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I did the test squares before each print and they both came out to 2.02.

Upload your Factory File:

In S3D:

File > Save Factory File and give it a name.
Find that file and Zip it.

Then upload the zipped file here. I'll try to see what's going on in the file.

Heres the Model

Thanks

Okay, I'll go take a look at.....do something else for a while.

Sorry to be a pain in your butt.
Thank you for all the help.

Okay, my apologies for not asking to see the model after your first post - i had assumed you were trying to print the T-Rex skull that you showed in your other pictures.

That skull pencil holder model is unprintable as it is. The first layer only has a tiny footprint in one spot - it's actually floating above the bed.
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer 3

See how there is more on the second and third layers than on the first one?

Basically that messy squiggle that you keep seeing is what happens when you air print - but you are air printing because of the model, not because the gap is wrong. The only way to print that would be with a raft, because the bottom is not even. (at all).

In addition, you cannot print something like that with so many overhangs and cutouts without printing support underneath it. The support is going to be wider than the actual width of the walls, even if you could get it to print anything other than a huge mess, you would never be able to separate the support.

The walls of the skull in the file are too thin for a 0.35 mm nozzle as it is designed. Originally you were using 0.40 mm extruded thread width, and that was yielding walls that were too thin for a solid structure. So i tried to reduce the extruded wall width to 0.36 mm (the lowest you can go and get correct placement with a 0.35 mm nozzle) and did a slice. As shown below where the arrows are, you still do not have a solid structure.
So yeah, anything you print is just going to be a big nest of filament.

The only choices you have if you want to try to print that is to go to a smaller nozzle size, or re-design the file with thicker walls.

The good news is - it's not your printer. That is set correctly, and shouldn't have any trouble with other files.

OMG thank you!
I just wanted to make sure it wasn't me messing it up this whole time. Sorry for the run around but at least I know it wasn't me lol

Nope! You were golden!

if you still want to try and print it you can offset the model .6-1.0 mm down in to the bed (z axis) .
if you then look at the first layer you will notice it is mostly solid.

And just resize it bigger until the walls are printable.