Posts made by ncbob

@spauliszyn and anyone else who is interested, Ultimaker just released Cura 4.8 beta. I've downloaded it and I'm doing some test prints, and I'll let you know how they come out. It has a profile already set for the CR-6 SE.

@johnelle this is the one I ordered, and it's a perfect fit, you can pop it out and install it in the housing on the CR-6

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XJGSDNW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

@mikeswiss I've had that on quite a few printers, never had any problems with wear or anything. Once a week I wipe them off simply because I don't like the way it looks

@SRM Double check the x-belt tensioner, if that's loose that can cause shifted prints. I had the same thing happen, printed fine for a while then started having shifts on the x-axis. Ended up being the tensioner. Tightened it up and everything is printing fine again.

@spauliszyn I suspect that it’s stored on the lcd board. The filament runout is disabled in the marlin source code they published so they are doing something non standard there too.

@spauliszyn no it’s not you, it’s probably another quirk with this printer and how creality modified the firmware. Remember I just downloaded their version and enabled the eeprom. I think I will need to do a compare and see if they mucked around with some things they shouldn’t have. As far as I know the sd card should NOT be storing eeprom data . That’s the whole point of eeprom, it’s re-writeable.

Omg YOU’RE the seller and yes I know it was loose, that’s why I said I tightened it.

Yet another design/manufacturing flaw in this printer.

At this point I do not trust creality for anything, so I’ll be fixing it myself with a tensioner that doesn’t come loose in less than a week.

*waits for the ‘thank you for your support’ post

@Starkiller one is for updating the main board, the other for updating the lcd firmware

You can add an extension to Cura that is called Cylindric Custom Support that allows you to add custom support structures.

Ok, I've been digging through the code and I've got a version compiled that supports M600. Once I finish my print sometime tomorrow I'll go ahead and flash it and see if it works, if it works then I'll probably do a print and see if there are any issues with it.

I've installed the BLTouch on my Ender 3 V2 and enabled UBL and I get a nice mesh bed leveling experience. It can't be done from the LCD, but you can go through the steps in the Marlinfw.org documentation on the UBL and it'll work just fine.

@spauliszyn After you copied the bin file to the sd card and put it in the printer, it should've taken like 10 seconds before it started.

Also you may want to try changing the name of the firmware.bin file it may not recognize it as a new one. I've been adding the date like this: firmware.2020.10.20.20.33.bin

If we need to I'd be willing to do a screen share and see if we can figure out what's going on.

Wow, yet another wonderful design feature from Creality. After about a week of printing, the x-carriage belt tensioner has come completely loose and I was getting terrible shifting and that was the cause of it.

Might have to throw some threadlocker on it.

I've printer for over a year on some of my printers and haven't had the belt tensioners come loose like this.

@spauliszyn Here's my start gcode
You can remove all the comments at the beginning, that's needed for OctoLapse that I run on Octoprint.

; Script based on an original created by tjjfvi (https://github.com/tjjfvi)
; An up-to-date version of the tjjfvi's original script can be found
; here: https://csi.t6.fyi/
; Note - This script will only work in Cura V4.2 and above!
; --- Global Settings
; layer_height = {layer_height}
; smooth_spiralized_contours = {smooth_spiralized_contours}
; magic_mesh_surface_mode = {magic_mesh_surface_mode}
; machine_extruder_count = {machine_extruder_count}
; --- Single Extruder Settings
; speed_z_hop = {speed_z_hop}
; retraction_amount = {retraction_amount}
; retraction_hop = {retraction_hop}
; retraction_hop_enabled = {retraction_hop_enabled}
; retraction_enable = {retraction_enable}
; retraction_speed = {retraction_speed}
; retraction_retract_speed = {retraction_retract_speed}
; retraction_prime_speed = {retraction_prime_speed}
; speed_travel = {speed_travel}

; Ender 3 Custom Start G-code

G92 E0 ; Reset Extruder
G28 ; Home all axes
G1 Z2.0 F3000 ; Move Z Axis up little to prevent scratching of Heat Bed
G1 X5 Y20 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move to start position
G1 X5 Y200.0 Z0.3 F1500.0 E15 ; Draw the first line
G1 X4.4 Y200.0 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move to side a little
G1 X4.4 Y20 Z0.3 F1500.0 E30 ; Draw the second line
G92 E0 ; Reset Extruder
G1 Z2.0 F3000 ; Move Z Axis up little to prevent scratching of Heat Bed
G1 X7 Y20 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move over to prevent blob squish

End Gcode

G91 ;Relative positioning
G1 E-2 F2700 ;Retract a bit
G1 E-2 Z0.2 F2400 ;Retract and raise Z
G1 Z10 ;Raise Z more
G90 ;Absolute positionning
G1 X0 Y235 F3000

G1 X0 Y{machine_depth} ;Present print
M106 S0 ;Turn-off fan
M104 S0 ;Turn-off hotend
M140 S0 ;Turn-off bed

M84 X Y E ;Disable all steppers but Z

@spauliszyn That's one of the reasons I like Octoprint, you can put in Gcode to run when it fails or pauses, but unfortunately there's not a blink so what you'll need to do is something like this and just repeat it a bunch.

M42 P6 S0
G4 S1
M42 P6 S255
G4 S1

@spauliszyn Are you sure it says 1.0.3.6?

You may want to do a M502, M500 then M501.

Then you'll need to do the bed leveling and save it with an M500

@pro_info That's a bummer, that's the biggest issue I had with the firmware, that and M600 not working.

@thing20 @phamtom009 I've linked to a compiled version of the latest firmware, I think it's 1.0.36 that has the EEPROM enabled so you can save not only the ABL but all the other settings like PID tuning etc. I've been using it for a couple of days and have had no problem and don't have to wait for the ABL anymore.

Is the EEPROM enabled in this version?

@admin Unless you have a Mac