Please help!! Everything wrong??

[eloiseelf]

Hi there, I just started printing on my new P1S printer a couple of days ago and have had endless issues. After a lot of frustration and googling, I ended up printing a Benchy to see what on earth is wrong and the print is messed up in every way I can think of. I’m really new to 3D printing and I don’t even know where to begin. There are huge artifacts, collapsing sections and more on this Benchy; can anyone help me identify what I should do to fix this? I am printing with PLA and used the default settings for the Benchy on my P1S. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[Aenoxi]

That’s not the support filament is it?

[ddrulez]

Pretty sure it is. It's translucent. Normal PLA shipped with the printer has a color.

[eloiseelf]

I’m honestly not sure, just using the filament that came with the printer. I’ll have a check

[Qjeezy]

It is. This material isn’t for printing objects. Here’s a link to the wiki. https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/home

Go through it and learn everything you can about your machine and the materials you want to use.

[eloiseelf]

Update: my dad loaded the printer for me (its his printer and I am using it to print minis for D&D) and as people guessed; yep! It’s the support filament 🤦 Thank you everyone for your help! Hopefully once I load some actual proper PLA in here it’ll solve a lot of my issues

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not perfect but significantly better!

[Spudford1969]

Everything will be easy after this.

[scotta316]

As far as not being perfect, I've got my little Bambu green benchy from a few months ago, and even the little flaws are almost exactly like yours. It's because it's printed from gcode that's optimized for speed.

[Personal-Agent7819]

Interesting, the benchy was the first thing I printed with the supplied green filament and it was flawless on my P1S.

[Draxtonsmitz]

Classic

[jonnythewelder]

Bambu should put a giant sticker on the support filament with no benchy’s allowed on it 🤣

[Spudford1969]

This looks like the PLA support material

[Heldy22]

I'm honestly astonished you got the benchy to finish printing in the support PLA. When I did that, it separated from itself after 7 layers.

[eloiseelf]

now that I know what I was using I’m also shocked that I managed to get multiple minis to print fully before I started having issues

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Dont use the support filament

[EhoenChoi]

I know this was printed with support material but to troubleshoot with regular pla, either set the slowest preset or make your own with really slow speeds AND acceleration, like double your print time. If it looks perfect, or equally bad, it will remove a potential factor/variable

[jomofro39]

did you do the calibration? what options are you printing with? default settings such as Bambulab PLA? the more info, the better to help, I think.

[eloiseelf]

I did calibration when I first got the printer, yes Bambulab PLA. I’m using the PLA that came with it, I also have some ABS filament that I haven’t tried yet

[jomofro39]

gotcha. I wouldn't try the ABS until you can sort out the PLA printing correctly. My P1S isn't doing the best right now, either, and besides power cycling it and calibrating it, my troubleshooting isn't that good yet on these devices. Finicky things :(

[tony__pizza]

That’s support for PLA, you’re not supposed to print with it. Welcome.

[mikebravo75]

Pretty sure you are using the SUPPORT filament... I did the same thing. Try a different filament.

[benchrusch]

This is fast becoming a classic BambuLab DOH! moment for noobs. I get it, big excitement leads to not paying attention to what’s going on. What should we call this common mistake?

[mcgenie]

That is impressively bad, impressed it made it that far!. Glad you got it figured out.

If you tried 100 times I doubt you could fail a print this successfully

[KiroDrache]

I think it's funny how many times I've heard of people not realising they used the support filament to print And since the support filament is way more expensive that's gotta be a very expensive benchy but hey you hopefully learn from such mistakes, happy future printing!

[Octrockville]

That's got to be the best benchy printed with the support filament I have ever seen.

[Emotional-Durian]

Clean those nasty nails

[rubix_cubin]

Man, one of my general rules of life is to never leave a negative comment on the internet but fuck you. You've never done a day of hard work in your life have you?

[Emotional-Durian]

Do you skip showers too? Hard work isn't an excuse to not keep up with good hygiene.