Stringy failure

Blueday · 26 Oct 2022 at 22:54

Hi
Total beginner here, and just bought an Aquila C2.
All levelled several times, and printed out a calibration cube no problems.
Then I downloaded this photo holder from Thingiverse, and it's failed several times.
Is it just a bad design?
It goes fine until it gets to the "arms" or overhangs, and turns into a stringy mess.
Any ideas from the pic?

andy_mk3 · 26 Oct 2022 at 23:04

You need to enable supports in your slicer by the looks of it. Which slicer are you using (Cura for example)?

Haze · 27 Oct 2022 at 04:23

100% need supports, printers can not magically print things in fresh air

Try spending sometime watching utube vids, only millions to choose from, amazing what you can learn...

Rroff · 27 Oct 2022 at 04:27

Surprised it did even that well without supports - though surprisingly I did manage to print a knight chess piece without supports which had overhangs after completely forgetting to set them in the software - not sure how.