Print Issues On Sides

[Snooter]

Im having trouble getting decent prints on sloped sides

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Its like the filament doesnt fuse with the layer or something, its a little hard to get in photos.
There also seems to be a sort of ridge or edge slightly above the nozzle height around the perimeter of the part.

[csorrows]

I'm guessing from the image that the part is shown upside down. It looks like the angle is at or around 45 degrees. A layer fan and thinner layers could help if you do not want to use support.

[Snooter]

Sorry i should have clarified, yes i took the picture upside down as it was hard to show the feature right side up. The prints also only partially done i stopped it as i didnt like the sides.

I have no issues using support but when i do check the support option it doesnt build anything up on the sides in either cura or slic3r.

I have mk7 shroud http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16392 tho my extruder is an mk8, its spitting the air not directly on the nozzle but off to the right a little bit. I'll try printing out an mk8 shroud unless you know of a better layer fan that fits on the folgertech printers.

Im currently using .2 layer thickness, I can try it with .1 one night this week when i get some time.

[csorrows]

An overhang around 45 degrees or more is going to come out this way. There are ways to reduce it as I stated above, but you are pretty much printing unsupported.

You can try manually adding support using meshmixer (I have never done this) or maybe orient that part differently to avoid the overhang?

The idea of smaller layers is to reduce the overhang each layer has to do.

[Snooter]

It seems to print things fine with abs and hips (hips prints amazing) just having issues with pla

[csorrows]

Strange, it is usually the other way around...