I’ve had my Ender-5 Pro for a few years, and I’ve been slicing with Creality Slicer the whole time. I was liking the ability to upload slices directly to Creality Cloud and manage my prints from the app once I got the little Creality network box (Creality Box 2.0, I think it’s called) to connect the printer to my cloud account. I’ve been missing the ability to directly upload slices to my cloud account since the function hasn’t worked for a long time, and also since Slicer hasn’t had an update in about 2 years, so I thought I’d try Creality Print. I installed the current release version, 6.2.1.3044. Well, it doesn’t see the printer on the network. The app shows me the IP address, CP doesn’t seem to see it there when I try the IP address option. When trying to manually select a printer type, the Ender-5 Pro is not listed as a selectable printer.
I haven’t been able to find any information on this, and I’m not certain why the Ender-5 Pro wouldn’t be a choice for a printer in Creality’s own software. Slicer 4.8.2 has been working for me, aside from Cloud complaining about partially sliced files with the gcode it’s been creating for a while, even though there are no problems with the printing occurring, so I can just keep using it, but I’d like to see if CP works better for me overall. Is there something I’m overlooking with CP that’s preventing it from 1) finding my printer on the network, and 2) allowing me to manually select my particular printer model?
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Same issue here. I think we’d have to add the Sonic Pad. I did see some refurbished ones on eBay for around $50 and I may go that route.
I think I figured out the issue. If what I have found is correct, it looks like it has to do with the Ender-5 Pro running on legacy Marlin gcode. I’m guessing that newer slicing software is not being designed to work with the old Marlin gcode, so they’re no longer including profiles for printers that use it. I checked a few other slicer programs, and if they provide profiles for the Ender-5 series, the Pro is not among them. This includes the current version of Cura, although they allow for adding a custom profile using legacy Marlin. So, I guess as long as I use my Ender-5 Pro, I’m stuck with using older slicing software, which is not great because I had to redesign a model that was not getting sliced correctly in the desired layout in order for it to be correctly printed. It wasn’t even a weird design, it was basically just a footing for something I’m building, rather simple in design. Oh well.
So I have the Ender-3 S1 Pro and it is running legacy marlin. The gcode runs just fine except you dont get a preview image on the machine screen.
This is more that they have not created the full profile for this, I you dig in “C:\Program Files\Creality\Creality Print 6.2\resources\profiles\Creality“ you will see that the E-5 Pro model and the bed texture are there but the macine and nozzle json files have not been created.
Should be an easy fix from them or you to do.
Copy a similar machines file and edit to suit the E-5 Pro.
Not sure about the network stuff though as I have never had a network capable machine.
Well, if Creality didn’t want to bother with creating a profile for the 5 Pro, I doubt they’ll bother at all. Especially since their updated version of the cloud slicer doesn’t recognize it, either. Putting together files for it, though, I have no problem with so long as I can find the right data for configuration. I was taking a look at the profile data in that folder. Managed to find an image online to use for a profile thumbnail, so that was easy enough. The base profile file should be easy enough to put together, but I’m not sure of some of the correct data. It’s the “nozzle” file, with all of the various weird details I know nothing about, that I’m going to have trouble with.