Cura Questions - Setting up a printer that has no profile in cura

Hey folks, Tech Nervous here. We are back with another Cura question. Today's question is, what do I do to set up my printer if there is no base printer to set up in Cura? And I'm going to show you one of the tips and tricks that I use all the time, especially for, specifically for Cartesian machines. First, I need you to go ahead and reduce your Z offset on that subscribe button down below. Give that notification bell a good first layer squish so you can get notified every time we post new videos. I do a lot of Cura videos. I do a lot of Cura questions videos, and I cover pretty much every new version. In fact, the version you're going to be seeing today is the Cura 5.5 beta, which will be out soon in full release. And I will obviously be doing an in-depth video on the new features in Cura 5.5. But for now, go ahead and check out this video on Cura 5.5 beta, which is a brief introduction to some of the new additions to this version. So we're going to go ahead and jump right into this here. And what I want to do is go to settings, printer, and manage printers. You can also go to add printer there, but we're going to go to the add new button here just so you can kind of see how it works. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab a non-Ultimaker printer. Now, the specific question that I was asked was what way to set up an Anycubic Cobra? A user was enjoying the Cobra that they had, but wasn't getting the wanted. They were having a hard time with Cura, and they're thinking about ordering an Anycubic Cobra 2, but wanted to make sure that they get it to work first. So this is going to be what I do in the case where I can't find my printer in the list of printers here. So let's go ahead to add a non-network printer. And the first thing we're going to do, and there may be one in here because I haven't checked yet, but we're going to find Anycubic on the list here and see if we can find, yeah, see, now they have the Cobra, the Cobra Go, the Cobra Max, the Cobra Plus, no Cobra 2. And that's fine. If I had a Cobra 2, I would go in here and use probably the Cobra regular profile and then adjust it to my settings according to what I'm about to show you. But I've had a few printers that don't have their maker or their type in here. And for that case, what I generally do, because it's probably the most worked on profile that you can find and has a lot of support in the community, is I go to Creality and I find the Ender 3. And in most cases, I'll take the Ender 3 Pro and I'll click add printer. Now you may be telling me that it's not the exact same as your printer, and I get that. In most cases, no matter what profile you choose, you're going to want to adjust your eSteps and do a lot of other minor adjustments to improve your quality slowly over several prints, depending on what you choose. And that's true. Even if you find your printer on the list, there are things that it just does not cover. There are things that aren't identical from different printers to printers. And the Ender 3 Pro is basically a all around generic profile. So if I go ahead and hit add here, maybe, there we go. Now I have my printers. Let's go to the Creality Ender 3 Pro. We're going to go to machine settings. And in here, you can find some printer specific settings. Now, if you change these, it will no longer be specific to that Ender 3. You can adjust the width, the depth, and the height. That is the XYZ in these boxes right here. And that will help you set up a larger build size if that is the case. It is also possible to get some calipers and measure the distance between the tip of your nozzle to the gantry and replace this number here. So there are a few adjustments that have to be made on a per printer basis, but this is my basic go-to for printing on a machine that does not have a profile. I basically just steal the profile from the Ender 3, then I tweak it from there. This is usually a really good starting point and it may seem simple or like a stupid trick, but trust me, it works. And that is basically the gist of this video. Once you set in your size parameters, you can go ahead and do a test print and see how the machine is working. Basically, most of these machines use very similar types of G-code, be it Marlin or Clipper. And those are things that you can specify as you know your printer a little bit better. But for now, assuming it's a Marlin machine and a Cartesian device, this is going to work for you amazingly well right out of the box. I'm going to switch back to my Mingda here because I've been rocking this Magician X. It's a nice printer. And that's going to be it for this one guys. Like I said, don't forget to leave a like, hit that subscribe button. If you have any Keira questions, leave them in the comments down below and make sure you put Keira question in the comment because that's how I search through all the comments. Thanks guys. Tegniver is out.