Questions tagged [marlin]
Questions about the 3D printer firmware Marlin.
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Extrusion issues on medium speeds (while accelerating?)
I've recently changed my Ender3's hotend to E3D v6 clone with Titan direct extruder, so I can print faster than on stock. But when I increased the speed up to 70 mm/s for walls and 80 mm/s for infill (...
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CR-10 randomly loses connection to computer when printing over USB
I have a Creality CR-10 which is running Marlin because I have a BLTouch installed. All was working fine until it suddenly had an issue where it would lose connection to the computer mid-print when ...
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BL/CR Touch firmware problems
I have been having serious issues compiling a version of Marlin 2.0 that will work with the CR Touch for my Ender 3 v2.
I have re-flashed the same firmware (with a different name of course) multiple ...
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Creality Ender 3 Pro - Z travel issue with TH3D firmware
TLDR - I’ve just driven myself insane trying to fix what I thought was a physical problem with my Z-axis, but it seems to have been solved by switching from the TH3D firmware to the Creality firmware. ...
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Does updating the firmware on an Ender 3 V2 erase its previous settings?
A few months ago, I flashed my Ender 3 V2 with JyersUI fork of the Marlin firmware and I like the options and settings that are available with this firmware. The author has put out another update (v1....
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Hotend temperature goes to infinity after few layers
I have a "classic" home built 3D printer, Arduino Mega, RAMPS 1.4 with Marlin 2.0.
It worked, was put in storage, and now I am trying to get it running again.
During all of the testing ...
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Separate Z-stepper E-steps
I have three stepper motors each with its own stepper driver. Two of those motors have the same lead screw, while the third has a ball screw.
I need to be able to set the E-steps for the ball screw ...
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How to define bed dimensions in Marlin for custom carriage / hot end?
How would I begin measuring my hotend / carriage dimensions in Marlin to prevent my hotend from slamming into the frame?
I see in Marlin the 'define bed size' parameters
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Bioprinter does not extrude Anet A8 Marlin
I have a modified Anet A8 that is supposed to print hydrogels
(paper : Ultra-Low-Cost 3D Bioprinting, Kahl M et al. 2019).
For this to work, we do not need any temperature-related settings, however, I ...
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Using external stepper driver
I need to add two external stepper drivers to my MKS Gen L board. I am using E1 as an extra Y-axis and that is working great. I have three Z motors and I want to ...
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Help adding additional stepper drivers to Marlin
I am building a large printer that needs 3 independent Z-stepper motors that will home with a BLTouch and 2 Y-stepper motors with an endstop for each side.
I can use the ...
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Odd behaviour of steady feedrate increase
For some weeks I noticed really odd behaviour on my OctoPi controlled Anet A8. I'm using an MKS Gen L board with TMC2208 on this and constellation worked for a year now.
When starting a print, I ...
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BLTouch goes behind print bed
I want to install Marlin 2.0 on my CR20 Pro but when I try to level the bed it goes behind the bed (in my direction on the Y axis).
Here is my bed config:
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Ender 5 Plus manual screen temperature adjustment
I want to get my Ender 5 plus to print at 300 °C. As such, I've edited the firmware and increased the HEATER_0_MAXTEMP to 315 °C.
In my slicer, I can slice and ...
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Receive M114 command while printing using Printrun
I'm working on a project for which I use the Printrun package to serial communicate my G-code to my 3D printer (Creality Ender 3, Marlin firmware). The idea is that I have an external button connected ...
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How can I print in multicolor with Ender 6?
I'd like to make multicolor printing on Ender 6, but it seems that the filament change (ADVANCED_PAUSE_FEATURE) doesn't work (it works on my Ender 3).
Can you help ...
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Stepper motor moving only to one side after reset
I come through this post, rescue a problem with my printer. It uses Arduino 2560 Mega, RAMPS 1.4, and Marlin 1.1.9, which had configured it left it working as follows: on the RAMPS the Y-axis is ...
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Ender 5 with 8-bit Creality 1.1.4 board- Issue with speed of extruder motor spinning too slow
The issue I'm having is that the extruder motor is not spinning fast enough so the filament doesn't come out as fast as I would like it to.
In terms of the specs, the printer is an Ender 5 that has ...
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Height of the prints are always larger
This problem is driving me crazy, no, seriously speaking. I bought this printer this week and started to calibrate for accurate dimensions. I printed the one-and-only calibration cube (20x20x20 also a ...
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Print not sticking to bed
Today I ran into an issue with the filament not sticking to the build plate. However, the strange part is, that this only happens with one filament color (both PLA, khaki, black works just fine) and ...
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3 Extruders on SKR V1.1, how set up 2 in 1 out (Y piece), and 1 single extruder in latest Marlin?
On Anet A8 with SKR V1.1 32 bit board my intention is to use 3 extruders on my Anet A8, 1+2 via Y-piece on single nozzle, 3rd Extruder with 2nd nozzle. Need another stepper to connect to SKR V1.1 (10 ...
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Anet A8 BLTouch bed leveling starts outside of bed
I just upgraded Anet A8 to Marlin 2.0.x with BLTouch, but my issue is when I press bed level the center is not correct, and when it goes to the first point it is outside of the bed.
My BLTouch is back ...
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G28 is not homing to center of bed
I've got a heavily modified CR-10s Pro, and I'm compiling my firmware. I have my own x-carriage with the probe changed to the right of the nozzle. The bed size is 300x300. Oddly, when I do a G28 the ...
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First move after homing way too fast
There are a few hits on my issue title but could not find an actual answer/advice.
I burned my Ender 3 Pro Creality motherboard and replaced it with an SKR 1.4 + TMC 2209 + BLTouch.
Everything is ...
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Ender 3 Pro, Motherboard v4.2.7, Marlin 2.0.1 Firmware reset
Upgrading motherboard to v4.2.7 How do I reset the firmware after making wrong mods?
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Printer shaking - Marlin 2.0
I just replaced the board on my Creality CR-10 with a 32-bit SKR Mini E3 V2.0 control board that runs Marlin 2.0. With the new control board, the printer's Y-Axis moves vibrate so much that it blurs ...
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Prints are mirrored in X-axis and inverted in Y-axis direction
My custom 3D printer prints everything inverted. I guess this is a homing problem as the motor moves in correct direction.
In Pronterface,
if I press -Y — bed moves forward (towards the Y endstop)
if ...
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Marlin is restarting when pins 5 Vcc are enabled and has a servo motor connected (RAMPS 1.4)
My printer uses an ATMega 2560 with a RAMPS 1.4 shield, A4988 stepper drivers and a 2004 controller LCD interface. The PSU is 360 W (12 V, 30 A).
I bought a BLTouch for my printer, but when installing,...
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Sending multiple commands to printer without overloading its command buffer [duplicate]
I am writing a python code for a 3D printer (Marlin). I'm trying to execute a movement that might be composed of multiple commands (G0). Unfortunately, sending all ...
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How to enable Z-offset on MKS TFT28 V4.0
I am trying to enable Z-offset on MKS MKS TFT28 V4.0 touch screen but I couldn't for some reason.
This is the code that I have uploaded to the Screen firmware in which you can see that I have enabled ...
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Stepper Motors getting extremely hot
I installed MKS Gen L V2.1 with TMC 2209 drivers to my Creality Ender-3 printer and updated the software to marlin 2, the stepper motors are getting extremely hot. What should i due to resolve this ...
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BLTouch not covering the whole bed area
My problem is that the BLtouch doesn't probe the whole bed, in which the probe starts from the left edge and stops at the middle of the bed. I'm using Marlin 2 software and this the code in the ...
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G-code wait for extrude command to finish
I have following G-code to prime the nozzle before start of the print.
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What could cause these slight waves on the print?
The model of the test part is perfectly smooth and exported/sliced in very high resolution, yet there are slight waves on both axis. These waves are not visible in simulation. Converting to arcs via ...
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Ender 3 V2 blank screen and LCD continuous beeping with clicks
So I have been having an ongoing problem with my printer that I just can't solve. I don't usually ask the questions on stack exchanges until my problem gets unsolvable. Unfortunately like this one
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BLTouch does not compensate for bed level correctly
Printer: Anycubic Mega S.
Mods: BLTouch, Dual material with G-code-powered switch.
Firmware: Marlin 2.0
A couple of weeks ago I had a print failure when printing PETG. Now whenever I use auto bed ...
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Automatic leveling of the bed does not work
I am trying to run the G29 G-code for my 3D printer to automatically level the bed of the printer. Every time I try run the G-code my printer just beeps and nothing ...
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Marlin v. Repetier G-code flavor
My TronXY X1 runs on Repetier firmware. My Ender 3 runs on Marlin firmware.
I found that apparently code in Marlin style does not always create good prints on a Repetier machine, under extruding in ...
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How to setup Marlin to use a moving bed (up-down)?
I am building a 3D printer from scratch, the bed will only move on Z and the head will stay at the top of the printer and move X and Y.
How do I modify the Marlin firmware to have the bed lower as it ...
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Printer thermistors read completely wrong after changing firmware
I recently installed Marlin 1.1.9.1 onto my Creality CR-10S. After doing so, the temperatures for both the bed and hotend now read -14 °C. I have changed the setting in the Marlin ...
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Should center point of G29 matrix always be zero?
Questions:
Should repeated applications of G29 (auto-level) result in the same matrix as long as nothing is loose or has otherwise mechanically changed?
Should ...
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How to make it so that multiple motors respond to
I want to make it so that the E1 and E0 do exactly the same as the Y motor and I was wondering if anyone here knew how to do that?
I basically just want to make it so that when the Y motor is ...
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How to code for the BTT expansion board? [closed]
Does anyone know how to adjust the firmware for the BTT expansion module?
I am going to be using this(https://github.com/bigtreetech/BTT-Expansion-module/tree/master/BTT%20EXP-MOT) to add three ...
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PID Autotune not working and M92 calibration not saving?
I have a Witbox 2 running Marlin that I got second hand and it seems like nothing is able to be calibrated on it. I have tried many times to get the nozzle calibration to save but it never seems to ...
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BLTouch Creality Firmware works, Marlin doesn't
I've had the BLTouch working fine using this kit and following the instructions it shipped with.
I wanted to increase the number of probe points so I've attempting flashing with Marlin to achieve this....
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I am installing a BTT 24 v1.1 and it appears to be functioning in the 12864 mode with the exception of the top two lines which are gibberish
I am installing a TFT24 v1.1 and it appears to be functioning in the 12864 modes with the exception of the top two lines which are gibberish.
I have attempted to block both the boot and the custom ...
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Can't get Y-Axis to move with Marlin firmware
Just as the title says. I feel like I have tried everything. I am compiling the firmware for Marlin on a Megatronics board from RepRap. That shouldn't be relevant, because I have validated that it is ...
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Why are fast printed lines thinner?
I have run the K-factor Calibration Pattern generator to tune LIN_ADVANCE and found that when K=0, the whole middle part of the ...
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How to specify servo pin for BLTouch sensor in Marlin
I have been through a bunch of different examples/tutorials/other threads. But I can't figure out how to let the firmware know what servo pin is used for the BLTouch sensor in the latest Marlin 2.0.c ...
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Marlin: Why is the extruder stepper jerking?
Environment:
Printer: Anycubic Chiron,
Firmware: Marlin 2.0.7.2,
Settings: FWRETRACT is not enabled,
Slicer: Cura 4.8.0.
When I print using the code below (it is longer, but I do not know where to ...
