New user: started out great but now won't print

[Rp1030]

@erleichda

Opened the .stl in Cura of 4 of the figures smaller pieces and did a quickprint without any trouble. But the print kinda sucked, like enough the ball of the ball/joints were disfigured. So I went for a high-quality print. No difference and the print was 3 hours instead of 1.

Your printing temperature might be too high.

mhackney has a great post here: A Strategy for Obtaining Great Prints
read #9 Know Your Filament.

@erleichda

It didn’t auto-level or clean the head

In Cura, make sure that you have the Lulzbot Mini selected as your machine. Otherwise you will have to add Lulzbot Mini under the Machine tab and delete the old machine when you’re finished.

Also, make sure that you have the latest version of Cura from the Lulzbot website: LulzBot | Cura