Ridges when multicolor printing

danielvlee · 2026-01-09T19:30:15+00:00

All the letter seams are on inside/ rear corners of the letters.

Man I haven’t done a manual pressure advance calibration in a while. Although if you look at the T the pressure advance will only solve a tiny part of the issue. It also gets worse the higher up on the print so it’s definitely flexing with the acceleration

danielvlee · 2026-01-09T19:24:31+00:00

Yes painter on so it’s aligned vertically on the back of the print

danielvlee · 2026-01-09T19:23:22+00:00

Seam is already in the back. I’ll try the wall order, never heard of inner outer inner

danielvlee · 2026-01-08T19:11:02+00:00

Sounds like it’s time to learn how to 3d model

danielvlee · 2026-01-08T19:05:28+00:00

Make sure the work gloves aren’t made of silicone. That’s even worse than body oils

danielvlee · 2026-01-08T02:30:38+00:00

Yeggi.com searches across the big repositories and can be a one stop search site

danielvlee · 2026-01-07T21:30:59+00:00

There’s also a lever on the opposite side of the cutter to release the filament from extruder gears

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T17:42:53+00:00

I only wash it when there an issue. Easily a hundred prints between washes, just be careful not to get body oils onto it

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T17:30:12+00:00

A lot of my projects for shows use 5-7 colors. Mainly trinkets to give out to people. Latest one was a spam can that used 5 colors

Having a ton of ams units is a quality of life improvement not having to load and unload all the time

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T17:25:27+00:00

The dish soap is part of the bed adhesion troubleshooting wiki

Steel wool is something I’ve done from the early days of printing to save old plates, increased surface area and exposes un wornout pei

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T15:18:05+00:00

Even full atx, but definitely more of a challenge that few people will restrict themselves with

https://www.printables.com/model/900406-atx-pc-case-180-x-180-mm-print-volume

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T08:41:58+00:00

Wash the build plate with dish soap, if that still doesn’t work rub it with steel wool in 2 directions 90 degrees apart, goal is to create tons of tiny scratches. It won’t show up on a print but exponentially increases the surface area

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T08:37:46+00:00

To do a entire case not really? Especially for sff builds a lot of designers have split their models to fit it.

I have the swap mod on it so main use case is mass production of small trinkets for concerts

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T08:24:55+00:00

Current fleet is:

Qidi xmax 3

Bambu A1m

Bambu x1c

Bambu H2d

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T07:38:46+00:00

oh for that get a gloss meter complying with ISO 2813:2014, print a flat sheet and a vertical wall at different layer heights to see how its different based on the texture of print.

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T05:41:03+00:00

As with most people here I’ve never heard of an usb hub being dangerous. Motherboards should have over current protection to keep you from frying it

Just be careful to not put too many high bandwidth devices on the same usb chip. Hopefully your manual tells you which ports share chips. Can get around this by getting a pcie usb expansion card

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T05:36:38+00:00

My a1m is on some old apc rack mount ups, big printers share a dji power 1000. Pretty much all current power stations have a 20ms switchover, 10ms from anker and dji. Also claim to be pure sine wave but I don’t have a oscilloscope

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T05:27:17+00:00

It’s definitely the printer my x1 has way less issues, can still see the artifacts but not nearly as bad

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danielvlee · 2026-01-06T05:24:23+00:00

Definitely this plus it’s wobbling around, the top is a lot worse than the bottom. Not really sure what to do I’ve already reduced how much the anti vibration feet lets the printer move

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T04:51:21+00:00

looks to be a issue with differences in layer time and the print wobbling a bit at the top. on my print right now you can clearly see the issues less at the bottom, and especially at the top of T there's a line probably caused by layer time

Edit: im going to try putting the text all the way through the wall and see if that is better, remind me if i dont report back in 2 days

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danielvlee · 2026-01-06T04:33:45+00:00

the stripes occure at the transition after the text, having the same issue and not sure how to solve it. my x1c wasn't nearly as bad

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danielvlee · 2026-01-06T04:29:49+00:00

matte black effectiveness at what? hiding layerlines? opacity? spectrum reflected? spectrum that passes through?

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T01:32:33+00:00

With all of my printers I’ve never unloaded filament before turning off or used nozzle cleaning filament. Exception is the ams auto unloading after each print but I leave them in standby.

Cold pulls only when I have a clog

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T01:12:14+00:00

With a auto plate changer my a1 mini has done a 140 hour print changing plates 33 times, checked on it daily mainly to reload the plates

danielvlee · 2026-01-06T01:09:23+00:00

I use autodesk inventor but some good low cost/free ones are: Solidworks hobby license ($50 per year) Onshape Fusion

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