Today it printed very nice at 50% speed. What changed was the speed, drying the filament athough no weight loss so I guess was already dry, and cleaning again the plate.

I had a little bit of warping, even though I had brims, probably because it was printing for 20 hours instead of 10, but it was not very noticeable.

Still not sure what is the cause.

Oh for fuck’s sake.

Well, the same filament has printed the same design 3 times successfully a few days ago.

But now I think I also recall a long time ago it was again this gray that would cause air printing on a different small multicolor print.

I have another same Bambu matte gray roll which is unopened (not from the same batch). I can maybe try to see if I get another air print to swap the filament and see if it improves. I guess the filament could have been too thick at some points in the roll maybe? It is mentioned to have ±0.03mm tolerance, maybe I should get tigher ones for 0.2 prints…

Well, I dried the filament overnight just to check, and the weight before and after was exactly the same, so I guess it was dry.

That said, I tried searching for root causes and tried asking chatgpt to see what it would come up with. After some bullshit replies, it ended up telling me that the Bambu matte filaments are bad for 0.2 nozzle due to their “heavy” additives that make it matte and can cause clogs or partial clogs while printing. It told me that other brands are better than it, including polymaker which supposedly is the factory that makes bambuatye filaments, and it also told me me that some colors, including specifically they gray I am trying to print with, have more trouble printing on small nozzles because of some white particles that give the gray color.

Now, I tried asking for sources for what it told me to double-check if it was true because generally I don’t trust it, but it gave me nothing concrete. In theory what it told me could make sense. Does anyone know anything about this matter or had prior experience?!

Yes, 0.2mm.

If I recall it was set to 0.98, the default from Bambu for this filament. Cranking it down would be so that less material would be pressed into the nozzle in order to avoid clogging it? I can try that next time yes. For now I tried slowing it down to 50%, looks ok so far, but I am still curious to understand what is wrong.

I guess you mean the energy symbol. It’s from the terraforming mars board game.

I do some STL editing for 3D prints in blender, which I don’t see myself changing, but I also design some cases, organizers, token holders etc for boardgames, for which it sounds like CAD would be a better fit. And yeah, as I said i did try it before but hit a wall and went with blender which I was more familiar with. Did the job alright, but perhaps was not the optimal way. I’ll give it another spin with a different focus now.

Ok that makes sense, I will give it another go. Thank you.

Is this worth trying to learn if I can already fiddle around in blender? I have already given it a go a while ago but couldnt really get easily started so I dropped it.

Oh I fucking hope they do.

Tomorrow I have to do “cloud maintenance” on a Sunday because the fucking OCI decided that some production databases are “unstable” and need to be relocated. The same databases that a while ago could not enable data guards and failed to restore from backups.

I had it happen to me occasionally in a work setting many years ago. I was calling it getting a crit from the vendor machine. Happy times.

Which reminds me. I can’t even move the taskbar to the left of the screen anymore since windows 11 was forced upon me. Pffft.

I encounter quicks and weirdnesses on the windows laptop for work, which won’t even fucking properly sleep or don’t fucking update by itself even after trying to stop it for a while, rather than on Linux.

Can you name any such quirks and annoyances on Linux specifically? Because I can give you plenty on windows, while Linux the past 10 years or so maintains my sanity.

I am a doctor and my professional name is Dr. ER dude.

Of it’s raid6 it’s 320tb or so.

I guess that could be in theory, but I would assume that would just lead to a visit in his home rather than a ban of his account.

Probably said something bad about their current dictator.