Flashforge AD5M: DIY Enclosure- easier, simpler, faster, stronger cable chain termination at hotend!
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Printables download for this tweak to the mod: www.printables.com/model/7856...
Purchase links for Flashforge Adventurer 5M printer:
Currently $299 on Amazon (affiliate link) - amzn.to/3IyoUCD
Currently $299 at manufacturer (not an affiliate link) - www.flashforgeshop.com/produc...
Flashforge Adventurer 5M DIY printed enclosure upgrade: wiki.flashforge.com/en/knowle...
Cable chain portion of mod is available at same link:
wiki.flashforge.com/en/knowle...
The Flashforge Adventurer 5M ("AD5M") is a fantastic printer at a great price. The design for the printed enclosure upgrade is very nicely designed and well thought out. There was really only one aspect of the design that seemed could be improved.
This is a simpler, easier, faster, and more durable… drag chain termination at the hotend/extruder. Two prep steps and three install steps:
Steps to prepare:
• Print one extra cable chain link and install it onto the chain. (This should bring the total links to 21. If you still need the file for printing the chain, click here and tap on the menu choice labelled “If you want to do 100% DIY： Drag chain kit”.)
• Print the two parts in this listing (using 40% infill for strength), and CA glue them together as shown below. The parts print as oriented and without any need of support.
Steps to install:
1. Attach the new part to the cable chain. (It has a part at the top that resembles the male end of a cable chain link.)
2. Where the cable goes into the hotend / extruder, there is a small tab with two screws in it. This tab secures the cable. Remove the two small screws, and save them for reuse.
3. Replace the small tab with the bottom of the new part. Tighten the same two screws into it that used to hold the old tab in place. Save the old tab if you wish, just in case.
That's pretty much it. You're now done. All the other steps from the install should be followed as in the manual for the enclosure upgrade.
Other cool options for the AD5M:
You may also like my other AD5M related design work:
www.printables.com/model/7856...
www.printables.com/model/8133...
www.printables.com/model/8145...
www.printables.com/model/8277...
www.printables.com/model/8286...
www.printables.com/model/8340...
www.printables.com/model/8340...
Use Klipper stuff on stock hardware, such as Mainsail, Fluidd, and Klipperscreen, etc, with the stock Klipper install on the AD5M's main board, as shown in the first image above. Get it here:
• github.com/xblax/flashforge_a...
Check out other cool AD5M related options here:
• github.com/g992/flashforge-ad...
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Gran trabajo!! mañana llega mi adventure 5m, e imprimiré tu archivo . Es mejor que el oficial! gracias!!
¡gracias! ¡Estoy satisfecho con ello!
Hello, I'm planning to buy this machine and I realise that you have some interesting promotions on your side of the Atlantic, you're quoting 299$ for the 5M whereas here it's 399€ (434$), I'm waiting for an interesting promotion for France to make the purchase. ;o)
Sorry the price is higher where you are located!!
Amazing, looks great, will give it a try. Could you do a video on the lighting upgrade?
I recorded some video of doing the LED lighting upgrade and will try to get it edited and posted. I’m under a heavy load right now, and I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to get to it.
I'd also like that video too please.
Do you have one on a possible aftermarket camera install for inside the enclosure too?
@@NomaddUK I do have a Printables listing for how to use the Flashforge Adventurer 5M Pro camera ($25 accessory) on a 5M non-pro, here: www.printables.com/model/813334-flashforge-adventurer-5m-ad5m-printed-camera-mount - which is what I am doing. I don't have anything about any other cameras.
Thanks again for sharing these excellent videos .. between you and Figure Feedback, I was convinced to pick up a 5M as a second printer, and already it's so overperforming my expectations that it will probably become the workhorse printer, with the Sovol SV07+ being used for the large size prints.
Thanks. I'm enjoying mine!
@@design8studio A funky design to be sure. Looks like the hotend is buried in the nozzle. That long part of it with cooling fins (sticking up towards the feed gears) is to give the filament a temperature gradient .. and that long heating zone is part of why the thing can go so fast. I am just busy now tweaking profiles. Had one botched print where layer time was so short (a print in two small objects) that the returning head knocked it off the bed. That was the sole botched print out of many perfect ones so far. Designing an additional parts cooling setup presently. It will end up on printables once I get it working right. The cooling upgrade I designed for the Sovol SV07+ (a twin 5015 parts cooler) won't work here due to the space confines inside the frame .. and I wouldn't want to add mass to the print head anyway.
@@suzyamerica4679 Yes, it's fast for sure, and the strong heater is a key component. The long thing with the fins on it is not part of the heat chamber, but rather is the opposite. It's called the heat break, and its purpose is to prevent heat from creeping upwards into the extruder gear area. If heat were to creep up there, the filament in the grip of the gear would soften and the extruder gear would lose all traction. Thus the cooling fins! There is a fan that blows directly on the fins for accelerated cooling. The strong heater chamber is below the tall thing with the fins. Like you, I am also getting lots of flawless prints and very very few issues or problems!
@@design8studio After the experience of spending two months (OK, first printer) improving the Sovol SV07+ it has been a relief to just get flawless prints off this machine. Been using it to show curious friends what 3D printing is and how it works. There are a series of functional small prints on the machine, things that can be left with people - small boxes, bag clips, etc. I hope FlashForge someday makes one of these with a half-meter axis travel length and similar specs.
Thanks for designing this! I like the look of that filament. What brand is it?
Thank you! This is Prusament namebrand filament called galaxy black. I do not normally buy it, but I had some free rolls because of where I had points on printables.com from people downloading my models. So I had it with only having to pay shipping for it. It’s nice because it has the white flecks that help hide layer lines.
😮 that filament you used is super nice and really expensive £65 per kg
@@Tony_3d_ Yep. And if I hadn’t have gotten those rolls free, except for shipping, I wouldn’t have them to use. In fact, for my second AD5M enclosure I’m using a more affordable filament. Don’t have quite enough left of that expensive stuff to do the second one.
thanks a ton !! I got it all printed.... BUT what about the other end ? I am sorry for the dumb question, but where / how does the filament detector area terminate for the drag chain?
That’s explained in Flashforge’s wiki for the DIY enclosure. Two printed parts get screwed down in a way that clamps onto the start of the drag chain.
The Flashforge video for how to do the DIY enclosure explains how the start of the drag chain is mounted, and it links to their wiki for the DIY enclosure directions, which also links to the printable parts: czcams.com/video/6-RHAFNZ6jk/video.html
Do you have any recirculating filtration in your A5M? I can't really find any information about adding the filtration from the pro version or modifying any existing filters like the Bento Box and Nevermore.
There is interest for that sort of thing, but I don’t have a pro, so I don’t have anything to look at to see what they’ve done. I have not made any effort to try to do anything like that on my two AD5M’s.
Thx you perfect 👌👌👍👍
🙂
I just purchased this printer and plan on doing the enclosure mod . Do you have a list and source for all the different fasteners ?
There is a vendor (I think the name is called Funspark), on aliexpress.us that sells a kit for the DIY enclosure that includes laser cut polycarbonate clear panels for the door, sidewalls and top, and a cable chain, some PTFE tubing, and all the hardware, for only $48. You can’t beat it. I think I linked to it from one of the other comments, or the video description, or the Printables description.
Hi, I want to put the filter kit with the fan, but I noticed that behind the printer, just above the motherboard, the PRO version has a conveyor, wouldn't you be able to make it?
It’s probably doable, but since I don’t have access to one of the pro versions of this printer, I have no idea what it looks like, how it functions, or what would be required to make one.
@@design8studio it is the internal air recirculation duct, see some videos to understand what I mean.... it is located right above the motherboard, but I understand that you need to have a copy to be able to make it.
@@QuelFolleSulCanaleDavide Feel free to link a video. I tried to find one that shows it but I could not.
Hi great video I was really wanting to know how we're you able to tweak it and add you're logo and remove the flashforge logo? Please and thank you
Sure. There's more than one way to get that done. One way is you can download the source files from the Flashforge wiki for the enclosure (which includes STEP file) at wiki.flashforge.com/en/knowledge_corner/printer-mod-and-diy - you can open STEP file in Fusion 360, which has a free hobby license available, and edit the 3D model in Fusion 360 (or any 3D modeling program that can open STEP files) or you import the STL file info a 3D modeling program and edit that. One such modeling program is SketchUp. I did some of my remixing on the Fusion 360 side, and some on the SketchUp side. I think my final work on this logo replacement was in SketchUp. They also offer a free edition.
Thank you so much also is it 100% Necessary to print in PETG for the corner
Or can I print that in PLA as well
@@thatromnguy722 PETG is not necessary on the corners as far as I am concerned. I printed mine in PLA.
@@thatromnguy722 Yes, I printed my corners in PLA.
How did you remove the Flashforge logo from the enclosure top and ad your logo ? I would like to do this for mine . I have all of your upgrades printed and ready to install when I get the top part of the enclosure printed .
I "remixed" that part in a 3D modeling program. I started in AutoDesk Fusion360, and I think I had to do some touch up in SketchUp because my logo is complex and I was having some issues.
@@design8studio Thank You . I'm still learning how to use Fusion 360 but I will give it a try .
@@billywillis4194 After opening the file, which if there is a "STEP" file available that's first choice, and if not, then import the STL as mesh into F360 and generate faces and convert to a solid body... After getting at the file, the basic process for removal of the old logo, would be to right click on the smooth face that's the background around their logo, and create a sketch. in the sketch edit process, tap on "P" for "project" and select the edges of that face to project those lines into your sketch. You don't want their logo projected though. This gives a sketch that's a "clean" face version for that part of the solid body. Then finish the sketch, and select that clean face (you may have to temporarily hide the solid body to select the sketch's face, and then show the solid body again before continuing), and tap "E" for "extrude" and extrude outwards, with mode set to "cut" and cut away their logo off of the solid body of that part. You could then edit the sketch to add your logo, and then finish the sketch and select your logo and "E" for extrude except this time "add" mode instead of "cut" mode. Hope that helps.
@@design8studio That helps a lot . Thank You .
I just remembered seeing that someone had already posted a remixed "no logo" version on Printables. It will save you some steps. Here's the link: www.printables.com/model/874859-flashforge-adventurer-5m-ad5m-enclosure-mod-no-log
Is it self leveling? Have I seen that correctly?
Yes. It levels on first boot and also does resonance compensation!