My prints up to this point have been okay, but not great. Serious stringing seems to be an issue here, and one of the things I’ve notice is that the further along the print goes, the more it seems like the print head is almost grinding into the print. To the point where if I’m printing something like a minifigure, it will get ripped apart mid print. Am I overextruding? Missing z steps?

Filament is Overture PETG, Nozzle is 230C and bed is 80C. I have it in an enclosure. I’m running it from a laptop set up with Cura.

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    2 days ago

    I agree that it’s probably a speed issue. When I first started printing, I was seeing just how fast I could go with PLA and tuning for that. Decided to try out PETG a few months later, and it was a disaster. Layers weren’t bonding properly, and the filament would bridge across points on the print. Once I backed print speed down to 50, I started to get much better results.