How to set up the Sovol SV04 IDEX 3D printer
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-- TABLE OF CONTENTS --
0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - Make sure to set the PSU voltage correctly
2:05 - Level the X gantry using shims
3:35 - Alternative: level the X gantry using G34
bit.ly/3xitNtb - This firmware published by Sovol is supposed to have G34 support. There may be newer firmware released since this one.
Get the latest firmware on the Sovol SV04 facebook group at:
/ sv04idex3dprinter
5:03 - Set z height for extruder 1 at center of bed
6:42 - Adjust corner height using bed leveling wheels
8:13 - Double check the results
9:17 - Set z height for extruder 2
10:05 - Run the bed-level mesh routine
11:13 - Load filament
13:32 - Run the first test print!
15:10 - Check z height while the first layer goes down
Troubleshooting your 1st layer, including Z height: rigid.ink/pages/ultimate-trou...
15:40 - Adjust nozzle offset for dual-extruder printing
20:12 - Install Sovol slicer on your PC
My video about what does a slicer do and how to use it: • 3D Printing | What's a...
23:08 - Conclusion
Teaching Tech 3D printer calibration web site: teachingtechyt.github.io/cali...
It's really nice that you mention the voltage set and X gantry level! And thank you very much for showing us how to calibrate it! Good video!
@sovol your company is literally trash, customer support is joke, your "after sales engineer" aka "may young" is lying cunt. All your company does is make shit ripoffs of legit printers.
Hey jb. I started watching your videos when I got into drones. And by your "recommendation" I got my sv01. That was several years ago now. I recently picked up the sv04 and lo and behold your here to save the day again. Thank you for the years of knowledge. Thank you for continuing to do what you do
Your outro had me crying thanks for the video man god bless
Just picked one of these up, and have been watching your fpv content for awhile man. Thank you for being the goat, I could listen to you explain things all day haha
Joshua the people need a Voron build series 😃
Fantastic, Joshua! Thanks a lot! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thank you so much for making this video! I just bought an SV04 and trying to set it up now. This video made the hot end offset very easy to understand.
Have a great Thanksgiving JB!
Fantastic as usual. Thank you Joshua
Thank you so much brought an 04 for my son for x mas and this video as been a bible for set up thank you
I have two IDEX, one out of the box Weedo X40, the other a modded Ender 3 Max. The out of the box Weedo has just worked great and I’m sure the Sovol will be a solid printer once it’s dialled in. The Ender was a great technical project but effectively is only setup to do a copy print which works great and saves a lot of printing time. Dual filament printing is good and quite novel. Copy and mirror print is the main reason I have two IDEX printer. I will say my experience with the Weedo has be very good where others seem to have issues.
Thank you, broke it down perfectly. I’m entirely new and other videos left basics out.
I Appreciate the help thanks
I think this is the solution to my sv02 problems... Gonna need to modify this bad boy...
I swear I get better results eyebaing the tram on my single head machine. Idk.... finnaly gunna assemble my sovol04 tonight, super hyped. Thanks for the vid !
Ive got one coming in, going to be doing two tier color printing, did you end up getting yours and did you like it?
@@redherring5532 I'm not sure what everyone was fussing about. It was MABEY a bit awkward. But mine unboxed and setup no probblem and i had little to no issue with the 2nd head offsets.... just take your time and double check your going the right way and it shouldn't take more than 30 min to get dialed in.
And personally I do SOME 2 tone printing and I love the machine regardless, but it's so great for multi material parts or technical prototypes...
Idk, not for everyone
But if you have a use case for it.... 300% worth
Thanks JB, I am a very new 3d printer (youtube university training) just go into it for drones but seems really cool so i have run 8 rolls of filament so not much but still had a lot of fun
Thanks for the as usual detailed explanation and instruction. Love your videos. After watching this I think I'll simply stick to having the occasional 3D printed part done by a firm like RDQ for appx $20 more or less! :)
I’m flying tomorrow morning you have a great day jb
Hi Joshua, will you be doing a setup video on the Sovol SV01 PRO?
I dont have any but i enjoyed the video ^^
Tks for your video, How can I fix the E-steop on this sv04?
Printing and aligning the combs is always kind of an annoying process. We have a camera tool for making this easier - let us know if you'd be curious to try it out!
The filament sensors work just fine.
Cut a short piece of filament at a 45 and try placing it in the sensor at a rotation of 0, 90,180 and 270 degrees.
When I cut my filament the lowest point of my 45 is to the front left of the machine and it goes in the first time all the time.
Good luck
When dual printing is there a way to keep one file from not going to bed?
Thanks John
Thank you for the excellent video The SD card that I received with my sovo4 is corrupt and can not be read. I was able to set up and print using you video but do you know where I can obtain a replacement sd card or download the files? It is not on the sovol website. Also I did not receive the two purge buckets. Can I buy then from you?
Hi. Thanks very much for the video. Question though, what if I cannot lower extruder 2 nozzle enough to scrape the paper? The knob won't go any tighter and allow me to drop nozzle of extruder 2.
try to rotate the filament to get it in tight tubes and sensors like the filament runout sensor
were you still going to do the software video for this
1:50. Laughing with ya bro.. done that a few times 🤪🤣
can you do G34 on the SV01?
Just got this but been having major issues. First was major underextrusion. Did estep calibration and hotend PID tuning and still had issues. Noticed when manually extruding 100mm of filament the filament would stop extruding for a split second. Have tried a bunch of different things, higher hotend temp, slower extruding, esteps, pid, etc. No matter what, it seems to stop for a second on each hotend. I literally just got it so if I need to take it apart to check ptfe and other internals thats a bummer. Had same exact issue with the SV01.
My left extruder is now nicely calibrated and I've used the auto z axis level. My right extruder won't lower any further and still doesn't hit the bed..
I got an issue with the 2 extruder at dual mode, when finished the printing, the extruder collide together whatever which come last , do u know what happen and how to solve it?
One more thing, there have better way to set the xy offset, at the office website , there have a video show that use a 2 layer square stl file merge together , which is easier than using the comb file, the stl file is included in the sd card come with the printer.
How do I use the 2nd nozzle instead of the 1st nozzle
Just built my sv04. I can't seem to lower the z low enough. It does raise and lower extremely slowly. It around 1 cm. Or more to high. I don't know what to do.
This machine looks like my current setup. lol All what my current setup is missing is the IDEX.
I’m sure you know it since TeachingTech mentions it in his guide, but you should always heat up your bed and nozzle when doing a bed leveling.
The initial setup with paper is always followed by first layer adjustment. So I only really heat the bed for bed level and then tweak the first layer.Teaching Tech and others are a great source for beginners.
I wanted to point out, in case you're still having trouble with those filament sensors, that if you have the filament really straight and not curved, it goes in much easier.
Does this printer have a heated bed
Old machinist. We used a dail indicator for that leveling stuff.
I am trying to do the offset calibration on my sv04. I don't see the file for the combs you print. Under calibration there are two cubes. Did Sovol change to that instead of the combs?
The 20mm calibration cubes are not what you want. I would be surprised if they got rid of the comb pattern but I mean you're looking at the SD card so either it's there or it isn't. This print might work for you? www.thingiverse.com/thing:4565745
I been watching your videos for a long time now and I have learned so much. Now I am stuck. I need advice, help,suggestions. I purchased a Biqu b1 a few months back and it prints great out of the box. I wanted to try idex printing so I found there idex upgrade kit on Amazon. I received the kit installed all components and upgraded to the FM bigtreetech suggested. Now comes the problem. I try copy,mirror and idex mode and it all just went Bazar, the original X axis (X0) and the added X axis (X1) move totally different than each other. When in copy or mirror. I try a cal cube and X0 prints at Y= 20mm Z=20mm X=20mm however the added X (X1) prints Y=20mm Z=20mm X=10mm
It seems that X1 prints at half of the x0 (I feel it maybe in the steps) the board is a skr2
Is there away to adjust the (X1) steps or anyway to text? If you or your viewers has any suggestions I would be greatly appreciated and thank for your time
Hi Joshua, thanks for the video. The problem I’m having is that even after doing all of that, the mesh leveling is not activating during the print. The offset values for the mesh are clearly shown in the menu, but they are not applied during the print and therefore the nozzle drags in some places and not others. Have you noticed this while printing? It’s almost like the G28 in the start g code is eliminating the mesh. I’ve tried a million ways to fix this issue. A G29 in the gcode tends fix this issue, as I can actively see the Z axis compensating, but causes it to crash one of the extruders.
I did not put G28 or G29 in my start gcode for this printer. Sovol has the load mesh etc baked into the firmware I think. You don't need to do anything special with it.
@@JoshuaBardwell that’s because G28 is already in their slicer start gcode by default. But what I’m asking is have you noticed the mesh actually compensating while printing? If printing something large, like the size of the print bed, I still see all of the height variances and I can tell the Z motors aren’t moving while printing, but with all of my SV01 printers the Z motors actively compensate for perfect first layers.
Yes it definitely worked correctly for me.
@@JoshuaBardwell Okay thanks, I guess I’ll keep doing some research. No matter what, my mesh refuses to enable and I end up with first layers that are too high in the middle and too low on the outside of the bed.
Your issue here is its not a legitimate 3dtouch, I replaced mine with crtouch, which is alot more accurate, then my motherboard failed 2 days later.
anyone know what to do if the 2nd extruders knob does not adjust the height at all? waiting for support to contact me back
There is 4 grub screws on that little rails on extruder 2, you have to loosen them before adjusting.
I have had this SV04 machine for a month, and CANNOT get it even close to the levelling bed. The Z axis will NOT go down past about 3 inches from the leveling plate. I can manually (when off) wind it down to the board, but when I turn it on, it thinks home (Z=0) is 3 inches above the plate itself, and will not go down when pushing the z axis down. I have flashed the firmware, tried putting head down right tot table, but nothing works. The probe goes from blue to red, if that helps. Any help would be so much appreciated.
my second extruder is not moving while twisting the knob
Joshua, I got my SV04 used from a family member. It was never used but the acrylic setup blocks were not with it. What is the length of the setup blocks so I can make a set myself.
The exact length doesn't matter as long as they are the same length. You can use a soup can or something.
@@JoshuaBardwell So it does not matter how high up the vertical supports I level the cross bar as long as it is square to the table? Is that correct? BTW thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.
Yes that's right.
Better leveling bed when its preheated ..
do ya stilll have this printer ?
could you also print 2 completely different models?
No, that's not possible.
technically you could load 2 STL and set each to a different color. this would print both models but one after the other 1 layer at a time. This would not be faster than printing each independently and likely slower even, but it is possible.
So what do you do when you have a corner that can not be raised anymore and still wont allow me to do the paper manual adjustment on the back right corner.
Go back and re-check that your X gantry is square to the frame.
@@JoshuaBardwell I have done that a few times. Luckily i found the issues was the springs they provided. So I swapped them out. However, I am having more of an issue of printing the calibration more than anything. I can print everything else just fine, thats the only file I have to use a glue stick for. Haven't had to pull them out in forever.
My problem is there's no up and down arrow to adjust the nozzle anywhere...there's only a left or right Z arrow. I have the exact same one though. Been trying to search online for an hour , so frustrating
Z moves up and down, that's all. Left and right arrows both control height.
Long time experience after one year? I'm pretty dissapointed from the sovol, after using it about 4 weeks. It turns out pretty quickly it has major shortcomings.
But does it print RAID SHADOW LEGENDS???? :P
Hey there, do you plan to make a video on the sovol slicer ? I know how cura Works but I would be very interrested to learn how sovol slicer works. Especially when you combine the dual extruder for 1 printing.
It's exactly like Cura, but before you load the file, you select the printer based on your desired printing mode.
When I hit "home" to home the printer, it's trying to move the print head too far on Z, such that it's hitting the bed and grinding on the motor, at which point i immedially shut the power to avoid damage. Help? Thoughts? I'm probably an idiot on this, so that's a given... anyone help a guy out here?
The "center dip" bed has always been a problem for these Chinese bedslingers. No matter, Creality, Sovol, etc. sure enough there's a 0.3-0.4 dip. Seems impossible for them to fix. Using mesh bed leveling allows you to at least print a good first layer, BUT this amount of unevenness decimates parts accuracy. When your print is on the slope, you get vertically skewed prints for a few degrees as your printer try to compensate, especially noticeable on small tall prints. I'd go with a smaller printer (flatter bed) or some special bed system like the Prusa XL.
$600 for a 3d printer that has so many problems? $600 for problematic 3d printer during an ongoing pandemic? My have we fallen from grace.
All 3D printers have problems. It’s definitely not a perfected product no matter what you buy.
Setting 115v in a 230v country is more interesting of a screwup :D
230v also hurts more, lol
Stop charging those 18650's if you're going to store them cause it may decreases the capacity Sir ;)
But how to put it on storage level? 🤔
@@MCsCreations 3.5v that's better 👍
I have a couple of complaints about this video: The first is one that I have not heard any clarification on and still remains a mystery to me: You talk about the issue that almost everyone faces when you do the 4 corner points and then come back to center point 1, only to discover that the nozzle no longer drags because the middle is lower than the corners. At about 8:30 you say "Unfortunately, what you think you would do at this point is go back to the menu and adjust the Z offset, but that's not going to work...", which tells me this is the WRONG move. Then at about the 9:05 mark you quickly say "If the center is not dragging we are going to adjust the Z offset from the menu until it IS dragging and we're going to continue.", which contradicts what you just said! The other major issue I have is that you do not pre-heat before leveling which clearly is a misstep because all of those precise micro measurements are affected by the expansion of the materials after they warm up.
The issue with the center being low after leveling the corners cannot be solved by continuing to level. You just have to get things as close as you can and then let auto bed leveling handle the fact that your bed isn't flat. You can stop after leveling the corners. You can level the corners (to get the bed as square as possible) and then re-do the center one more time. It's up to you. Either way, it won't be perfect and auto bed leveling will have to sort it out.
The real answer is to have a flat bed. Some people put strips of aluminum foil under the low parts of their bed to raise them up. Personally I just let bltouch sort it out and it seems to give me fine results.
Regarding heating the bed, I don't think it matters if you do this before doing the center and corner level, because the "piece of paper" method is extremely crude anyway and just gets you into the ballpark. As I say later in the video, you should always watch the 1st layer going down and manually tweak the Z height based on how the filament is going down. This is ultimately how you know if the Z height is correct, no matter what a feeler gauge might say.
hahahah 600 dollars hahahahaahaha..... nope 200 or less for a 3d printer on ebay.. and josh stop with the commercials dequised as content