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Qidi own profiles are eagerly fast. For example their profile for Qidi own gray Rapido PLA max volumetric flow is set to 25mm³/s, while realistic quality print speed is more around 18-22mm³/s. Some lucky people have reported that they can also go up to 35-36mm...

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

Nozzle crashing into bed Qidi printers have sensorless homing. Stepper motors can detect when the printhead stalls and tells the printer it hits something Doing bed leveling from screen and after it finishes sending "bed calibrate" from Fluidd. It's Klippe...

Official nozzles Qidi has their own nozzle standard (19mm length) which is shared across all 3 printers:  X-Max 3, X-Plus 3 and X-Smart 3 (also used by the Q1 Pro, but it uses a different unique hotend). You can buy them directly from their website:- Copper p...

In short, Synthetic Greases with PTFE, especially good ones are Super Lube 21014, SL21030 and 41150. They are all the same, just different bottle sizes. SuperLube also sell ~200kg (~440lbs) trums, 1ml (1cc) packets and everything in-between If using carbon-fi...

3D printer has several moving parts. Main things are toolhead and bed. Toolhead moves in X and Y directions, bed moves in Z direction Cleaning and greasing rods should be done every month on heavy usage or at least once per three months Also read: Which lube...

Sadly, all kinds of toolhead crashes are quite common Bed is rising up, doesn't stop and crashes into nozzle Solution: Turn off printer from power switch in the back. Wait ~10 sec, move toolhead to center of printer, if bed is really close to nozzle, move i...

X-Smart 3, or any other model with carbon-fiber rods In case of toolhead movements on carbon fiber rods cause squeaky sound clean the rods with soft cloth and "run the printer in". It's normal that they make some sound but it should go away after some hours o...

There's cool tool that helps with tensioning: https://github.com/Frix-x/klippain-shaketune > McSneaky:> Got it working following their tutorial? Or had to hack on something? > MickNugget:> Just a little, basically search all it's files for printer_data/confi...

Adjusting bed leveling screws It's useful to adjust screws, if bed is tilted or some corners of the bed are off It can be done manually moving printhead from corner to corner using paper and manually adjusting screws until all 4 corners feel the same. Or can...

Cartographer is Eddy current bed probe, which makes bed meshing a lot faster and a lot more percise. There are several such probes out there. Most known is Beacon, which is made by US fellas, Cartographer, which is made by UK fellas and quite some of them in A...

By Einlander The Qidi 3 series toolhead is based on the Makerbase THR36 and THR42 toolheads (https://github.com/makerbase-mks/MKS-THR36-THR42-UTC). Flashing the qidi toolhead is a similar experience. They both use a Raspberry Pi 2040 MCU and can/are controlled...

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