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The jobs before/after this were fine. I have hundreds of prints and about 10 on this new roll of PLA w/o this occurring. The ONLY different on this one is that it's the longest print I've printed in a while (10 hours). It's 20% infill and I think the pattern is the infill pattern but not entirely sure. Anyone ever seen this? It's more of a cosmetic issue than a structural one but I'd like to nip any problems in the bud when possible. After some research I think it's called pillowing. I have a custom printed nozzle shroud and a cage fan fan which doesn't seem to be moving much air. In all fairness I don't recall how much air it moved before however. It is spinning however. Also looking a bit deeper it seems I also may have reduced my layers to .14mm from my normal .22 which may have done it due to the thinner top layers although looking at cura settings in repetier it shows top/bottom layers should always be .84mm so I don't think that the layer thickness is changing the top layer thickness.
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I do not see a pic, but an arbitrary line or pattern in FDM printing I find is usually caused by some sort of temporary nozzle issue - normally caused by a blocked nozzle. It can only be slightly blocked for a layer or two, but enough to disrupt the flow of filament for a time.

If not happened before or after, this would be my educated guess. If you print the piece again and it occurs in the exact same spot, then it could be a glitch in the file or your machine has possibly a binding issue at the spot/height or such.