in this video we will be pulling some data from the beautiful test model file they sent with the printer, to see what slicer settings we can glean from within for creating our own Cura profile. this in cura 4.7 but older versions will work the same. we will also be taking the start and end g-code from the file to ensure we get the best setup and end instructions for the Ender 3 v2!
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The video demonstrates how to create a custom printer profile for the Creality Ender 3 V2 by extracting G-code settings from a successful factory test print. The creator walks through the software configuration process and showcases a test print of a dragon head to verify the profile's effectiveness.
This is my Creality Ender 3 version 2, and in a minute we're going to fire it up and I'll show
you my first test print with the profile I've just completed making with this guy. And the reason
we're doing it in this order is because, well, editing. This is going to be 3D Thursday this
week. I will show you how to pull the file from the SD card, which came out rather nice by the
way. This is the print that we got, our first print off of this printer, and it is gorgeous.
So I thought we'd go in there, we'd take the G-code and steal the settings from that file
to make our very own profile, since that is what Creality intended to begin with. So let's jump on
in and do that right now. And when we come back to the printer here, you should see it firing up
and starting to print the head of a dragon. The Tech Nervous channel is brought to you by
these fine Patreon supporters. Welcome back folks, Tech Nervous here. Today we are going to be taking
a look at setting up, as you saw a minute ago, the Ender 3 version 2 from Creality. So I'm going
to go ahead and start by making a printer profile for this printer. And in order to do that, I need
to go to settings, printer, and add printer. I don't have it hooked up, so we're going to hit
add a non-networked printer. And we are going to roll on down the list until we find Creality here.
And it looks like it isn't quite in here yet. So start with the Ender 3 Pro, hit add,
and I think we'll make a couple of changes. So one of the things that I'm wanting to do
is I have printed a test print. You can see that in my unboxing video.
What we're going to do is set all of this stuff here to be the exact same as that test file that
comes on the printer. So I've taken my micro SD card and inserted it, and I have Notepad++ which
is a great word program. It reads pretty much everything. I'm going to jump in here and I'm
going to use that to be our start g-code. So we're going to go ahead and control C
and get rid of that. Replace it with our stuff. Okay, that's not bad. And then we're going to do
the same for the ending g-code, which is going to be way down at the bottom. So let's just pop
past most of that stuff. And what we want is the stuff after time elapsed here. So we'll grab this
and place this guy here. And a lot of this is commented out so you can see exactly what it's
doing, and that's a good thing. So we're getting retractions and raising the Z and then a wipe,
things like that. So then going back to absolute positioning, which is over here,
I think we're setting it to absolute as well. And then we reset the feed rate and the flow
rate before printing. So some pretty interesting stuff going on in there, but pretty simple as
well. And as I said, we pulled that pretty much directly from that g-code. So we're going to go
ahead and hit next here. And I think that these should just be our basic generic set settings,
and they should be all right. But I did want to go and see what a few of these particularly were
set at. So it's not showing too many of them. Okay, so let's check out travel. I want to check
out distance 6.5, 25 millimeters per second, combing, not in skin. All of this looks pretty
good. I don't think we're going to change too much. I did want to go back and take a look.
There is this other stuff here. And this was put in by Kira after the g-code is run. It's basically
all just comments. So you have here a couple of things that you can get, like you can find the
adhesion type that's right here. You can find out whether or not support is turned on, and it is.
Support is attached to build plate. You can see the standard quality number two. That's basically,
that's the profile they use to print it. So all the settings that are in there
are, should be exactly the same as what's here, except maybe whether or not that support's turned
on. So, and I think that is pretty close to what we have here. It actually says, let's check that
again here. Standard quality number two. See that the settings aren't the same, but this is basically
the profile they were using to make that skirt. Yeah. So that's basically it as far as the setup.
Now let's check the speed real quick. Is it 60? It's probably perfectly capable of doing 60. I
mean, I know it can do 60 and you'll probably get decent models. I like to take it down to 55
because I'm not too big of a hurry. I'd rather get a nice model than a fast model. So that's
going to be it for setting up the profile on this guy. Let's throw a model on and get to printing.
So here you have the dragon head we just printed with my profile. There was a little bit of
blobbing at the end that I didn't account for, and I don't like that. So we're going to go in
and find out what that is, if it's an NG code or if it was something else that I did, but we will
take care of that. Other than that, the model came out fairly flawless, super low layer height,
pretty nice. The support came out pretty well. It all removed pretty easily. You can see there's
a little bit of interfacing left on the bottom that would need some finishing there.
But yeah, so far I'm pretty dang pleased with the models coming off of this. I think they're
only going to get better, so stick with us and follow us through as we go through and make all
the adjustments we need to this machine to get it running picture perfect. I think it's pretty
much right there, right out of the box. There are just a couple of little minor tweaks I want to
make to this profile before we post it, but you should see it on my github soon. Well, that's it
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