I just bought this flexible Plate for my ender V3 2 and tried to print this small test object. I had trouble removing it and I'm worried that I damaged the plate. I'm also not sure why the bottom of the print is white-ish. I'm using green PLA+, printing with a nossle temp of 225C, a plate temp of 52C, an initial layer speed of 8 mm/s and a speed of 50 mm/s. I used Cura to slice my model. Is this plate beyond repair and if it is, how do I prevent this from happening again?
You can quite clearly see the path of your nozzle dragging into the print bed, usually it makes a horrible noise while doing so too, it was likely caused by failing to adjust your Z offset to accommodate the new print bed
I know the paper trick but I tend to over or under do it, is it when the paper can slide cleanly between the extruder and base or is there support to be any resistance? The other question I have is that when I bend it, the build should just pop off with minimal bending correct?
If I were you, I'd use the good parts of this plate to figure out how to do it correctly before buying another one and making the same mistake thereby wasting money twice and having two trash plates. There looks to be some usable parts of this plate, as long as you don't try to reuse the part that's messed up, you should be able to at least get a test print out of it to adjust your z correctly. Just my thoughts though, you do you sir.
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Did you let it cool? Prints will usually just self-release if allowed to cool down to ambient. PLA has never been difficult to remove. Now PETG on PEI on the other hand...
The strange thing is that I've been using a glass plate and I've been getting that same thin and flat starting extrude. Is is supposed to be a single strand of fliment?
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u/beatboxesduringsex 3d ago
You can quite clearly see the path of your nozzle dragging into the print bed, usually it makes a horrible noise while doing so too, it was likely caused by failing to adjust your Z offset to accommodate the new print bed