The Anycubic Vyper 3d Printer Is SERIOUSLY Impressive

over the years i've seen many different 3d printing manufacturers come onto the scene some of them have been successful while others have quickly risen and just as quickly fallen one of the companies that's been around for quite a few years now is annie cubic which i'm sure many of you have heard of i first heard of annie cubic back in 2017 with the release of their i3 any cubic i3 mega and although i didn't have one of these printers a lot of my buddies swore by their i3 megas and looking at what was currently available at the time they were definitely a significant upgrade from the previous generation of budget desktop 3d printers now although i never got a chance to use the original i3 mega i did test out the i3 mega x last year which was at the time the latest addition to their mega line which had a bigger build volume and quite a few upgrades and also one of my earlier printers back in 2017 was the annie cubit castle which was my first successful rendezvous with a delta 3d printer i tried a couple previously and was really never able to get them dialed in well and so with the castle i really enjoyed the upgrade and calibration process and i did get it tuned pretty well and it did perform i had some really awesome prints that came off of it well a couple of months ago annie cubic reached out to me giving me a list of specs for a new 3d printer that they were going to be releasing called the annie cubic viper and based on those specs it seemed like a major upgrade and a huge overhaul from their previous line of mega printers and kind of what i would describe as annie cubic's next generation of desktop 3d printers so over the past couple weeks i've been testing out the annie cubic viper and i am excited to show you guys this printer today in today's video we're going to talk about the anycubic viper specs we're going to talk about what the setup and calibration looks like we're going to do plenty of 3d printing and ultimately in the end i will give you my final opinion on this printer there's definitely a lot to cover so without further ado let's get right into today's video like we typically do let's first start off with the specs for this printer the andy cubic fiber has a build volume of 245 by 245 by 260 millimeters it is a 24 volt system running marlin on a 32-bit board with tmc-2209 drivers the printer is primarily made up of aluminum extrusions along with a few injection-molded parts it uses a bowden extrusion system with a filament run out sensor and a dual geared extruder that other than being inside of a clear shell looks near identical to a bmg extruder the hot end is not all metal but does have a large heater block and long nozzles reminding me a lot of the volcano hot end this will allow you to melt more filament quicker and i've really become a fan of this style hot end the stock bed on the viper is a powder coated pei bed on a magnetic flex plate this is without a doubt the best bed that i've seen on a budget 3d printer like this they definitely made me proud with their choice for bed on this printer leveling is completely automatic on the viper and there are no springs to adjust on the bed the printer uses dual lead screws for the z-axis with anti-backlash nuts the z-axis also has two end-stop sensors one for each side when homing the printer this is really going to help to make sure that the printer stays aligned and will adjust if either side of the printer is thrown out of alignment as for printing you can print over usb or using a full size sd card on the very nice 4.3 inch touchscreen if you've watched my last couple of 3d printer reviews you know that both printers i reviewed that had touch screens had a very annoying beeping sound anytime you touched anything on the screen with no option to turn it off well i was hoping this wasn't going to be the case and i am pleased to announce that there is a very simple setting built into the screen where if you click it none of your presses will make a beeping sound great job any cubic please everybody else to do the same thing the viper does have built-in x and y belt tensioners as well as a storage drawer that is built in with foam inserts and contains all the tools for this machine like i typically do i went ahead and removed the bottom panel of the printer so that way we can take a look at the main board doing so i discovered that the main board fan was much larger than any other printer i've seen at a glance i believe it was an 80 millimeter which had me excited thinking about noise levels the 32-bit board inside was a tri gorilla version 0.0.6 which had these stepper motor drivers embedded into the board i didn't see many ports available for things like expansion but given that the normal things that these printers you'd want to expand upon would be a filament run out sensor and automatic bed leveling which are both included it didn't really bug me i did also notice though that towards the front side of the board it looked like there was a slot for a stepper motor driver but upon thinking about it more i actually believe it is a spot for a small esp wi-fi module so it is possible i haven't heard anything official from any cubic but it is possible that they may release some kind of an add-on which will allow you to very easily add wi-fi to this printer the annie cubic viper came packaged incredibly well with plenty of foam on both sides to make sure that it wasn't damaged in transit as far as the build guide goes there's both a paper booklet included with this printer as well as a pdf copy on the sd card i've gotten used to checking the sd card now to see if there is any video build guide because i've seen a couple of manufacturers do this and in the case of the viper there currently was not that being said this is definitely a brand new printer and so it is possible that by the time you receive one if you get this printer that you might have that so i would say it's always worth checking the sd card just to see what kind of goodies are included on there as far as assembly goes i really don't think it gets much easier there are four screws that are used to bolt the bottom frame to the top frame three screws to bolt the touchscreen to the front right of the frame and the spool holder which just snaps into the left side of the aluminum extrusions there was a note in the printer box but there was four zip ties on my printer i think it was one on the hot end carriage one on the bed and two on either side of the z-axis so you will definitely want to make sure that you cut those before turning on the printer and homing it or you could damage something even if you are a beginner i really don't see how this assembly process can take more than 30 minutes and if you've been printing for some time it's probably a 15 minute assembly so once i had the printer together i went ahead and powered it on and went through the initial calibration or leveling process which is super simple it's outlined in the guide but basically you're just going under setup or prepare and then there is a leveling button which will go around and probe 16 spots on the bed it does take a little bit as it's moving slow but in the time that i've printed this i've only had to do it once right at the beginning and it has stayed completely level since which is thanks to the fact that there's no springs on the bed so there's not much that can become uh loose and the fact that there's a flex plate system so when you're removing prints you're not putting pressure onto the bed once leveled i plugged in the included sd card to see if there was any pre-sliced files on the sd card and i was actually a bit surprised because when i plugged it in i didn't see anything at all so i took it over to the computer and did discover two folders one was in chinese and one was in english with the exact same items just one english version and one chinese version and i quickly discovered that this printer does not have the ability to go into folders like in the actual file explorer the things need to be on the root of the sd card which really isn't a big deal to me but i do think that the g-code file probably should come on the root of the sd card so i went ahead and dragged it plugged it into the printer and hit print with the pla i had loaded in and part of the instructions do you say on the first print to keep an eye on it because as it starts going if it's too close or too far you'll want to adjust the baby stepping or the z offset however once it started printing it was actually spot on and i didn't have to adjust anything at all the test print was of a fairly small owl which if my memory serves me correctly is actually annie cubic's kind of like go-to test print for many of their fdm printers and although the print did turn out fine i did find it a little bit odd that it actually wasn't centered on the bed which leads me to think that maybe it was sliced for a different machine altogether and the print though again it did turn out fine with the only exception being a little bit of stringiness between the owl's ears once that print was done i was ready to go ahead and hop over to the computer and slice up some files of my own the instructions have you setting up cura as the slicer for this printer the steps are essentially to open up kira select the i3 mega printer profile which is baked into cura renaming it to the annie cubic viper and adjusting the build volume they do have three profiles built onto the sd card which are pla abs and tpu which you can import after the fact although i do love cura and i've used it for years i recently switched to an m1 mac mini and kira has been terribly glitchy and crashing constantly due to this i recently started using prusa slicer because it seems to be the only slicer that is running very stable on the m1 mac mini seeing that the profile for this was basically just a copy of the i3 mega which is also built into prusa slicer i ended up using that instead for the majority of my prints for the first print i went with a baby rancor model that chaos cortech recently released on their thanks page i sliced it up at 0.2 millimeter layer height and hit print this was a fairly long print compared to the test file but i was quite happy with the end results upon inspection of the part i noticed there seemed to be some slight under extruding at random i then took a deeper look at the initial owl print and also saw at least one or two lines of this so i adjusted the tension on the extruder and swamped out the filament for some proto pasta that i know is a great material i ended up finding a model of an aztec temple that was kind of a planter which i knew erin would love for her garden and so i went ahead and downloaded that slice it up with the exact same settings and hit print i did check on the print a couple of times throughout the printing process just to make sure i didn't see any under extrusion and i was able to confirm that the adjustment of the tension screw and the swapping of the filament did seem to get rid of the under extrusion issue with this print having a fairly large base i was able to really see how well the bed leveling worked and i definitely was impressed i've used plenty of budget 3d printers that come with automatic bed leveling that is quite terrible either the hardware is just cheap or somehow it's not implemented correctly in the firmware so to see such clean layers back to back again especially on this print which was a bigger base was really exciting to me one thing i noticed with the 3d print so far was that there was a bit of stringiness and looking at the printer this actually made a lot of sense to me for starters it is a bowden type extrusion system but more so it has what is basically a volcano heater block and the heater block is going to be much larger than a standard heater block which the benefit of that is it takes larger nozzles and you can use larger diameter nozzles and it also allows you to just melt material quicker which is awesome for trying to print faster however a byproduct of that is that it typically is a little bit more stringy and i thinking back i've only used a volcano heater block on a direct drive printer and so being that this is a bowden again i can understand why there's a little bit of stringiness i do however think that the adjustment of the temperatures for the filament as well as dialing in the retraction could definitely help to alleviate this and i've been using the same temps that i would typically use for any printer on this and that might be a little bit overkill considering that it does have that larger heater block after the two-part aztec temple i did go ahead and do another large print at least as far as the bed's build surface was i'm going to be building a voron 0.1 pretty soon here and one of the things is that there is a ton of screws that i had to order and they all came in either unmarked bags or they came in bags with a sharpie of some sort that seems to have smeared in transit so having this little container that i can put all the screws into is going to be really nice and i was very very happy with the end result i had a little bit of matterhackers natural build series pla which is what i was able to use up i had just a little bit more than enough and using two m3 screws it does have a hinge so i again functional print and i am very happy to have this in my box of war on parts next i completely switched gears and like i had mentioned there was profiles for abs pla and tpu my dad had just told me a couple of weeks ago on his birthday that he really liked my printed tpu phone case it's incredibly dirty but it's awesome because i always have something 3d printed on me and it's a great conversation piece and so my dad being a huge fan of my channel and thinking this is pretty rad had requested a a phone case for his phone as well and so i went over to thingiverse he has a little bit older it's an iphone sc the original and so i was able to find two phone cases that i downloaded and i actually decided to use kira for this because i wanted to use their profile and although cura is buggy on the m1 mac mini it's typically buggy on more complex shapes and phone cases are typically just rectangular and not very large so i imported them into cura i selected the tpu profile and i was really surprised by the print speed that was set to default for this tpu profile call me a skeptic but over the years i've done enough tpu printing to know there is no way in hell on a setup like this i'm running tpu at 80 millimeters a second is it possible maybe but it's definitely not what i'm going to be starting with considering 80 millimeters a second is actually faster than i print even standard rigid material normally so i took that 80 millimeters a second and it dropped it down to a safe 30 millimeters a second and sliced up the part i believe i kept almost everything else the same but yeah the speed was just pretty outrageous in my mind normally i don't like batch 3d printing and especially with a flexible filament but the adhesion had been so good and so consistent on this printer so far even with large parts that i figured let's try printing both at a time and see what happens so i sliced up the file hit print and i watched the first probably five or so layers go down and was really impressed by just how clean the lines were i mean they looked really really good and i'm not gonna lie i did go to bed at that point and part of me was a little bit worried in the back of my head that i was going to wake up to some kind of weird tpu spaghetti mess but that was not the case i had two really nice looking phone cases sitting on the bed of the printer waiting for me when i woke up in the morning the solid case did have some pillowing on the top which was actually my fault i think if i look back at the slicer the default setting only had maybe two top layers and so i should have done a couple more but it won't have any effect on the actual phone case and is not visible when the case is on the phone and the mesh case turned out absolutely perfect thinking back this is probably the best tpu prints i've gotten on any printer period especially a stock printer i've done uh you know quite a few months of different printers and made some that can print tpu very well but considering this is a bowden setup and again this is completely stock i've done nothing to it this printer can print tpu so if you want to print flexibles the viper can absolutely do it once the tpu prints were done i decided to throw some petg on this printer i found a model over on thingiverse that was called soldering fingers and it basically allows you to put different uh wires together twist them together and it kind of holds them in place while you're soldering and given that i'm going to be doing quite a bit of soldering again on this four on build i figured hey this is a pretty practical print and something i could probably use down the road so i loaded up some esun uh petg it was black i actually had some left over from the songbird turntable build that i did god probably two months ago now and i loaded that up and i hit print and the adhesion was laying down beautifully the layers were looking absolutely gorgeous however once it got to the top where the actual like fingers were of it it started to look really ugly and i was really confused until i got close to the printer and heard spitting and popping sounds which led me to realize that this ptg was wet although it was only a couple weeks old and it printed perfectly just a couple weeks ago which makes me think that i jinxed myself because i just talked to a buddy about how i've hardly ever had issues with ptg even after months being here in california but that's what i get for opening my mouth but yeah this material was definitely wet and i tried to get a little recording of the the popping sound i don't know if you can hear it but if so i will place that here although the fingers on the print definitely don't look good as far as functionality goes this thing is going to be able to work for its intended application however i also had a spool of blue esun ptg that i opened at the exact same time and i decided to just throw it on the printer hit print again and just see is it going to look exactly like the black ptg and it definitely ran into a similar issue when i got to the finger portion where it was there's a little bit of moisture in it but it was not as extreme as the black petg again the adhesion with this powder-coated pei on pla tpu and ptg was absolutely fantastic and i think i got some shots of the bottoms of these parts because damn they are just really really consistent and i've been very happy with the leveling as well as the adhesion that the viper has offered for a final print i swapped back over to pla to kind of create a sandwich we'll start with it and we'll end with it and i found a small little screw organizer that allows you to check quickly is it a m2 m3 m4 screw and what is the length of it and the numbers on this little measurement device we're sticking up and so what i did was i started the print in blue pla and then i did my best to just kind of eyeball and pause it and i swapped it out for white pla and it's not perfect because again i didn't enter the g-code command in the slicer it just eyeballed it but it is still going to be more than good enough for again the voron build and i'm excited to have a couple of these accessories that i think might make the build a bit more enjoyable and hopefully make it where there's a little bit less hair pulling so what are my final thoughts on the annie cubic viper at least as of now with all the printing that i have done currently there is a pre-order for 359 dollars with them i believe their website says the early bird or the earliest shipping is june 30th so by the time this video goes live it should be shipping out any day now 359 dollars is definitely a bit more expensive than some of the other printers that we've covered on this channel at least as of lately however there is definitely some additional features for this printer that does add value to it the automatic bed leveling and the pei powder coated flex plate are two upgrades that a lot of people like to do and i would say that in general just rounding that's probably about 100 value in my mind however you don't have to go through the trouble of wiring in some kind of an automatic bed leveling calibrating the firmware and doing all that stuff it's just ready to rock and roll out of the box as much as i like touch screens the touch screens on the past couple of printers that i reviewed have been very annoying to me because of the beeping and again i'm very pleased with the touch screen both the fact that you can mute the audio and that the text is quite small not quite small where it's hard to read but small enough to where you can kind of see what the name of the print is in the file explorer which was a complaint i had on a few other printers also the fact that it's got a bmg style extruder as well as a volcano style heater block or hot end that is much better than the typical cheap plastic extruders that come on a lot of the low-cost printers and the kind of generic hotend that those have as well with that being said if i had a choice between direct drive or a bowden system i would almost always opt for direct drive but i was incredibly impressed with this printer's ability to print with flexible filament really there's only two things about this printer that i'm not crazy about and the first is related to the breakout board where the hot ends at i tried to take apart the kind of fan housing to take a look at the hot end and it was very difficult to do um it didn't seem like the plug that went into the breakout board was able to be removed i did press on it i did try pulling on a bit and i was actually concerned that i might be damaging something so what that means is you know if you're going to want to try to mod something or you know you're going to want to try to repair something it's not going to be the easiest to do now i don't think modding this printer is that big of a deal because kind of how it's laid out you shouldn't really need to do much modding to it but for the sake of repairs like if a fan goes out it's definitely going to take a bit more work to get in there and get that fan replaced than on a printer where you just undo the screws and the whole thing pops right out lastly and i know i sound like a broken record with almost every printer or a grumpy old man but it's the sound that the printer makes again the 80 millimeter fan on the board versus the tiny little like 40 or 30 millimeter fans that typically come on the control boards had me excited because bigger fan typically means less sound usually the smaller higher rpm produces more sound and that actually was the case the board wasn't the issue for some reason on the hot end when the i believe it's the layer cooling fans hits certain rpms it makes a pretty high-pitched sound and i couldn't exactly figure out what was triggering it and uh it was only for a short period of time maybe a couple of minutes and then it went away but it was definitely a little bit of an annoyance and it was like sort of that what i would describe is almost like a dog whistle sound what i would imagine that sounds like but again it was only for a few minutes at a certain rpm but something that i noticed and i'm going to keep complaining about sound until we have super quiet printers aside from those two things i do feel like the printer profiles can definitely use some work just the things i saw as far as like the g-code file for the sample part being off-centered on the bed and the tpu profile showing at 80 millimeters a second which to me is ridiculous i wish they had spent a little bit more time tuning those profiles and maybe by the time this printer is actually you know released and shipped they have updated them but all i can go based off of is what was presented in front of me overall i've really enjoyed using the annie cubic viper and a combination of the bed leveling that they've implemented and that powder coated pei bed is a real treat to work with if you're on a budget but you're looking for a 3d printer that has quite a bit of features that's not going to require any upgrades or tweaking then the andy cubic viper is a real solid contender coming from the annie cubic mega to the annie cubic viper is a huge upgrade annie qubit really did pack a ton of features into this machine and really aside from the profile things which will get squared away the hardware seems really well dialed in the fact that i just plugged this thing in pressed a button let it do its leveling thing and it was ready to rock and roll throughout all of these test prints and the results were incredibly consistent is awesome and i had said earlier on that this you know based off the specs it seemed like annie cubic's next gen printer and after using it for the past couple weeks i gotta say that yeah it really does feel like it is a next-gen printer for them and i think that annie cubic did an awesome job with it if you do want to find out more or purchase one of these printers for yourself i will place links down below over to their website where they have like the pre-order thing which again by the time this video goes live it will be very close to at least the early batches of these printers shipping out if you have any questions about anything that i said or did not say in this video let me know in the comments down below and i will do my best to answer if i don't have the answer as always i have no problem reaching out to any cubic directly and trying to get that answer for you on that note don't forget to like and subscribe for more great videos we make a video every single week so there is always fresh 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Length: 23min 17sec (1397 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021