Continuing to have issues with my Airwolf HDX and Astroprint. This failed print had infill set at 25% and infill rate at 25%. This doesn’t look like 25%. Am I missing another setting that needs to be changed? This was a default setting in Astroprint. I’m using PLA, I keep getting failed prints at a rate of 50-60% where extrusion stops. I suspect this infill handling is a problem. I need suggestions on how to adjust the time infill is happening and the rate/thickness.
What software version are you running on your box?
Daniel- sorry, I checked the wrong forum item-- I’m not running through Astrobox. Using Astroprint and downloading code to miniSD card. In AP I’m using Cura engine if that helps.
I was concerned about your prints stopping. Do they stop when printing from SD Card?
Yes–I am printing from an SD card always. I have about a 50% success rate using a $3300 printer. Failures start fine for about 1/3 - 1/2 of the print then things go haywire. Airwolf replaced the filament extrusion drive but they are now telling me (after telling me to use Astroprint instead of MatterControl or Cura) that the infill or speed settings in Astroprint may be causing this issue. I contacted Steve Cook and he told me he had issues with the nozzle clogging for no apparent reason. So far… Airwolf tech support hasn’t been great about this issue. What can I do to adjust the settings of the infill? At the default 25% in the settings it seems the infill lines should not be this dense. Am I confusing infill and supports in some way?
That infill looks ok to me. In any case, I don’t know how the wrong infill settings would cause a print to fail…
Attached are images for a cube slice using a gcode viewer for 3 slices
10% infill
25% infill
50% infill
Note that for big infill the diagonal lines alternate each later.
You can change the infill yourself by using the advance dialog when slicing. Look for the “Advanced Settings” dialog right under the Slice button in AstroPrint’s print screen.
I will adjust the infill to 10% and see what transpires. Our TAZ5 and Makerbot’s (using Makerbot interface) just don’t seem this dense at 20-25% infill. The printer spends a lot of time on infill in comparison. In any event, I’ll keep trying to get this to work. I really think we have a lemon of a printer.
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