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Hey everyone.

I built an mk3s+ from its kit form successfully, tested a few PLA prints with the stock 0.4 nozzle.

I've set prusaslicer to use a 0.6 nozzle now that I've upgraded, and am using PETG. Prints look pretty bad, in spite of calibrating z-offset etc.

If you were doing something like this for the first time, what would your setup steps be like?

To be specific, using a diamondback 0.6 nozzle, matterhackers PETG at 235c.

Issues I'm seeing are a really bad loss of detail, lots of stringing, etc.

eta: added a photo of a moderately post-processed part. Notice how rough the top surface looks, there's a disconnect between perimeter loops, etc.

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[–] Vashtea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a nozzle setting in the printer too?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my guess based on OP not mentioning changing printer profiles or rerunning a wizard.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's been set to 0.6 on both printer and slicer during the setup process.