Thats right and it seems that some people do not even read the opening of this topic.
It is what Creality want to sell to the mass. And people buy that, because they want an “Out of the Box Printer” what works, without to hack into it or to upgrade every stock part of it.
I can just say for my experience so far, to root the printer and use Klipper via Fluidd helped me a lot. Now the V3 SE Nebula combination works how it should work. Now all the prints are really good to me and if i have an issue or fail print, NOW i can say it is not the printer, it is my fault as user, because i try to figure out what is possible or not.
And because the fix was just the software, tell me, that the printer and its hardware itself is not the problem. The problems are made by the software and the config data what creality put into the stock mashines.
Even if someone want to use out of the box ready to use printers, i really have to recommend, to use a bit of your free time and install the rooted Klipper and run Fluidd… It is a huge different printer to me now and the most important is, it runs and works until i make a mistake!!!
FWIW, I dropped the Creality Print like a hot rock after getting Orca running on my printer. For whatever reason, I could never get good prints with PETg filament with Creality Print. First time out of the box with Orca, everything fell into place!
One of the persistent issues with Creality print right up to the current Creality_Print-v5.1.4.10249-win64-Release is they’ve forgotten how to print curves!
Creality Print 5.0 on the left, Creality Print 5.1 in the middle, and Orca 2.2.0 on the right. Which one would you use?
It could be a setting in the Creality Print slicer. I get great prints on all curves with PETG. Used several different brands…
Not a great picture. Sorry but the quality is good on this K1 Max…
Nozzle-250C / Bed-70C
Well, if there’s a setting, I sure couldn’t find it! I also sent the pictures to Creality support, but as expected, crickets! My next 3D printer won’t be a Creality, their support is abysmal!
Orca works great, I initially had some oddball issue where it wouldn’t recognize the printer on the network. I finally had to uninstall Orca totally, scrub the registry of any traces, and then install Orca again. After that it was smooth sailing. I could always print with the USB stick, but I keep the printer in another room and the WiFi is mandatory for convenience.
Had that on my Qidi printers, I think Qidi Slicer is based on Bambuslicer which basically Orca. Anyway simply had to delete that printer entry and add it again, just gave it a slightly different name, oh it is picky about including the port number being in the IP address.
I take responsibility for the “crickets” as they are probably all working on the multitude of issues on my V3 KE. Once you get someones ear then they are pretty good following up.
can be a pain in the end, i had a sovol sv06+ started great but then had culminating issues and sent it back as amazon allows this. now i have a ender 3 v3 ke, is great, issue with bed not level and they are sending replacement. so much i have to learn and troubleshoot, it really gives me the craps too.
is why i probably should of got a bambu labs printer, a lot less headaches, just works.
your time and cash, you decide. should be fun, not an endless nightmare.
I think get a refund, sell it or bash it to pieces and relieve some tension
My K1C hardware has been excellent, all my issues have revolved around the Creality software. I just installed Creality’s latest version, Creality_Print-v5.1.6.10470-win64-Release.exe. My first test print was positive, they finally figured out how to print curves, so I’ll be trying a few more prints to see if it’s a keeper.
Left to right: CP 5.0, CP 5.1.4, CP 5.1.6, and on the right Orca 2.2.0. All samples printed with a layer height of .08mm.
I was glad to see my prints improve in quality, I’m glad it’s moving in the right direction. I was a little bummed with 5.1.4 printed worse than 5.0, nice to see it heading in the right direction!
you have the right filement profiles. it sounds like your using a high speed filiment profile for pla that isnt high speed, i made the same mistake running pla+ far to fast and got issues with lack of extrusion.
the default speeds though in creality in general are just too fast for most prints, the general rule is if you want less issues and better prints go slower.
orca slicer defaults are slower although still a tad fast for some stuff.
check your filiments specs and what they recomend, the pla+ i had max speed was 100mm/s
even with high speed plla i tend not to go over 200.
So far what ive learned is you really need to learn how to adjust settings for prints, if you want a printer that just works… creality isnt the printer.
@staceylaney sorry if I missed it in the thread above, but what printer are you using? I just starting looking at Orca after being pretty fed up with CrealityPrint on Linux. I have an Ender 3 V3SE with a Nebula Pad, not rooted. I’m hoping someone out there has some solid configurations I can import!
I’m still interested in your settings, as I’m sure there’s plenty I can optimize, but I’m very happy to report that the AppImage of Orca 2.3.0 with the vanilla V3 SE settings worked VERY (after a language change from Marlin to Klipper)!
I was even more impressed that all I had to do was provide the printer’s static IP address, and Orca had the same Creality Cloud device monitoring screen available in app right away, including lag-free camera access.
