The filament has Eric Hochmann’s name on it. I have a reservation on the machine but don’t want to touch it, given it looks like this.
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@enformer I believe this is yours right?
The printer is waiting for a filament change currently.
I suspect there is an errant M600 color change in the gcode. This appears to be the same point that it failed previously.
Looking at the print up close, it seems like something went wrong several layers back. They look not fully melted
I’ve resumed the print with the filament in place, it’s fairly early in the print.
Eta is 9:30PM tonight. @enformer please reserve the XL if you want this to continue. Otherwise, it can be pre-empted by anyone who wants to do an XL print today.
It is now asking for a filament change every later when swapping to tool 2. This is definitely a slicing problem! I’ve unfortunately had to stop the print.
Alright, first time responding in this platform, let me see if this paragraph lines up with everyone else’s.
Yes, this piece has been plagued or cursed, and it’s those color change requests on tool 2; it’s gonna require some homework because even when I export readable ascii gcode, there isn’t a single M600 in the file, and nothing in the Plater calling for a color/filament change. Possibly the hardware, then …?
CJ, in the case of hesitating to pop it off, that’s a sacrifice we don’t want anyone making. It may appear like it needs to continue, but if a tech glitch sinks a piece, it’s truly sunk and when your slot starts we encourage giving the piece on the plate the sweep.
Evan, exactly, I was considering asking you if you had discovered any filament stretched like a cello string that halted the first print Thurs. morning which you were lined up after, but realized the 2nd time the many needless requests+pauses it was making.
I wonder if tool 2 needs some repair—each time it primed on the tower it put out a large, wet glob of filament giving the layer a 1.5mm bump; the next time the nozzles of other colors passed by it they produced a concerningly strong thunk that momentarily sunk the build plate, since the tower held its place and wasn’t knocked off. I learned how to take a cluster of filament and brush the lump back to level the moment it was exposed and in its last second of malleability to prevent those collisions with other nozzles. The tower, then, ended up with a column of stringy mess on its inside that produced a look of flawed melting.
I didn’t realize there would be feedback here in Discourse in real-time … I’ll tune in next time I manage to botch a piece. Thank all several of you for being attentive to it and communicating with pics, comments and evaluation.
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I just want to echo a point that Eric made here: if you come in at your reserved time and there is a finished print on the bed, please remove it and place it on the table. If you come in at your reserved time and there is a work in progress, you are fully within your rights to stop that print and remove it. If it’s about to finish, you can be nice and let it finish, but you’re not obligated to. If it’s not about to finish, either because it has paused because of a problem or because someone started a job that could not finish in their reserved time, go ahead and stop the job and remove the print.
We have a section on policies and one on etiquette on the wiki:
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