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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 2 weeks ago by McSneaky

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 3 weeks ago by Jakub

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 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 7 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 7 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 8 months 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 8 months ago by McSneaky

WIP: Belts tensioning

Maintenance

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

Updated 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 10 months ago by McSneaky

Software

Old printers

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

Updated 10 months 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 10 months ago by McSneaky