What did you 3D print today?

I have a Ender V3 KE

 

With our daughter moved out many years ago, and being empty nesters, I turned her room into a 3D printing room.......after my wife went through all of my daughters stuff in there to see what she wants and what we have to continue to store.

Now that all of my daughters stuff is our, I purchased a couple extremely HD tables, each capable of supporting 2000lbs. Seems a bit overkill, but I've had my resin printers fail because of table movement.
These things are SUPER heavy duty (and just plain heavy!) and will be stable enough for multiple printers.

I purchased one for my two AnyCubic M5S resin printers and new enclosed Crealty K2 (that I still haven't even unboxed yet), and another as a workbench for me for support removal, assembly ect, ect.

 

Yeah that style printer auto leveling means you typically set the z offset and then it auto levels itself. Usually the leveling before every print is a setting on the Creality printers too.

 

I know with their (Crealty) K2+, they did away with all manual intervention for any and all leveling.

 

Yeah for the Creality series and some of the more expensive Ender line it's fully automated but they still produce manual "auto leveling" ones I found that out with the CR-6 SE back a few years ago lol

 

For sure. Even some of the equally higher end printers still had some type of manual intervention for leveling until not too recently.

 

Before I moved it, if you ran calibration before a print it would check something like 25 different places along the bed for leveling, but now if I check the box for calibration it skips that and wont check it. I get an error for 2252 exception unknown. It still continues to print though. Google tells me its probably a loose connection, but I've reseated them all and still no dice. Gonna go through it all again tomorrow, sick of looking at it today.

 

People say it might be a firmware bug, I'd say update the firmware to the latest and if you already did that redo it in case a file got corrupted, if that doesn't work maybe try going back to a firmware one version lower.

Some people also say that it's caused if you're not using Creality slicer too.

 

Yeah I was on V1.1.0.12 when it started happening. I tried an update to .15 but no dice. I've tried both the old Creality Print slicer I was using and the new 5.1 that was released. (New 5.1 software is hot garbage BTW)

Everything was working great until I moved it from one desk to the other.

I was just thinking, I should try to print one of my old projects that worked fine and see if it still does it. If it works fine then it's likely a slicer issue, but if it still throws the error then it should be hardware

 

Yeah that would narrow it down a if it's a firmware/software issues with the newer version or if it's something with the machine itself if you use the older known good project files.

Don't forget it you recently got it and can still return it that's always an option too. As someone who's had multiple of their Creality and Ender series printers when issues come up it was always a pain because it would just randomly stop working properly like yours did for seemingly no good reason.

Another option is always returning it and getting a something like a Bambu labs A1 Mini, I'm a little bias here but currently it's $180 on sale from Bambu and the build plate is smaller at 180x180 instead of 220x220 but rarely do people including myself have suck a large print that uses the whole of the length and width. Also not to mention the slicer and their profiles are much better tuned by default in Bambu Studio.

 

Welp it appears to be slicer related, because an older print is calibrating fine.

I bought this last Jan? Feb? Somewhere in there. It's worked awesome up to this point. I have been looking at Bambu Labs P1S or P1P

 

My new P1S has been awesome. Just saying… Cheers!

 

Ahh thought it was new/recent purchase.

Give Bambu Slicer or Orca slicer a shot too idk if you're using Creality Slicer but when I had to using it with a K1 I thought it was pretty subpar on features and layout

 

Just got this monster set up......man this thing is a BEAST!

350mm x 350mm working base/built volume, 600mm/s, fully enclosed heated chamber, fully auto leveling, x4 multi-color printing in a fully enclosed case that dries the filiment as it's printing.
They also threw in a separate individual filiment dryer as well.
The overall size and speed of the K2 is super impressive.
The CFS for multi-color printing allows 4 colors ATM, but you can also hook up to 4 CFS together into the 1 K2 printer for up to 16 colors in a single print.

I've not done anything substantial with it yet, just some testing only, so can't wait to get to some good stuff.

 

Solid machine, I give it a few months before you want a second for those busy days lol

 

Guesses on spools and print time? I said 60 spools and a full 24hour day per flat plate. My printer is old and slow though.. no realistic idea what speeds are like on the newer ones.

 

I got interested myself and it looks like the guy said 3 weeks for the whole tree and that's with multiple bambu printers he has.

https://www.instagram.com/elliswhere/reel/DDSV7wzC4Y5/

 

Dang.. that might get the CR-6 retired. Too bad 350 vs 400, buuuuuuut that's fine I guess.

 

Solid find! I wasn’t too far off my my amount, he said over 50kg, I guessed 60.

 

I think I have TPU dialed in pretty good. Printed a cover I found of GoFastCamper to keep water out of the latch for my cap. Fits good! Now to print 5 more at 5.5hrs each...