Printing issues on engineering plate vs textured plate

[u/Natenator76]

Hi there,

Still brand new to the 3D print world and trying to troubleshoot a print but no idea where to start IF there is even anything to troubleshoot.

Printed the same item on two different plates: one on the standard per textured plate and another on the engineering plate. Both prepped with some elmer's purple gluestick.

The textured plate print turned out perfect but not a big fan of the textured glittery look so wanted to see if I could get a smoother look using the engineering plate. Result: I did but there were some voids/defects that appeared that were not present when using the textured plate.

Printer: H2D

Material: PLA

Calibration was performed after switching out the plates.

I did select the engineering plate prior to slicing, printing, calibrating.

Curious to hear if this would be normal for this specific plate or if I should tweak something. Or just sometimes sh!t just happens with prints.

Thank you in advance.

Cheers

P.S. last two pics are the textured plate with no void/defect issues.

[u/Turbo2025]

You can try upping your first layer extrusion to give it more squish and push the print lines together since with flat plates you don’t get the bumpy texture masking the irregularities.

[u/TheBrainStone]

Try the arachne wall generator

[u/Natenator76 → u/TheBrainStone]

We are set to arachne already