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I'm now into my 3rd day with this printer, and while it's been pretty smooth sailing with PETG so far, I have noticed some consistent layer gore on the first layer. It is consistent across prints with large flat surfaces, and always in the same spots.

However, what made me curious is the fact that it seemed to be at perfect 45 degree angle and at regular intervals, as if it's some remnant of the first layer of another print.

These pectures were taken during the first print after cleaning the print sheet with warm water and dish soap. (I'm getting isopropyl alcohol next week).

Any tips and/or theories? The rest of the print comes out just fine, although I'm still tweaking the extrusion modifier.

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PS: I'll gather additional data over time based on the tips and theories posted in here. I'll update the thread in a few days once I have some results (or lack thereof) to report.

UPDATE: For starters, slicer templates are at play. I didn't notice that I had reverted to default when loading a project.
Beyond that, I've started playing with extrusion multiplier as per recommendations in here, and it's getting better. I'm still trying to dial this in perfectly so that I get the other layers nice and full without nozzle accumulating any gunk. Once satisfied I'll play around with settings for first layer.
I guess the updated theory is that the print head movements of the first layer happens to cause washboarding in those positions even if I rotate the print. I would suspect a large surface print would instead of two would result in a single washboard patch.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Measuring the mesh cold is a waste ot time.

You say that, but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing. I remember the days of not having no Z-probe on my other printer and not being able to use more than (generously) a 3"x3" square of my 8"x8" bed without really bad bed adhesion issues and no amount of manual leveling would help. Even on the aforementioned Ender 3 V2 Neo, I almost never have bed adhesion issues. My estimation of my experience is that leveling a cold bed is about 97.5% as helpful as leveling the bed hot.