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If I was looking at the right printer, its' only got a 140mm x 140mm x 140mm build area. If you get that one, before very long you will be wishing you had something bigger. My printer's build area is 200mm x 200mm x 180mm. While I rarely print anything that's even close to 180mm's tall, there have been many times that I wished I could print something with a larger foot print.Don
Looking HARD at the Qidi X Pro for the shop.... Looks good! Friend has one and likes it a lot. Would like to print wax patterns with it if possibleAny thoughts?
QuoteLooking HARD at the Qidi X Pro for the shop.... Looks good! Friend has one and likes it a lot. Would like to print wax patterns with it if possibleAny thoughts?IMHO it will be difficult at best to print wax on that machine. The reason is you need to lower the safety limit on the extruder. I do not think the firmware on that machine is open source therefore mot likely possible to mod it. I did check there web page they do have a link to a firmware page but it seems like a dead end link . IIRC the machine uses replicator g so you may be able to load sailfish. The machine apears to be based on an open source machine but with some updates. the prusa that would be easy as it is on any true OS machine. I Apologize i did not see this earlier . but I have been a bit distracted with life.
That machine is basically an improved version of my flashforge creator pro. If it’s anything like mine, it will answer the mail for you. Here are some things I learned from putting mine into service. The machine is pretty fast so I tend to have better luck with temps at the higher end of the range for the material I’m printing with. The next thing to watch is bed leveling. I found properly leveling a three knob bed harder then one that had knobs at all four corners. Now for the big one. Before you use the second extruder get your self a leveling jig. My two nozzles were not at the same height which caused me big problems. My secondary nozzle was about .2 mm higher then the primary nozzle. I couldn’t get material extruded from that nozzle to stick for love nor money until I figured out what was going on. Now I use a four inch 1/4 inch wide parallel to adjust the height. I put the parallel on the bed and move the carriage down until the lowest nozzle touches the parallel. Then I adjust the higher one down until it touches. It’s also a fast way to check it prior to a dual extruder print.Tony