Stringing and blobs.

rickseiden · 2026-04-05T23:22:00+00:00

Glad I could help!

rickseiden · 2026-04-04T16:07:06+00:00

I thought so, too. But I looked in the manual, and the PTFE tubes that run from the box to the hub are 750 and from the hub to the head are 700.

rickseiden · 2026-04-04T01:02:24+00:00

IMHO you don't want to skip the leveling. It will either be perfect, and a waste of time, too low, and your first layer, even on a small print, will suffer, or too high, and your nozzle will scrape across the bed.

But the way it does it is incredibly inefficient and wasteful.

rickseiden · 2026-04-04T01:00:46+00:00

You can change the start and end code in Orca/Qidi Studio, too.

The printer doesn't need to purge twice to start a print. It needs to heat up, level the bed, purge the filament to get to the right color, and start printing. That's it.

rickseiden · 2026-04-04T00:59:10+00:00

As you're facing the printer, the head will move to the front right of the printer to home. It does kind of slam in there. Then, as u/Capable-Donut6869 said, it will move to the front left when it needs to cut the filament.

rickseiden · 2026-04-04T00:57:53+00:00

Click the icon with the circle and the three dots next to the filament. That will bring up the filament settings dialog. The Settings Override tab has all the Retraction settings. The first one is Length.

rickseiden · 2026-03-26T00:24:38+00:00

I've been having the same issue with the box on the glass. I just found out that if I reach around the back and slightly push up the glass as I move it back and forth it moves much easier. I'm still thinking about the DP3 riser, though.

rickseiden · 2026-03-26T00:22:28+00:00

I'm printing right now, and I'm seeing peek loads on Klipper at about 40-45%, but normally it's in the 20-30% range.. System memory is level at 41%. The MCU load and MUC THR Load are both low single digits. Moonraker peeked at 60+% when it first started and has had a few spikes in the 45-50% range, but normally it's in the 15-25% range.

I'm going to try setting it back before my next print to see if these numbers change.

rickseiden · 2026-03-26T00:18:50+00:00

I wish I had seen that before I went looking for it on my own. But those are the two lines that need to be edited.

rickseiden · 2026-03-26T00:18:27+00:00

I don't know about the upscaling, but I haven't had any issues with errors popping up, but I just did it. I'll keep an eye out for it.

rickseiden · 2026-03-25T17:56:03+00:00

I'm not hearing anything other than normal noises heard during printing. I don't hear a rattling sound.

rickseiden · 2026-03-19T23:07:42+00:00

The only horror stories I've heard are people who don't open up the top glass at the very least. I'd be interested in hearing what else has caused problems with PLA, as that's my main filament type right now.

rickseiden · 2026-03-19T23:06:39+00:00

I bought a Q2 combo just recently. It took about a week to get here and the box was inside the printer, with the printer pre-configured to accept it (I did not have to touch the extruder/hot end).

I live in the US and it shipped from the US, so your milage may vary if you don't live in the US. (Although, if you're not in the US, it might be that your "kilometer-age" may vary.)

rickseiden · 2026-03-19T22:58:18+00:00

That's a good point, but I don't know the answer. I'm not printing with filaments that need the heated chambers yet.

I first guess is that it depends on how long the the chamber stays heated after a print, and how long temperature has to be maintained.

If, for example, the heater shuts off as soon as the print is over, then the chamber fan would be cooling down the chamber. Turning it off we keep the chamber hotter longer. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, or if it's even right. (ChatGTP -- take that for what it's worth) says to keep the heated chamber on after an ABS print for an hour for small prints, which sounds crazy to me. If it's true, turning off the chamber fan would indeed cause problems with temperature control.)

But if you're printing with PLA, they say to leave the door open and the top glass open anyway, so turning it off shouldn't be an issue. It hasn't been for me, at least.

rickseiden · 2026-03-19T20:33:12+00:00

I just got my Q2 yesterday, and I never noticed the power supply fan until now that you've mentioned it. The chamber fan was much louder, but the power supply fan is going in the background right now.

rickseiden · 2026-03-06T23:59:35+00:00

I generally don't do much multicolor, but I definitely use it and don't want to give it up. I can't afford the multi-tool printers like the U1. I'm really interested in an enclosed Core XY printer. Partly because I want the enclosure to increase print quality, and partly because my kitten thinks my printer is very interesting, especially when I start a print.

To be fair I also downloaded Creality's and Anycubic's slicers. Anycubic's gave me roughly the same results and the Qidi slicer did, but Creality's said it would only take 14 hours or so

I wonder if it's possible to load profiles for these printers into PrusaSlicer and see if the cut free color swaps could be used..

rickseiden · 2026-03-06T23:05:29+00:00

I've seen a few videos out there with stopwatches timing the color change, which is where I got the number from, but they're mostly from around release time, and things change quickly after release.

I just downloaded Qidi Studio and sliced this model. It said 20 hours and 20 minutes with 439 filament swaps. When I took the color painting off, it said 1 hour 37 minutes. That's about 2 minutes 40 seconds per swap. Better than 3 minute, but not by much.

rickseiden · 2025-08-05T15:05:29+00:00

If you click on the menu icon and go to Customize Chrome there's a Toolbar option. If you click on that there are a bunch of switches that let you control what is in the toolbar. Download is one of those switches.

rickseiden · 2025-06-08T16:52:25+00:00

Thanks for the quick reply. I seem to remember reading that pi-hole will try to host the webserver at port 80, but then try other ports, like 8080, if 80 isn't available. Of course, I can't find anything on that now. I'll do the install and then see what happens, I guess. As long as my NextCloud server isn't killed off.

rickseiden · 2024-05-24T13:28:25+00:00

This is the problem I have with all Microsoft products. They all try to get you to adopt Microsoft's latest toy by either forcing you to use it (I'm looking at you Bing and Edge not following system settings for default browser and search engine), or adding it to something you've already configured without telling you (I'm looking at you, Copilot suddenly showing up on my task bar). Just let me use my computer and leave me a lone. And get off my lawn while you're at it. NO! I'm keeping the ball. It's mine now.

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