<p>I recently changed the printhead on my DeltaMaker from stock to an E3D Lite6, and am struggling to get back to my original quality, reliability, and repeatability.  I thought I had gotten the recipe pretty close to dialed in and tried a bigger print last night.  It turned out pretty good in most respects except for where vertical structures rise up from the horizontal surface (and a retraction/stringing issue that I didn't think was but perhaps could be related).  </p>

<p>The screw hole mounts seem well-designed to me:</p>

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<p>No 90 degree transitions - I would think this would be the least of my problems.  But last night they had serious problems:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZXNsE.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZXNsE.jpg" alt="Example 1"></a></p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/USaAE.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/USaAE.jpg" alt="Example 2"></a></p>

<p>I haven't seen a problem like that before.  Extrusion rate seems basically perfect - why does it look like it just stopped extruding around the perimeters?</p>

<p>I'm using PLA filament and Simplify3D 3.1.0 slicing.  Settings:</p>

<ul>
<li>0.35 mm nozzle, 0.40 mm extrusion width, 1.05 extrusion multiplier</li>
<li>0.15 mm layer height, 3 top, 3 bottom layers, 2 perimeter shells (maybe should try 3?)</li>
<li>30% infill, 60% outline overlap, 110% infill extrusion width </li>
<li>Temp is 220°C (thermocouple wedged between nozzle and heater block reports about 206°C when thermistor says 220°C) </li>
<li>Print speed is 2700 mm/min (45 mm/s)</li>
</ul>

<p>Has anyone seen this issue before?</p>

<p>UPDATE:
Increasing outline overlap from 60% to 90% <em>almost</em> fixes the problem (at least visually if not structurally) - there's just one small hole at the base of each structure.  (I stopped the print a few layers after the problem layers do ignore the tops.)</p>

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<p>Going to 99% (Simplify3D's max) would probably get rid of those last holes but I have to think that maxing out S3D's outline overlap setting to just barely make the print work means I haven't found or addressed the true root cause...</p>

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