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Z related problems

My print seems to have blobs on corners

Calibration cube with corner blobs

This can occurs for multiple reasons, if no matter what you change on your printer this keeps happening check your slicer.

For instance in Cura I have :

Calibration cube with corner blobs Cura preview

You can see for consecutive layers the starting points are aligned. This can cause an amount of material to accumulate and create the blobs.

Retraction settings might help to prevent the leaking and reduce the quantity of material accumulating.

Another way to prevent this corner to be the starting point for too long in Cura is to change the Z Seam Alignment in the Walls parameters : Z seam setting in Cura Changing to : Cube preview with Z Seam Randomised Once printed (with a low quality printer): Printed Cube with smaller blob