I have an Ankermake M5 that I hadn’t used in a while and recently got back to printing some stuff. I had a few prints come out well but then turned my extruder into a giant glob of melted plastic on an overnight print. I ended up just replacing the whole extruder as there’s been some revisions and I figured it would be nice to upgrade, and replace the v-wheels and all that.

The new extruder initially had a ton of problems with stringing, but increasing retraction fixed it. The problem that I can’t seem to figure out is curved surfaces are now sort of wavy. It’s regular - turning into vertical peaks and valleys. I’m doing a print currently with the speed turned way down, but the issue persists.

Any ideas?

edit: After some trial and error, I figured out that it was a slicer issue. I was using the EufyMake slicer because that one can send jobs to the printer directly. When I resliced in Prussa, the issue disappeared.

  • Remy Rose@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    I doubt this is it, but it kinda looks like what happens when your slicer has arc welder turned on, but your printer firmware does not. You get a bunch of unrecognized G2/G3 commands flying by in the console, and curves get weirdddddd looking