Yeah things are so variable now 3D printers need to be kept track of by mm3/s and CNC’s by Material removal rate, even then neither factors in accels, but it gets us in the right ballpark. I was looking at another machine which the LR4 might have been nearly as fast or faster in terms of Material Removal Rate, except the other machine was using 5x the accels, so in the end was faster.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about these so far. I debating between these and the P1S. Ultimately it came down to size, looks (qidi kind of looks like it should teleport you or something) and the AMS system. Which looks like Qidi is working on their own?
so they look alot like the old prusa/reprap clones you guys used to build. I have been wanting to cut out a frame and put one together to see just how fast it could run. (with klipper and microswiss, etc.)
Maybe next year!
I’m thankful that some smart generous people made a way to make the Flashforge AD5M be fully Klipperized. At less than $300 each, they have been super for me.
On my AD5M’s I print at those blazing speeds with cheap normal PLA / PLA+.
Early on, I thought I had found one roll that would not take the high speed, but it turns out it was PETG that I had forgotten to label! As soon as I changed the settings to be for PETG, that roll also did great at full speed! I’ve yet to buy or use any of the HF rolls.
IMO, Klipper is a lot easier to configure than marlin. Everything is in a config file and you can edit as needed. There’s also a lot more tuning available
It comes stock with Klipper firmware on mainboard and their proprietary GUI on touchscreen.
Pros for Klipper mod include the interfaces options, ease of config edits including skew correction. But I think their score on Calilantern was pretty decent out of the box.
Yeah, it all comes down to how much flow you can push, then how fast you can move the nozzle, and if you can cool it fast enough to not have droopy nasty corners and bridges lol
First print after a move and sitting up over a year. The filament is also old and just been laying in a box, I’ve had issues with damp filament in the past. I will get new pla before I run any more calibrations, plus I need to get a battery for my battery backup.
My slicer estimate for the core with a 0.4 mm nozzle and 0.2mm layers is 20 hours, but its usually pretty optimistic. I have been planning a klipper conversion (currently running marlin on skr pro v1.2) but it is giving decent print quality right now and I’m not sure how much effort I want to put into tuning klipper for better peformance ATM.
Out of curiosity though, the YZ plate material estimate is about 150m. I think a fresh spool is a bit over 300m. Can you safely get both ZY plates out of one spool, or is there guidance on part grouping to efficiently use material?
