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Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?

Posted by willysan 
Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 14, 2015 04:14AM
My DIY mini kossel delta printer (Bowden extrude, 1.75mm) has a print quality issue. It has a annoying "String/Blobs" effect which make the surface not smooth. Why? How can I fix this?

Please find attached the #1. print out with mark to those ugly ball ball surface & #2. my hot-end setup for reference

Cheers,
Willy

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Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 14, 2015 12:44PM
I found two things that did that on mine:

1) Too hot
2) Trying to run a graphic controller on a delta with an Arduino Mega - it caused movement to stutter, and every stutter was a blem . . .

- Tim

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/14/2015 05:22PM by tadawson.
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 14, 2015 01:18PM
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tadawson
I found two things that did that on mine:

1) Too hot
2) Trying to run a graphic controller on a delta with an Arduino Mega - it caused movement too stutter, and every stutter was a blem . . .

- Tim

Thx Tim!

FYI. I did a POC and found the root cause just now. The root cause is about my Arduino Mega 2560 MKS Gen V1.3 board not powerful enough to drive 12864 LCD together with complex 3D model print process. My POC was to disable the LCD feature in Marlin firmware and print same model again with my MacBook Pro instead of PC-less direct print via SDcard.
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 14, 2015 05:03PM
Time for a 32-bit board. I'm partial to Smoothieware, but others are having good luck with the Duet and dc42's firmware.....
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 22, 2015 01:53AM
Not sure if 32-bit board can offer extra power for any other best feature but my string issue is solved after I changed over to "RepRapDiscount Smart Controller" grinning smiley
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 22, 2015 12:33PM
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willysan
Quote
tadawson
I found two things that did that on mine:

1) Too hot
2) Trying to run a graphic controller on a delta with an Arduino Mega - it caused movement too stutter, and every stutter was a blem . . .

- Tim

Thx Tim!

FYI. I did a POC and found the root cause just now. The root cause is about my Arduino Mega 2560 MKS Gen V1.3 board not powerful enough to drive 12864 LCD together with complex 3D model print process. My POC was to disable the LCD feature in Marlin firmware and print same model again with my MacBook Pro instead of PC-less direct print via SDcard.

For what it's worth, you can enable SD card support and not the LCD, you just need tomsta5t SD card jobs from your computer . . .

- Tim
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 25, 2015 09:35PM
Try this - reduce the DELTA_SEGMENTS_PER_SECOND to 80 in your firmware
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 25, 2015 10:01PM
1- Slow down the refresh rate of Graphical LCD..I am using 5 second...
Try this - reduce the DELTA_SEGMENTS_PER_SECOND to 80 in your firmware
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 26, 2015 12:06AM
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Khalid
1- Slow down the refresh rate of Graphical LCD..I am using 5 second...

Where do I change this?
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 26, 2015 02:08AM
Re: Why ugly String/Blobs effect? How to fix and have a smooth print surface?
June 26, 2015 05:33AM
Thanks!
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