MakerSTL

Print-ready STL files for makers, plus one-hour live 3D printer repair sessions.
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The 3 reasons your first layer fails (and the 2-minute check)

If the first layer looks like spaghetti, it's almost never the STL. It's one of three things:


  1. Bed isn't actually clean. IPA isn't enough if you ever touched it with fingers. Wash with dish soap, dry, then print.

  2. Z-offset is 0.1mm too high. Paper test should drag, not slide. If you can pull the paper out with no resistance, drop Z.

  3. First-layer speed is still at 50mm/s. Cut it to 20. Most "bad files" start printing the second you slow that down.


Do those three before you re-slice. If it still fails after that, the machine has a real fault — that's the hour we spend on Live Fix.