I have recently added Klipper to my system(s) and am a little confused about the way to make changes to improve my print accuracy.
In the past I’ve followed Teaching Tech’s tuning website and most of the time I get pretty good prints (acceptable but not great). In particular I often get horizontal expansion that I can’t seem to avoid or tweak away. Especially when I’m switching filaments frequently.
I’m also not sure whether I should be trying to make the adjustments in the slicer or with Klipper. I have been using Cura in the past but am considering moving to Orca as it seems to have the best aspects of all of them.
I’m not sure what steps to take (without doing all of them) when I change the nozzle or try a new filament.
If you know of a good source to get these questions answered, I’d be happy to do the reading, but my search hasn’t given me much that actually provides steps to follow in these situations. Or there are so many different suggestions that I can try.
I know this group is an active 3D printer clan the I regularly visit, and often has the most accurate approach. The number of different 3D machines in use also gives me hope that at least one process is fairly consistent.
For reference, I have a Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro, and a very modified Ender 3 V2 that are printing most of my parts. Both have direct drive extruders and mesh bed leveling which is set up give me a pretty good first layer with minimal elephants foot.
I’ve just spent a frustrating weekend with my Grandson’s Creality monster to try to “untweak” it so he can sell it. I haven’t found any easier way than the Teaching Tech process, but what we’ve experienced is that changing a nozzle or new filament means repeating everything in order.
https://youtu.be/CMmevBC3DuU?si=eMR1m_8cu1CuDm8r this was one. Man there was another i cant find. It walked you through manually setting pressure advance and firmware retract! Those are the big 2. Now fw retract is an item you need to coordinate with your slicer.
I am so sorry i even just dug up my kkipoer topic in this forum, just not finding it. I do know i was using the tuning section of the ellis link above as well. I know this, it was alot of work to get right, but i love it now! The cr touch the micro swiss direct drives, and klipper. I have 2 printers that print AWESOME! every time. And the latest cura now works with klipper now too! I used an old dell pc and set up linux (ubuntu) and used kiauh fir install.