WEBVTT 00:00:00.060 --> 00:00:05.460 any cubic has sent over a 3D printer 00:00:03.060 --> 00:00:09.720 this one I'm actually quite excited about as well I mean I just love 3D 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:14.340 printers in general but this one for the price that it costs and for the features 00:00:11.639 --> 00:00:19.800 that it has is probably going to be the best entry level printer I have seen I'm 00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:23.460 very excited so thanks to any cubic for sponsoring this video and let's see what 00:00:22.140 --> 00:00:30.060 they sent us got our assembly instructions so quite 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:34.680 quite the booklet it's all nicely laid out in 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:37.380 foam Packaging got all our little bits 00:00:34.680 --> 00:00:43.620 and Bobs let's just get in there and start taking it apart this one does ship 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:45.780 semi-disassembled most of the base plate 00:00:43.620 --> 00:00:50.160 is going to be all together and then we pretty much 00:00:47.460 --> 00:00:53.940 just have to stuff the top axis on top of it nice thing about this one is it 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.660 comes with this textured metal magnetic build plate so that'll pop off really 00:00:55.800 --> 00:01:02.820 nice now you just put your parts right off and then we get to the main event 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:08.220 the bottom plate let's see if I can get this out without destroying everything 00:01:04.140 --> 00:01:10.380 okay that's easier we have a USB stick 00:01:08.220 --> 00:01:14.460 so we'll have our firmware and our profiles for Cura which I believe this 00:01:12.119 --> 00:01:19.979 uses there we go yeah it's a little USB stick and it even has a little SD card 00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:22.920 reader slot on the side spare nozzle 00:01:19.979 --> 00:01:25.920 what size is this spare 0.4 millimeter nozzle probably comes along with 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:30.060 attached we haven't quite got there yet and and what on Earth is this oh this 00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:35.880 will be our gstfe lining tube for the Bowden this is 00:01:33.479 --> 00:01:42.180 a Bowden Drive printer it comes with an 8 gig micro SD card there let's get this 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:43.500 out and have a look at our base plate oh 00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:49.439 there's even more stuff I didn't even see out of the way 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:51.659 so here is going to be the big brains of 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:55.740 our 3D printer this design is a little bit different than some of the other 00:01:53.340 --> 00:02:03.240 ones a lot of the cheaper models like like this one run on Wheels so the the 00:02:00.020 --> 00:02:06.540 y-axis here as well as the x-axis and 00:02:03.240 --> 00:02:08.880 which every axis on this run on these V 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:13.500 wheels and then they run into these little slots on the side of the aluminum 00:02:11.160 --> 00:02:17.840 Extrusion and they just sort of Glide along there it's a little bit of quieter 00:02:15.720 --> 00:02:25.020 operation than if you had a ball bearing but it's a less precise mounting option 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:27.599 and it's even less precise than 00:02:25.020 --> 00:02:32.040 something like a linear rail but at this price in this category I think V Wheels 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:37.620 is completely acceptable our hot end assembly looks quite nice looks like 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:39.180 it's a standard e3d V6 and one of the 00:02:37.620 --> 00:02:43.260 most exciting features about this printer is it comes with mesh bed 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:45.860 leveling so it looks like we have an inductive probe at the bottom here 00:02:44.760 --> 00:02:51.420 that's what this little orange protrusion is and that'll detect the bed 00:02:48.660 --> 00:02:55.560 the magnetic field will get in the way and then it can know exactly how level 00:02:54.239 --> 00:02:58.980 your bed is so you don't have to worry about that as much makes this easier for 00:02:57.300 --> 00:03:03.180 beginner any cubic is calling this technology any cubic Levy Q I don't know 00:03:01.739 --> 00:03:07.560 if there's any proprietary magic in there or if they're just 00:03:04.860 --> 00:03:09.900 you know making up fun names but it seems like it's just magnetic and 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:13.800 inductive leveling it'll be good enough and 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:18.300 especially at this price performance ratio upgrading that down the line we'll 00:03:16.019 --> 00:03:23.400 be talking about that a lot upgrading is more than a possibility because it's 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:25.440 here in the base I guess the last thing 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:31.739 to do now is just to assemble the thing Kyle has assured me that the default pit 00:03:29.099 --> 00:03:37.019 set for our LTT screwdriver lcdstore.com come with pretty much every 00:03:34.440 --> 00:03:41.099 bit that you would need to assemble a 3D printer so we'll see if he's lying or 00:03:38.580 --> 00:03:46.560 not I think these are our z-axis profiles this one is blank and this one 00:03:43.860 --> 00:03:51.360 here has a little nubbing on the side of it uh there's the nubbin what's the 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:56.340 front the front has thing with the Dingle ARM nice and light I'm uh I'm 00:03:53.700 --> 00:04:00.959 impressed at all the Extrusion is nice and sturdy one thing that you don't 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:05.519 want and you do get on some cheaper printers is they're really wobbly you 00:04:03.060 --> 00:04:09.720 know it looks like they've spent the budget for this printer in the areas 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:15.599 that matter rather than you know like it's designed to be made 00:04:12.420 --> 00:04:18.060 cheaply it's not made cheaply okay well 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:21.720 I'm gonna disappear and get some more of this assembled and when we get to 00:04:19.739 --> 00:04:26.570 something interesting like maybe I don't know this Gantry assembly we'll uh we'll 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:32.759 see you again bye 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:39.419 and we're back it's another day we've got the printer mostly assembled it 00:04:37.020 --> 00:04:44.520 wasn't very difficult it only took roughly an hour very simple the 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:48.600 instructions were okay they're not the best I've ever seen but they were easy 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:53.460 to follow and all the parts fit into each other there's no confusion all the 00:04:51.479 --> 00:04:58.919 little bags of screws are nicely labeled all the cables for the various axes and 00:04:57.060 --> 00:05:03.419 end stops are all really nicely labeled and it just sort of put itself together 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:06.600 it was great we do have some steps to do now that are a little more complicated 00:05:04.919 --> 00:05:10.380 than some other types of printers because we have these V Wheels you can 00:05:09.060 --> 00:05:14.400 see we've got a hell a lot of play everywhere we're going to need to do 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:19.740 some uh basically traveling and calibration they've given us this wrench 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.840 and most of these wheels here have an 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:26.039 eccentric nut which allows us to tighten them up and make sure we can get this 00:05:23.580 --> 00:05:32.160 slop out of this system one thing I'm not entirely enthused about is that 00:05:29.580 --> 00:05:37.800 it's only driven and supported on one side I guess they've done that as a cost 00:05:34.259 --> 00:05:40.080 saving measure but I'm not entirely sure 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:44.340 this is going to tram up the way that I want it that feels really tight now 00:05:42.780 --> 00:05:49.199 but I'm concerned it's not going to move very well what's kind of interesting is 00:05:46.979 --> 00:05:55.139 they recommend that we take this little cardboard box that all the tools came in 00:05:51.060 --> 00:05:57.360 and bring the x-axis sorry the bring the 00:05:55.139 --> 00:06:03.120 z-axis up throw this over here and then lower 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:09.180 z-axis down onto the toolbox that's sort of 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:13.500 like squaring it I guess and now we've got to loosen some of these screws I've 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:19.259 got the V Wheels all nice and tight now and there's no more Flex in this 00:06:16.039 --> 00:06:21.479 x-axis Gantry one of the things that's a 00:06:19.259 --> 00:06:26.759 little bit interesting is there's no adjustment for the bed at all and I 00:06:24.479 --> 00:06:31.800 wonder if they've done this as like an extreme cost saving measure because we 00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:37.080 only have one support on this side like to drive the z-axis up and down but I 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:43.080 think they've included best med leveling specifically to address 00:06:40.039 --> 00:06:44.520 the tramming issue so what I'm seeing 00:06:43.080 --> 00:06:48.479 right now even though I have everything relatively 00:06:46.259 --> 00:06:51.600 like tight and perfect we can't go too tight because then the motors won't be 00:06:49.919 --> 00:06:56.160 able to move it but if this is your bed what I'm seeing on the nozzle right now 00:06:53.520 --> 00:07:01.860 is it sort of starts here and then it comes in a in an angle towards the right 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:06.660 hand side of the bed and if we didn't have bed mesh leveling there would be 00:07:04.139 --> 00:07:11.639 really no way in this printer at least that I see with no adjustments on the 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:14.160 bed to um to get rid of that but with 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:19.380 bed mesh leveling I can measure all the different points on the bed and then I 00:07:15.660 --> 00:07:22.500 can move the the z-axis up right I can 00:07:19.380 --> 00:07:24.000 sorry yeah the z-axis would come up as 00:07:22.500 --> 00:07:28.819 the nozzle moves to the right and it would effectively get rid of that completely okay we've got the power in 00:07:29.580 --> 00:07:37.560 got a nice color screen on the front there we will start off I guess by 00:07:34.259 --> 00:07:40.860 giving it a home I can hear rather loud 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:43.259 fan not super loud but you'll notice it 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:46.319 from the power supply I guess there we go and let's try the auto leveling 00:07:45.180 --> 00:07:51.900 feature so it's going to home all the accesses and then it's going to uh 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:56.880 hopefully do an auto level so it should do a full 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:00.900 probe of the entire bed and my hope is that it stores that internally so that I 00:07:58.380 --> 00:08:06.419 don't have to you know do an auto level every single print because this is 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:08.639 rather slow especially with the z-axis 00:08:06.419 --> 00:08:12.419 only being driven on one side I don't think it wants to do like super fast Zed 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:16.319 movements but you never need that anyway really for me I always run a boat and 00:08:14.819 --> 00:08:21.539 setup because it does allow for those faster print speeds I want my printing 00:08:17.880 --> 00:08:23.819 now and uh this is a great way to do it 00:08:21.539 --> 00:08:28.740 the shorter the tube the better so by having it really really close to the uh 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:32.159 to the carriage here you're gonna 00:08:30.300 --> 00:08:36.899 have less of that slop so this is a really good setup and a nice trade-off I 00:08:34.680 --> 00:08:42.180 always like to see that the test print I've done I've tried to go sort of balls 00:08:39.419 --> 00:08:46.080 to the wall and they're claiming you know 10 centimeters a second to 100 00:08:44.339 --> 00:08:50.040 millimeters a minute sorry 100 millimeters a second so I've asked the 00:08:47.700 --> 00:08:53.399 print to make it do 100 millimeters a second pretty much the whole time so I'm 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:58.080 excited to see that see if we lose any steps it appears that this printer uses 00:08:55.620 --> 00:09:01.440 the Marlin firmware which is quite nice that's what I use at home too 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:07.320 um you could have I guess then technically flash whatever you wanted but I don't know and that also means 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:14.700 that you can pretty much use whatever slicing software and hosts you want for 00:09:10.560 --> 00:09:17.820 me I like PDA host or repetir or rapper 00:09:14.700 --> 00:09:20.820 day it's uh it's nice for machine 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:22.860 control I run my machines at home via 00:09:20.820 --> 00:09:27.660 USB so I don't print with SD cards because I'm weird don't add me 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:32.220 um the nice thing about that is you get to see real-time feedback of your print 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:36.600 we're gonna be doing this little fidgety spinnery thing which should give us some 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:42.839 indication of tolerances this can achieve and also should print nice and 00:09:40.620 --> 00:09:47.580 quick too it's mostly just um it's mostly just external perimeters and 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:52.200 a little bit of infill I couldn't get the USB connected I don't know if that's 00:09:50.100 --> 00:09:55.560 my fault or if it doesn't contain it but I can't really find any information on 00:09:53.580 --> 00:10:01.560 that maybe it was just a guess on my part but I've got my SD card in now and 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:05.399 let's uh it's got this print 00:10:03.180 --> 00:10:09.420 sliced up I'm going to use Pusha slicer for this because that's what I like I'm 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:12.839 just getting the filament in now we've moved over to the build corner because 00:10:11.100 --> 00:10:16.500 uh we got to do some other filming and this print's going to take 20 minutes or 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:20.160 so let's just push it through manually and then we'll do some feeding I just 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:24.660 want to get it through the Bowden tube and make sure it's not encountering any 00:10:22.500 --> 00:10:27.779 resistance As I push it into the hot end the more resistance you get through your 00:10:26.220 --> 00:10:32.160 hot end assembly the worse your volumetric speeds are going to be because your stepper motor is not going 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:37.680 to be able to keep up and if we want to be printing fast then we need no 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:43.980 resistance that's printing nice and fast so first layer of doing at about 00:10:40.860 --> 00:10:46.079 I don't know 60 millimeters a second 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:49.560 which is uh still pretty aggressive for first layer and it's laying it down 00:10:47.579 --> 00:10:54.600 quite nicely I am seeing some issues with that tramming though so maybe I 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:58.800 didn't do the mesh bed leveling properly uh we're getting a little bit of over 00:10:56.579 --> 00:11:04.560 Extrusion there but again this is all my fault the printer is moving absolutely 00:11:01.380 --> 00:11:08.519 silently so I think it has to use 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:10.860 um the TMC 2130s really what you're 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:16.200 buying at this price point is just a base and a platform to to go off of and 00:11:14.040 --> 00:11:20.820 if they've included all the mechanical stuff that you could possibly need then 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:23.820 you can go through and upgrade it like the fan and the power supply or you 00:11:22.380 --> 00:11:28.440 could get a different power supply or a quieter power supply you could put a 00:11:26.459 --> 00:11:31.980 different firmware on it you could you know adjust the settings adjust the tune 00:11:30.180 --> 00:11:35.820 that sort of thing the software they've included has got some really nice 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:39.839 quality of life features too I can pause the print and it also has power loss 00:11:38.100 --> 00:11:45.360 protection we're not going to test that because I just kind of want this print to finish but you know you unplug the 00:11:43.079 --> 00:11:49.680 cable or you have a power outage and the print will resume it'll reheat the hot 00:11:46.860 --> 00:11:53.160 end it'll re-home itself and and start back from where it left off which is 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:57.839 nice I guess I'll let this print finish and see if the quality is good see if 00:11:55.579 --> 00:12:01.680 the tolerances are good enough I mean minus all the 00:12:00.180 --> 00:12:06.660 stringing but again that's my fault that's not necessarily the pringer's fault okay I'll see in a bit I've got it 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:12.480 assembled we gave it some testing and I spent the 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:15.120 rest of the afternoon kind of fiddling with it 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:18.899 now when you're 3D printing you have a bunch of variables you have how fast 00:12:17.339 --> 00:12:22.740 you're moving the tool the printhead or the X Carriage every 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:28.680 single one of these variables needs to be correct and controlled and for a 00:12:26.339 --> 00:12:34.740 beginner I think it's quite difficult to know which one of these maybe tens to 30 00:12:32.160 --> 00:12:39.180 variables you have to Target to get a proper print or a part we'll start with 00:12:37.380 --> 00:12:42.839 this one here which I printed quite aggressively this was done at 100 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:47.040 millimeters a second which is sort of the upper echelon of what any cubic is 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:55.339 claiming for this printer and as you can see we had a x-axis layer shift so the 00:12:53.399 --> 00:13:00.600 stepper motor that controls the position of this axis here was moving too fast 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:07.380 there was too much tension on the v-wheels you know whatever and 00:13:03.959 --> 00:13:09.899 the computer thought that the tool was 00:13:07.380 --> 00:13:12.959 in a spot that it wasn't the next one this which I was just printing and 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:17.339 screwing with the printer at the time so this doesn't really count 00:13:15.300 --> 00:13:21.300 um and now we can see we're we're kind of we're getting better as we go down 00:13:18.839 --> 00:13:24.360 the line here when you buy an expensive printer 00:13:22.380 --> 00:13:28.019 sort of maybe double the cost of this one triple the cost of this one what 00:13:26.339 --> 00:13:33.959 you're really paying for in my opinion is less variables that you 00:13:31.380 --> 00:13:38.760 have to control and account for that doesn't necessarily mean that they're 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:43.800 going to be the best I think if you're going to be buying a cheap printer like 00:13:40.680 --> 00:13:47.040 this there's going to be a long learning 00:13:43.800 --> 00:13:49.920 curve even for me just getting the V 00:13:47.040 --> 00:13:56.100 Wheels to be the exact correct tension so that there wasn't sag on the far side 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:59.240 of the axis and that the z-axis height 00:13:56.100 --> 00:14:02.040 adjust was actually moving both of them 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:06.120 on the first couple prints here I didn't have them tensioned quite correctly and 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:13.620 so when the z-axis height adjust was moving 00:14:09.660 --> 00:14:16.620 the exit Carriage it was just pulling 00:14:13.620 --> 00:14:18.839 this side up and down and this side was 00:14:16.620 --> 00:14:22.500 not really moving that much so this this came off the printer and you know 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:26.880 they're all free but it's got some blobs and things I was uh playing with the 00:14:24.660 --> 00:14:31.920 retraction settings quite a lot there seems to be some issues with over 00:14:28.500 --> 00:14:34.800 Extrusion it likes to blob that could be 00:14:31.920 --> 00:14:39.839 this filament but it's new and it's dried we can see some under Extrusion 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:45.959 artifacts along this side here which is very interesting 00:14:42.600 --> 00:14:49.800 and yeah a lot of stringiness I will 00:14:45.959 --> 00:14:51.660 give credit to the bed the bed works 00:14:49.800 --> 00:14:56.639 extremely well um this nice rough surface it's not 00:14:54.240 --> 00:15:00.540 peeling everything's stuck to it really quite well 00:14:57.800 --> 00:15:05.279 one quality of light feature that I think it's missing is end stops along 00:15:03.300 --> 00:15:11.639 the back side so that when you put the bed on it's sort of square I was Finding 00:15:08.519 --> 00:15:14.760 on having to grab the the hot 60 degree 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:17.100 bed just to like get it straight the 00:15:14.760 --> 00:15:20.820 only problem is that this printer is two hundred dollars uh it's even cheaper 00:15:19.380 --> 00:15:26.880 right now as it's offered as an early bird thing that's incredibly good value 00:15:23.820 --> 00:15:29.100 for what you get you get a uh you get a 00:15:26.880 --> 00:15:33.660 3D printer for 200 bucks I guess for 200 this is a fine printer that can you know 00:15:32.160 --> 00:15:38.519 squirt plastic where you want it to squirt the problem is that if you're a 00:15:37.079 --> 00:15:43.680 little more advanced you might not have this as a as a good base for the long 00:15:41.160 --> 00:15:47.880 run but for 200 bucks it's a great gateway drug into the 3D printing Hobby 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:51.779 and as you've only spent two hundred dollars you've still got loads of money 00:15:49.260 --> 00:15:54.480 left over to go buy like a 600 touch screen toaster 00:15:52.980 --> 00:15:57.660 um Sarah did a review of that you can check out here thanks to any cubic for 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:03.500 sponsoring this video they make a lot lot of other good stuff too check it out 00:16:00.420 --> 00:16:03.500 thanks bye