Qidi Tech 1 - Replicator 1 clone

[rcleav]

I'm also a RC guy indoor onroad carpet. I've have only made some fan guards for my cars so far.
I will let everyone know how there filaments work. I do like that there made in the US.
PLA filaments with additives like Carbon fiber are looks only. My understanding is that the additives actually weaken the filament strength.

[RetroCreo]

Is the Blob near your print or effecting the print?
Mine has always done that but doesn't effect the print in anyway so I ignore it and pull it off when the print is done.

The blob is right on the corner, you mentioned yours extrudes off the build plate?

It extrudes quite alot in the same location and when the head moves it sometimes takes the blob with it and ruins the first layer and thus adhesion.

[rcleav]

It depends my right extruder misses the plate to the right. The left extruder does not. So I get the blob on my extreme right front corner mostly on my glass plate clamp which probably helps clean the nozzle off. If it's dragging the blob and messing up you first layer then that's a problem. As you know the only way to change it would be to edit the starting script S3D. When I get a chance I will look into it.

[bluemeane]

This will fix the blob issue:

Left:

; **** Replicator 2X start.gcode ****
M73 P0 ; Enable build progress
G162 X Y F3000 ; Home XY maximum
G161 Z F1200 ; Home Z minimum
G92 Z-5 ; Set Z to -5
G1 Z0 ; Move Z to 0
G161 Z F100 ; Home Z slowly
M132 X Y Z A B ; Recall home offsets
M135 T0 ; Load right extruder offsets
G1 X-130 Y-75 Z30 F9000 ; Move to wait position off table
G130 X20 Y20 Z20 A20 B20 ; Lower stepper Vrefs while heating
M126 S[fan_speed_pwm] ; Set fan speed
M140 S[bed0_temperature] T0 ; Heat buildplate
M134 T0 ; Stabilize bed temperature
M104 S[extruder1_temperature] T1 ; Heat left extruder
M133 T1 ; Stabilize left extruder temperature
G130 X127 Y127 Z40 A127 B127 ; Default stepper Vrefs
G92 A0 B0 ; Zero extruders
M135 T1 ; Load left extruder offsets
G1 X-100 Y-65 F9000 ; Move to front left corner of bed
G1 Z0.3 F6000 ; Move down to purge
G1 X90 Y-65 E24 F2000 ; Extrude a line of filament across the front edge of the bed
G1 X100 Y-65 F180 ; Wait for ooze
G1 X110 Y-65 F5000 ; Fast wipe
G1 Z1 F100 ; Lift
G92 A0 B0 ; zero extruders
M73 P1 ;@body (notify GPX body has started)
; **** end of start.gcode ****



Right:


; **** Replicator 2X start.gcode ****
M73 P0 ; Enable build progress
G162 X Y F3000 ; Home XY maximum
G161 Z F1200 ; Home Z minimum
G92 Z-5 ; Set Z to -5
G1 Z0 ; Move Z to 0
G161 Z F100 ; Home Z slowly
M132 X Y Z A B ; Recall home offsets
M135 T0 ; Load right extruder offsets
G1 X-130 Y-75 Z30 F9000 ; Move to wait position off table
G130 X20 Y20 Z20 A20 B20 ; Lower stepper Vrefs while heating
M126 S[fan_speed_pwm] ; Set fan speed
M140 S[bed0_temperature] T0 ; Heat buildplate
M134 T0 ; Stabilize bed temperature
M104 S[extruder0_temperature] T0 ; Heat right extruder
M133 T0 ; Stabilize extruder temperature
G130 X127 Y127 Z40 A127 B127 ; Default stepper Vref
G92 A0 B0 ; Zero extruders
G1 X100 Y-70 F9000 ; Move to front right corner of bed
G1 Z0.3 F6000 ; Move down to purge
G1 X-90 Y-70 E24 F2000 ; Extrude a line of filament across the front edge of the bed
G1 X-100 Y-70 F180 ; Wait for ooze
G1 X-110 Y-70 F5000 ; Fast wipe
G1 Z0.5 F100 ; Lift
G92 A0 B0 ; Zero extruders
M73 P1 ;@body (notify GPX body has started)
; **** end of start.gcode ****


Both:


; **** Replicator 2X start.gcode ****
M73 P0 ; Enable build progress
G162 X Y F3000 ; Home XY maximum
G161 Z F1200 ; Home Z minimum
G92 Z-5 ; Set Z to -5
G1 Z0 ; Move Z to 0
G161 Z F100 ; Home Z slowly
M132 X Y Z A B ; Recall home offsets
M135 T0 ; Load right extruder offsets
G1 X-130 Y-75 Z30 F9000 ; Move to wait position off table
G130 X20 Y20 Z20 A20 B20 ; Lower stepper Vrefs while heating
M126 S[fan_speed_pwm] ; Set fan speed
M140 S[bed0_temperature] T0 ; Heat buildplate
M134 T0 ; Stabilize bed temperature
M104 S[extruder0_temperature] T0 ; Heat right extruder
M104 S[extruder1_temperature] T1 ; Heat left extruder
M133 T0 ; Stabilize right extruder temperature
M133 T1 ; Stabilize left extruder temperature
G130 X127 Y127 Z40 A127 B127 ; Default stepper Vrefs
G92 A0 B0 ; Zero extruders
G1 X100 Y-70 F9000 ; Move to front right corner of bed
G1 Z0.3 F6000 ; Move down to purge
G1 X-90 Y-70 E24 F2000 ; Extrude a line of filament across the front edge of the bed
G1 X-100 Y-70 F180 ; Wait for ooze
G1 X-110 Y-70 F5000 ; Fast wipe
G1 Z0.5 F100 ; Lift
G92 A0 B0 ; Zero extruders
M135 T1 ; Load left extruder offsets
G1 X-100 Y-65 F9000 ; Move to front left corner of bed
G1 Z0.3 F6000 ; Move down to purge
G1 X90 Y-65 E24 F2000 ; Extrude a line of filament across the front edge of the bed
G1 X100 Y-65 F180 ; Wait for ooze
G1 X110 Y-65 F5000 ; Fast wipe
G1 Z1 F100 ; Lift
G92 A0 B0 ; Zero extruders
M73 P1 ;@body (notify GPX body has started)
; **** end of start.gcode ****



Take the above and put it in the start script for each mode (Left only, right only, both)


Works perfect for me. Now does a line across the front then prints.

[rcleav]

This will fix the blob issue:

Very Nice! Hope you don't mind if I steal this.

[Syd_Khaos]

UPS confirms it, I'm getting my machine today.

So I am very curious how hard it would be to increase the build area of this machine.
I understand the hardware/engineering aspects of getting that done. Really just have to allow the extruder trolly and build plate to have greater range of travel.
What I dont understand is how hard it would be to pull off from a software/firmware standpoint....Im a building stuff kinda guy, not so much a coding stuff kinda guy.

[bluemeane]

UPS confirms it, I'm getting my machine today.

So I am very curious how hard it would be to increase the build area of this machine.
I understand the hardware/engineering aspects of getting that done. Really just have to allow the extruder trolly and build plate to have greater range of travel.
What I dont understand is how hard it would be to pull off from a software/firmware standpoint....Im a building stuff kinda guy, not so much a coding stuff kinda guy.

The building part will be the hard part. The software part is just telling the machine how large its build volume is so it knows how far to more from 'home' in each axis.

[Syd_Khaos]

Just got my machine!
Everything is unboxed, pop in the SD card it comes with for instructions, and there is issue with first bit.

It shows a switch on the power supply to change from 230v to 115v. It says this is very important or you can hurt the motherboard. My machine does not have this switch anywhere I can see. Anyone know whats up?

Also, I got black ABS and a lightish brown PLA spool.

[Syd_Khaos]

So its built, all but the 2 filament feed tubes.

The pictures in the instructions for attaching them are done at bad viewpoint. There are 2 plastic wires sticking a little bit out of the holes the guide tubes go in. Should they be there?

Also its unclear if I need to install ReplicatorG and attach a PC to the machine. Im using s3d for slicing, do I need replicatorg for anything else?

[Hawkeye0914]

Hi All, I did some scanning through this thread and seems like everyone is happy with this printer. I am sending my FF Dreamer back today. It was just to constrained. I didn't think that was going to be a problem for me but it was. I saw that some came with bad parts but it looked like the company sent was good about sending replacements. Is there any major reason not to buy this model of the Creator Pro?