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Cartographer probe installation on vanilla Klipper

Upgrades & updates

Disclamer All actions are at your own risk. Modifying the printer in this way will invalidate th...

Updated 2 months ago by Jakub

Cartographer installation with Qidi stock firmware

Upgrades & updates

Cartographer is Eddy current bed probe, which makes bed meshing a lot faster and a lot more perci...

Updated 3 months ago by McSneaky

What and how to lubricate?

Maintenance

3D printer has several moving parts. Main things are toolhead and bed. Toolhead moves in X and Y ...

Updated 7 months ago by McSneaky

Make WiFi work on vanilla Klipper Qidi machines with Tenda dongle and RTL8188GU chip

Upgrades & updates

You have a Vanilla Klipper installed on your machine!? To enable WiFi on the Qidi machine a ke...

Updated 8 months ago by remarkable_sir

Shaketune Klippain Belt Magic

Upgrades & updates

You want to use the fantastic Shaketune Repo for your Qidi? Note: latest version of Klippain r...

Updated 9 months ago by TJ

Nozzles

X3 series spare parts

Official nozzles Qidi has their own nozzle standard (19mm length) which is shared across all 3 p...

Updated 9 months ago by TJ

Loud banging, nozzle crashing

X-3 Series Do's and Don'ts

Nozzle crashing into bed Qidi printers have sensorless homing. Stepper motors can detect when th...

Updated 9 months ago by TJ

Beacon Rev H Probe Installation

Upgrades & updates

In case you need the mount for Rev H check this one out.   https://www.printables.com/model/727...

Updated 11 months ago by remarkable_sir

Signup and start contribution

Contribute to OpenQIDI

Everyone who has done signup has full edit rights. Can create new tutorials, guides, how-to's or ...

Updated 11 months ago by McSneaky

Updating and Flashing the the Toolhead MCU

Upgrades & updates

By Einlander The Qidi 3 series toolhead is based on the Makerbase THR36 and THR42 toolheads (http...

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky

Bed leveling / tramming

Qidi X3 series printers initial calibra...

Adjusting bed leveling screws It's useful to adjust screws, if bed is tilted or some corners of ...

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky

WIP: Belts tensioning

Maintenance

There's cool tool that helps with tensioning: https://github.com/Frix-x/klippain-shaketune > McS...

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky

Movements squeaky

Banging, squeaking and other odd noises

X-Smart 3, or any other model with carbon-fiber rods In case of toolhead movements on carbon fib...

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky

Toolhead crashing

Banging, squeaking and other odd noises

Sadly, all kinds of toolhead crashes are quite common Bed is rising up, doesn't stop and crashes...

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky

Which lube to use

Maintenance

In short, Synthetic Greases with PTFE, especially good ones are Super Lube 21014, SL21030 and 411...

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky

Software

Old printers

QIDI Print 6.5.3: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Yr7Kv44XtYu31TZm2HehNrdMRkszEsRw  

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky

WIP: Max volumetric speed calibration

Qidi X3 series printers initial calibra...

Qidi own profiles are eagerly fast. For example their profile for Qidi own gray Rapido PLA max vo...

Updated 1 year ago by McSneaky