I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this. I’m having an issue with my Sovol SV06, which is that I get a lot of stringing. I’m still fairly new to 3D printing, so I have no idea what could cause this and how I could go about fixing this. I already searched for this issue online btw but didn’t really find anything helpful.

The only change I made to this printer is that I hooked up a Raspberry Pi 4 to it and installed Klipper and Octoprint. I’m also using PrusaSlicer with the config from here.

Edit: Forgot to mention I was using PLA for this print

  • RacoonVegetableEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure about your specific situation, but usually stringing can be fixed by adding filament retraction and drying the filament. You can enable retraction in your slicer. To dry your filament, heat your bed to a temperature comfortably lower than your filament’s glassing temperature, put the spool on the bed and cover it with a box, then wait a few hours. (The filament is eepy). Be careful not to set the temperature too high or you will melt the filament and it will fuse together right on the spool, ruining the entire thing.

    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I already tried increasing the retraction length but it didn’t help. I have it at 0.5 mm now and I read online that Sovol recommends not going above that. Someone else also recommended drying the filament, so I’m going to try that. I don’t know what the glassing temperature is but it’s PLA, do you know what a safe temperature would be?

      • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s going to depend on the brand, prusa recommends 45c I’ve done at 55 and while it printed fine, don’t recommend that, PLA has a fairly low glass transition temp and that was right on the low end of where that starts.