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This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews . The benchy boat is a 3D print model that has been designed for testing and benchmarking your 3D printer. Use this print to test how your printer is printing and try out different slicing software settings and filaments. Recommended read: What I use to slice my 3d print files Recommended read: What is PLA Benchy - short for benchmark! You can find the Benchy here The features of the benchy: 1. First layer details - On the bottom of the boat, there are shallow letters. These letters will reveal whether or not first-layer blobbing is occurring. - If first layer blobbing is occurring, your nozzle is too close to the bed. If your print is not sticking to the bed, your nozzle might be too far from the bed. Relevel your printer bed. Recommended read: How to level the 3d printer bed 2. Small and large horizontal holes - Can see if the printer has ringing or ghosting, vibration. 3. Low slope surfaces - Show the layered structure...

This article is brought to you by  Lizzsews . Before I could actually 3D print my AirPods case, I had some printing troubles.  I would click to start the print, and rather than moving, heating up or anything, the printer would extrude!  Recommended read: Airpods case 3d print: How I made article 10 I had also just swapped from using PLA filament to TPU filament. I preheated my machine manually and the filament was slowly just coming out of the nozzle for no reason.  Recommended read: What is PLA I re-sliced the print file 3 times and retried, each time it had the same results.    Recommended read: What is slicing in the 3D printing world I shut off the printer, reset the slicing software and searched for a new file.  Recommended read: What I use to slice my 3D print files I sliced the new file, turned my 3D printer back on and preheated it manually. I started the print, and it didn’t start by extruding! The print ended up great and there were no more s...