Thanks so much for all of the positive feedback. Thanks to community members posting on GitHub, some bugs, typos and errors have been caught and fixed. New features have already been added with plenty more to come in the future.
You are awesome! This is exactly what the community needed. Thank you so much! Maybe you can include deltas in the future, they are a different beast but auto-calibration of the bed surface has come a long way in most flavors of firmware and often works perfectly on machines that are well built and equipped with precision z-probes using smoothieware (LSQ fork for calibration) and RepRapFirmware. In my experience it's better to calibrate temperature before retraction though, because temperature has such a high impact on stringing, especially with PLA which is the most commonly used filament. Keep up the excellent work. :)
Thank you so much for the work and thought you have put into this. My question... I have stock firmware and boards on my ender 3p and Anet A8. How do I change my gcode firmware. Do I have to go to marlin? What program is used to interface with the printer?
This is truly awesome! I used Dr. Lex calibration guide for my FFCP and had very good results but with my new ender 5 pro it was not straight forward application for other printers (different firmware etc). This is the awesome counterpart for marlin and just what was needed! I have a request, so many of the turnings are hot end dependent. How hard would it be to add different nozzle diameters? Say a .8 or .6 or .2 nozzles?
Is it possible to get the settings that the baseline cube was printed with? I got a pretty good print using that, but an extremely ugly print using my own slicer settings.
And he opensourced it. This shit will be used in a lot of research papers. I have a feeling this will give him a leg up if he applies for jobs if he ever needs to. This is extremely valuable.
HOLY COW! THIS IS AMAZING! Dude really, you just went and scientifically (engineeringly - as engineering is science applied) broke down the printing process and systematically owned the process'. I'm a career mechanic and basically you just created ISO certifiable guidelines for all us hobby people. Seriously I hope you win some kind of award for this! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Amazing sir! Amazing.
all of these technique's were already pre existing. what he did do. was make an awesome collection of them. with explaination easy for anyone to understand. and made tools so that anyone can do it.
Any time I see someone on Facebook complaining about tramming the bed on their printer and still having issues with their print, I send them a link to this video. Honestly Michael, a work of genius to put this together. Really made a significant difference in the quality of my prints on my new Ender 3. Thank you!
@@pedrohenriquepeixoto3964 nao cara. é Driver mesmo....a palavra piloto pra gente é driver pra eles, logo ele não é "pilot" no Brasil, e sim driver. "pilot" é quem controla aviões/navios. Ou um episódio teste de uma série/programa. lol.
This is legit mind blowing! You've done something incredible here, making the entire world of 3d printing even more accessible to everyone. Including those that have been in it for a while, as making temperature towers always ends up sucking! Would love to see this built into slicers eventually, like perhaps a plugin for cura, so that it will automatically make use of all the rest of your settings!
There is an option in Cura to do this; extensions-->post processing. However, it is cumbersome as you have to manually enter the level and temp for each change. Simply plugging in what you want on this github page is immensely easier!
The stepper motor current bit is kind of out of place IMO. It's like if you had a driving course: 1. How to accelerate. 2. How to brake. 3. How to steer. 4. How to do a 180° burnout in a torrential downpour at night, while injured. 5. Parallel parking.
As someone who's owned and operated a 3D printer for half a decade, I have to say this is one of THE BEST and most comprehensive guides I've ever seen. Not only did you highlight the most important factors in tuning 3D printers for the best print quality, you also provided the tools and instructions on how to use them. You and your channel/content never ceases to amaze me. I always learn something new from your videos and it's just amazing. You are a wholesome person!
This is really a game changer. The only thing missing is a tab for testing max volumetric flow rate! Some auto-generated gcode to extrude some predetermined amount of filament for weighing would be really handy for tuning max speed prints.
This is incredible. I've been printing less often recently because my printer desperately needs overall tuning/calibration, but I've always found it difficult to do because I never feel like I cover all the bases I need so I've avoided it. This is a game changer for me. Great work! 😁
Thank You for making something so awesome,. I assembled my first 3d printer after watching more than 300-400 youtube videos but I was never able to get my first print right not even with a tolerance of 5mm+/-. Everyone who saw my printer simply said that it was not going to work! I saw this video and now I feel much more confident that I am going to follow it step by step and I will be able to print very soon with my printer.
One minor thing. Vernier refers to using two scales with different interval sizes to make it easier to accurately read smaller intervals, it isn't a generic name for all slide calipers. Vernier calipers are specifically calipers that you read the measurement off of a vernier scale. Digital and dial calipers are not vernier calipers.
PLEASE add the ability to set first layer height in your G Code generators! Otherwise they are super helpful. Thank you for making tuning this much easier.
It is always apparent you are a teacher (once a teacher, always a teacher). Your videos have relevant specific outcomes, layout clear specifics directions, anticipate problems and address multiple learning styles. Thank you for all the time spent not only recording and editing the videos but like every good lesson in the preparation for delivery. This is why I subscribe to your channel.
This is absolutely impressive, and I don't think anyone can say otherwise. This is what 3D printer manufactures should have developed years ago. But, as always with this tech, the community had to dedicate the time and energy to ensure everyone has access to the tools and information needed to get the full potential out of their machines. We truly thank you for this; you've done an excellent job.
Great set of tutorials. Loving it. One word of warning, code generated by the retraction test starts moving print head immediately after zeroing Z axis causing nozzle to slam against the print bed. Issue is that command for going to Z value for first level is after the initial move into XY position. Flip these two and you are good to go.
I think in the future, printers will have cameras mounted to the hotend and use machine learning to calibrate prints in real time. Thank you for your work!
WOW - and thank you so much. All of us have tried at least one of these calibrations at some stage. But never have I sat down and did a structured "start to finish" complete printer calibration. Fantastic to have this one-stop shop tool. My printer is complete self design from scratch soooo - the opportunity for some funnies was right there. And boy did I fix some. I cant for the life of me work out why I must use a 66% flow rate in Cura, despite perfect 100mm Extruder calibration, brand new Micro Swiss 0.4mm nozzle and quality filament. And that is with everything else also perfectly calibrated. mmmmm
Having info on _evaluating_ the results is such a big deal. Many people don’t cover that much and for newbies, unless something goes dramatically wrong, it’s hard to know what is an error, what is bad calibration and what is simply a limitation of FDM printing.
So... you just want me to burn through all my filament calibrating my printer. You think that a lack of frustration and increased enjoyment/productivity is of some value. Shows us what you know of life and 3D printing. Thanks, so much, for sharing your knowledge and providing the tools to help me improve my prints. I'll be mentioning you and this particular video at this week's club meeting. Please keep up the fantastic work and great videos.
This is the single most comprehensive guide on getting started with 3D printing that I've ever seen. I got an Ender 3 V2 almost 3 years ago and had an on-and-off relationship with it, as it never operated the way I wanted it to and I was completely thrown off by the troubleshooting process, as it's somewhat complex to grasp from a newbie point of view. This guide actually got me up and running, thanks so much!
Your website saved my prints. I've been pulling out my hair trying to find out why my prints wouldn't stick after I flash the new Marlin 2.0 firmware. Now I realized I've been under-extruding about 5% thanks to your very detailed and comprehensive site, I was able to fix it within minutes! Thank you so much!
My printer is getting delivered today and I’m so thankful for all the time you’ve put into your channel making this as accessible as possible. From a Brazilian to an Aussie I appreciate you mate
One of the community greatest asset! After printing almost problem free for 2,5 years i now hit some walls in regard to the needed quality. This was after my stock ender 3 v2 hot end fan failed. I upgraded this and the parts cooling fan to sunon 24v 40x40x10 in combination with a briss fang type. Stringing gallore and adhesion issues. Currently working through the recalibration steps. My setup now: micro swiss dual gear extruder capricorn tube New stock hotend and fans Dual Z axis (additional stepper) Upgraded springs CR Touch Pei plate Firmware atm: Back at Ender 3 4.2.2 BL/CR Tried: Jyers 4.2.2 CR Touch 3x3 Jyers 4.2.2 UBL 10x10 mriscoc/proffesional software Your video's and website will help me immensely , thanks a lot! Keep doing this great work!
I'm a bit late to the party, but I wanted to join everyone else in congratulating you for this. Your contributions to the maker community are invaluable. Older people like me remember the early days of the internet and looking forward with wide-eyed wonderment at what could be possible if we all pitched in. The youtube 3D printing community is a shining example of that. Many people have been very generous with their specific knowledge and it's an absolute joy to be finally dipping my toes into this space. Thank you for your efforts!
This is quite stunning in its completeness. It took me about two years of tinkering with a delta printer to figure out the right sequence of calibration steps (get your delta rod length right _before_ calibrating your height and do height _before_ your Z-probe offsets and bed leveling, etc). This is quite a service to the community to put this site together. Here's another idea I had (which required generating custom GCODE, which is why I didn't get around to it, but you're already well into that game, so I'll mention it): Make some calibration squares for fine-tuning first-layer height. Basically, make a square which does a few passes at Z=-0.05mm, then some at Z=-0.04, then Z=-0.03... all the way up to Z=+0.3 or so. What you should end up with is a thin square with "too-low" characteristics (ridges) on one side of the square, gradually morphing to one with "too-high" characteristics (spaces between extrusions) on the opposite side of the square, and some "sweet spot" somewhere in the middle.
Would it be possible to timestamp this video with YT's new timestamp features? This is really informative and breaking it down would help with recall as you mention at 0:38
at the time of my viewing this there are 93 "thumbs down", who, in their right mind could leave a negative comment on this. A guy puts something out there to help people, charges nothing, explains how to use it, and says "enjoy and have fun" . . .my goodness!!! Anywho, from me, 100% thumbs up and a hardy THANK YOU
"Teaching Tech 3D Printer Calibration" website needs to be printed on a card and included with every new 3D printer, so useful for the beginner having everything there in 1 place. Just fitted a new nozzle and give it a service, belts, wheels etc. Went through all the steps and its printing like a dream....
I love your devotion and commitment to develop such a guide! My only comment would be the assumption that a 0.4 nozzle would yield a single wall thickness of 0.4. In reality because of die swell, it should be 0.48 mm. This should be changed IMHO.
This is an absolute game changer. I run all my machines through this process and the results are staggering. Thank you so much for all the hard work you have done. One thing I do think is missing from the website, however small it might be, but this tripped me up on one of my machines. I think a note should be made (although it might be obvious for most) that a new nozzle works best for these calibrations. I followed the calibration process on a machine that I used print wood infused PLA with. After the printing the nozzle diameter was closer to 0.5mm and not 0.4mm. I got inconsistent results while calibrating for obvious reasons and initially could not quite get this machine right. I eventually remembered I printed wood filament on this printer and replaced the nozzle with a new one and rerun the calibration. Perfect results!! Awesome job!! Thank you!!
Don’t know if your still watching for comments on this, but you might want to add a test for axis skew to tour test suite. I was in a discussion with someone about this on Reddit and it doesn’t seem to be very widely known. Basically, even if the bed is leveled to the x axis, there can still be skew in prints where the layers move slightly front to back or side to side in one direction as the z axis goes up if the gantry is not perfectly perpendicular to the bed in both directions. People normally set it up as perpendicular to the base rails, which is usually close but not perfect. It can still be a bit of a parallelogram rather than a rectangle. In that case, everything runs smoothly and the layers are flat but each layer move a bit to one side as it goes up. The same on the y axis if the bed rail is not exactly perpendicular to the gantry. Think of a parallelogram with bottom the bed and top the horizontal nozzle path. If the gantry verticals are skewed to the side, it’s a parallelogram instead of a rectangle. X axis still moves smoothly but a tall tower well be a little crooked. Same for the y rail as bed moves front to back. I haven’t seen any tests really for this. I made a print that is a cross on the bed with a tall tower at the center. You can check the angles from the vertical tower to horizontals with a square to see how much you are out. I was about 0.01 inch every 3 inches. It tends not to show in most prints but can in functional parts. That test print can Aldo verify x and y are 90 degrees, plus I made each leg and tower 100mm so you can use it to test for shrinkage and calibrate that out. I’d be interested in your thoughts.
Wish I'd found this brilliant guide a week ago. Just got my first printer and got all sorts of problems, some familiar and some not so. E-steps were spot on out of the box so everything else has been down to calibrating the slicing. Well done and yes, you're right, I'd already started a list of videos for various aspects of setting up and it's great to have it all in one place and now time stamped too. Nobel peace prize
Outstanding! A few months back I built my Ender 5 and printed a few items that came out pretty good. I decided I should tune my printer and could not find one concise place where all the various running was explained and in what order we should perform them for repeatability. This was important as should I either change my controller or have to reset it for some reason I wanted to be able to get back to where I was easily. So I started to write my own procedure referencing various sources and linking videos as well.... some these were even your videos. NOW I can stop this effort and simply use your site! Thanks for all the time and effort. Now I can dust off my printer and get back to work, ahhhh after I tune it 😄
So cool thank you for this. Having everything in one place is a life saver... I am printing with a 0.6mm nozzle, is there anything I need to change in the GCODE of the temperature tower?
Bro, this is a game changer. For people like me, that need clear and ordered steps for doing things they are not comfortable with this is awesome. Thank you very much.
This is fantastic. I've been unsuccessfully trying to figure out how to make retraction towers for ages with cura post-processing. Could your code be modified by nozzle size?
@@NirateGoel unless it has been changed recently, I don’t think it is possible to change retraction settings at z via post-processing in Cura. Happy to be corrected if it is possible.
Thank you SO MUCH for making this easy to follow and use guide, especially that it’s sliced agnostic and printer agnostic. I can’t tell you how much of a lifesaver this is, I’ve been struggling with a printer I had recently upgraded, and I followed the guide for the areas I was having trouble and now it’s printing almost PERFECTLY!!! This is why everyone should support you on Patreon if they get value from your videos, I most definitely do!!!!
Glad I found this while my printer is still on the delivery truck. My first prints should be much less embarrassing now knowing all this. Thanks a million!
I've had my Ender 5 Plus for about 5 weeks and have suffered many inconsistent print issues. This is the comprehensive calibration information I was looking for! Thank you! Well done!
I think whats making your guide revolutionary is that it consolidates a lot of knowledge, info and how-to 's which is spread all over the communities, videos and everything. No one before took the effort to gather all the information in one place and combine it with useful tools, like the gcode generators. This would make things definitely a lot easier for beginners! Thank you for that!
For years I have revisited your videos and lessons. I really appreciate you and your content! Spot on! Keep it up and thank you for this invaluable resource. Cheers!
Got my first Ender 3 pro last Friday..today Wednesday I have two rubber duckies and have used this twice with awesome results. I feel confident upgrading my machine and getting the most out of it. Kudos!! Great job. I'm hooked on 3D printing.
This is fantastic - having all these steps in one place and explained properly is quite a game changer. I'm new-ish to 3D printing and although I have had some amazing prints from my very basic Aquila printer this website is invaluable for fine tuning and getting the printer dialled in accurately. Much respect to you.
Literally all of my calibration came from your older vids. Same for info on mods, motherboards, hot ends. Seeing a lot of this combined on a single website is gonna help alot of oldtimers and new 3D print users!
Thank you !!! I was about to give up of my Jgaurora A5S !!! I followed the steps of your page and now everything is ok. Today everybody wants to sell course and you give to us this excelent work free !!!
With the phenomenal work with quality to be true, for the benefit of the community and beginners like me, it is no wonder that it raises so much envy and malevolence. That's why you're the first and so far only person I've become a patron of. Thank you very much Michael
Hey man. I just wanna echo everyone else and say thank you. Not just for this video and calibration website but for everything. You've really opened the doors of this hobby for people. When I first got my printer I was so overwhelmed. I didn't realize how much patience, trial and error was involved. Countless times I've pulled up your videos to figure out what I was doing wrong or to better understand a topic. Sometimes I feel like I've put a lot of hours into printing with little to show for it. I can't imagine the time you've spent over the years putting together videos and resources for the community. It really is appreciated.
I've followed you for a while now and I must say, you are great. I just received my first personal printer (ender 3) and I've been collecting videos on tuning and getting best/fastest prints and now that I found this video I feel like I have a one stop shop with this and your site. Thank you for the great content and your contributions to the 3D Printing community!
I can't thank you enough for putting this all together. I'm new at 3D printing and it started off being a nightmare because yes, I too bought all of the upgrades for my printer and installed them and completely messed up my printer settings. Looking at CZcams for help, I've found that your channel and tutorial videos to be the MOST helpful of them all. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for the community. It's people like you that make life easier and I can't thank you enough. SUBSCRIBED AND A NEW PATRON!
I've been printing for two years and still found this very useful , it will be my go to site when anyone asks advice on calibration, well done and thank you so much
I only just bought a printer and am yet to even get it but seeing your videos and knowing there are people as talented and commited as you are, makes me very confident with my future in printing. Thank you for such informative videos and tooling. You really go above and beyond!
Awesome. This should be the first process for newbies and veterans alike for ANY new printer. No more flailing about with multi-variable shotgun prints.
Wow, what great timing. I just got a printer two days ago, and I'm unpacking it this weekend. I'll definitely use this website to calibrate it. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much! You're hard work has helped me solve my printing issues; I had to re-calibrate my e-steps and retraction after several upgrades to the E3V2. So thankful.
This is a huge help to people like me that are brand new to 3d printing. After getting my Ender 5 plus I was having a hard time dialing everything in. Your videos have been a big help in getting me up and printing. This website is going to make fine tuning my printer much easier. Thanks for all the work you put in.
my prints have been pretty good since day one, but i wanted to take them to the best they possibly can be. You have helped me do that and i cant thank you enough.
I am glad to find this and your video's because I have not bought a printer yet (planning on a Ender 3 v2), this channel will definitely save me hours of searching and sleepless nights because im a perfectionist :) , I appreciate what you do for the community and cant wait to be part of it really soon.
Thanks so much for all of the positive feedback. Thanks to community members posting on GitHub, some bugs, typos and errors have been caught and fixed. New features have already been added with plenty more to come in the future.
You are awesome! This is exactly what the community needed. Thank you so much! Maybe you can include deltas in the future, they are a different beast but auto-calibration of the bed surface has come a long way in most flavors of firmware and often works perfectly on machines that are well built and equipped with precision z-probes using smoothieware (LSQ fork for calibration) and RepRapFirmware. In my experience it's better to calibrate temperature before retraction though, because temperature has such a high impact on stringing, especially with PLA which is the most commonly used filament. Keep up the excellent work. :)
Thank you so much for the work and thought you have put into this.
My question... I have stock firmware and boards on my ender 3p and Anet A8.
How do I change my gcode firmware. Do I have to go to marlin? What program is used to interface with the printer?
This is truly awesome! I used Dr. Lex calibration guide for my FFCP and had very good results but with my new ender 5 pro it was not straight forward application for other printers (different firmware etc). This is the awesome counterpart for marlin and just what was needed!
I have a request, so many of the turnings are hot end dependent. How hard would it be to add different nozzle diameters? Say a .8 or .6 or .2 nozzles?
Is it possible to get the settings that the baseline cube was printed with? I got a pretty good print using that, but an extremely ugly print using my own slicer settings.
[EDIT: Yes]
Great guide! Thx!
Do I need to worry about GCODE flavour when using code generated by the website?
Have a nice weekend!
Thank you for putting so much effort in this and yet still offer it to the community for free. Respect! 👏👏
And he opensourced it. This shit will be used in a lot of research papers. I have a feeling this will give him a leg up if he applies for jobs if he ever needs to. This is extremely valuable.
I LOVE THIS GUY
HOLY COW! THIS IS AMAZING!
Dude really, you just went and scientifically (engineeringly - as engineering is science applied) broke down the printing process and systematically owned the process'. I'm a career mechanic and basically you just created ISO certifiable guidelines for all us hobby people. Seriously I hope you win some kind of award for this! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Amazing sir! Amazing.
all of these technique's were already pre existing.
what he did do. was make an awesome collection of them. with explaination easy for anyone to understand. and made tools so that anyone can do it.
Any time I see someone on Facebook complaining about tramming the bed on their printer and still having issues with their print, I send them a link to this video. Honestly Michael, a work of genius to put this together. Really made a significant difference in the quality of my prints on my new Ender 3. Thank you!
+1 for your Ayrton Senna sweater. Best pilot ever
Driver?
@@lamazejohnson4909 over here in Brazil we're used to say F1 pilot
@@pedrohenriquepeixoto3964 I see. I watched his documentary. Amazing "pilot". RIP.
@@pedrohenriquepeixoto3964 nao cara. é Driver mesmo....a palavra piloto pra gente é driver pra eles, logo ele não é "pilot" no Brasil, e sim driver. "pilot" é quem controla aviões/navios. Ou um episódio teste de uma série/programa. lol.
@@lamazejohnson4909 lol!
This is legit mind blowing!
You've done something incredible here, making the entire world of 3d printing even more accessible to everyone. Including those that have been in it for a while, as making temperature towers always ends up sucking! Would love to see this built into slicers eventually, like perhaps a plugin for cura, so that it will automatically make use of all the rest of your settings!
There are calibration prints built into SuperSlicer - temp tower being one of them
@@showalterfamilylights I have no idea what super slicer is, but I'm going to look it up!
@@ImPattMan it is a fork of PrusaSlicer. Used to be called Slic3r++. Check it out on GitHub.
I agree, I'm fairly new to 3d printing and this is a great resource all in one place.
There is an option in Cura to do this; extensions-->post processing. However, it is cumbersome as you have to manually enter the level and temp for each change. Simply plugging in what you want on this github page is immensely easier!
The stepper motor current bit is kind of out of place IMO. It's like if you had a driving course: 1. How to accelerate. 2. How to brake. 3. How to steer. 4. How to do a 180° burnout in a torrential downpour at night, while injured. 5. Parallel parking.
Lol
As someone who's owned and operated a 3D printer for half a decade, I have to say this is one of THE BEST and most comprehensive guides I've ever seen. Not only did you highlight the most important factors in tuning 3D printers for the best print quality, you also provided the tools and instructions on how to use them.
You and your channel/content never ceases to amaze me. I always learn something new from your videos and it's just amazing. You are a wholesome person!
I wish something like this would have existed when I started my journey!
I really think that this will help people just starting with this hobby!
This is really a game changer. The only thing missing is a tab for testing max volumetric flow rate! Some auto-generated gcode to extrude some predetermined amount of filament for weighing would be really handy for tuning max speed prints.
This is incredible. I've been printing less often recently because my printer desperately needs overall tuning/calibration, but I've always found it difficult to do because I never feel like I cover all the bases I need so I've avoided it. This is a game changer for me. Great work! 😁
Indeed! Incredibly useful and well thought and laid out. Thanks!!!!
Thank You for making something so awesome,. I assembled my first 3d printer after watching more than 300-400 youtube videos but I was never able to get my first print right not even with a tolerance of 5mm+/-. Everyone who saw my printer simply said that it was not going to work! I saw this video and now I feel much more confident that I am going to follow it step by step and I will be able to print very soon with my printer.
One minor thing. Vernier refers to using two scales with different interval sizes to make it easier to accurately read smaller intervals, it isn't a generic name for all slide calipers. Vernier calipers are specifically calipers that you read the measurement off of a vernier scale. Digital and dial calipers are not vernier calipers.
PLEASE add the ability to set first layer height in your G Code generators! Otherwise they are super helpful. Thank you for making tuning this much easier.
It is always apparent you are a teacher (once a teacher, always a teacher). Your videos have relevant specific outcomes, layout clear specifics directions, anticipate problems and address multiple learning styles. Thank you for all the time spent not only recording and editing the videos but like every good lesson in the preparation for delivery. This is why I subscribe to your channel.
This is absolutely impressive, and I don't think anyone can say otherwise.
This is what 3D printer manufactures should have developed years ago. But, as always with this tech, the community had to dedicate the time and energy to ensure everyone has access to the tools and information needed to get the full potential out of their machines.
We truly thank you for this; you've done an excellent job.
3D prints all over the world are better because of you. Thanks for everything you do.
Great set of tutorials. Loving it. One word of warning, code generated by the retraction test starts moving print head immediately after zeroing Z axis causing nozzle to slam against the print bed. Issue is that command for going to Z value for first level is after the initial move into XY position. Flip these two and you are good to go.
Has this been fixed?
@@hans-walterpaolin7132 Didn't test in a while. So I don't know, sorry. Issue I reported hasn't been closed.
I think in the future, printers will have cameras mounted to the hotend and use machine learning to calibrate prints in real time. Thank you for your work!
As a beginner, I couldn't be thankful enough to stumble across this video. I cannot imagine the effort put into this but thank you so much.
I've been out of the 3D game for a couple years now. Love to see this when I'm getting back into it. Best 3D channel on YT!
WOW - and thank you so much.
All of us have tried at least one of these calibrations at some stage. But never have I sat down and did a structured "start to finish" complete printer calibration.
Fantastic to have this one-stop shop tool. My printer is complete self design from scratch soooo - the opportunity for some funnies was right there. And boy did I fix some.
I cant for the life of me work out why I must use a 66% flow rate in Cura, despite perfect 100mm Extruder calibration, brand new Micro Swiss 0.4mm nozzle and quality filament. And that is with everything else also perfectly calibrated. mmmmm
Pst this is a great reason to give to his patreon, worth every penny in my book
#Kickback :-) jk
I don't have much to give to patreons, but he earned a (small :( ) donation from me.
Having info on _evaluating_ the results is such a big deal. Many people don’t cover that much and for newbies, unless something goes dramatically wrong, it’s hard to know what is an error, what is bad calibration and what is simply a limitation of FDM printing.
So... you just want me to burn through all my filament calibrating my printer. You think that a lack of frustration and increased enjoyment/productivity is of some value. Shows us what you know of life and 3D printing.
Thanks, so much, for sharing your knowledge and providing the tools to help me improve my prints. I'll be mentioning you and this particular video at this week's club meeting. Please keep up the fantastic work and great videos.
This is an incredible resource - sharing with all my friends
I just got my first 3D printer and was looking for something like this! Awesome!!
This is the single most comprehensive guide on getting started with 3D printing that I've ever seen. I got an Ender 3 V2 almost 3 years ago and had an on-and-off relationship with it, as it never operated the way I wanted it to and I was completely thrown off by the troubleshooting process, as it's somewhat complex to grasp from a newbie point of view. This guide actually got me up and running, thanks so much!
Your website saved my prints. I've been pulling out my hair trying to find out why my prints wouldn't stick after I flash the new Marlin 2.0 firmware. Now I realized I've been under-extruding about 5% thanks to your very detailed and comprehensive site, I was able to fix it within minutes! Thank you so much!
This really is brilliant. Ive been printing for years, but can see this being super useful, thankyou!
My printer is getting delivered today and I’m so thankful for all the time you’ve put into your channel making this as accessible as possible. From a Brazilian to an Aussie I appreciate you mate
One of the community greatest asset!
After printing almost problem free for 2,5 years i now hit some walls in regard to the needed quality.
This was after my stock ender 3 v2 hot end fan failed. I upgraded this and the parts cooling fan to sunon 24v 40x40x10 in combination with a briss fang type.
Stringing gallore and adhesion issues. Currently working through the recalibration steps.
My setup now:
micro swiss dual gear extruder
capricorn tube
New stock hotend and fans
Dual Z axis (additional stepper)
Upgraded springs
CR Touch
Pei plate
Firmware atm: Back at Ender 3 4.2.2 BL/CR
Tried:
Jyers 4.2.2 CR Touch 3x3
Jyers 4.2.2 UBL 10x10
mriscoc/proffesional software
Your video's and website will help me immensely , thanks a lot! Keep doing this great work!
I'm a bit late to the party, but I wanted to join everyone else in congratulating you for this. Your contributions to the maker community are invaluable. Older people like me remember the early days of the internet and looking forward with wide-eyed wonderment at what could be possible if we all pitched in. The youtube 3D printing community is a shining example of that. Many people have been very generous with their specific knowledge and it's an absolute joy to be finally dipping my toes into this space. Thank you for your efforts!
This is awesome. Big thank you to you and everyone involved! I've always found your videos helpful but this is one step beyond.
The first link is broken
here is the real one: teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html
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I see it as truncated, but a click on it opened the page so I didn't even notice. He may have fixed it...
This is so valuable for new users. Thanks for developing this and making it available to everyone.
This is quite stunning in its completeness. It took me about two years of tinkering with a delta printer to figure out the right sequence of calibration steps (get your delta rod length right _before_ calibrating your height and do height _before_ your Z-probe offsets and bed leveling, etc). This is quite a service to the community to put this site together.
Here's another idea I had (which required generating custom GCODE, which is why I didn't get around to it, but you're already well into that game, so I'll mention it): Make some calibration squares for fine-tuning first-layer height. Basically, make a square which does a few passes at Z=-0.05mm, then some at Z=-0.04, then Z=-0.03... all the way up to Z=+0.3 or so. What you should end up with is a thin square with "too-low" characteristics (ridges) on one side of the square, gradually morphing to one with "too-high" characteristics (spaces between extrusions) on the opposite side of the square, and some "sweet spot" somewhere in the middle.
I recently received the Ender 3 Pro for an anniversary gift. Your videos have been priceless.
Would it be possible to timestamp this video with YT's new timestamp features? This is really informative and breaking it down would help with recall as you mention at 0:38
Done :)
@@TeachingTech Thanks m8
It would be so amazing if all these calibration tests came with the printer firmware as a nice user-friendly guided testing system
You have completely out done yourself. The amount of work you must have done will be appreciated that is for sure.
at the time of my viewing this there are 93 "thumbs down", who, in their right mind could leave a negative comment on this. A guy puts something out there to help people, charges nothing, explains how to use it, and says "enjoy and have fun" . . .my goodness!!!
Anywho, from me, 100% thumbs up and a hardy THANK YOU
"Teaching Tech 3D Printer Calibration" website needs to be printed on a card and included with every new 3D printer, so useful for the beginner having everything there in 1 place. Just fitted a new nozzle and give it a service, belts, wheels etc. Went through all the steps and its printing like a dream....
Amazing work! Love the custom g-code. It would be awesome if down the road we can change out nozzle sizes.
You should def. suggest that on the github
I love your devotion and commitment to develop such a guide! My only comment would be the assumption that a 0.4 nozzle would yield a single wall thickness of 0.4. In reality because of die swell, it should be 0.48 mm. This should be changed IMHO.
This is an absolute game changer. I run all my machines through this process and the results are staggering. Thank you so much for all the hard work you have done.
One thing I do think is missing from the website, however small it might be, but this tripped me up on one of my machines. I think a note should be made (although it might be obvious for most) that a new nozzle works best for these calibrations. I followed the calibration process on a machine that I used print wood infused PLA with. After the printing the nozzle diameter was closer to 0.5mm and not 0.4mm. I got inconsistent results while calibrating for obvious reasons and initially could not quite get this machine right. I eventually remembered I printed wood filament on this printer and replaced the nozzle with a new one and rerun the calibration. Perfect results!! Awesome job!! Thank you!!
This is brilliant! Thanks a lot for making it open source too, it looks like you've put a lot of time into this.
It would be nice to change the sice of the nozzle. I am always using 0.6mm nozzle. Great job by creating all this!
There he is, RIGHT THERE: not the hero we deserve but the hero we wanted and we got in the end. Thank you.
Don’t know if your still watching for comments on this, but you might want to add a test for axis skew to tour test suite. I was in a discussion with someone about this on Reddit and it doesn’t seem to be very widely known.
Basically, even if the bed is leveled to the x axis, there can still be skew in prints where the layers move slightly front to back or side to side in one direction as the z axis goes up if the gantry is not perfectly perpendicular to the bed in both directions. People normally set it up as perpendicular to the base rails, which is usually close but not perfect. It can still be a bit of a parallelogram rather than a rectangle. In that case, everything runs smoothly and the layers are flat but each layer move a bit to one side as it goes up. The same on the y axis if the bed rail is not exactly perpendicular to the gantry.
Think of a parallelogram with bottom the bed and top the horizontal nozzle path. If the gantry verticals are skewed to the side, it’s a parallelogram instead of a rectangle. X axis still moves smoothly but a tall tower well be a little crooked. Same for the y rail as bed moves front to back.
I haven’t seen any tests really for this. I made a print that is a cross on the bed with a tall tower at the center. You can check the angles from the vertical tower to horizontals with a square to see how much you are out. I was about 0.01 inch every 3 inches. It tends not to show in most prints but can in functional parts.
That test print can Aldo verify x and y are 90 degrees, plus I made each leg and tower 100mm so you can use it to test for shrinkage and calibrate that out.
I’d be interested in your thoughts.
Thank you so much for these amazing content! Exactly what we need! :D
In Germany we would say: EHRENMANN!!
Thank you :)🔧
Wish I'd found this brilliant guide a week ago. Just got my first printer and got all sorts of problems, some familiar and some not so. E-steps were spot on out of the box so everything else has been down to calibrating the slicing.
Well done and yes, you're right, I'd already started a list of videos for various aspects of setting up and it's great to have it all in one place and now time stamped too.
Nobel peace prize
Outstanding! A few months back I built my Ender 5 and printed a few items that came out pretty good. I decided I should tune my printer and could not find one concise place where all the various running was explained and in what order we should perform them for repeatability. This was important as should I either change my controller or have to reset it for some reason I wanted to be able to get back to where I was easily. So I started to write my own procedure referencing various sources and linking videos as well.... some these were even your videos. NOW I can stop this effort and simply use your site! Thanks for all the time and effort. Now I can dust off my printer and get back to work, ahhhh after I tune it 😄
the first link has no yt on the end
So cool thank you for this. Having everything in one place is a life saver...
I am printing with a 0.6mm nozzle, is there anything I need to change in the GCODE of the temperature tower?
Been printing at 55mm/s for ages and felt it was too slow. Tested it using this guide and can do 210mm/s!!! Now doing 180 so thanks!
Bro, this is a game changer. For people like me, that need clear and ordered steps for doing things they are not comfortable with this is awesome. Thank you very much.
This is fantastic. I've been unsuccessfully trying to figure out how to make retraction towers for ages with cura post-processing.
Could your code be modified by nozzle size?
It'd probably be easier to download the stl and slice it yourself.
@@NirateGoel unless it has been changed recently, I don’t think it is possible to change retraction settings at z via post-processing in Cura. Happy to be corrected if it is possible.
nice1 could you tell me the slicing settings (especially speed settings) of the baseline cube. It looks way better then mine sliced with cura :/
Thank you SO MUCH for making this easy to follow and use guide, especially that it’s sliced agnostic and printer agnostic. I can’t tell you how much of a lifesaver this is, I’ve been struggling with a printer I had recently upgraded, and I followed the guide for the areas I was having trouble and now it’s printing almost PERFECTLY!!! This is why everyone should support you on Patreon if they get value from your videos, I most definitely do!!!!
Glad I found this while my printer is still on the delivery truck. My first prints should be much less embarrassing now knowing all this. Thanks a million!
I've had my Ender 5 Plus for about 5 weeks and have suffered many inconsistent print issues. This is the comprehensive calibration information I was looking for! Thank you! Well done!
Just finished following your guide and my cheap 3D printer is printing way more accurately, and way, way faster. You're a lifesaver!
I think whats making your guide revolutionary is that it consolidates a lot of knowledge, info and how-to 's which is spread all over the communities, videos and everything. No one before took the effort to gather all the information in one place and combine it with useful tools, like the gcode generators.
This would make things definitely a lot easier for beginners!
Thank you for that!
For years I have revisited your videos and lessons. I really appreciate you and your content! Spot on! Keep it up and thank you for this invaluable resource. Cheers!
Got my first Ender 3 pro last Friday..today Wednesday I have two rubber duckies and have used this twice with awesome results. I feel confident upgrading my machine and getting the most out of it.
Kudos!! Great job. I'm hooked on 3D printing.
I want to thank you for the fact that you made this video and you Encouraged people to report issues with your site!! happy printing!!
This is fantastic - having all these steps in one place and explained properly is quite a game changer. I'm new-ish to 3D printing and although I have had some amazing prints from my very basic Aquila printer this website is invaluable for fine tuning and getting the printer dialled in accurately. Much respect to you.
this guide has been amazing for me. I got my first printer for christmas and following this process got my quality and accuracy amazing.
Spectacular! You're absolutely right, this website is a game changer! You may have cemented your name in the 3D printing history books!
Literally all of my calibration came from your older vids.
Same for info on mods, motherboards, hot ends.
Seeing a lot of this combined on a single website is gonna help alot of oldtimers and new 3D print users!
Thank you !!! I was about to give up of my Jgaurora A5S !!! I followed the steps of your page and now everything is ok. Today everybody wants to sell course and you give to us this excelent work free !!!
With the phenomenal work with quality to be true, for the benefit of the community and beginners like me, it is no wonder that it raises so much envy and malevolence. That's why you're the first and so far only person I've become a patron of. Thank you very much Michael
You are the man, considering a fact that Iam a noob in 3d printing you open my eyes. Respect and greetings from Serbia.
Thank you for your tutorial. After watching your videos, I am now more comfortable tinkering my printer.
Hey man. I just wanna echo everyone else and say thank you. Not just for this video and calibration website but for everything. You've really opened the doors of this hobby for people. When I first got my printer I was so overwhelmed. I didn't realize how much patience, trial and error was involved. Countless times I've pulled up your videos to figure out what I was doing wrong or to better understand a topic. Sometimes I feel like I've put a lot of hours into printing with little to show for it. I can't imagine the time you've spent over the years putting together videos and resources for the community. It really is appreciated.
Without a question the best 3d printing channel on youtube.
Thank you for this! I bookmarked your page as I'm about to upgrade my Ender 3 V2 to both direct drive and all metal hot end.
All I need to calibrate my 3d printer...in one place...Just BRILLIANT, Many thanks, Michael.
calibrations to perform (in order)
klipper:
pid tune
estep calibration
skew correction
pressure advance
input shaping
slicer:
flow rate
temp tower
retraction tower
horizontal expansion
So, Reddit led me to your website for calibrating a printer. Thank you. I will be liking and commenting as many videos as I can
I've followed you for a while now and I must say, you are great. I just received my first personal printer (ender 3) and I've been collecting videos on tuning and getting best/fastest prints and now that I found this video I feel like I have a one stop shop with this and your site.
Thank you for the great content and your contributions to the 3D Printing community!
I can't thank you enough for putting this all together. I'm new at 3D printing and it started off being a nightmare because yes, I too bought all of the upgrades for my printer and installed them and completely messed up my printer settings. Looking at CZcams for help, I've found that your channel and tutorial videos to be the MOST helpful of them all. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this for the community. It's people like you that make life easier and I can't thank you enough. SUBSCRIBED AND A NEW PATRON!
I've been printing for two years and still found this very useful , it will be my go to site when anyone asks advice on calibration, well done and thank you so much
Clear, Concise, Chronological, Correct and Courteous. You hit the five C's" which is the mark of a great teacher. Well done!
This is amazing. I just ordered my printer yesterday, partly because of videos made by you. Thanks for making 3d printing so accessible!
I only just bought a printer and am yet to even get it but seeing your videos and knowing there are people as talented and commited as you are, makes me very confident with my future in printing. Thank you for such informative videos and tooling. You really go above and beyond!
Awesome. This should be the first process for newbies and veterans alike for ANY new printer. No more flailing about with multi-variable shotgun prints.
I'm not sure if I'm more excited about your amazing work or your amazing sweater. It's a tie.
Just got my Ender 3 Pro. Your channel has been the best at getting started and up to speed. Thanks!
Wow, what great timing. I just got a printer two days ago, and I'm unpacking it this weekend. I'll definitely use this website to calibrate it. Thanks so much!
I love that you made it a static web page. That's such a good way to documentation.
Thank you so much! You're hard work has helped me solve my printing issues; I had to re-calibrate my e-steps and retraction after several upgrades to the E3V2. So thankful.
This is a huge help to people like me that are brand new to 3d printing. After getting my Ender 5 plus I was having a hard time dialing everything in. Your videos have been a big help in getting me up and printing. This website is going to make fine tuning my printer much easier. Thanks for all the work you put in.
my prints have been pretty good since day one, but i wanted to take them to the best they possibly can be. You have helped me do that and i cant thank you enough.
This calibration website you set up is awesome... makes everything that needs to be done very simple and easy to achieve.
What an amazing resource! This will help so many that are first getting into 3D printing and even some of us that have been around while.
I am glad to find this and your video's because I have not bought a printer yet (planning on a Ender 3 v2), this channel will definitely save me hours of searching and sleepless nights because im a perfectionist :) , I appreciate what you do for the community and cant wait to be part of it really soon.
I've literally waited 5 years for something like this
Just got into 3d printing and this website is a gold mine! It is so well laid out, simple, and easy to understand. Thank you!
this is one of those resources people will still be using years in the future. well done, well done.