Creality Ender 7 Assembly, Setup, Slicer Settings, Review and First Prints!
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- In this video I will be walking you through the setup and assembly of the Creality Ender 7 3D printer! I will provide you with tips and suggestions along the way that you will not find in the user manual, and also take you through my slicer settings to get you the best print results avoiding frustration!
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The Creality Ender 7 is marketed as a printer built for speed. Although this appears to be the case based on the CoreXY motion system, large XY stepper motors and drivers, and high flow rate hot end, it seems to fall short of the advertised 250mm/s print speed. And this is simply due to the fact that Creality has very conservative machine limit settings in the firmware. The printer simply cannot accelerate fast enough with those settings to cut down on print time for small prints.
This can easily be changed and you can get the printer moving quite a bit faster without any further modifications out of the box. Overall, you can get very respectable print quality at ~80mm/s external perimeters, and 125mm/s speeds for internal features. This is still better than most other consumer grade printers on the market today.
With a large enough print, you can get the print head moving up to 250mm/s and the extruder/hot end combination will keep up, but don't expect exceptional quality of your print surfaces at this speed.
When attempting to run very high speeds and accelerations, I noticed that quality is lost on sharp corners (as one would expect) and the printer would greatly benefit from some advanced compensation techniques like linear / pressure advance.
The Z motion system also leaves something to be desired as it is fully cantilevered and the free end of the bed support sags. The adjustment screws and knobs will allow you to properly level the print bed, but it is very evident that you have to unscrew the front knobs much more to compensate. The use of V-wheels on the cantilevered Z motion system was also a questionable design choice. Despite all of this, the printer still manages to make very nice prints and there are no Z artifacts surprisingly.
In future videos I plan to address several of the Creality Ender 7 shortcomings. Namely, I have already designed and prototyped a 3 point linear rod and lead screw system for this printer to eliminate the bed sag and increase the lateral stability of the print bed. After that, I will be installing Klipper and trying to do a more advanced tune and control for this printer in hopes of achieving much higher speeds while maintaining quality. Perhaps a direct drive extruder and hot end are also in the works!
Overall, the Creality Ender 7 is a well built machine with a lot of potential. There are some issues that need to be addressed but stick with me and we will get this printer flying!
Start g-code:
G90 ; use absolute coordinates
M83 ; extruder relative mode
M140 S{first_layer_bed_temperature[0]} ; set final bed temp
M104 S165 ; set temporary nozzle temp to prevent oozing
G4 S10 ; allow partial nozzle warmup
G28 ; home all axis
G1 Z5 F240
G1 X2 Y10 F3000
M190 S{first_layer_bed_temperature[0]} ; wait for bed temp to stabilize
M104 S{first_layer_temperature[0]} ; set final nozzle temp
M109 S{first_layer_temperature[0]} ; wait for nozzle temp to stabilize
G28 Z ;home z axis
G1 Z2 F240
G1 X1 Y20 F5000
G1 Z0.28 F240
G92 E0
G1 Y140 E10 F1500 ; prime the nozzle
G1 X2.3 F5000
G92 E0
G1 Y20 E10 F1200 ; prime the nozzle
G92 E0
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00:00 Intro
01:00 Unbox / Assembly
13:00 Bed Levelling
16:45 Loading Filament
18:56 Slicer Settings
22:57 Print Samples and Thoughts
28:04 Outro
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Awesome tutorial 👌 many thanks!
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks so much! my man
Glad you liked the video! If you're looking for more Ender 7 content, be sure to subscribe... another video will be dropping in the next day or two
Love your video 📹!
Thank you!!
You're welcome those are kind of videos I like to watch they're very detailed especially you go the extra mile and give the settings and do all the testing which I like cuz trying to find certain settings very difficult and frustrating
Very well made video, as usual! The only thing about Creality´s new machines is that most maintaining and/or customizing of their printer´s seems to be pretty challenging or unwanted sometimes. Especially looking at that CR-10 Smart. I canˋt really tell if that is going to be a problem for this printer too, but I would say Crealityˋs designing-team sacrifices these things just for the looks of their printers. :D
Thank you! This is definitely a unique machine but not impossible to mod! I think the nice thing about this machine is that it is about 75% of the way to being something really great. Other Creality machines I've used probably start down around 50% and you have to modify the other 50% to get a fantastic machine. This one is almost there out of the box and I have some videos coming up to show you how to make it great!
I love my Ender 7 but I have some questions. What is the speed setting that you access from the print screen? Are the units mm/sec or percent? What changes should I make to print TPU?
Hi Tim, sorry maybe I am not fully understanding the speed setting from the print screen? If you are talking about the "on-the-fly" adjustments, yes those are a percent. For TPU are you asking about slicer changes or actual hardware changes to the printer?
Finding these for 300€ new now so it seems like a great matchine to upgrade and fix creality faults in it.
This is exactly what I just recently did! Just wish there was a bigger community around it, as I now have to design everything myself, instead of using designs or references from others.
@@RealDids yeah the reviews kinda killed the option to make a large community around this machine, there are some payed Z mods but I'd prefer to find an open source option. Let me know if you find anything cool!
Thats exactly why im here right now lol
So you posted your start G code. What is your end G code?
how to save all the changes ?
Has anyone had trouble with the home settings after levelling? ( The limiting nut is secure on the Z-axis) I've levelled this thing multiple times and the x level is always off by up to 2 m, which is the difference between a perfect level and grinding into the bed..
Did you get this figured out? There is quite a bit of adjustment in the z axis bumper, you shouldn't have issues with the nozzle hitting the print bed
Can I drop that G Code into the Creality Slicer or will that only work in Pusa Slicer?? Any thoughts on doing Klipper on the Ender 7?
Haven't tried the Creality slicer but it is basically Cura... I think Cura mostly defaults to relative extrusion distance and Prusaslicer does absolute (or vice versa, can't remember off the top of my head). So in any custom start Gcode you should make sure the extrusion type is the right one for the rest of your gcode.
Quick question: My 4 month old ender 7 is restarting and ruining parts since two days ago. It just reboots midprint.
Any clue of what is happening?
Check for intermittent power connection... sounds like a loose wire... Look in your electronics enclosure and see if anything looks loose or if you see any power connections that perhaps have been sparking.
Great review, I'm looking to buy Ender 7 but I want to put direct drive extruder, klipper and crtouch. I think with this mods it will be very good and fast 3d printer. What do you think, do you plan to upgrade this? Thank you!
You pretty much have my exact setup in mind! I'm currently in the process of filming the bed support upgrade, then after that I'm going to be installing CR-touch, then klipper, then finally a bondtech LGX lite + mosquito magnum hotend
@@EmbraceMaking excited to watch the video when it is done.
Thanks! I'm hoping to have the bed support video released this week!
@@EmbraceMaking looking forward to it!
@@EmbraceMaking can ya add an direct drive on an ender 7
What you used on bed surface for better adhesion?
Hi Igor, the Creality carborundum bed works pretty good, but eventually I switched to PEI flex plate. I have a great supplier for them and offer them in the correct size on my website www.embracemaking.com
Would the new pad the creality sells work with it?
Yes the sonic pad will work with the Ender 7, I believe they have a profile for it right on the pad itself
Thank you for the tutorial! I am a beginner. I can't find your G-code in the commments. THX
Hi Jim, which g code are you looking for in particular, I would love to help you out. Thanks!
I have had the Ender 7 for about 3 weeks. I can't get a single design to print properly. There is MAJOR layer shift, in that each separate layer seems to walk several mm each time the new layer starts so that each design comes out as a rather flat, long piece of nothing. I've tried all of the layer troubleshooting I could find, but I'm wondering if there is a known issue that I simply can't find online or an easy fix.
Anyone have a layer walking issue right out of the box? Anyone successful in fixing this?
I've used Prusa, Creality slicers and a variety of design sources. I can't even get the CR leveling bracket to print properly.
Is there any resistance on your z axis? Almost seems like the z isn't moving properly and its causing the next layer to crash over and over. Any weird noises on the z when you jog the axis?
@@EmbraceMaking I'm almost embarrassed to reply, and I haven't quite solved the problem. Maybe someone has the solution. The original layer shift was mostly on the x axis moving in a y back to z direction. This was, it seems, caused by the rigidity and pull of the hard plastic sleeve that holds the wires from the frame to the hot end. I had almost given up and then I held the sleeve a bit and things stopped moving as much. I then loosened the sleeve from the frame unscrewed it a bit from the hot end. This removed a tremendous amount of layer shift. The rigidity is still a slight problem because although the prints are getting better, they are now shifting in the opposite direction, not in an XY direction, but only the Y direction, due it seems, to the remaining rigidity of the wire sleeve.
How do I make the wire sleeve push/pull neutral or counter that push/pull as I can't just remove the sleeve and let the wires hand down onto the bed? Tighten the belts? Which ones and how much? They seem pretty tight as it is.
Also, thanks for offering help. Maybe someone else will also find the plastic sleeve to be too rigid as well.
Do u still use the ender 7 and if so the ender 7 worth buying at all
Almost every day. Is it worth buying? There are a lot of "it depends." Such as it depends on how much you can get one for. They are on steep discount these days so I would say yes if you can get a good price and are willing to do a few upgrades. Mine prints great and I get comments all the time on how nice the prints are.
Can ya add an direct drive on the ender 7
Yes absolutely! See here: th-cam.com/video/TFctt7043uc/w-d-xo.html
On my website I have many adapters to fit various hot ends to the Ender 7 with the LGX extruder
@@EmbraceMaking oh thanks 😊 but I was trying to refer to the Creality Direct Drive Extruder Kit,New Sprite Extruder Pro would that work on the ender 7
@@EmbraceMaking can ya add an New Sprite Extruder Pro direct drive to the ender 7 ya think ?
@@monsterstorm78 no its not in the support list of the sprite
@@malloot9224 u have an ender 7 ?
hi, excellent video, could you send me the final g-code of ender 7 please.
What do you mean by final gcode? Are you referring to the start/ end gcode?
@@EmbraceMaking yes bro, star g code it is, but end g code?