How to set up and use Cura 5 4 0 for the Easy Threed K9 Mini 3D Printer
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2023
- In today's video I look at setting up and using Cura 5.4.0 for the Easy Threed K9 Mini 3D printer. This includes a walk through of loading the K9's custom profile from the SD card provided with the printer to configure Cura 5.4.0, checking the printer settings and preparing to print a 3D Benchy model. Thanks for watching! Please feel free to add any comments; particularly how to optimise the K9 to produce the best 3D Benchy. This will be helpful for everyone. Kind regards and best wishes.
Resources:
ultimaker.com/software/ultima...
www.3dbenchy.com
www.easythreed.com
www.creality.com
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I don't know how to thank you, man. I'm very tired. I tried many attempts in all ways, and they all failed, and now after I watched the explanation, you saved my whole life. ❤
Thanks for watching & I'm glad it was helpful for you. I was aiming to do helpful content with this channel. I'll be looking at projects for people starting out on the hobby. I found it quite a steep learning curve starting out myself so I want to help a bit with that. Ill hopefully be doing more in 2024. I have few projects in mind for the new year. Kind regards & best wishes for 2024!
@@NightStarLeafTech-vj3ez I am very happy to join your channel. I wish you a happy new year, and I will wait for these projects 👍
@@biiibob Thanks so much for your comments. If you have thought of designing some stuff in 3D yourself there is a program called Design Spark Mechanical Explorer version which is permanently free. More advanced versions are paid but I find the free version is plenty powerful enough for most projects. Its what I use for designing. Im planning to do some content for this to get people started designing in 3D. In the mean time if its something interesting, you could download it & take a look. Best wishes.
@@NightStarLeafTech-vj3ez Thank you very much for the information 👍. I will try it over the weekend. I really want to make a model of a small car and assemble it into parts, as a kind of hobby.
I think this is the best video of explanations I have seen for these printers. I have just bought one as I already have two reels of PLA and nothing to use them on. My first time owning a printer that will work as I bought one that I didnt know was not complete. I am in my 60's and I have seen a few video's but they dont go into it as well as you do. Thanks for an easy explaining and exploration of the settings. I will look at this vid a few times. I will have to subscribe to see your other vids about 3d printing.
Hello and thanks so much for your comments. Im in my 50s myself. IMHO seniors may have a better experience with 3D printing. Its a kind of electro mechanical device which has mechanical & electronic components combined. I often feel that seniors have more of a practical grasp of those things than younger folk and are more inclined to practical things which is a distinct advantage. Plus we also have patience etc because we grew up in a different time. These things are so good for the hobby.
Im sorry you had a bad experience with your first printer. Its a steep learning curve. Thats why I think this range of printers is great because it takes a lot of things out of the equation that otherwise might cause problems. Bed levelling and bed adhesion - the one is easy and the other simply doesn't exist. Bed adhesion is great. No heat needed. No trouble with it. Blockages - I've not had one yet with mine. It doesn't seem to block. Feeding the filament is very easy - another thing people struggle with sometimes as the filament can get stuck, get loose, components fall apart or go out of adjustment. Not so with these printers, they are very simple and straight forward to use and the filament path is very simple. People can go on to acquire other skills & needed later. Its not like being thrown in the deep end.
I hope you enjoy using the printer when you get it! I wanted to do a video on feeding the filament etc and I've still got a lot of things to do with the printer plus also some 3D design projects with Design Spark Mechanical which is a 3D design program. It has a free version. It only works on Windows machines ATM. Id encourage you to take a look and see if it would be of interest. Its certainly worth the time to learn it. Kind regards & best wishes.
@@NightStarLeafTech-vj3ez I saw this reply after I saw your second one. I find feeding the filament easy. I hade a filament reel holder out of plywood before the printer arrived and placed it behind the extruder so the feed is almost in line all the time. I havent used the white filament that came with the printer. I have bought a 3d pen and think I will use that with the white from the Easythreed. I am going to look at the 3d design you mentioned, thanks. I had a 3d design program on a computer many years ago, but I think it was part of print that is on computers, and I designed an interior for a camper van I was building from an Ex Post Office LDV Convoy van. Needless to say, I built the camper as I went along but only used half of what I planned with the 3d design program. I will find one and learn how to start 3d design. I was thinking of going for a resin 3d printer, but I am unsure of the drying and cleaning process as I have seen other machines that will set and clean the excess resin on the printed items. Thanks for your feedback and help suggestions. I look forward to seeing other video's you make. Take care and all the best. Ian
Hi Ian, its interesting you say you are doing a van conversion because Ive done one too which is mostly finished apart form the water heater which I haven't had time to finish. I used a lot of 3D printed parts in mine eg edging for the over cab area, framing for the windows, gaskets & grommets, the glands for the solar cables etc. Basically anything I couldn't buy or easily buy. I also did custom joints for the waste water system. Of course it means you can have any combination of angles for the pipe work rather than sticking with what's on the normal market for these things. Good luck with your build BTW. The K9 isn't up to ABS but of course you could get something later that is. There are many printers that will do it. I haven't considered resin myself or looked into the technology either. Id be interested to see what you made for the K9 but Im not sure how to share things. I don't know if you saw my other video where I made a platform for it. It was a bit rough & ready but functional. I may set up a website later depending on if the channel grows etc. Kind regards. @@ianallen2
@@NightStarLeafTech-vj3ez \It was a few years ago (around 13 years) when I built two camper vans, One a transit minibus into a camper and the LDV. I also built a teardrop caravan. I bought a mattress to fit in it and asked my wife what she thought of it. She felt claustrophobic in it.. lol.
For the K9, I built a frame similar to yours, but with a solid board base. I am going to upload a video on youtube to show what I have done. I have had a micro sd card extension off ebay arrive today. It will be easier for me to mount the sd card as where it is on the printer, I think is awkward to put the card in as I need a light to see the slot. I have thought about making a reel holder to come off the handle uprights, just to bring it in from the back a bit as the reel overhands the back of the base plate. I am thinking of making an enclosure for it to keep dust off it.
I will only use PLA and PLA+ for printing. I have read ABS is smelly and needs a ventilation fan and filter.
The heated bed makes the prints stick a lot better to the bed. Best regards.
Looks like you were doing the vans before it was cool to do it. I find ours claustrophobic to sleep actually. I have plans to open up the bed area but don't have time presently. Im glad you are going to do a video on the printer. Especially if you have made some things for it. Im sure it will be popular. I didnt have any time at all since the summer but hopefully I can start doing a bit more in early 2024. Interest in the printer has grown. Its not surprising due to the price point. I cannot explain why you had the problems with bed adhesion, with mine it was too much if anything. It depends maybe where you are in the world and what your ambient temperatures are. IDK. The machines are very complicated, even simple ones, and there are many factors which act on their performance etc. Im grateful for your comments. Its given me ideas for videos. Best wishes @@ianallen2
Great Video Thank You!
You're very welcome. Thanks for watching and for your comment. Best wishes & kind regards.
Its a good job I watched this video again. With your help, managed to get my printer settings into Cura. I am now printing the benchy but as I like it where it is a little lower and a little wider. Standard, I think the cabin is out of scale and too tall. I have also bought a heated bed for my K9 as I tried to print a box and one corner was lifting up and it was catching on hte print head and didnt work. I am hoping hte hotbed will work better when it arrives.
Hello again. I didn't see your 2nd comment. It shouldn't lift tho, not with PLA at least. Have you tried levelling the bed again with the paper method? It might be that bed bed has gone out of adjustment. Mine seems to require re-levelling frequently but its very easy to do fortunately with the 4 little buttons. You might check out my other video on changing to the Ender 3 magnetic print surface which makes the bottom layer cleaner and is just as easy with bed adhesion. Kind regards & Best wishes!
@@NightStarLeafTech-vj3ez The printer is new. I level the bed every time I use it. I have done the paper thickness every time I level the bed. It has the magnetic print surface. The prints raise up at the 4th corner after a few laps of printing. It doesnt happen straight away, but after a few layers. It seems as if the heat of the pla lifts the corner and then the tip of the extruder catches the raised part. I use PLA+. Small items are easy to print, but ones that go have a larger foot print seem to either not stick or the printer doesnt like the number 4 corner. I found that I could press down on the far left corner of the printer base and it will level the y axis and bring the axis level, so I super glued the foot of the base down so it doesnt lift up. I havent tried the printer yet as one item I wanted to print turns out to be too big for the bed. As it is a 100x100x100mm printing area, hte piece goes out of the range by 4mm one side and 3mm on another side. I will find something to print that is going to be useful for me to use. It is only a T12 soldering station case, but I have a couple of different t12 soldering stations I would love to print out. I have to learn how to start designing one but cant yet get a simple panel started. I have a print to try, which is 3mm all around oversized but it had two parts to it and I cant find a way of deleting one of the parts so I can just print a part of the set. The way it is set out, it has both parts on the print table at the same time and I cant edit it to print one part. I use Cura or FreeCAD to load the files and have it set for my printer.
I loved this video! Question: Do you have a video "how to connect the printer cable"? I'd like to use the cable instead of the smal SD disk.
Thanks for watching the video and for making a comment. Im really sorry but I can honestly say that I've always used the SD card. I normally baby the printer for the first layer just to check that its being laid down correctly so I see no reason to be able to be away from the printer when its starts a print. I do wish you all the best in doing so though. Happy printing etc!. Kind regards and best wishes.
1:10 that file k9 comes with the sd card with the printer? To make sure
Is there a way to print directly from the pc? I dont have sd card port in my laptop
Is there any chance you could send the cura settings file to me? Mine did not have that
Thanks for watching the video and your comment. I haven't been able to get any response as yet from the people at Easy Threed on whether its allowed to share the file. In theory I imagine its okay but don't like to share it unless I have permission etc. Ill keep you informed here asap. Kind regards and best wishes.
@@NightStarLeafTech-vj3ez appreciate it
I need help!! the printer came but i cant install the printing platform on the axis!! plz tell me how!
its almost like it doesn't fit!
it slides in from the side onto the white platforn on the axis. then flip it over and put the screw in from the bottom. if you have a little magnet put it near the tip of the screwdriver so the screw can stay in place whilst you insert it through the hole.
@@pujhpiuhnpiun Thanks for helping with this question. Unfortunately I haven't seen these comments. Its a great community tho. Thanks again for helping out. Kind regards & best wishes.
Is there a way to print directly from Cura
There is no direct or wifi way to print. One thing can do, is to go to market place on the right side and you can add Thingiverse to the extensions. There is a mesh repair tool there also.
Would this setup happen to also work for the K6? I am so lost. Easyware is garbage
Thank you for your comment. 3D printing is a a steep learning curve. Easyware is functional or at least it can be used but doesn't offer the same options as Cura will. Cura is suitable for any FDM 3D printer, so the settings should work the same. Your SD card should have come with a little configuration file which should configure CURA and it works with 5.4.0 as well as the older version of CURA that comes on the SD card. Id Jump to 5.4.0 or whatever the latest version is. It has a wealth of features. Im currently trying to look at optimal settings in CURA for the K9. Id suggest to try looking at www.youtube.com/@filamentfriday
The channel has a large amount of useful information on 3D printing in general though they don't cover Easy Threed printers. Id suggest trying a calibration cube which should give you an idea how the printer performs. Although Cura has many settings, its best to not to change too many of them unless there is a compelling reason. Thanks for watching and let me know how you get on. Kind regards & best wishes.
Thanks for sharing. I have printed a few items already upon receiving the machine initially. In regards to Cura, I have input my info by dragging and dropping, but the print froze mid-print. Not entirely sure how to proceed. @@NightStarLeafTech-vj3ez
@@GameGardener Im not sure why that would happen. Ive never had any unexpected problems with the K9. I generally find that they respond well to being turned off and on again at the wall and that, normally fixes any issues. It doesn't help with the print freezing. Were you using the SD card or controlling it from a computer? I only ever have used the SD in printing. That applies to all my printers. I would try again. Perhaps change the SD card, which might be corrupted etc. Kind regards & best wishes. If using an SD card extender it might have got jogged. It might also have been a power outage. They don't have sophisticated features like resume after outage etc. Kind regards & Best wishes.