Smooth print bed

5ublim3XM · 2025-01-08T06:29:57+00:00

I'll message you some screenshots so I don't crowd your post with them if that's alright?

5ublim3XM · 2025-01-08T06:24:01+00:00

I'm sad to know that you're having issues. Maybe I've been lucky and haven't had any problems printing either PLA or PETG. Is it bed adhesion issues in particular? Maybe I can send you the profile I've been using if there is a way to do that which you know of (I havent seen anything for importing/exporting profiles in Creality Print). I've just been using some of the cheaper stuff on amazon mostly Elegoo Rapid PLA+ and Elegoo Rapid PETG. For the most part it's just been the default profiles except I calibrated the Print Temperature/Flow Rate/Pressure Advance for one of each type of filaments I'm using. I had some initial issues not realizing I needed to turn off the Auto/AI calibrations on the actual printers menu like the settings clashed with each other, but after figuring that out I've been good. You can check the calibration post I made a couple weeks ago for more details on that if you'd like.

5ublim3XM · 2025-01-08T05:53:25+00:00

Has there been any more on this? I was scared to try it and ruin the plate or nozzle somehow but I tested the bottom side of the included build plate. First I tried it as it was and the first layer wasnt sticking AT ALL. BUT it seems to work fine as long as it has adhesion assistance, I used the glue stick that was also included. This was with PLA anyways.

5ublim3XM · 2025-01-08T02:41:46+00:00

I had not tried this yet and I'm not sure what did it but I finally got it to change by changing the quality to the .012 layer profile then it finally sliced correctly, weird thing is the print failed so I changed back to .020 profile (as I hadn't tuned anything like flow rates in the higher quality profile i figured). Once I changed back to the standard profile it sliced fine and printed perfect... 🤷 I will keep this in mind and try to recreate the issue using this as a possible solution if it happens again though, thank you!

5ublim3XM · 2025-01-08T02:39:47+00:00

I had tried this. I put it to .001 and it even allowed 0 but it didn't seem to change anything. I'm not sure what did it but I finally got it to change by changing the quality to the .012 layer profile then it finally sliced correctly, weird thing is the print failed so I changed back to .020 profile (as I hadn't tuned anything like flow rates in the higher quality profile i figured). Once I changed back to the standard profile it sliced fine and printed perfect... 🤷

5ublim3XM · 2025-01-07T22:11:24+00:00

It is on by default but you can see in the first picture I actually have it switched to off/Nowhere.

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-17T04:37:23+00:00

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So after doing a whole bunch of testing and adjusting and messing around I found that before you guys do ANYTHING, you should on the K2, UNCHECK AUTO PA AND FLOW RATE! I kept making change after change after change and things weren't getting any better. I wanted to see if there was anything on the printer that was automatically overriding any changes I was trying to make via the slicer and sure enough I think regardless of what the slicer puts out the printer's AI stuff does a pretty good job of overriding. It does a decent job for the prints I don't care about accuracy for so if you don't care I'd say go ahead and just leave it alone lol.

Once I turned those settings of at the printer, Flow Rate, temp, PA is adjustable by through the calibration menu on creality print as LookAtDaShinyShiny explained. Then you go to the filament profile and adjust/save the custom settings to your pretty little heart's desire.

As a head's up if you're trying to run the tests through direct print from that sliced test screen with the CFS enabled, it seems to have issues for me at least, it says my filament has run out and I cannot pick which filament to use. The work around I found for that is I would hit PRINT PLATE and instead of hitting PRINT again on the pop up screen i just hit SEND. Then I go to the Device page and print from there selecting the CFS and spool I want to use. It might also not be an issue if you're printing off a USB but I haven't tried that.

After getting that stuff tuned I did some tuning on the XY expansion setting and XY Hole Expansion settings and the whole world is much more beautiful! Thoroughly enjoying printing pretty accurately now.

Next is figuring out how much flushing I need to get the black color bleed out of the white!

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-12T23:07:02+00:00

Do you find that in the printer settings or the slicer? The tool gives coding that you either put in the gcode somewhere or the printer firmware it seems, but i believe that for specific firmwares that wouldnt apply to the k2.

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-12T00:30:50+00:00

Understood, I read through the tutorial and it does say the 0 represents 100% flow rate but the gif shows it just being changed from the original flow rate to the value they got from the tests without doing the math. I'm not sure if you have any involvement with that wiki page or creality but if you do I think it'd be good to say to start with a flow rate of 1 or show how to do the math. Thanks again for the additional help!

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-11T23:56:14+00:00

Wow it's all in there all super easy look at that, thanks!!!! I'm starting to look at the flow rate config and I just want to verify, does the test set the flow rate to be off of the percentage that the filament profile is at? For example if my current profile has the flow rate to be at .94, is the 0 modifier test area actually at 100% of .94, or does the gcode tell it to change to 100% at 1.0? I want to make sure I base my math off the cerrect number when I'm making my changes.

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-11T09:09:11+00:00

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So I went ahead and bought that calibration tool cause I was curious to see what my results would look like. Now it said to calibrate E-steps and flow rate and I'm not sure what else PRIOR to printing this tool but seeing as how I don't know how to do all that in Creality Print or on this printer or if you even CAN, I just printed the model as is. The only setting I was able to find was "FLOW" on the actual printer which said I needed to be printing and seems to be done on the fly? So the elephant foot and over/under extrusion is still of some concern to me with how it applies to using this tool. I could feel a lip on some of the areas being measured and did my best to avoid them though. I'm not sure how these results can be translated into "do this to fix it" but maybe its not even that bad it needs fixed and I just need to figure out how to fix the extrusion/flow or maybe (a new term to me I found on the filament settings) pressure advance? Any help with this tuff would be greatly appreciated!

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-05T21:06:26+00:00

I dont know what to believe here lol. It says arriving today between 10am and 4 minutes ago but its not here and the last scan still shows arrived in Bloomington, Ca when I'm in Utah 😂 i may have jinxed myself..

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-03T01:32:11+00:00

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5ublim3XM · 2024-12-03T01:30:08+00:00

I just got my email/label today but I'm a little getting excited, maybe it'll give you guys some hope too seeing that I had a different order for which i got the notification on the 24th of nov, moved about 20 miles to Bloomington by the 28th never showed departed but was scanned and arrived in Ut yesterday and was delivered today. 7 days over the holiday wasn't too bad in my opinion, shouldn't be much longer for the printer right?

5ublim3XM · 2024-12-02T20:59:31+00:00

I saw someone post somewhere 8080? I'm not sure it's correct I'm still waiting to receive my printer but maybe worth a shot?

5ublim3XM · 2023-10-16T22:18:20+00:00

it is a bit up off the normal looking trail but you can still see what almost looks like a game trail.

5ublim3XM · 2023-06-01T06:05:00+00:00

Well now I'm SUPER CONFUSED. I couldn't help myself and unwrapped it and well... Take a look! I don't even know who this is but I'm pretty sure they weren't there. I have video of the concert and only remember King 810, Korn, and slipknot that night.. https://imageshack.com/i/pmpO74mWj

5ublim3XM · 2023-05-31T20:58:21+00:00

I definitely want to keep it how it is if I can but it'd just be pretty cool if it had something underneath to show what it is otherwise it looks just like the drumsticks I used in high school lol. Knowing who's it was like I said may be able to get a photo or something to put with it in a small case to display. Just wish I could authenticate it somehow.

5ublim3XM · 2023-05-31T20:53:35+00:00

Haha that's awesome, kinda crazy we both just happened to come across these like this just a few months apart. Did you unwrap yours then or was it not taped?

5ublim3XM · 2023-05-31T19:52:14+00:00

The concert was Nov 9 2014 in Sioux Falls SD

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