<p>I printed <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:53451" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Planetary Gears</a> and the top looks great<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oq5DB.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oq5DB.jpg" alt="top"></a>
but the bottom doesn't<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MKMDQ.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MKMDQ.jpg" alt="bottom"></a></p>

<p>I am printing on a TronXY X3 (Prusa i3 metal frame clone) using eSun PLA+ and sliced using Cura 2.4.  I print on glass and do manual leveling (sheet of paper to set gap).</p>

<p>What could be causing this?</p>

<p>It almost looks like a raft; but, I selected to print with a Brim not a Raft.</p>

<p>I have seen this on some other prints so I suspect it is a slicer setting.
Note: Bed adhesion seemed great.  First adhered well and part popped off with very little effort.</p>

Your nozzle is too far from your bed.
The first layer isn't squished down sufficiently, resulting in these gaps. If your first layer looks like this, you should cancel your print and adjust the bed. Alternatively, you can adjust the initial height of the Z-axis in G-code (for instance,
```
G0 Z-0.1
```
followed by
```
G92 Z0
```
, which should be appended to your start G-code).
You can also try increasing the first layer height or the first layer extrusion multiplier. If you increase the first layer height, you will probably still have to adjust the bed slightly to bring the nozzle closer, but the thicker your first layer the larger the window where you get a good first layer.
Increasing the extrusion multiplier will effectively stretch the first layer to be thicker (and thus the model will come out slightly too high) and thus isn't necessarily a good idea, though some people find that a slight increase (to for instance, 110%) makes the first layer slightly more forgiving (but this also increases adherence, making parts harder to remove - there is a very fine line between getting good first layers and having your prints stuck permanently to the bed).