3d Printing Failures

Whether you are new to 3D printing, or you have dozens of successful prints under your belt, this book is going to help you! Sean Aranda and David Feeney have hundreds of thousands of successful 3d printing hours combined, so let them help you achieve consistent clean prints. The failures that are discussed in great detail by chapter are:* Bed Adhesion* Build Plate Not Heating* Build Plate Not Reading Correct Temperature* Built Up Material in Nozzle* Extruder Stepper Skipping* Filament Snapping* Hotend Can't Reach or Maintain Temperature* Hotend Not Heating* Hotend Not Reading Correct Temperature* Layer Shifts* LCD Blank or Dark* Model Errors* Not Finding Home* Nozzle Clogs* Over Extrusion* Parts Not Mating Together* Print Pauses Mid Print* Running Out of Filament* Settings Issues* Stepper Motors Overheating or Malfunctioning* Stripped Filament* Unlevelled Build Plate* Warping* Z-Axis Wobble* Z-Height Issues* And much more!

Whether you are new to 3D printing, or you have dozens of successful prints under your belt, this book is going to help you! Sean Aranda and David Feeney have hundreds of thousands of successful 3D printing hours combined, so let them help you achieve consistently clean prints. The failures that are discussed in great detail are : Bed adhesion, Build plate malfunctioning, Buildup material on nozzle, Extruder stepper skipping, Filament snapping, Hotend malfunctioning, Layer shifts LCD blank or dark, Model errors, Not finding home, Nozzle clogs, Over/under extrusion, Parts not mating together, Print pauses mid print, Running out of filament, Settings issues, Stepper motors malfunctioning, Stripped filament, Unlevelled build plate, Warping, Z-Axis wobble, Z-height issues. -- back cover.

A 3D printer is a wonderful tool for the production of models amongst many other uses. But while using this equipment, we've all had those infuriating moments when, regardless of how experienced we are in handling the 3D printer, a seemingly simple 3D printer refuses to function properly. Everyone must have had his/her fair share of print failure; so from the experiences of a lot of experts as well as from my own, I have put up this write-up as a perfect comprehensive guide for diagnosing and fixing your common 3D printing problems.

Do you keep dealing with the same 3D printing failures again and again? Are you struggling to understand the variation in your 3D print quality and speed? The answer could be a lot simpler than you thought. Having worked in automotive manufacturing for 5 years, I realized the importance of systematic documentation in proper functioning of equipment. When I bought my first 3D printer, the Creality CR-10 5S, the initial excitement turned into frustration when I kept having the same problems with the nozzle, bed and other equipment again and again. I fixed these issues; and when they happened again, I wasted a lot of time looking for the answer on the internet. I could have just documented them. I also noticed that there was a lot of variation in the print time and print quality each time I reset my machine parameters. I had no idea which parameters were significant. I also didn't understand what half the parameters on my slicer software did. The solution to this and other problems was systematic documentation of print parameters, procedures, failures and regular maintenance logs. To prevent others from undergoing the same frustration that I did, I made this outline for logging your 3D prints and doing proper maintenance.

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