# Stepped and jagged

**URL:** <https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/stepped-and-jagged/5517>\
**Category:** Hardware\
**Created:** [January 19, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/stepped-and-jagged/5517 "2018-01-19T12:27:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MrTechTchr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@MrTechTchr](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/MrTechTchr)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/stepped-and-jagged/5517/1 "2018-01-19T12:27:09Z")

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Well, I walked back into work this morning expecting 4 nicely printed brackets sitting on the platen of my Taz6, Unfortunately… there was a mangled part full of steps and offsets. I have no idea why this happened when I left my classroom everything was printing fine (from the SD card) could the PC have pinged the printer and caused an error? I Have run this file before and the only modification i made this time was to increase the infil from 20 to 50, and the layer thickness from .2 to .1. so 4 meters of filament and 13 hours later… I am stumped…

And since I am not sure if I am adequately describing the problem… Here is a photo.

 ![20180119_062641.jpg](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/lulzbot/original/2X/a/a064e1977551c21119a7faec6c171a61da6160cf.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![mwester](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.lulzbot.com/mwester/32/135_2.png) [@mwester](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/mwester)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/stepped-and-jagged/5517/2 "2018-01-19T14:01:16Z")

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Are the all the offsets in the same plane? If so, it might be a slipping belt. Considering the orientation of the part on the print surface will tell you if it’s the X or the Y axis that has the steps – then check the belt tension on that axis.

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**Author:** ![MrTechTchr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@MrTechTchr](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/MrTechTchr)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/stepped-and-jagged/5517/3 "2018-01-19T15:24:19Z")

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It looks like all of the steps are in the same plane, however i am printing the same part, right now, in the same orientation as before, and there are no steps…

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**Author:** ![Orias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.lulzbot.com/orias/32/3_2.png) [@Orias](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/Orias)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/stepped-and-jagged/5517/4 "2018-01-19T20:13:51Z")

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Mwester’s offering great advice. If it happens again, take a picture of the print while it’s on the bed and reach out to the support team at [LulzBot.com/Support](https://lulzbot.com/support). They’ll have some troubleshooting steps based on what you find.