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[–] andyspam@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Weirdness: The default g-code for the machine does silly things like park the nozzle over the build plate letting it ooze, instead of over the nozzle wiper/waste container.

The filament change routine is strange, requiring you to remove the bowden tube to cut the filament every time. This is easily fixed by printing a filament cutter and using that to cut the filament.

The bowden tube rubs against the top plexiglass lid for the machine, requiring you to print a riser for the lid to avoid it getting all scratched up.

The door for the machine is an odd shape design with no handle making it a little annoying to get a grip to open it.

The filament holder they include is a very bad design, flexes heavily with a full roll of filament and I have had spools fall off several times while printing.

The touch screen menu isn't very intuitive and it can be very laggy at times.

Good features for the price point: Fully enclosed with built in chamber heater.

Pretty decent auto leveling system.

Timelapse camera.

Runs klipper/mainsail and input shaping is pretty cool.

I have around 500 hours on mine and I haven't had any prints fail that were the fault of the machine so I'm pretty impressed by that. And I find the features and capabilities to be pretty great for the price point. They just could use to do some polishing of the design

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

I bought one based on this thread, but only set it up a few days ago.

Two days ago, my five-year-old requested that I print them a cat. I downloaded two cat models, one that was print-in-place bendy and one that was meant to test your calibration. I tried to print both, but both of them caused the printer to hang after displaying "stop processing, please wait ... "

I spent several hours testing and troubleshooting this, only to find an old thread saying that the printer firmware can't handle filenames between 6-9 characters (not including the extension), meaning the filenames could be 5 characters or fewer; or 10 or more. I had named my files calicat.gcode and flexicat.gcode. After adjusting them to be longer filenames, everything started working beautifully.

I'm very happy with the printer now that I know that, but it seems such a random error that it was very frustrating to try to fix. I thought my printer arrived broken. Hopefully if someone else encounters the same problem, they find this post and it fixes their problems!

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[–] andyspam@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

I have never actually tried printing off the device itself, the touch screen is very confusing. I always submit print jobs over the network via OrcaSlicer. But yes, that is exactly the kind of thing I meant when I said it has some odd quirks.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

I think my first print was with the touch screen.

I printed a few things by sending directly from the Qidi slicer that came with it, but it pretty consistently is crashing at 40-80% when connecting through the network. I've been using the web interface directly and that's going pretty well.

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[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Q1 pro has a filament wiper and a poop trashcan that you need to empty. You'll do fine using them, they're a great tool to use as a beginner, just get "quirks" that someone that googles can solve. For the x-plus for instance, the nozzle fan only blows from one direction so you need to print out a two directional one for better printing stability. Honestly, it was my first printer and I did great with it.