FlashForge Adventurer 3 - 3D Printer - Upgrades & Prints

hey guys welcome back to another 3d printing video and in this video we're gonna be looking at the flashforge adventure 3 so we're gonna look at some of the wireless functions that this partner has to offer including that built-in camera that's in here we're also gonna do a few little upgrades to it and I'm also going to print a benchmark Vinci to compare and last but not least I'm gonna print abs for the first time so let's get started [Music] alright so in the last video I unbox this thing set it up printed a few test prints showed you guys how to use the flash print so let's go ahead and start with connecting wirelessly so I'm gonna power on the printer connect to Wi-Fi so we'll go the tools network Wi-Fi alright it pulls up all the Wi-Fi is available I'm gonna let my Wi-Fi and then I'm gonna put in the password I'm gonna hit OK and it's gonna connect so has connected and apparently there's a new version of the firmware so we're gonna go ahead and click yes to update it and so it's downloading so as you can see guys the printer is able to download new firmware is out of attica Lee just by connecting to the Wi-Fi so I've downloaded some kind of update now it is shows that we are connected and there's a little icon on the top there you can see that we have Wi-Fi so if you wanted to you could make a hotspot right here or if you had the cable plugged into the back of the machine you can uh you know use the Ethernet option here and so now for the more complicated part at least I think it's a little complicated is the cloud I think you have to go and sign up for clout and that's how you access your camera alright guys so what you're looking at is the computer screen here and instructions on how to set up the flash cloud so there is the website that you'll go to so you're going to paste that into your browser and that should lead you to this website here and it's all in Chinese alright so let's see if we can translate the site to English so here on the top there's 3d software and then we're gonna see how do I get there no flash cloud that's what we're needing so here on the bottom it should scroll down just a little bit it says to click here for a flash cloud and now we can register and this is where you're gonna have to register it in order to use this service alright so we have successfully registered they're gonna send you like a little code check your junk folder just in case that's where mine was to register alright so now we're gonna login and here we are at the main screen so on the side here we're gonna click on my printer then we're going to add a printer so we're gonna need the register code right there and where we're going to find that is in printer so if we go to network and then cloud here we can see the registration code right there which is specific to my printer so I entered the register code and I'm gonna push okay and you can see my printer pulls up right there that's the code that's my printer and it's offline so what we're gonna do is we're going to turn on our flash cloud and that should put the printer online all right so it's online and it says idle so that connected shortly see if we click my model here so you can upload a model and here they have a model library and they have a bunch of this interesting stuff here today you could print let's just see if we can send something random to the printer here let's say this test all right so I have a print button here and if I push print I guess here you can move the model on the bit so it's kind of like a little slicer inside the cloud here you can rotate it scale it move it around and here you can put the parameters in I like PLA or abs supports and raft and here you can choose the standard high hyperwall or brim so pretty cool so let's just go with this and push print and see what happens so it's uploading the model right now slicing it and there it goes so here we have a print job on the bottom and if we click start the printer should start so let's go ahead and do that so the printer accepted the command and started warming up so here we have our estimated time on how long it'll take all right guys so I paused the print and I want to want to look at is this little icon up here which should be the camera let's see if I click it it looks like it's loading the video and there we go guys you can see you can see me right there filming the screen through the printer so there's definitely lag there it's not life like if I raise my hand you can see that it you know took quite a bit to get there so it's more made for monitoring your print then you know actually viewing the video live so but as you can see it all works and that is how the camera works in this printer here and that is the camera right there and that should be able to show everything you need see on the bed wall it's printing so if you click on the camera again it just goes back to the main menu and you can you know toggle that between back and forth and you can see there while I was pointing at it that's the last thing you remember so yeah guys there you go this is the flash cloud and basically that's how you use it there's probably more you know detailed things you can do in here and stuff like that but this is the overall basics so if you're needing to print something while you're away from the printer far away and you're not nearby this could be a great way to start a print while you're not around alright guys so the next thing I want to talk about is the spool holder here on the side so obviously here with this you know custom spool holder you can only fit these spools in here what if you had a bunch of PLA or you know just other regular 1-kilogram spools and you want to still use it well what you're gonna have to do is make something external here because this door covers everything and you know only this fits in there unfortunately the only option is to leave the door open or you could drill a hole through here or make a notch here on the side to feed the filament from the outside but leaving the door open just like this should not be an issue especially for PLA printing and what you're going to need is a spool holder device here and this is a very simple one that you can download from Thingiverse as you can see here it takes regular skateboard bearings there and the spool just goes right on top of that and you can have it you know as wide or narrow as you want so you can put a nice pool on these guys so the idea is pretty simple is that you would just set them somewhere outside here and let's just pretend that this is another spool here and you know and that's how you would feed just like that very simple you know you can orientate it to exactly where you need it to go you can be you know like this maybe so I want to talk about bed leveling because I printed these on the adventure three and I had a little bit of a bed issue because you know four of these pieces in halves you know almost covered up the whole bed there so let's take a little closer look in here what was happening so what was happening is that this side was too high this side was very low this was like okay kind of and then this was okay also it was kind of a weird situation or he needed a very fine tune throughout the whole bed because when you start printing something you know to the very edge you know you're never gonna get that perfection unless you know you have your bed completely leveled and so the issue was there were some dips and because this bed does not adjust at all there's no way to raise it or lower it on the corners of the bed now if you did need it to level it from the x-axes here like this you can do that by adjusting the belt I think on the top somewhere or something like that or you can let's say if this side was higher this side was a lot lower there's a way you can adjust that but if you had to adjust it from here to here I didn't really see any way of doing that maybe there is I just don't know but what I've done to get my bed pretty close to level so here on the edge you can see I put tape here on the edge so this side goes down more because the aluminum plate here it flexes quite a bit up and down so you can add more to one edge too you know goal or whatever so that's what I did to you know fine-tune it and then the other part where I did which is kind of weird a little bit but it worked as if you see that there's a little wheel underneath there and that wheel rolls on the bottom here and if you look there I don't know if you could see guys it's kind of hard to see but there's tape right there this is this clear packing tape and I have steps a few steps so as the stink travels it goes higher higher higher and a little higher so once it gets here it's in the highest position and this is how I dealt with the with it being too low here and too high here so when I'm here the nozzles here and so it's at its highest position and as it goes back it goes down slowly here so when it gets to this corner you know it's good here too so in any case guys I just wanted to share that because if you want the perfect perfect if you want the absolute perfect from corner to corner you know there's a very hair amount of adjustments that you'll have to make and so here you guys can see that these were printed from corner to corner and they did very very well all right guys with that out of the way other than that I have not had any kind of issues with this printer and actually I've been really really excited about trying something that I've never did before which is printing ABS so because I've never printed ABS I have no idea what it's like or how it reacts you know when it's printing so the flashforge adventure here is going to be the first printer here that I print with ABS and we'll see how it goes because it has an enclosure I think that's going to help us quite a bit because we're not gonna have any kind of random airflow and we'll be able to retain a little more heat than usual so I'm pretty excited about that and let me show you the filament that I got so I went ahead and bought a 3d Hero branded ABS it was a really good deal and so this is white but I can already tell that this is not like PLA white this is definitely like our offset white and the cool thing is is that this printer already has a profile for it to print ABS so we should be able to get ABS prints out of this thing without an issue alright so let's go ahead and set everything up it definitely feels different it's a lot more flexible seems link so here we're just gonna go on our little spool here alright so I'm gonna click on filament and load it so whenever you do a loading of the filament we're changing it actually preheats hot enough for ABS also because it goes to 235 so so I can do you know both abs and PLA with the same setting so it's sucking up the filament right now slowly so we're gonna wait till it comes out the hot in there and then we're gonna stop it alright guys looks like we are purging there now we should be good to go and so what I want to print an ABS is actually this dual fan duct that's available from Thingiverse those created by martin au so it looks to be like definitely a good upgrade because it has two nozzles instead of one and you know that should help us with our print so we're gonna try to print that in ABS the white ABS that we have because that would be the perfect material for this situation because we're really close to the hot end so I'm gonna go ahead and load this up in the printer and hopefully we can get a pretty good print alright guys so I went ahead and sliced it in the flash print software and I put it on this USB here if you want a little more information on how to use that flash print everything check out the other video about this printer here and where I go detail about to slicing stuff like that so here we're going to click on build then we're going to use the USB here and here I can see my dual air duct if I click on that it says it'll take one hour and 53 minutes and three point four meters of filament so what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy it from here by clicking the copy but now that it's copied I can unplug this and then go to my internal drive and I can see it right there and we'll print it from there something you're gonna go ahead and push print so the bed is warming up and it's gonna take it a little while because it's going all the way to 98 degrees I think is where I put it up because I think a hundred would be very hard for it to hit it so I'm just gonna push start on this timer here and we'll see how long it'll take to get to 98 degrees so getting the sixty was pretty quick about 40 45 seconds so while we were waiting for this thing to hit 98 which I think is gonna take a little while I'm gonna go ahead and use glue and the reason I'm going to use this because I know abs does not stick to anything according to what I've heard so I'm gonna go ahead and put some glue on there and also to help us you know guarantee that our print will stick so I'm just gonna put a nice little generous layer right in the middle I think that's where the print is gonna be I should be good enough I think so we're at 76 degrees and we're a minute and 35 seconds I'm sure the last little bit is gonna take forever alright guys so as you can see five minutes later we are close at 96 so we need a couple more degrees but as you can see there our extruder started warming up and look how quick that is that's really really quick so it's just the over five minutes when the extruder started warming up so less than a minute like 40 about 45 seconds or so it's already at PLA temperatures and a minute later it's at ABS temperatures and it's starting to pray so that hot end is super quick so we can see guys the print has started right there and it looks to be okay so far what I can tell I think there's a little booger stuck to the nozzle there but hopefully that will fall off the Mitchell so I went ahead and put a brim on here and I'm not sure that's a good idea or not for abs but I figured the more surface area we have to grab to the bed the better that's the idea here so yeah it looks like we're doing pretty good so far all right guys overall it's looking good and I'm just gonna let it print and hopefully we'll have a good print so far everything looks to be alright hopefully nothing will warp at the end but we'll just have to wait and see which I'm pretty relieved because this is the first time I print abs and seems to act similar to PLA but it definitely seems a lot more a lot more resistant or something there's like something else stuck to the steam now I'm happy that the flash for Adventure 3 has the ABS option it kind of presets everything and it knows what to do already because it has a profile for abs so so this pull holder there is doing good we're right where it is so I'm gonna have to leave this thing alone for a little bit hopefully that's not gonna be a problem one hour 45 minutes to go so I just came back and I'm happy to see that my print is still doing good as you can see the layers are going down really nice and there's nothing too weird going on at all so I'm super happy about that and we only have 22 minutes left alright guys so it's done printing and it says build complete alright so let's open it up and see what it looks like it is definitely toasty in there so here we can look at it a little bit closer hopefully you guys can see it turned out pretty pretty good like I'm pretty you know for being the first ABS print alright so let's see how this flexible bed does with ABS so I'm just gonna flex it a bit all right seem to come up pretty easy should just pop right off now if you remember guys I put a glue under here so that probably helped and you can see the residue is not that bad from the glue check out that bottom though guys that's basically perfection that's when you know you got a good level bed so let's see if this brim will just pop off so we have quite a bit of supports here and they're all just falling off easily I'm just barely touching it and it's all falling off well that's coming off way easier than I thought I was a little bit worried that I might have to fight with it a bit so just like that everything peeled right off so looking at it up close everything looks pretty good I don't know if you guys can see inside that one of those holes there's a little bit of stringing inside but it was printing in the air there for a little bit so I guess it wasn't able to connect the bridges there but other than that it's pretty nice so this is pretty awesome that we can get a printer to print us ABS because any time we're going to need heat resistance or impact resistance we can print an ABS instead of PLA you know once you go larger you're gonna have problems with layer separation which actually looking at this thing we do have some layer separation right there you can see that crack right there so I'm not gonna mess with it too much because they don't want to break it off because we're still going to want to use this piece here so I'm pretty excited to install this so let's go ahead and try to do that all right so we're inside the printer and if we look up there we can see how the fan shroud connects it appears to be one bolt or screw right here right in the middle that we'll have to take out and it should drop down and sure enough looks like that whole piece is coming down yes it is so if we compare them they're pretty identical and the main difference is in this port here on the new one here we have two holes which one leads to one side and the other one to the other so you get even flow on both sides so yeah this is awesome let's go ahead and try to install this new one so our little screw would go right in there just like the old one all right so let's go ahead and bring it in there hopefully I can do it so yeah guys I just went in reverse order and tighten this bolt it knows that it was a little bit hard to hold the counter and do that at the same time because I needed two hands let's check out how nice that looks that's perfect and it fits on there just right so I think this is gonna be a really good upgrade all right so now that we changed this fan shroud let's print a Vinci that is basically the benchmark with this filament here that I'd normally use so so I have a pinche that's loaded already in here let's go ahead and click that and the way it goes so I just realized that this is a large Vinci I think this is the 150% the first one we printed it on the first video cancel this one and push the wrong button should I push this one over here but I pushed pause I'm gonna slice another Vinci the regular sized Vinci [Music] [Music] [Music] check out all that string guys and the issue is actually over here look at that wall piece right there that's moving around so the Bowden tube is running moving her back and forth not able to retract as much as it needs to at least that's probably part of all that stream all right guys so I put in the little coupler clip here that separates the coupling and sure enough that stopped them moving pretty much completely and look at that top layer there's no string anyway so that looks like it fixed it all right so we're finally done and I'm gonna go ahead and turn the Machine off here so as you can see guys it actually turned out pretty good considering we had a few issues there so as you can see once I figured out that the Bowden tube was loose I put a little spacer in there and from there on it seemed to do really really well so let's go ahead and try to pop this off so let's take a little closer look at the bench II here and we can see that the walls are actually very nice so if we ignore the stringing we can see that the structure itself is actually very very good so here on the top it did pretty well also the overhangs are actually pretty good but I wouldn't say it's great maybe that has something to do with the rust I'm not sure but technically we had good retraction at this point so I'm not sure exactly what's going on but if you can see this reflection here on the body you can see how perfect that is the uniformity of it so the structure is very very nice and uniform but the details are not perfect and you can see here up front we have a little bit of the issue there not sure exactly what's going on there but I think that has something to do with the slicer where the where it stops and starts again on the next layer and I think if for some reason decided to do it here in front so the part that impresses me the most is the walls they're super uniformed I mean they are awesome so that alone they're pretty credible here overall even though we do have a few issues here and you can kind of tell there's something funny going on on the sidewalls here on the on the cabin here so overall a great print and if it wasn't for the stringing because of the retraction problem I think it would have had a pretty good Bengie here so I'm not completely happy with this so I'm gonna print another one and I'm gonna up the retraction a little bit so I'm gonna pray another Vinci and maybe printing a few other things and and compare all our prints alright guys so I printed two more Vinci's and this is what they look like and the reason I printed two because I had an issue when I printed the first one maybe you can tell up here there's a little there's a layer of shift and so I'm both of them you can see this one there's a little bit more severe they're both the same exactly when I printed the first one I thought maybe the new duct caught on something and kind of bumped it off or something that's why I printed a second one and it turned out exactly the same as the first one so as you can see guys we barely have a neat stringing that Bowden tube definitely was loose and that fixed the stringing problem for the most part any kind of hairs or whips you see they're pretty thin and are easily removable with like a heat gun or something or like a hairdryer but if you look here on the front you can see how nice the reflection it so they're both practically the same we'll just pick this one to look at look at that wall guys this is very clean basically almost perfection so we do have the same issue here and that is definitely stitching from the slicer so you can see how good this printer is at walls especially this printer is excellent or walls and the overhangs for the most part are good but the layers shift is actually right at that area so I'm thinking that that could be better if everything was fine so I'm pretty sure the layers shift up here is caused by a corrupted file and maybe the way I brought in the file had unplug the USB corrupted it I'm not sure so if we just ignore that shift everything else looks really really good so the last thing I want to show you guys is I printed a bench II in ABS black ABS so I bought two rolls of filament the white and the black and and decided to see if I can print something black because I knew that I'd be able to see a better on black and look how good this turned out guys so I present this the same way with putting a bunch of glue on the bottom and you can see the bottom kind of struggled a little bit there I sure exactly what was going on but once a few layers passed there it really started for any good and what I want to show you is like this wall here that's a very clean wall and for some reasoning with ABS there was no streaking whatsoever it's just kind of interesting it looks a lot cleaner like the material itself but as you can see here on the front we still have that same stitching so the bottom didn't turn out great on this probably not sticking as good as it could have but you know that's a pretty common thing with ABS but yeah I was extremely impressed with the ABS Benji here so I was so impressed I decided to print something useful and this useful item is kind of small but it is a bolt and it's printed completely in ABS so all these three parts printed together on the bed and they turned out perfect literally perfect so we got the bolt itself we've got a nice that is I mean the quality of the bolt is excellent can't complain here the bottom is even okay also look at that so then we have a washer here turned out pretty good and the nut so even the nut did very well overall so I'm very happy of how this turned out and I think now that I know that how good this printer can print ABS I will be printing specific items kind of like this on this printer alright guys so that was awesome I did not realize how good this thing would do with ABS and after printing a few more things here I did realize that ABS is definitely not an easy thing to print because not only does the bed have to heat up to a hundred degrees your hot end is hotter and the machine just takes a little bit more beating when it has to print ABS so I'm glad that I got to print ABS because I was really wondering how it's like and you know what the material feels like and things like that so I'm gonna be experimenting with more ABS stuff and where I should use it and things like that now that I know that this machine can do it I will just dedicate that job to the flashforge adventure right here alright guys well hopefully you enjoyed this video I'm sure was probably a little longer than it needs to be but as you can see that this predator is doing pretty well for me I definitely can recommend this thing for beginners because there's not much you have to do to just start printing and whatever other little stuff that you've got to do is very minor compared to other printers where you just have to know what's going on more so the only major thing that you know most people might want to do is you know have this external little spool holder here so they can use any spool filament they want and also I think that fan duct is definitely a good upgrade and don't forget to check your Bowden tube back here because you saw how mine was moving and whenever I put the little clip in there everything changed alright guys well hopefully you enjoyed this video if you did then hit that like button and also guys if you're interested in a printer like this I got my printer from flashforge USA I'll leave some links in the description so check them out and if you want to see more about this printer I did do a video of unboxing setting it up and doing first prints so go check that out and if you enjoyed content like this and you're not subscribed then hit that subscribe button I got a lot more 3d printing stuff coming up and more 3d printers to review and as always guys thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next one peace

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Length: 27min 11sec (1631 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 15 2019