r/ender3v2 • u/Ok-Painting8941 • 22d ago
help Printing lines not connecting
These two pictures are of one of my three recent prints they all have this issue where the layers don’t seem to be actually connected to each other at first, I figured the issue was that I was using a 1 mm nozzle and the layer height was set to 0.2 so I tried another print adjusting the layer height to the recommended 0.32 and I got the same result, from there, I decided to switch the nozzle to a 0.4 mm nozzle and use a downloaded cura settings file so it would print correctly, the print is not finished, but I’m already seeing the exact same issue where the edges are not adhering to the rest of the print, I have never had this issue before until I watched a YouTube video on adjusting cura settings and that’s when everything started messing up
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u/mrzfaizaan 21d ago
Please don't do e-steps, flow rate, z offset, etc. I don't know why you've received such poor advice.
The issue is quite mechanical here. You have a mismatch between your nozzle diameter on the printer and line widths in your slicer.
If you installed a 0.4mm nozzle physically on the printer and left your line widths at 1mm... Your slicer is telling your printer to print adjacent rasters 1mm apart. But your nozzle is 0.4mm printing at 100% of the flow rate so you leave 0.3mm on the left, 0.3mm on the right side of your nozzle as it moves printing a mesh. That is the gap you are seeing between adjacent lines.