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@Threepwood Thanks for the replies, heading out, but I will check what you suggested tomorrow. I did watch the video and at least I know what it is called now.

@cdsmith12 That doesn't look too bad. What is your maximum deviation? After tramming my frame, I got my 400mm X 400mm bed flat and level within 0.03mm at every point on the surface. With a little more time and effort, I could probably have improved on that but 0.03 is more than adequate imo. So no auto bed levelling or mesh compensation required or used - just home and go.

@deckingman Thank you and everyone for their input.

@cdsmith12 I think the nozzle may be a bit too close still.

Its hard to troubleshoot without knowing what else you've tried and other details, but I will make a few other guesses that hopefully are helpful. These are some of the issues that I ran into with rough first layers

Calibrate extruder steps. If you've been using your printer fine and this is a recently developed issue then calibration doesn't seem like a probable cause but never hurts to double check.

Is your nozzle well used? It may have worn to a larger diameter and now adjacent lines overlap too much.

Does different filament cause the same issue? I had similar problems with some random amazon brand PLA and it turned out the filament had inconsistent diameter.

Old filament that has absorbed moisture? The excess moisture could be contributing to roughness

Hopefully I havent stated the obvious here