Creality Ender 3
| Name | Creality Ender 3 |
|---|---|
| Owner | Makers' Alliance |
| Location | 3D printing shelf |
| Training needed | Yes |
| Hackable | No |
| Model | Ender 3 |
| Serial | UNKNOWN |
| Arrival Date | UNKNOWN |
| Working | Yes |
| Contact | Sam Harmon |
Current Status: Usable
Specifications:
- Build volume: 220x220x250mm (approx)
- Materials: PLA, PETG, possibly others
An Ender 3 with some modifications:
- Main board updated to an SKR mini V3 (original mainboard had a tendency to lock up)
- Running Klipper, with a Raspberry Pi running mainsail for control
- USB Webcam
- CR-Touch probe
- Power supply upgraded to Meanwell, and moved underneath printer
- Creality Spider V3 hotend
- Glass build plate
- Dual Z-axis
- …and more!
Unlike the other printers with the Octoprint farm, this printer runs Klipper firmware and Mainsail for Web UI/control. To print to it, navigate to ender3.local on the MakerNet network (more details later)
To send to it automagically via Cura, you'll want the Moonraker plugin for Cura. For other slicers, you'll need to find the appropriate mechanism for uploading to a Klipper/Mainsail/Moonraker ecosystem, if they exist. Otherwise you can upload your gcode by hand in Mailsail.
In your Cura setup, you'll want to set the following for the Print Startup routine for the printer:
start_print BED_TEMP={material_bed_temperature_layer_0} EXTRUDER_TEMP={material_print_temperature_layer_0}
This should set up an adaptive mesh around your object and set things appropriately. This is already configured on most of the computers along the back wall.
The Print End routine is just:
end_print
To-Do list:
- (remove the Pi Camera whenever it's convenient- the USB camera is more convenient)
- Pressure Advance configuration
- Input Shaping/Resonance Compensation
- Timelapse setup?