Cura Settings for Sonic Pad/Klipper

hey guys Robert with 3D printscape so today's video is going to be covering how to set up Cura to work with your partners with Sonic pad or Clipper the built-in slicer that Sonic pad has is nice but in many situations you're going to be able to slice from your computer and then send it to the Sonic pad or use an SD card or whatever the case may be so I'm going to cover that process here it's not very difficult it's just setting up a new machine profile and then importing some profiles that you can start with they give you two profiles for pla abs and petg one normal one fast the normal is about two and a half times the speed of marlin the fast is about three times you'll have to play around with the settings a little bit to find out what works best for your printer when you get into that speed little things such as the frame being off center and stuff like that can really impact things so you want to kind of figure out what works best with your printer I use these as starting points if you want though if you guys if there's enough interest I can do some testing with one of my printers and upload one like what I do with the standard Cura versions just kind of like my starting point so if you guys are interested just let me know all right so let's go ahead and jump over to the computer and get started but before we do that if you guys haven't already make sure you hit the like button and subscribe thanks all right guys to get Kira to work with the Sonic pad we're gonna have to do a couple things first one is create a new machine profile that has different start and stop uh G-Code settings and then import The Cure profiles that we're going to want to use they provide you with some good starting points you might have to make some tweaks based on your printer and what you're trying to work with for the project if you guys are interested I could do some more testing and upload those to my site as well just to give you a better starting point but I think the ones that they provide are at least good enough to get started all right so first let's go ahead and get what we need from creality so we want to go to their site with the Sonic pad and then go to download section this will take us to their downloads for the product and then we want to download the carer profiles and user guide all right then with that downloaded you want to go ahead and extract it and I just did that really quick off camera and you get this so you've got the user guide and then you have some profiles depending upon what you're looking for the main thing between these are going to be the V2 is going to be boating tube versus direct drive for some of the other ones the V2 profile is going to work pretty well for most of the printers out there that are Bowden and chirality so that'll be the one I'm going to focus on here but let's look at the guide here uh it shows you how to add the new machine profile you can just create a custom one all right so let's go ahead and kind of set this off to the side a second and we'll go to load Akira the important thing in here are going to be the start and stop commands uh so with a Clipper which sonicpad uses it changes like the bed mesh you don't use G29 for the calibrate anymore all right so what I'm going to go to do now is put this off to the side but I am going to use this as a reference as I'm creating the profile then we're going to open up Cura which I have here then go to preferences configure Cura go into printers and add new and select non-alty maker and we want to add a custom printer so it's going to be the second one down now it's important that you do custom and not one of the creality ones I actually thought one of those would work to begin with but it won't actually import the profiles that they provided they're not compatible with the creality bass is what it says all right so let's go to name this endo3 V2 SP for Sonic pad all right now we want to update all of the machine settings here so we'll take out everything and start G-Code and stop G-Code because we're going to have to replace those commands and then let's pull up our example here so we want the V2 one the only thing is with using the V2 example if you do have a BL touch or CR touch we are going to have to go up and grab the bed mesh calibration and add that in as well but we'll get there in a second all right so let's go ahead and set these parameters so 225 225 235 we have a heated bed Marlin the negative 20 negative 10 10 10 255 one extruder okay that's good I will go ahead and copy in our start and stop G-Code and then like I said if you have a BL touch or CR touch we want to add this bed mesh calibration under the g28 on start so let's go ahead and do that all right then let's go over to the extruder and we've got 0.4 for your nozzle size we're using 1.75 millimeter filament uh no X and Y offsets and nothing else here all right so go ahead and hit next and we can go ahead and just close out of this it'll select that printer so you can verify here that you have that printer selected now we can go ahead and import their profiles they give you some base profiles for pla abs and petg they're good enough to get started but if you guys think there's value I can test them play around with them a little bit more and if I find that there's a good set of updates I can go and upload those to my site I also plan on getting the 5 3 profiles updated this weekend as well and I'm a little bit behind on that all right so let's go ahead and go into configure again go down to profiles and import we'll go to our downloads and go into the V2 and we'll import the pla fast and Pla normal because those are the ones I'm working with all right then we can go to close that now over here we can switch to those profiles so you see fast some of the main differences here are going to be your speed so the print speed on fast is 160 and 170. where your print speed on normal is 120 130 but if you go like to your standard let me switch over to my Ender three the normal print speeds 50 and with wall speeds at 25. so it's defaulting fast to a little over three times the speed of the standard print speed when using the creality firmware or the Marlin base firmware versus Clipper so that's a pretty big difference um you might want to start with normal which is still about two and a half times and see if it's getting the quality you want maybe for some larger blocks or parts I have less detail you can go up too fast and see if that meets your needs it's really going to be based on the print and then some of the things specific to your printer when you're getting into that speed which is going to be how level it is if you have any excess movement on any of the axises or anything like that those are all going to come into play here but now all you have to do is go ahead and do your normal import of a 3D object so I mean we could probably just use an example here let's just say I wanted to print this calibration Cube under normal speed then we'll go ahead and just go and slice and then we can save this to disk or SD card if you can print from the SD card but if you have the web interface up you can just copy the file over via the web interface I don't actually have mine powered on right now I've been moving a couple things around so I can't show you that example in this video but I have a video covering the web interface it's really you just log into it once you have the IP address it's not even asking for credentials then you just drag and drop this file into the object store so it's really simple if you want to go that route instead of printing from the SD card but either way it will work all right guys so that was the process to set up cure to work with your Sonic pad like I said it wasn't very difficult just setting up the machine profile and importing some profiles into Cura and that really just gives you a good starting point I would recommend starting with the normal speed and then starting to ramp it up and and see how it works out if you're working with larger parts that don't have as much detail you can go ahead and jump up to the fast to see how that works out for you but it's really going to be a little bit of trial and error to get the red speed for your printer the Clipper is incredibly fast it's especially compared to Marlin but either where you look at it it's still going to be significantly faster than it would be running just standard Marlin which is pretty nice if you have any questions about what I covered or like to see any other videos go ahead and leave a comment below or join us on Discord thanks

Channel: 3D Printscape

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Keywords: Sonic pad, sonic pad and cura, cura settings for sonic pad, creality sonic pad, creality sonic pad install, creality sonic pad basics, creality sonic pad setup, setup creality sonic pad, setting up creality sonic pad, creality touch screen, touch screen, creality slicer, creality cloud

Id: R5zzTGfYeN0

Length: 10min 5sec (605 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 03 2023