of the print. The first few hours (or inches) of the print are high quality and accurate, laying down thick solid layers and infill that is perfect. In the last hour, or over the first inch of perfect printing, it begins to lay down layers that seem to be half of the material needed. It makes for a very grainy effect, layers do not bond to one another well, and although it can complete the print in the form its creating, the part breaks very easily.
Im curious as to why this happens? The printer seems calibrated well, and can clearly print well to start, yet it accurately prints garbage mid way through. Has anyone seen anything like this?
[img]https://photos-4.dropbox.com/t/2/AAAphb ... ize_mode=3[/img]
Have had a Rostock Max v3 running quite well since October. Happy with the quality of prints and the tolerances that this machine can produce.
Recently, prints have begun to get very grainy during the last hour of the print. The first few hours (or inches) of the print are high quality and accurate, laying down thick solid layers and infill that is perfect. In the last hour, or over the first inch of perfect printing, it begins to lay down layers that seem to be half of the material needed. It makes for a very grainy effect, layers do not bond to one another well, and although it can complete the print in the form its creating, the part breaks very easily.
Im curious as to why this happens? The printer seems calibrated well, and can clearly print well to start, yet it accurately prints garbage mid way through. Has anyone seen anything like this?
[img]https://photos-4.dropbox.com/t/2/AAAphb ... ize_mode=3[/img]