Build surface locating pins - When using a magnetic build surface, our locating pins (screws) aid you to placing the removable build surface, every time. You can also shift to a third-party option for roughly the same price, namely the excellent Big Tree Tech SKR 1.4 Turbo or SKR 2, and pair them with silent TMC2209 drivers.

It is one of the significant Ender 5 upgrades to safeguard your 3D printer from any dirt and dust and print and isolate it from any effects of the external environment. If it does not fit within your budget, however, you can always opt for a DIY 3D printer enclosure instead! They are available in various configurations, including hardened steel, plated copper, and stainless steel to suit multiple filament types. The Ender 5 Pro, with its stable, box-framed form, has outer dimensions of 440 x 410 x 465 mm (X-Y-Z). The size was inherited from its predecessor, the Ender 5. Durable: The steel plate is made of high quality stainless steel, which has good flatness and durability. The Ender 5 includes an SD card slot and a USB port for both computer-controlled and independent operation.Bed size and build volume can be critical factors for some users, and not so much for others. If you’re someone who undertakes massive builds, well done for both needing and rising to the challenges they present, which can be significant. While this oversight on Creality’s part in this day and age is perplexing, you can turn the Ender 5 Plus’ motors whisper-quiet with a mainboard upgrade.

Some users have successfully upgraded the bed size to 300 x 300 mm on the Ender 5 — though some other modifications will be required to make it work. Nothing drastic, and not hard to reverse if you don’t like the outcome. Wisely, Creality somehow revised their layout, to bring the PSU and the filament spool within the frame, so the up-size doesn’t have quite as much impact on the machine footprint as the raw numbers suggest. Features & Functions Thermal fuse and earth ground mounting locations – Additional threaded holes that provide a location for mounting a thermal fuse and earth grounding lead.Some upgrades can be easily 3D printed on your device. Usually, these are the first changes that Ender 5’s owners make. We are talking about self-printable accessories that won’t cost you much. This is the same model with the M104 and M140 commands in the start gcode removed: ;Generated with Cura_SteamEngine 4.12.1 Then in CURA (or your slicer of choice. You may need to tweak some stuff…) change your start gcode (Preferences>Configure Cura>Printers>Machine Settings) to this: M104 {material_print_temperature_layer_0} An additional lead-screw on the Z-axis is another big improvement, stabilizing the drive and reducing the likelihood of build errors. The Ender 5 and Ender 5 Pro have only a single lead-screw that is made for a much less stable build platform. The Ender 5 does not have auto leveling. However, you can install the BLTouch leveling sensor upgrade to add this functionality. Is the Ender 5 Plus CoreXY?

Similar to the bed cabling on the Ender 5 Plus, the hot end cabling and Bowden tubing are unsupported as they feed into the print head. The Creality 3D Ender 5 is an FDM 3D printer kit. It uses Fused Modeling Technology, an additive manufacturing method that consists in melting a filament of thermoplastic and depositing it layer by layer in a pattern. The filament is pushed through a heated single extruder via a Bowden feeder mechanism. The tight entry of the Bowden tube makes it difficult to insert the filament into the route. Cutting the consumable in a steep angle might facilitate the task.

As for the product, when correctly installed and configured (according to the notes above), it is a five star product, I am extremely happy with it. We get hung up on seeing zeros on the level screens but, actually, being at 2 is fine, as long as they’re all close together. Your Z offst isn’t affected because the bed is still probed at the start of each print. More on that later. Ender 5 Plus will auto bed level, which is a big plus and brings the machine that much closer to plug-and-play. The Ender 5 is a larger and better version of the Ender 3 Pro. It is engineered with a magnetic heated bed, an 8-mm-rod for the Z-axis, a dual Y-axis engine, and a dedicated stepper motor for each of the axes. It features an auto-resume function aimed at preventing printing failures due to power loss. This lets you complete your print jobs at any time. The Ender 5 can print as fast as 80mm/s without affecting the quality of the model. It features a build area of 220 x 220 x 300mm. Pairing your Ender 5 Plus with a Raspberry Pi SBC allows you to integrate remote monitoring and control of your printer via a program like OctoPrint.

This is set for my most common print temperatures so you may want to change the bed_temp and ext_temp variables. I also have the CURA purge line included as a separate macro because I like it for priming the nozzle. You can include anything you want your printer to do on the start of a print and the beauty part is you don’t need to reslice if you make a change here because the actions are controlled by the Klipper config, not the slicer. You could make both these commands one macro or use a different priming method. Besides the larger volume, the Ender 5 Plus also includes a BLTouch auto bed leveling sensor and an end-of-the-filament sensor. Over time, this can cause the cabling to fray, malfunction, and become a fire hazard. A bed cable strain relief mod is a simple, but vital tweak to the Ender 5 Plus. Magnet beds do not hold the spring steel print surface plate as well as an adhesive magnet sheet, this is mainly because you are holding smooth metal on smooth metal versus smooth metal onto a grippy plastic surface

For most users, it’s a rare occurrence to build that big of a project, and in most cases, it can be accommodated by printing in parts and bonding. But makers are very often not easily satisfied people. Absolute carnage. This means it will heat first and then probe so the entire point of the exercise is voided.