Ender 3 Pro - Marlin firmware extra features + filament sensor + 3D / BL touch bed leveling sensor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2021
- Welcome back to Aurora Tech Channel, I’m Aurora Lung from Danville, California. In my last video, I added a few upgrades to the printer, including a dual gear metal extruder, a Capricorn PTFE tube, belt tensioners, a spring steel sheet PEI print surface, some better quality springs for the print bed and some free printable upgrades. After these upgrades were added, the printer works better and is printing better in terms of filament extrusion.
All these upgrades are quite simple and don’t require any firmware change.
In this video, we will focus on the firmware and add some great features that came with Marlin but aren’t enabled by default. The one I like most is the real time retraction tuning that lets you override the retraction settings you set in your slicer.
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3D Printed parts:
Ender-3 / Ender-5 BLtouch mount:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:481...
Extended 3D touch mount:
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Ender-3 Pro Filament sensor mount:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:485...
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Ender-5 Pro Upgrades: (3D touch Bed Leveling Sensor / Filament Sensor)
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3D touch leveling sensor testing (Compared with CR-6 SE sensor and BL touch):
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Disclaimer:
The purpose of making this video is to share what I did to update the firmware to make it works on my printer. Since the manufacturer may change the hardware configuration from time to time, the firmware that works on my printer may NOT work on yours. Please use it at your own risk, in case it doesn't work, I am not able to provide support to identify your problem. Thank you!
(Use it at your own risk)
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You’re great at explaining things and don’t talk 200 miles an hour like the other people teaching about this stuff
Thank you so much for your nice comment. I'm happy you found this video helpful!
As I said several times before I'm impressed about your professional presentation. No adult youtuber will do it better. Aurora is a perfect presenter and her brother an ingenious video editor.
More I can't say ...
being an adult is not related to age lol. This was so descriptive, thank you for making it easy to follow.
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Young lady thank you for your clear and concise explanations it is a real pleasure to listen to you. At the age of 70 I have just bought my first 3D printer and I admit I was finding it all a bit too much at first but slowly I am getting there.
I just wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for the invaluable lessons that you provided in this video. Thanks to your expertise, I was able to solve a problem that had been plaguing me for days, despite following step-by-step instructions from other TH-camrs.
I am truly amazed and grateful for the additional configurations that you recommended, which I had no idea that I needed, and that were not mentioned by other TH-camrs who speak Spanish (I am from Chile). Your intelligence and skills are truly remarkable, especially considering your age. You have a gift for teaching and explaining complex topics in a way that is easy to understand.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world and helping people. Keep up the excellent work.
Aurora, you are so gifted at presenting the material and helping others. Thank you so much!
You've taught me so much! I'm new to 3D printing and I've enhanced my printer's firmware thanks to your perfect explanations. I'm so impressed by you and very glad you are making these videos. Keep them coming 💪
Honestly, cannot thank you enough. I took about a month to try and get the BLTouch to work, and I was about to give up, until I followed the step by step advice you provided, and it worked straight away. Also, nice touch on re-crimping the end that connects to the motherboard, it worked a treat!
I read a number of articles and watched a number of videos. This was the best by far. Clear, detailed, well paced, and just easy to follow. I wasn't too be is her when I grow up
Wow...Just WOW! You have impressed me beyond belief. Keep up the great work and dont burn yourself out. We are not going anywhere :) By far the best videos, focused on the subject, and spoken at a clear and steady speed. Great Job!!!!
Well done Aurora!
Keep printing!
Thank you very much for helping me sort out my ABL problems. And for pointing out the other features in Marlin I can enable. There are a lot of brilliant people who aren't able to make their thoughts clear to others. Obviously, you don't have that problem! Kudos and thanks again.
the professional mannerisms and how you talk is great just the right pace very informative, got a new subscriber from me ive been showing all my friends this channel keep up the good work!
I have searched for days on how to set my BLTouch up with no success. I watched this video once and was able to do it. Amazing presentation. I will be sharing this on Reddit and other websites for any who have questions. Well done, you should be a top 3d printing channel.
This is exactly what I needed to enable missing features in the ender 3 pro interface. Thank you!
Honestly, the best video I've seen for setting the touch z offset. Thank you!
This is one of the best how to videos I've ever seen. Absolutely lovely delivery, thank you!
You're the best! very clear and accurate info got me back up and running in no time! This is not my first time flashing the new firmware and i stumbled upon your video today and i have to say its the best one yet! Appreciate it
Impressive and professional. I am grateful for your videos. Best information and presentation on the Creality products I've seen.
For those who are struggling to find out what type of drivers your Creality motherboard is using you can refer to the below Information provided by TH3D on their website: support.th3dstudio.com/helpcenter/creality-v4-2-x-board-driver-codes/
The letters written on the card reader slot (with marker) are different depending on which stepper driver it has. These are for the ones 4.2.X board with STM32F103RET6 controller:
C = HR4988
E = A4988
A = TMC2208
B = TMC2209
H = TMC2225
I wish I could give more likes! Your settings fixed my BLTouch issues! Thank you so much for your hard work!
Just wow... you have a very bright future ahead of you. Keep up the great work!
This is great info, exactly what I've been looking to do with my firmware. Very well done.
After hours of failure I apprehensively clicked on your ender5pro 3d Touch video. I followed your instructions like a child learning the alphabet and 💥 it worked. Thanks kid! You've got a bright future.
Excellent. Good work!! - I've followed your video which was explained really well and now my printer has a lot more functionality. 👍👍
Thank you! I've been trying to upgrade my Ender 3 Pro and you explained everything perfectly! It's working again! :) Subscribed!
You and your brother are very impressive. You both are doing a fantastic job. KUDO's to your parents. You both represent them well. I am sure they are very proud of you.
Thank you so much for this video, it's the only way i was able to get my bltouch to work properly.
Thank you! I was finally able to get my BLTouch working correctly. You showed me what I was missing when changing settings in the firmware. I have watched so many videos and compiled the firmware so many times... I was on the verge of buying the CR6-SE so I didn't have to mess with the bed leveling hassle. Awesome job, keep up the good work!
the best tutorial for 3D printer Ever
Wow. all of the information i've been looking for in one place. you're awesome! thank you.
It's cool you are doing the exact journey I have. My next steps are Orbiter Extruder with V6 hotend, BLT and runout sensor. I have done dual Z, SKR Mini E3 MB and have experimented with direct drive, the extruder motor is too heavy and dual Z really did nothing for rigidity. I tried trading a Z motor for the extruder and it got too hot, also even the dual gear extruder started missing steps. Haven't finished the Orbiter Mod just yet, but figured I would add BLT and runout while it's down. This video is perfect for help there! Thanks for sharing, I'm subbing for sure!
Yet another great video.
I will have to give the Marlin compile a try. Besides enable all the new features you show in the video, I also want to change what the printer does, when I cancel a print.
Right now, it just stops where it is, with the nozzle on the print.
I want the nozzle to move away from the print when I cancel. So I will have to do some research on Marlin, to see if it's possible to define that behavior as default.
Excellent Job!! thanks for all the help! fixed all i needed with the firmware changes
Thankyou I was searching for a clear 3d touch installation
So clear and easy to follow, Thank you.
Great work.
Child right now you are my new Master, Thank for the teachings
Great video. I always comeback to it when i need to make a new marlin build for my ender.
Aurora, you and your brother have a great future in tech and/or in training. You're presentations are always crystal clear (both in organization and in the fundamentals of presenting [clearly spoken, paced well, etc]); your logic is sound; even your statistical analysis is completely accurate (I'm thinking of the touch sensor comparisons), including (in your CR-Touch section) the fact that you have a sample size of 1 device. Your brother's editing is superb.
I was just looking at how to pull the data from my CR-Touch that I brought up last night, and I just figured that out. I'll do my own analysis to compare.
One question: in Marlin 2.1 I don't see the BED_LEVEL_CORNERS at all. Has this been renamed or removed? I didn't see anything similar. As it is, I use movement to go to the appropriate spots, but it would be nice to have that movement automated.
That gave me pause as well! Check "TRAMMING" instead of "CORNERS".
GD! what an excellently explained firmware upgrade video! i feel like i can code anything now.
You're a GENIUS !! Well Explained !! Works Great !! Thanks for the video !!
thanks to you now i know how to use VScode. i watch you and teaching tech. it really opened up new posibilities on my 3D printer
You are amazing! Thank you for this video, this really helped me out with my Ender 3.
Thank you for your effort your tutorial rocks
Damm girl you know your stuff, keep it up i see great things in your future.
New sub here
That was an excellent video. I am impressed.
Great video as always
Thanks for sharing :-)
Very helpful, thank you so much
Your the best keep up the fantastic videos
Thank you very much for this excellent Tutorial and your Explanations from Germany! Even with my english very good to understand! 👍🙂
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for this, I reached out to Creality for a more accurate firmware and I was told that I can only use one or the other, NOT both... Well we just proved them wrong... I'm currently running the CR touch as well as the factory filament detection sensor from the CR-10... everything works together with no issues and I'm loving the extra features
These manufacturers are so lazy. A professional company could accomplish this step so easily. Creality just re-skins vanilla Marlin and call it a day.
Hi Love your videos. Was wondering when you will put out more content regarding the ender 3 pro? Keep up the good work!
Realy a very good and easy tutorial on FW upgrade. I did foir version 2.1.2 and it worked perfect! Im using the 'default' LCD display because I didn't discover how to upgrade these FW using the "3D pad mini" (TJC4827x343_011), ender's display.
Amzing Professionalism! Well done!
Question: I know this is older, but any chance you have the list of changes in text format or notes that you might post? You presented perfectly, but my eyes stuggle on the actual recommned changes.
You have a bright future, not just in understanding all this, but in your amazing presentation skills.
Agen learning new things 👌👍
Really fantastic present. Super easy to follow.
By the way, I’m wondering is there is a way to install this on new ender 3 with new chip, GD32??
Thanks
Have you thought about printing a new fan duct or installing the Klipper firmware? Would be pretty cool videos to see.
Wonderful video. The only thing you missed was "z offset probe wizard" otherwise someone, You, put everything needed for the ender 3, in one video. GREAT JOB !!
Merci pour cette vidéo, très beau et bon travail
Merci, content que ça te plaise
Hello Aurora ... A great video ... Could you please also show one where a CR Touch was installed and entered in Marlin ? That would be really awesome ...
Thanks a lot from Germany
The instructions on Marlin in this video should be referenced in the prior video for the Ender 5 Pro. The new BLTouch connector especially makes a huge difference. A simple pinned comment or a line in the description explaining to see this video if you have the new connector should suffice. I have been going nuts thinking I did something wrong following your old instructions, even tried editing config files multiple times and on multiple marlin versions. And the problem was the line about the “Z min probe uses z min endstop pin” that is addressed here.
very good video, well done !
Update: in Marlin V2.1.2 the "level_bed_corners" is named "LCD_BED_TRAMMING"
THANK you! i could not find it!
Excellent video little Miss. Thank you for making this. You rescued me from hours of googling last night trying to figure out how to get firmware to use both a run-out sensor and 3D Touch with a new Ender 3 that has the 4.2.2 board. Only Ender 3 V2 had the firmware for both but i didnt want to chance bricking my ender using the firmware for V2.
If you try building this today in the platformio extension.. it might complain about FAN_SOFT_PWM not being enabled.. I enabled it and then I was able to compile the files. Also "Level Corners" now appears as "Bed Tramming"
The filament sensor mount you linked isnt the same one youre using in the video with the wheel. Can you upgrade the link please? I have the same sensor as you and cant find a wheel/sensor mount model that uses the same exact sensor.
So I ran into first layer adhesion issures now that I installed the 3DTouch.. and having a heck of a time leveling the bed. Two questions: Should the beds knobs be completely tight before doing the auto home and bed leveling, or should the be loose to the point where the knobs are about to fall off? None of these bed leveling videos ever mention how tight/loose the knobs should be before attempting to level it . Isnt there a default state? Like completely tight and then loosen one whole rotation? Second question.. Do you use the bltouch auto bed leveling before every print? I ran it after leveling the bed and doing the z-offset value. but still had issues printing.. The nozzle was even hitting the bed. Just cant figure out the right offset value. the value I got was lower than yours.. like -2.20 so I think my bed was too high.. level but too high. Seems my bed is either too low or too high when i do the z-offset manual tuning by lowering it to the bed. Ive been trying to fix this all day today.. Then my 3dtouch started malfunctioning and wouldnt retract its needle when i told it to.
Hello Aurora, first off, thank you! I have been at it for a day and a half trying to get the BLTouch setup and your vidoe did that trick. I am having one issue I was hoping you might be able to help me with. When I get to the part to level the bed manually the extruder is so far away from every corner that every knob is completely down and it still is not touching. I tried to jump ahead to set the z offset hoping that might bring it down but once I go back to try the manual bed leveling the extruder is still too far away from the bed. Any ideas on how to resolve this? I even tried a sample print to see what it would do and I had to baby step it down a good amount before the filament would stick to the bed and the Z offset is set and stored but not going to the point I set it at.
great video! i am sorry to say im currently stuck at the choosing processor of the board option. i have a "GD32F303RET6" and thats not on the alienhead dropdown menu. was wondering if there was a way around that... thanks in advance!
This helped me get my new printer started so thank you for that. I did encounter something unexpected, though. I have an Ender 3 Pro with a 4.2.7 mainboard. The compiler balked with an error "FAN_SOFT_PWM is required. Enable it to continue." I did that and got a successful compile but I'm not sure if that feature affects anything else.
Hi Aurora, this video was incredibly well done, thank you!! Quick question, after you complete the build, should the .pio folder automatically appear in the marlin folder? I don't see it in there and I'm a bit lost. I tried exporting it but that didn't seem to do much either. Thanks so much in advance!!
how to enable power recovery on ender 3 pro marlin? can you cover that in future video?
Great video thanks a lot
Hi Aurora , your videos are great!!
One question: it would be worth change to v4.2.7?
Aurora, when I open and make the adjustments to the configuration.h & configuration_adv.h, I do not see anything above PIO Home? I see that you have access to "Project Tasks" and "Quick Access" Menu's. Is there a setting I'm missing? Thank you for your help and your videos. You explain it well enough, that this 50 year old man is able to learn about Marlin, upgrades and everything else!!! ;)
Did you install the Platform IO extension?
your are awesome thank you.
Thanks for the Video! After your presentation i try to change my Firmware and it was perfect, but i have one Question: I Use the old Z-Stop switch for the Filamet-Sensor! I have set everything as in the video but I get a message that the filament is empty. do I have to switch to high or low in the firmware? By the way I am from Germany 😅
Any chance for an Ender 3 Pro tutorial on adding the BL Touch, Filament Sensor and Creality Spider High Temp Hotend to the latest version of Marlin?
Hi, thanks 🙏🏼 great tutorials one of the best and detailed information I see it, can I do it I have a Ender 3 Max and Cr touch
increible, muchas gracias aunque entendi el ingles con dificultad, me parece una clase magistral, new sub!!
Please could you share your remixed filament sensor and bearing guide for the Ender 3? The link in the description is just the mount (no roller)
HI Aurora, can please tell me which line need to be enabled for TMC driver setting in firmware, Control current settings from printer
Have you tried adding the v2 screen to the Ender 3 pro?
great video and clear explanation. i have question. if i dont upgrade filament sensor, can i skip the firmware modification between 09:50 to 10:18 and advanced pause feature in adv.h file? please respond
Yes, you don't need to enable the filament sensor in Marlin if you don't have one, you can also disable it from the screen even you've enabled it.
@@AuroraTech thanks for the reply. I'll try and post the result here
@@AuroraTech hi I installed today. Works great. Missed to add G29 and M240 S1 in cura settings. Found later in other youtube videos.
Great video, very helpful. My new Ender 3 Pro has a GD32F303RET6 controller board, but I am having trouble finding predefined pins for this board in the Marlin firmware. As a result, I am unable to use Marlin firmware with my printer. Can you provide advice on how to define the custom pins for this specific controller board in Marlin firmware?"
I'm having the exact same problem, I see this was 10 months ago and no reply yet. I was really hoping for a reply lol. But question for you have you figured that out?
very good channel.
Thanks
I am not able to see the exact mount you shown in video for filament runout sensor could you please upload it
Would you happen to have the 3d print file for the filament sensor with the roller?
When i autohome the 3dtouch dosent stop it from moving, it continues down towards the bed unless i turn it off and collides with the bed.
I am trying to use the program you used to edit the zip files from Marlin. When I go to Marlin all I see is bin files, but no zip files which are to also contain the Config examples. Also i bought the 4.2.7 board separate from the BL Touch on Amazon. The BLTouch came in a creality box ver 1.3 for the 4.2.7 board. The chip on the board has different numbers than yours 7( which was for the 4.2.2 board.) are you planning on doing a video to add a 4.2.7 board on a 3D PRO with a 4.2.2 board, and to add the BL Touch? After adding my BL Touch, the head keeps crashing unto the right hand side after homing to the center. Do you have any recommendations as to how to fix?
so the filament runout sensor mount linked here is nothing like the one from the video?
Hi sis thank you for creat this video. It's so useful to upgrades my printer. But print resume option doesn't work.
Hi, I would normally disable that feature as it will kill your Micro SD card, you may also take a look at this post:
www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/j7assf/my_3d_printer_is_killing_the_tf_card/
FYI - In the newer version of Marlin, it's called "LCD_BED_TRAMMING" now and not "LEVEL_BED_CORNERS".
Thanks this helped me.
The printer however desnt stop z himing even after the probe is triggered and retracts, any idea why this is?
@@dreudax3294 You need to ensure you have it setup in the firmware to use the probe and not the Z switch.
@@dreudax3294 Also, check out the wiring and make sure you have the probe wires for the Z stop in the correct location on the main board. You also need to adjust firmware so it knows to use the probe and not the Z stop switch.
@@MaCJaX88 I did all that, and it still wouldnt work. I think either the magnetic sensor is broken, or there is a lose connection from magnetic sensor to the board. Either way, I spent way too much time on it and I have tried every fix other than opening it up and resodering the magnetic sensor.
Anyways, I now do manual probe bed mesh. It has helped my prints a lot. I use 25 points so it is very accurate. and now my filament sticks very well. My glass bed had some dips, and this maula meshing have solved it.
Thanks anyways for you insights and replies.
I am lucky i found this is video very easy create new firmware
how to preheat if i use tramming? thx Atex from Budapest
hi, im having trouble with my version of marlin 2.0.x and it's showing the runout sensor is constantly being triggered even when i unplug the sensor, i am trying to change the default pin for the sensor which is servo 3 to a different input like servo 2, but i do not know how, where to look, or what line of code to change.
Thanks for the video. You mention that a warning at line 743 of configuration.h must have the comment marks removed or the build will fail. The copy of configuration.h that I just downloaded does not contain this warning line and yet it will not build. Any ideas on where the problem may be???
Don't worry, since the latest version of Marlin may be slightly different, if you print OK, you should be fine.
Was this all done with the stock 8bit board?
Hi i have ordered the runout sensor from china finally it arrived but when i was going to print the Filament Guide" with a included runout sensor the file is completely different the in video> Any change that you can point me please to the correct file. Thank you for a great video.
I have a question CR 10 V2 is this the same way I should upgrade firmware on it has a bootloader did it the old way currently running tiny machines also my ender 3 is missing the feature I see in tiny machines firmware change filament option is there a way to add that to my ender 3 pro
I have followed all the instruction but I have 2 issues, When I open up Platform IO i don't get the drop down menu to select which chip I am using, the second is I seem to have to errors at the bottom of my screen which read: "message": "#include errors detected. Please update your includePath. Squiggles are disabled for this translation unit. Could this error be a problem when I load it into my printer?
It is my exact Board number and it's saying is incompatible with board creality 427 then it says use one of these and one of the one that tells me to use is the one that I keep trying to use
I did exactly the steps but when the machine started and I put it to go home it went but the bltouch did not work.
Hi, sorry for this comment. I jsut would like to ask you, if it is possible to download somewhere file, where everything is set correctly.
I recieved my BL touch, my ender 3 pro have 4.2.2. motherboard and I just want to finally print. I'm desperate from this setting in "visual studio code". I don't know what everything I have to set to this code. Please, help me. Thank you in advance for your answer!