Stringing and wisps

Fine strands spanning gaps between separate features or parts.

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Causes, most likely first

Ordered by how often each is actually responsible, not by how interesting it is. Work down the list.

Wet filament

Dry the spool before changing a single setting. On PETG and nylon this is the cause roughly 80% of the time, and tuning retraction on wet filament tunes around a problem you could have removed.

Nozzle temperature too high

Run a temperature tower. Over-hot plastic runs out of the nozzle on its own.

Calibration step: Run a temperature tower →

Retraction distance too short

Tune retraction distance ONLY, holding speed fixed. Changing both at once tells you nothing.

Calibration step: Tune retraction DISTANCE (only) →

Travel moves too slow

Raise travel speed. Less time in the air means less time to droop a string.

Open First Layer →
The app walks this in order, generates the test model for your nozzle and filament, and records what you measure so nothing has to be repeated. Free, no account, works offline.