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.

  • LobsterJim@slrpnk.net
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    10 hours ago

    You said it was a slicer issue, but I posit it was a sliver settings issue. If you like EufyMake just try going back to all default, or try and set everything carefully and manually.

    Also try OrcaSlicer if it is compatible with your over the air printing capabilities, great slicer and user experience.