Cura, My Ender 3 Pro, and 1 dirty little secret!

Welcome folks, TechNiverse here. You know I set up an awful lot of printers and I have a confession to make. I don't always make a new profile based on the printer that I'm printing with. Now I have tried in the past to go in and let's, I'll just demonstrate it to you. So if I go to settings, printer, add printer. I'm gonna add a non-network printer. My first issue experienced with this was with TiVo. So the first time I got my TiVo Tarantula Pro and I went to install the TiVo. The Pro model wasn't here, it was just the regular Tarantula. So I tried using that profile and it was absolute garbage on the printer. It wasn't for the Pro and I just, it wasn't meshing well no matter what I tweaked. Even though the settings seem to be very similar, I couldn't get a good quality print out of the printer now. So what I did is the same thing that I've been doing every time I set up a profile since. So no matter what printer I'm using and this goes for my big Anet's as well. I have some really large size printers. The thing that I will do and this is my dirty little secret because this is the best starting point I found. Look at all these profiles in here. These are all the brands, right? And then they each have a couple different printers and stuff like that. Well, I don't even bother looking through this list. What I do is I go right up here to Creality 3D and I grab the Ender 3 Pro profile. Okay, so that's the profile that I'm starting with for all of my printers. Don't care what printer it is, I'm starting with the Ender 3 Pro profile. And the reason is because I can take that printer, I can say I'm doing, I have a really, let's do the artillery. Let's say I'm doing an artillery genius. I can change the name so it's set to that printer. That way from this basic profile setting I can make a couple of minor tweaks. Now there is an artillery genius profile in here and I haven't tried it. The reason for that is because I get amazing prints off this machine using the Ender 3 Pro profile. As with every other machine that I've tried it on, it comes out pretty much flawless every time. That allows me to know that since my basic print settings are fine and I know they're gonna come out generally okay with a little bit of tweaking per machine, that gives me a great starting point for basically comparing that with all of the other machines compared together. Because they're using all of the same settings off the bat for those initial prints and then say there's something that needs to be tweaked a little bit on one printer and not the other, I can do that under its name. But they are still all starting with that Creality Ender 3 profile. That is what I base my profile that you find on my Ender 3 v2 download page on. So I'm using the artillery. It's a little bit bigger than 220 so here I can change the size and I would do that if I was gonna be using, I'm gonna do it here just to be sure, but if I were to be doing a large anet or something like that or a larger printer I would put the proper volume in there. I think one of the reasons that this tends to work so well is because the Ender 3 start and end g-code are pretty much spot-on. You get that nice little primer line, you get everything set up, you're ready to go and it tends to work really well. I haven't had any issues doing this. So like I said I can just hit next and it'll set me up with the artillery genius. Now all these settings are based off the Ender 3 Pro but they are pretty basic for any of these stand-up Cartesian style printers. So I am in a good place to go ahead and print a model and I can actually show you here. Let me make my picture a little bit bigger so you can see what I'm showing you. So this here is a Benchy model. That's a pretty decent view of it. This was printed on the artillery genius here using an Ender 3 profile. This was one of the first prints I got off of the artillery genius and it came out really really well. So I don't mess around too much with any of those other brands as far as it goes for picking which profile to start with and that is because like I said it may be my dirty little secret but it has worked really really well. Now once I have gotten to this point where I've changed a few settings after my initial prints and got it dialed in for that machine in particular such as adjusting the retraction which on this machine is extremely short because it is a direct drive machine. A few little minor tweaks like that and you're good to go but the Ender 3 pro profile is always a good starting point as far as your basic settings. You get a very basic layer height and line width and wall thickness everything like that seems to be spot-on. Oftentimes I will go through and change this to three lines for the wall because I don't want that infill showing through and in order to do that I have to increase this to 0.12 and then it'll calculate all that stuff so but yeah that's basically it's a great starting point for any profile no matter what printer you're setting up. Now I will list I have used this on my Mingda printer, my Anet, several of them at least five of them, my TiVo Tarantula Pro, my Artillery Genius, I've used it on the Focus 3d printer that I tested a couple weeks ago and that came out phenomenal that's an amazing printer by the way definitely check that out. I've used it on I know there's a couple more I can't think of them the only printer I actually haven't used this successfully on and didn't even make the attempt was the FL Sun Q5 but that's a Delta so like I said this is this is for Cartesian style Ender 3 style open design printers and obviously if you have a different size nozzle you're gonna want to make that adjustment as well as the retraction adjustment but other than those two minor things since the nozzle size doesn't change too much it's generally a standard 0.04 for everybody for everything unless you order and put in a different one or excuse me 0.4 unless you order and put in a different one so yeah definitely try it out you're gonna get some really good results if you've been having trouble dialing in a profile for your specific printer back up start a new one using the Ender 3 Pro profile and just adjust that size don't change the start and end g-code at all you should be getting better results right off the bat than you did with your already adjusted profile for the previous printer so I know this is kind of crazy okay and and it's nuts to me to look at this list in the add printer list and I mean honestly if you were to open 90% of these printers other than the build volume the actual settings are gonna be relatively close to the same the only major difference in a lot of these is like I said the retraction sometimes the speed so it's kind of silly that there's so many and not just one base profile or profiles honestly should be based off of your hardware each individual item and I think that's one of the reasons that the Ender 3 profile works so well is because it's very very base model of everything even on the Pro version and and it's easily upped to the next level if you know what I mean by tweaking a setting or two say you have a you decide to put an all metal hot end on there and your temperatures are a little bit higher and things like that so you can do pretty much all the mods that people do to an Ender 3 to any of these other printers and honestly 90% of them are exactly the same V slot extrusion simple mechanics simple electronics they basically are giving you as much bang as they can for the buck while still trying to make a profit so there's no reason why you can't use the same profile I mean oftentimes you'll see me getting ready to print something and I won't even go out of my Ender 3 profile I'll just make the adjustments I need so really really good thing to know really great place to start as you can see it doesn't necessarily have to show up as an Ender 3 in your printer list you can you can set it to the name of whatever brand it is but this is definitely what I recommend when setting up your printer with Kira for the first time you're gonna have a lot less headaches and you're gonna appreciate it a lot more because I'm telling you this is this is key this is one of those things that I can throw any printer on here and get a decent print as long as it's a Cartesian machine so that is a hell of a lot better than some of the struggles you see trying to print with the profiles that they already have because they have some wonky settings and some of them or maybe the person who set it up machine wasn't exactly like your machine in this case we know their machine wasn't like our machine somehow we still get a good print so I've begun to rant I have gone off topic a little bit I hope you guys found this video interesting I want you to go ahead and try what I suggested regardless of what kind of Cartesian machine you have plug in the original Ender 3 Pro profile give it a print with the settings as they are and then make a minor adjustments and tell me that it isn't just as good or better than your dedicated printer profile that you have already that's gonna be it for this one guys don't forget to leave the comments down below in the comments hit that subscribe button so you can keep up to date with what's going on on the channel and ring the notification bell as well to get notified when we release new videos if you have any video suggestions or any ideas questions about Kira or anything like that feel free to leave them in the comments down below I have a your questions on Kira answered I'll put a card up for that right here and then I have a bunch of other Kira playlists such as Kira settings and things like that and Kira profiles one of my biggest playlists is Kira settings in five minutes or less where I go over each of these individual settings tell you what they do and how to use them and I can put a card up for that up here as well so thanks for watching guys we'll see you in the next one stick around guys I got another YouTube recommended video for you right here and if you haven't already subscribe subscribe subscribe make sure that you smash that like button we'll see you in the next one Tech Nibbers out