<p>I am <em>very</em> new to 3D printing and I cannot figure out what is the problem is.  I have checked all of the belts and (to the best of my knowledge) they are tensioned properly.  I also did the bed leveling, however it is manual and I did this by putting a paper between the nozzle and the print bed.</p>
<p>I think that my extruder is calibrated, in the sense that when a command is sent to extrude 50 mm of filament, it does.  I am unsure what else to check.</p>
<p>The attached image had 15 % infill in the cubic pattern and had ironing on for all layers, was sliced with Cura and printed on a Creality Ender 3 V2. Sorry about the huge size of the image.</p>
<p>The part that looks zebra-like should be smooth.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/RShEK.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Photo of not smooth print"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/RShEK.jpg" alt="Photo of not smooth print" title="Photo of not smooth print" /></a></p>

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2021-05-27T08:43:16.360Z
I haven't tried ironing it but I don't think it will always be perfectly smooth. By the way I suggest you look your settings and re-slicing. Or try printing a nicely sliced ironing enabled model. You can print a 10x10 mm calibration cubes to try it out.
user30878
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2021-06-25T23:17:23.327Z
Z heights are the problem. I had that problem 5 years ago,
Fernando Baltazar
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2021-06-30T01:12:38.187Z
@FernandoBaltazar How do I fix this?
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3D print is not smooth, even with ironing turned on
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# 3D print is not smooth, even with ironing turned on

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-27)

I am *very* new to 3D printing and I cannot figure out what is the problem is. I have checked all of the belts and (to the best of my knowledge) they are tensioned properly. I also did the bed leveling, however it is manual and I did this by putting a paper between the nozzle and the print bed.

I think that my extruder is calibrated, in the sense that when a command is sent to extrude 50 mm of filament, it does. I am unsure what else to check.

The attached image had 15 % infill in the cubic pattern and had ironing on for all layers, was sliced with Cura and printed on a Creality Ender 3 V2. Sorry about the huge size of the image.

The part that looks zebra-like should be smooth.

[![Photo of not smooth print](https://i.sstatic.net/RShEK.jpg "Photo of not smooth print")](https://i.sstatic.net/RShEK.jpg "Photo of not smooth print")

**Tags:** creality-ender-3, ultimaker-cura, smoothing

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I haven't tried ironing it but I don't think it will always be perfectly smooth. By the way I suggest you look your settings and re-slicing. Or try printing a nicely sliced ironing enabled model. You can print a 10x10 mm calibration cubes to try it out.  
> **username_2**: Z heights are the problem. I had that problem 5 years ago,  
> **username_0**: @username_2 How do I fix this?  

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