OOOOOOooooh Man, I gotta say, I hardly ever comment on youtube videos. But you sir are my hero. You made updating, and explaining how to do this possible. I'm blown away how awesome this is. Well done!
Absolutely fantastic video! For anyone who might find this comment in the future and that it might apply to (small chance, but who knows); I was initially trying to update firmware for a 4.2.2 board on an Ender 3 pro with a BLTouch that was using the Z endstop for 2 pins, and a 3 pin adapter that was given to me by the vendor that sold the BLTouch. To be clear, this was an adapter board that plugged into the LCD screen port on the motherboard, that had 3 extra pins extending off of it where I would plug in the 3 remaining pins of the BLTouch. This would not work, and doesn't seem to have an option in the firmware configuration files to get it to work. In the end, I got a CRTouch that used the normal 5 pin connector on the motherboard, and following this guide to a T worked.
I really appreciate when people type shit out like this. definitely comes in handy when dealing with printer stuff. usually people dont take the time, they just type fire emojis like retards and never update their solutions. thanks!
Thank you so much! I fought with this thing for about 10 hours and the use probe for z homing was not mentioned in 10 different videos I've come across! i learned a lot in that time frame but boy was that frustrating watching my printer crash. Thanks again
Think this is my first ever TH-cam comment - I'm about a month into 3D Printing, picked up a CR Touch Yesterday and have been flashing and re-flashing the correct Creality firmware for my board to no avail. I was literally about to take it(CR Touch) off and go back to manual levelling then I followed this video and boom, there's a benchy printing off as we speak. Many thanks for the clear and straightforward instructional video/fix for me Rob!
Perfect, completely fixed my printer. My screen and printer froze while printing the first layer. Doing this has brought it back to life and working perfectly. Thanks
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I used it on an Ender 3 running a BTT SKR Mini E3 V3 motherboard. I was initially intending on splitting the 5-pin connector on the CR Touch to create a JST 2-pin connector for the Zstopper port but figured there has to be another way - this was it! So, for those looking to see if this works with the same set up, it sure does. I also worked off the Marlin Bugfix 2.1.x file without a problem. When enabling auto bed leveling in Visual Studio Code, be sure to disable mesh bed leveling otherwise you'll get an error when building the firmware at the end. First time attempting anything like this and this tutorial was spot on! Thank you again.
I hope you found this overview helpful! If you have any questions or would like other tips/tricks, just let me know in the comments. If you would like to help support the channel consider joining our patreon account at www.patreon.com/3dprintscape .
@@motorexp If your building with the right board config as your starting point, you don't need to set this. It will default back to the default pin for that board, which is what you want most of the time.
After the changing the settings as you told and uploading the firmware all the X, Y and Z axes are only going positive values. Not even able to set negative values from the LCD. Please suggest any changes required to overcome this issue. I have reset the EEPROM after uploading the firmware. Hope you reply soon.
Oh brother you saved my printer, I was having printer halted issues after installing cr touch, now at least the printer works, still have to level the bed and everything else but is no longer halted. You gained yourself a like, comment and a new subscriber!!!
In addition to your suggestions (thanks again), I also modified the _Bootscreen.h file. The first time I did it was pure vanity; to add my initials to the splash screen. But then I saw it when the printer powered on and saw that it was the fastest way to confirm that the flash took. There is a constant variable called "custom_start_bmp"; where bmp presumably stands for bitmap. If you look at it in the right way, you can see the ender logo comprised of 0s in a see of 1s. That logo appears in the upper right of the VSCode workspace. To make my modifications, I replaced 1's with 0's in the second column from the right (the far right column didn't appear on my printer.) It may be redundant, but I am tempted to add a version number after my initials.
Hi. I have made some changes to the _bootscreen.h file before as well. You can actually do a decent bit with it, including adding multiple screens and adjusting how long they stay up for.
To all Windows 11 users, the search is VS works differently then what shows in the video. I could find what I was looking for just couldn't make it take me to it in the code block. Also if looking for things by scrolling everything in the video is approx 150 to 200 lines lower in the code. I was able to work through the differences and get the Marlin firmware installed and now my CR Touch works as intended. Thank you so so so much for sharing this video.
Hi. The line numbers will change based on updates to the config examples which is why i didn't say got to specific lines. I didnt notice the search function changing when i went from Windows 10 to 11. Hitting ctrl+f while your courses is in the text field should bring up the search box.
This tutorial is too good, I come back to it every time I gotta do firmware stuff. Tryna set up MBL on a crappy old 3D printer at work right now and this tutorial is BLESSED
Just bought a Ender 3 Pro with a 4.2.2 motherboard, added a glass bed, then a CR touch, and the Creality files online were useless that are the latest and greatest online. My display was wonky, memory card would barely read, Ender froze during prints, and it would not level with the CR properly (Z-axis issues). Then I found this video and my nightmare ended. THANK YOU
Thank you so much. After getting frustrated with the first cr touch I had I ended up returning it. Ordered another one and was determined to get this one to work and thanks to you I was successful. Many thanks!
I'm right there with everyone else. I have been fighting with this for the past day and a half and after going through rabbit hole after rabbit hole, I finally found this video. I was honestly about to give up on it and switch back to the stock board. You sir have saved my sanity. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
You literally just fixed my newly upgraded Ender 3 Pro! I installed a 4.2.7 board, and my CR touch went bye-bye, along with my -z movement. I was able to figure out which files to use for my board, make changes, and it's WORKING! W00t!
@@3DPrintscape Oi... I spoke too soon? I set the offset values for the Cr touch to my measured values of -43 and -7. However, when I go to auto-level, the CR touch is hanging off the bed on the left, meaning it would completely crush my print surface. Any idea what's going on? This is an upgraded 4.2.7 motherboard, and I used the 4.2.7 config file. Everything I've found SHOULD have fixed this, but it hasn't. Advice?
@@hilldrossassociateslawfirm6129 Its clearing setting in the menu, the exact wording may very based on firmware/screen. You will loose any setting you changed though, so keep that in mind.
Holy crap you have no idea how thankful I am for this video! I was about to sell my printer because I was so damn frustrated with it, but you saved me! Thank you so much.
90% of videos are real bad, you my friend are in the 10% that are really good and informative. Thank you for this video. Like others I rarely comment on videos unless they are outstanding.
I am very grateful to you for this video. It is the only one I found so simple, summarized and current. This serves as a start for me to make other types of configurations. Excellent video, greetings from Peru.
Thank you! I was having so many issues with Creality's default CR touch firmware for the Ender 3, V4.2.2 board. This video made it breeze to update to the latest version of Marlin. (I was getting corrupted SD cards, and the printer would completely freeze ~1 minute into the print. Updating the firmware solved both of these issues completely.)
@@Nedla How did you go about setting your X and Y offsets when building the firmware? Did you have to manually measure them? I have an Ender 3 Max and cant find documentation anywhere on what to put here.
Oh my, you are actually amazing and thank you for this! Been trying to figure out my problems with the most recent release of marlin for my ender 3 on SKR mini E3 v3 (yeah its year old firmware) and i was just about going to cut the wires and hardwire cr touch to Z sensor but you saved me a lot of hassle, thank you very much!
Appreciate all the help the videos you put out have provided me. I first tried setting up the CR Touch and had so many issues with it so eventually boxed it back up. Got it back out on the printer and after a couple videos I finally got the CR touch working flawlessly. Haven't seen my printer, print this well ever. Really appreciate all the help.
All I can say is THANK YOU! You're a lifesaver. My printer was acting all kinds of crazy after installing CR Touch and flashing the stock Creality CR touch firmware. This fixed everything!
You have earned a sub and comment by someone who does not comment often. You have fixed my 3D printing problems (Freezing and not reading SD card). I only had this printer for 2 weeks and after installing the CR Touch and experiencing all those issues, I was about to be done with it. I cannot thank you enough.
Thanks to you I was able to build the latest Marlin firmware with CRTouch for my Ender 2 Pro and didn't need to use the premade firmware. I still need to adjust it a bit since my heatbed stops at 70°C.
@7:41 If you update this, I would suggest mentioning going to the top of the file after modifying the Name as the Enable BLTouch is actually earlier in the file so if you search you would find the second instance of BLTouch in the file
Hi. Im not following. At that time stamp is where you actually enable the bltouch. I guess the enable is the second instance (a couple lines below) but i show that.
Thanks bro. I've been actively looking for a step by step to do an edit to the firmware on my ender 5's. I had updated the hot ends about a year ago and have been keeping my eye open for a solution to get those temperatures up a bit. I ended up using a stable version versus the bug fix, but for the most part everything went well. That z offset wizard is the best! I noticed two issues that were solved after doing some research, one was that a manual negative z movement was not possible and that a bed PID tune was not possible. As I said, there were some adjustments that were made to fix these issues. I kind of liked how the CR touch did a 16 point level versus the 9 point level, but with a glass bed, it's really not necessary. Thanks for your help!
Thank you so much!!! I was using stock creality firmware on my ender 3 pro and it wasn't letting me use the full build plate. Now I have unlimited power, thank you for this!!!
first off thank you for the explanation and your time. I followed the video get Marlin to flash on the MB See the changes under printer info :) Great CR Touch lights up probe push out When i try to auto home it starts to lower but one it Probe hits the bed it retracts but the Z axis continues to go down making a horrible grinding noise. I have tried increasing the z level then trying to auto home it as it goes down i hit the stock z switch and press the probe which makes the llight turn red but it continues to move down and does not stop
Hi. To confirm, you have both the z stop and crtouch connected right? Is it autohoming in the middle or front left and is this a custom or prebuilt firmware?
Hey @@3DPrintscape thanks for answering, I went back and rewatched your video. Seems that the Marlin website changed up a bit from the time you did the video. I didn't realize but i downloaded Marlin Patched Source instead of the Marlin "Nightly" Source zip. I would get 4 options in visual studio but i tried the one that most resembles your screen. Reflashed the firmware with the options you suggested on this video and loaded CHEP profile in CURA, since then i have had no issues and printing has really just become slice and print. Thank you for your videos and taking the time to answer these question in comments. Def got my subscribe and thumbs up, also recommend you videos in all my groups im in. great stuff man.
Great video and instructions. I recently applied your instruction to the most recent bug fix 21 Feb 22. The initial test run after the edits failed, failure related to "manual probe" line 1079 #define MANUAL_PROBE, changed to #define BLTOUCH. Test build successful! Thanks again for the great insight.
Love the video. Also want to make a comment for others - do not unzip the Marlin files to either a network location (i.e. \\some-pc\some_share_directory) directly to the C folder. On the first you'll get errors about remote directories not being supported. On the 2nd, it will attempt to delete some temp files and give you an error due to admin privileges. There are probably ways around these - but just save yourself the headache and use a directory in your c:\users\username folder.
Thank you. I was struggling with this for over a week after adding direct drive. I had to make a few more changes in the firmware but I'm up and running again.
Thanks for the video after spending hours getting no where I followed your very simple instructions and even found the correct files for the Neo I can now look at the bed level graph in octoprint as well thanks to the tutorial you did on that thanks again
The video is unbelievably informative and thank you for all the info you continue to put out. I for the life of me keep running in to issues with error codes....is there anyway someone can follow along and just send me the file. Just installed the CR Touch and been pulling my hair out for a day and half now.
Most TH-cam authors can be rather long winded. However I come across this GREAT posting and could use just a little more detail with the coding. Any chance you could post another longer video explaining some of the commands you've activated? It's been literally decades since I've done any coding and trying to wrap my brain around the coding documentation doesn't leave me much confidence in what I'm doing at the moment. Otherwise excellent job. I really enjoy and appreciate your other postings for being concise and to the point. Nothing worse than sitting through a 20min video for a 30 second answer.
great vid, just downloaded marlins software and config files and installed with marlins autobuild and PIO.. then i found this, compiled a build with your vid after going over the congiuration.h changes - so much easier when i dont have to research all the steps - cos youve done all the hard work which i just copied! thanks for sharing
just wnanted to point out though, BLtouch is electromagnet, CRtouch is optical sensor - not sure if that makes a difference to how its set up on configuration.h
Hi. Thanks for the feedback. Your right, the sensors work differently but the signal sent back to the board is the same, so the config is the same for them. The yellow warning is more of a reminder to check your drivers. The 4.2.2 ships with the normal and silent drivers. The firmware assumes you have the normal drivers but its telling you to verify there.
Hi and thanks for this video it is very well done and one of the few if not only one I have been able to find regarding installing the new cr touch with marlin firmware! I followed both your videos to a "T" have tried everything and cant get the crtouch working yet on my cr10s printer. I have the v2.1 board that does not have the 5 wire connector so I had to wire it several times using z minus and d11 pinouts because wiring diagrams differ so much its been trial and error and is just really pathetic! I have the creality bltouch firmware installed now because there is no hex file available for the cr touch and I cant get my sd card reader on my control box to read the only available .bin file but even if there was i cannot use the creality firmware at the end of the day because of my upgraded heated bed and all metal hot end is not supported in the creality firmware for high temperatures that I need! by putting in the Creality bl touch firmware at least my y axis homing errors finally went away but the cr touch does not work still. It auto homes and then the z axis goes up 3 times before completing auto home sequence and stops at least 50 or more mm above the bed. I cannot adjust the z offset that much!! but am able to go in the negative direction now at least where as it wouldn't using every version marlin firmware there is..I tried them all! I also have upgraded my bed to a 750 watt silicone bed so Creality firmware is not going to work at the end of the day for me but I just wanted to try the crealtiy bl touch firmware to see if the cr touch would at least work and it doesn't even though it did fix my y axis auto home kill errors and allow me to adjust z in the negative direction now. Question: When I use the configurations for the cr10s which one do i use for the 2.1 board? The crealityv1? or the Bigtreetech skr minie3 2.0? I tried the V1 and it does not work at all so thats why I am asking. to be honest I really am wondering if I am ever going to get the cr touch working on my 10s as I have dealt with this mess on my own now for about 2 weeks to no avail and if by starting completely over with another custom marlin firmware build for the cr touch and then adding everything back in that is needed for my upgraded heated bed doesn't work I am going to throw the printer out the window as I am at my wits end here!! Your help would be greatly appreciated! update1: I just used marlin bugfix with V1 config file and edited it per your video and now my printer gets homing error kill every time for y axis again! when i start the z offset wizard the cr touch will home to center of the bed but will not exit the wizard after homing in order to continue setting z offsets. tried setting z offset manually and z will not move in minus direction again! This is definitely an all marlin firmware issue at this point!! Can anyone at all please assist?????
Hi. I think the CR10s comes with an 8-bit board, so that will make this upgrade difficult. I dont have that printer, but thats what im seeing based on the research. Can you confirm?
Very helpful video. A couple of comments. Can you add a note as to how you "search" within the different sections of Visual Studio - I managed to find the sections to amend manually but it would have been quicker doing it your way via the "search" function. Also how do you find the X and Y offset figures to put in the relevant entry in the firmware for a Ender 3 v1 (with 32 bit board). I used your figures as I couldn't find a definitive answer on the net for this.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback, i will try to work on that. For the x and y offsets. Its the distance from the nozzle to the probe on those axes. I cover it in more detail in a couple of my videos.
Hi, thank you for this tutorial, you made great job ! Maybe you can help me with my problem, I assume that during printing heating of the bed is turning off in some time, maybe you can help me to turn it off ?
Hello, my set up is, ender 3 pro, glass bed, cr touch. I followed the guide and upgraded to marlin bugfix 2.0. X, . If I go to motion/move axis/move z/ move 0.1, I can't go bellow 0, therefore I can't find the proper z offset. Any ideas?******* I just saw your video on Z-off set wizard, eveything works perfect!!!! Cant wait to apply your next video... YOU r the BEST!!!!
Hi. It sounds like the software endstops are enabled. If you built the firmware you can comment out #define MIN_SOFTWARE_ENDSTOP_Z . If its prebuilt, you can disable it with m211 s0 g-code command.
Hi. I know some people still like to home their printer with that, vs the probe. Also, if setup right, its basically an insurance policy incase the probe fails.
Mine says “your configuration.h file is for an old version of Marlin. Downgrade Marlin or upgrade your configuration” what am i supposed to do here and how? 6:32
I had similar issues, had to delete all my files (including downloaded zips) and start again, I think there must be an ant trail in Visual Studio Code somewhere. Anyway this fixed the problem.
Where is firmware you mentioned 3:29 ? Should we download it from somewhere else? Or is it in the files we downloaded with the video? Do we copy the firmware in the sd card to computer?
Hi. Creality moved over to their creality cloud, i cover that a bit in this video th-cam.com/video/r0KEW01QDwI/w-d-xo.html . You can also try the firmware i have on my site. 3dprintscape.com/marlin-firmware-builds/
Great informative video.. i got marlin 2.0.9 running on my ender 3 pro now and got rid of some nasty bugs it came with when i bought it. I also tried the CR touch part.. the major problem seems to be when it wants to do the 9 points measurement it moves the CR so far left that it's off the bed. I tried NOZZLE_TO_PROBE_OFFSET but it doesn't seem to make any difference.. i ready about clearing the eeprom and bed settings.. so will take a look at that later. Keep up the great work.
Hi. Do you have a direct drive or anything like that? You can make the needed adjustments by modifying the #define X_MIN_POS and #define Y_MIN_POS values.
I'm having a strange problem with my ender 3 with added CR touch. The touch worked perfect probably been running it for a year now but yesterday i was printing the dancing jelly fish tentacles on vase mode sliced with Pruisa slicer. (witch is something new i was trying out) printed the dome of the fish and everything else just fine. got to the tentacles and done them on the recommended vase mode. after starting my print i come back to the bed being cool. So I ran another it done basically nothing and cooled down. So I thought i would resliced it and take vase mode off and sliced and the base for it. I printed the base it ran like it was gonna probe the bed then just stop and it sitting a bit higher then the bed. i have a video if you would like to see it. none of the groups or forums get much response.
Hey,.i was wonder do you have a marlin bl touch firmware bc the ones i got on your site made my LCD gargled text. I can fix it but it removes bl touch to work. I need help?
Hi, sorry if I don't understand, I use a translator. I've seen that you receive a lot of positive comments and I wanted to ask you if you have tried the Cr Touch with the E3 free-runs board.
Can you add a part about when the leveling of the bed occurs off the bed? Like the first point after the center is completely off the side of the bed. Thanks!
Hi. Try to clear your eeprom, that fixes that issue most of the time. If that doesnt work, you may need to adjust the X_MIN_POS and Y_MIN_POS in the firmware.
Just stumbled across your video. Very straightforward I am looking to update firmware for Ender 3 Max Neo I ended up corrupting the stock firmware after installing sprite pro extruder. I do see the max neo as option. I also am looking for specific offset locations in the code. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi. I would start with a printer config example that is close to your printer and has the same board. The main thing here is the board needs to be the same. Then, update the build size and any other settings.
@@khoinguyen1963 The instructions say to remove it but I have hear mixed results from people on this. I removed it and it worked fine, I have had others tell me it had an error until they plugged it back in. Its possible they updated the firmware, and not their instructions. I would try to leave it plugged in.
July 2022 and this video saved my life! Just got a sprite extruder with a CR Touch, wanted to configure it on my SKR Mini E3 v2 but the firmware in the BTT site is all buggy, not working at all, but thanks to you, its all done now! Thank you SO SO much!
Hi, I’ve been very interested in your videos. I wonder if you can help me? I purchased a Creality Ender 2 Pro in 2023. I am trying to install a CR Touch. I read many articles on the subject and don’t want to blow the main board so I began measuring and checking the 5 pin socket on the board. I have Creality 2.4.4s board, looks like it was manufactured in 2022. Anyway, I probed each of the 5 pins in the hope of checking the grounds were correct etc. I read 12v or thereabouts on each pin when using a multimeter. I’m glad I didn’t just plug the CR Touch in. I’m running stock Creality firmware at the moment. So my question is this, if I upgrade and configure Marlin, will it work and change the pin assignments / voltages etc. for the CR Touch or is my CR Touch interface faulty? I’ve built a couple of RepRap printers from scratch in the past but auto levelling is a new topic for me. Do you have a an email ?
Hi. I dont think changing the firmware will impact the voltage. The 2.4.4 board is 8 bit so that complicates things as well. You can reach out on discord or email. admin@3dprintscape.com
Super helpful. I created a great version on Mac for my ender 3 pro. It builds nicely with no errors, but when I try click the final product and get a “terminal process “bash ‘-I’” failed to launch (exit code 1)
@@3DPrintscape it’s not an error code in terminal. It is an error that occurs when trying to export the final code. I have a screen shot but can’t seem to attach it. It pops up at the bottom right corner. I tried everything and people who have had the issue see to be after an update. So I started over on my laptop with newer operating system and it worked. Hopefully they patch it eventually.
Hopefully it's not foolish of me to proceed before I get an answer, but when I went to run the test compile of the Marlin Firmware I had several options including: "STM32F103RE_creality (512k)", a (256k) version, and a couple others ("xfer", "maple"). I'm choosing the STM32F103RE_creality (512k) version. This is on an Ender 3 Pro with the v4.2.2 board. Sound good? Fingers crossed. Thanks!
@3D Printscape not sure if you are still answering questions about this, followed your tutorial, upgraded to the 2.4.7 board, got the right files etc built fine, but when plugging it in, when I auto home, x-axis homes to the right and not to the left, any idea what this might be? When I control manually X axis moves right on plus and left on a minus, which I assume is right, so seems to be just the auto home causing the problem
@@3DPrintscape i think i did the stable version of the bug fix one you did, when i tried to buil the others it gave an error that my configuration was out of date. as the video is no a year old, obviously theyve had new updates, which one do you reccomen to us now? and should it always be under the nightly build section?
Hi. I dont sorry. Im mention the process in a couple of videos but dont have one dedicated for it. You basically measure the distance between the nozzle and probe on the x and y axis.
Hi. Is it stopping when you trigger the probe at all? If not, you may have "#define Z_MIN_PROBE_USES_Z_MIN_ENDSTOP_PIN" uncommented. Comment that out and uncomment //#define USE_PROBE_FOR_Z_HOMING
@@3DPrintscape //#define Z_MIN_PROBE_USES_Z_MIN_ENDSTOP_PIN // Force the use of the probe for Z-axis homing #define USE_PROBE_FOR_Z_HOMING thats what i have. Do youthink it has to do with the fact it wont let me use enviroment STM32F103RET6_creality i can only use STM32F103RE_creality
//#define Z_MIN_PROBE_USES_Z_MIN_ENDSTOP_PIN // Force the use of the probe for Z-axis homing #define USE_PROBE_FOR_Z_HOMING] thats what i have. i also cant use STM32F103RET6_creality i can only use STM32F103RE_creality
Just would like to say that this looked very daunting at first. I would like to ask that I've gotten E1 heating errors ever since installing the CRtouch, I read from reddit it might be the firmware from creailty is no longer able to support it or something like that.
In the Marlin Auto build, it shows 8 different environments. What do I choose? There are ones for USB and ones for maple and ones with both. There also ones for the processor that ends in either RC or RE. Can I find out what processor of my board has without opening the mainboard compartment?
Thanks. After updating i noticed that everytime i turn the printer back on I have to re-level the bed and Bed leveing is always set to OFF as default. I do press store settings but dont even see the EEPROM file on my SD card anymore.
I've tried every combination of firmware, forum suggestions, and triple checked the wiring, but after installing the CR-Touch & direct-drive hotend; every time I try to auto-home or calibrate XYZ, the printer just jams the print head into the bed and I have to turn off the printer to stop it... No clue what I've done wrong, but I'm trying to print some stuff before Christmas, and its not looking like I'm gonna make it...
this tutorial has been great help but i have followed this step by step but when auto homing the prode does not stop the z axis from pushing the extruder into the bed. can you help?
I have an Ender 3 Max, have made the changes that you have input here... but when I go to "level bed" on my machine after flashing new firmware the probe when it gets to the right side of the bed (closest to screen) is sending the probe over the edge of the bed and it's causing it to stop the level and saying it's complete/printer ready when it has failed to get the bed level.
Love the content, yet keep having an issue trying to download my file. Admittedly, no experience writing code & no clue what I am doing other than following your instructions on this video. Can someone help???!!! Setup: I have an Ender 3 Pro and upgraded to SKR Mini E3 V2.0 Control Board 32Bit with TMC2209, and installed a CR Touch. I am using Visual Studio on my Macbook Pro (OS Big Sur 11.5.2). When I go to download/export my build I get the error code: The terminal process "/bin/bash '-l'" terminated with exit code: 1. Any suggestions are very welcomed!!!
@@3DPrintscape the file looks like it was successful. When I try to download the file to put in my sd card, the error code comes up. Appreciate any insights & help based on my notes below. In my VS Code ABM panel, I see the Environment that has a successful build. Then when I click on the build to save the file I get this code: "The terminal process "/bin/bash '-l'" terminated with exit code: 1." The VS Code Terminal reads: "[SUCCESS] Took 310.35 seconds Environment Status Duration ------------------- -------- ------------ STM32F103RC_btt_USB SUCCESS 00:05:10.355 =================================================== 1 succeeded in 00:05:10.355 =================================================== Nicks-MacBook-Pro-2:Marlin-bugfix-2.0.x nickberard$ Session contents restored from 3/20/2022 at 4:02:35 PM The default interactive shell is now zsh. To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`. For more details, please visit support.apple.com/kb/HT208050. Nicks-MacBook-Pro-2:Marlin-bugfix-2.0.x nickberard$"
I've built a new firmware.bin following the steps in this video, but my Ender 3 does not appear to use the new firmware. Instead my ender is using the previous marlin firmware without bltouch support. Is there something I can do to make the Ender use my new firmware on the SD card?
Hi. What board do you have? If one of the creality ones, try to add a number or something to make the file name unique. Also, make sure its not firmware.bin.bin . Windows hides the file extension sometimes and i have had people add the second .bin in without knowing.
Hello, I'm having issues with my Creality Sprite extruder. It works correctly with the CRtouch until I send it to home, and that's when it stops working and responding. After conducting more tests, I noticed two peculiarities. It works when I connect it directly to the v4.2.2 board, but when I connect it to the mini board of the extruder, it stops working correctly. By "correctly," I mean it doesn't activate during homing (the nozzle doesn't drop; it stays inside the CRtouch). The second thing I noticed is that this happens after activating a motor. When a motor is activated, a kind of protection is enabled where you can't move them. It's at this moment that the CRtouch stops working when connected to the mini board of the Sprite. When I press "disable steppers" and remove this "protection," the CRtouch starts performing all the actions it didn't respond to before. Update: Yes, indeed, it's the motors. When they receive this voltage, it renders the CR touch unusable. I don't know if you would know how to help me with this?
Great video! With Marlin 2.1, you need to define the probe type for the compile to work, specifying BLTouch, as opposed to manual probe, fixed mount, Z servo probe, etc. I've been having issues with my leveling, with the left side of the bed (the size with the Z-arm) being consistently lower than the other side, producing a slant in my level. Any idea why this might happen?
Hi there. I installed the Cr-touch, installed the firmware from the creality website, but the problem is, that with the auto bed leveling program that comes with the firmware, my custom fan duct would crash into most of the clamps that hold the print surface to the bed, so I had to remove most of the clamps, but that of course is not good since the surface has not much to hold it in place now. So my question is, is there a way to customize the points where the auto bed leveling program measures? I could buy a magnetic build surface, but that's not really what I want, since I want to use my own surfaces. Hope you can help. Thanks
@@3DPrintscape yep, I shyed away from doing that in all these years that I own the printer(2019), but today I tried to set it up, and it seems that it's now working all fine with the custom firmware. Took me a whole day, but I guess it's worth it in the long run. Thank you.
HI rob, I've followed this video exactly and im having trouble with the cr touch actually helping compensate for an uneven bed, it seems to not even take it into account when printing
Hi. Are you running the bed mesh at the start of the print, if not try that. If its still not doing anything, try to purposely make the bed uneven by a decent bit to see if it compensates for that.
@@3DPrintscape it does run a G29 after the G28 auto home but I haven’t actually tried making the bed genuinely uneven, so that’ll be my next test. I’ll report back.
@@3DPrintscape yeah it looks like that didn’t do the trick either, I’ve hit my stopping point for this project as of now and just went back to manual bed leveling.
I have some problems I need help with. Mt Cr touch is working perfect and I have sett my Z-offsset and that is working great. However since Im´using Direct drive from Micro swiss I´ve had to adjust my HOME OFFSET point and now it´s completely off and I cant get my prints to start in the right position and sometimes prints outside the build plate. Im using latest JYERS with CR touch 3x3
I followed all these steps and I'm still struggling. CR Touch probe does not extend when homing our leveling so the hot end drives into the bed and I have to force shut off the Ender 3. Used the "Self-Test" under the settings and the probe deploys and stows properly then, but not when trying to home or level the bed. Any tips?
Hi. Assuming the crtouch is plugged into the bltouch port on the board and the z stop is connected, i would look to see if any wire is damaged and check for loose connections.
I love this video, i need your help I just installed the CR touch on my Ender 3 Pro. i upgraded my motherboard to the BigTreeTech SKR Mini E3 v3.0 and have download the latest firmware and installed it. when i have the Z axis disconnect from the both ends (motherboard and the old stop) when i home my machine it will only do it in the X and Y axis and not in the Z axis. When i reconnect the Z stop and have the CR touch connect it will measure the distance from the best but print to far away from the bed. I need help trying to understand. Thank you
@@3DPrintscape oh okay thank you so much been trying to read online and can not find anything on this! So I will leave the Z limit switch connect and also when is the difference in the bin files with respect to bltouch.bin or the bltouch-z homing.bin? Thank you!!! I am new to this still
@@alvarezz09 Sounds good and yes there is a difference between the two. If you have the z stop connected and all 5 wires from the bl/cr touch connected to the bltouch port you want the bltouch firmware, not the z-homing one.
@@3DPrintscape I have a question for you when I use the regular bin without Z homing, and everything is connected at homes in the X and Y and Z but it does not home in the center so then I have to disable it so that way I can physically bring the extruder to the center and try and get the Z offset the Z offset as well when I say move the axis, it only goes to zero it won’t go negative. How do I fix this in order to get the correct Z offset thank you.
My configuration.h doesn't appear as yours does. I've followed all of your steps thus far. But I got an error message stating the file is not displayed in the text editor because it is either binary or uses an unsupported text encoding.
Rob, I'm using the Sprite extruder with my CR Touch and I've downloaded on of your preconfigured files from your site. Shouldn't I be able to edit the probe/nozzle offset and then change the bed size (something that needs to be done to make that combo work), copy the files into the Marlin firmware folder then hit the build button?
Hi. If you have a build from the same config file it would work but this is a bit older so im guessing you will need to move all the changes over to a fresh copy of the config and binaries.
OOOOOOooooh Man, I gotta say, I hardly ever comment on youtube videos. But you sir are my hero. You made updating, and explaining how to do this possible. I'm blown away how awesome this is. Well done!
Hi. Thanks for the feedback :). I'm glad I was able to help out.
Agreed entirely this was very difficult to do without this guy
Hi i,m trying but it says incomplete everytime i have a crtouch and the skt mini e3 v2.0
You are a saint to share your knowledge in such a thorough and well-paced way. Amazing teaching skills. Thank you!
Hi. Thanks for the positive feedback :).
Thank you for making this! I have very limited coding experience and was at a complete loss when setting up my CRTouch. Your video was a lifesaver!!
Glad it helped!
Absolutely fantastic video! For anyone who might find this comment in the future and that it might apply to (small chance, but who knows); I was initially trying to update firmware for a 4.2.2 board on an Ender 3 pro with a BLTouch that was using the Z endstop for 2 pins, and a 3 pin adapter that was given to me by the vendor that sold the BLTouch. To be clear, this was an adapter board that plugged into the LCD screen port on the motherboard, that had 3 extra pins extending off of it where I would plug in the 3 remaining pins of the BLTouch. This would not work, and doesn't seem to have an option in the firmware configuration files to get it to work. In the end, I got a CRTouch that used the normal 5 pin connector on the motherboard, and following this guide to a T worked.
Hi. Thanks for sharing your fix and the feedback.
I really appreciate when people type shit out like this. definitely comes in handy when dealing with printer stuff. usually people dont take the time, they just type fire emojis like retards and never update their solutions. thanks!
Thank you so much! I fought with this thing for about 10 hours and the use probe for z homing was not mentioned in 10 different videos I've come across! i learned a lot in that time frame but boy was that frustrating watching my printer crash. Thanks again
Hi. Thanks for the feedback an i hope you got everything working now :).
Think this is my first ever TH-cam comment - I'm about a month into 3D Printing, picked up a CR Touch Yesterday and have been flashing and re-flashing the correct Creality firmware for my board to no avail. I was literally about to take it(CR Touch) off and go back to manual levelling then I followed this video and boom, there's a benchy printing off as we speak. Many thanks for the clear and straightforward instructional video/fix for me Rob!
Hi. Thanks for the feedback, im glad i was able to help :).
8:25 For the CR Touch on an Ender 3 V2 with the included metal bracket, I measured - 46 and - 8.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks
Saved me £100!! Was going to take it to a repair place, but then I saw this!!!! Thank you, my printer is finally working now!
Glad I could help :)
Perfect, completely fixed my printer. My screen and printer froze while printing the first layer. Doing this has brought it back to life and working perfectly. Thanks
You're welcome!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I used it on an Ender 3 running a BTT SKR Mini E3 V3 motherboard. I was initially intending on splitting the 5-pin connector on the CR Touch to create a JST 2-pin connector for the Zstopper port but figured there has to be another way - this was it! So, for those looking to see if this works with the same set up, it sure does. I also worked off the Marlin Bugfix 2.1.x file without a problem. When enabling auto bed leveling in Visual Studio Code, be sure to disable mesh bed leveling otherwise you'll get an error when building the firmware at the end. First time attempting anything like this and this tutorial was spot on! Thank you again.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback.
I hope you found this overview helpful! If you have any questions or would like other tips/tricks, just let me know in the comments. If you would like to help support the channel consider joining our patreon account at www.patreon.com/3dprintscape .
What about the "Z_Min_Probe_Pin"? Does this need to be set?
@@motorexp If your building with the right board config as your starting point, you don't need to set this. It will default back to the default pin for that board, which is what you want most of the time.
After the changing the settings as you told and uploading the firmware all the X, Y and Z axes are only going positive values. Not even able to set negative values from the LCD. Please suggest any changes required to overcome this issue. I have reset the EEPROM after uploading the firmware. Hope you reply soon.
@@skyrctechie Hi. You can comment out //#define MIN_SOFTWARE_ENDSTOP_Z in the firmware or send m211 s0 gcode to the printer.
@@3DPrintscape Great 👍🏻. It's worked. Thank you so much.
Oh brother you saved my printer, I was having printer halted issues after installing cr touch, now at least the printer works, still have to level the bed and everything else but is no longer halted. You gained yourself a like, comment and a new subscriber!!!
Hi. Glad i was able to help :)
In addition to your suggestions (thanks again), I also modified the _Bootscreen.h file. The first time I did it was pure vanity; to add my initials to the splash screen. But then I saw it when the printer powered on and saw that it was the fastest way to confirm that the flash took.
There is a constant variable called "custom_start_bmp"; where bmp presumably stands for bitmap. If you look at it in the right way, you can see the ender logo comprised of 0s in a see of 1s. That logo appears in the upper right of the VSCode workspace. To make my modifications, I replaced 1's with 0's in the second column from the right (the far right column didn't appear on my printer.)
It may be redundant, but I am tempted to add a version number after my initials.
Hi. I have made some changes to the _bootscreen.h file before as well. You can actually do a decent bit with it, including adding multiple screens and adjusting how long they stay up for.
To all Windows 11 users, the search is VS works differently then what shows in the video. I could find what I was looking for just couldn't make it take me to it in the code block. Also if looking for things by scrolling everything in the video is approx 150 to 200 lines lower in the code. I was able to work through the differences and get the Marlin firmware installed and now my CR Touch works as intended. Thank you so so so much for sharing this video.
Hi. The line numbers will change based on updates to the config examples which is why i didn't say got to specific lines. I didnt notice the search function changing when i went from Windows 10 to 11. Hitting ctrl+f while your courses is in the text field should bring up the search box.
When adding Nozzle to probe offset you mention in the video to measure it. How do you measure it?
Hi. For the x and y offsets, you would measure the distance from the nozzle to the probe on each axis. I use a pair of calipers to do that.
This tutorial is too good, I come back to it every time I gotta do firmware stuff. Tryna set up MBL on a crappy old 3D printer at work right now and this tutorial is BLESSED
Hi. Thanks for the feedback :)
Just bought a Ender 3 Pro with a 4.2.2 motherboard, added a glass bed, then a CR touch, and the Creality files online were useless that are the latest and greatest online. My display was wonky, memory card would barely read, Ender froze during prints, and it would not level with the CR properly (Z-axis issues). Then I found this video and my nightmare ended.
THANK YOU
Hi, Thanks for the feedback and im glad i was able to help.
Thank you so much. After getting frustrated with the first cr touch I had I ended up returning it. Ordered another one and was determined to get this one to work and thanks to you I was successful. Many thanks!
You're welcome
I'm right there with everyone else. I have been fighting with this for the past day and a half and after going through rabbit hole after rabbit hole, I finally found this video. I was honestly about to give up on it and switch back to the stock board. You sir have saved my sanity. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Hi. Thanks for the feedback, i appreciate it :).
You literally just fixed my newly upgraded Ender 3 Pro! I installed a 4.2.7 board, and my CR touch went bye-bye, along with my -z movement. I was able to figure out which files to use for my board, make changes, and it's WORKING! W00t!
Glad to help :)
@@3DPrintscape Oi... I spoke too soon? I set the offset values for the Cr touch to my measured values of -43 and -7. However, when I go to auto-level, the CR touch is hanging off the bed on the left, meaning it would completely crush my print surface. Any idea what's going on? This is an upgraded 4.2.7 motherboard, and I used the 4.2.7 config file. Everything I've found SHOULD have fixed this, but it hasn't. Advice?
@@destinibaldonado1390 Try to clear the eeprom. I had a similar issue and that fixed it.
@@3DPrintscape how do you do this
@@hilldrossassociateslawfirm6129 Its clearing setting in the menu, the exact wording may very based on firmware/screen. You will loose any setting you changed though, so keep that in mind.
Holy crap you have no idea how thankful I am for this video! I was about to sell my printer because I was so damn frustrated with it, but you saved me! Thank you so much.
You're welcome!
Me im about to explode mine nothing work
Creality "Plug sd card, plug power cable, power on, and it will update automaticly" right I can play that too... I will become president tomorrow...
90% of videos are real bad, you my friend are in the 10% that are really good and informative. Thank you for this video. Like others I rarely comment on videos unless they are outstanding.
I appreciate that!
I am very grateful to you for this video. It is the only one I found so simple, summarized and current. This serves as a start for me to make other types of configurations. Excellent video, greetings from Peru.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! I was having so many issues with Creality's default CR touch firmware for the Ender 3, V4.2.2 board. This video made it breeze to update to the latest version of Marlin.
(I was getting corrupted SD cards, and the printer would completely freeze ~1 minute into the print. Updating the firmware solved both of these issues completely.)
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hey im having the same exact problem, do you download the 2.1 bugfix or just the 2.0 bugfix?
@@laloramirez3273 I downloaded the latest release version of Marlin instead of the bugfix version.
@@Nedla How did you go about setting your X and Y offsets when building the firmware? Did you have to manually measure them? I have an Ender 3 Max and cant find documentation anywhere on what to put here.
Oh my, you are actually amazing and thank you for this! Been trying to figure out my problems with the most recent release of marlin for my ender 3 on SKR mini E3 v3 (yeah its year old firmware) and i was just about going to cut the wires and hardwire cr touch to Z sensor but you saved me a lot of hassle, thank you very much!
Happy to help!
Appreciate all the help the videos you put out have provided me. I first tried setting up the CR Touch and had so many issues with it so eventually boxed it back up. Got it back out on the printer and after a couple videos I finally got the CR touch working flawlessly. Haven't seen my printer, print this well ever. Really appreciate all the help.
Glad to help
Dude. Your videos are the best, detailed and easy to follow. Printer is now working flawlessly. Thank you!
Glad to help! :)
All I can say is THANK YOU! You're a lifesaver. My printer was acting all kinds of crazy after installing CR Touch and flashing the stock Creality CR touch firmware. This fixed everything!
Glad i could help :).
You have earned a sub and comment by someone who does not comment often. You have fixed my 3D printing problems (Freezing and not reading SD card). I only had this printer for 2 weeks and after installing the CR Touch and experiencing all those issues, I was about to be done with it. I cannot thank you enough.
Hi. Thanks for the sub :). Im glad i was able to help out.
Thanks to you I was able to build the latest Marlin firmware with CRTouch for my Ender 2 Pro and didn't need to use the premade firmware. I still need to adjust it a bit since my heatbed stops at 70°C.
You're welcome
@7:41 If you update this, I would suggest mentioning going to the top of the file after modifying the Name as the Enable BLTouch is actually earlier in the file so if you search you would find the second instance of BLTouch in the file
Hi. Im not following. At that time stamp is where you actually enable the bltouch. I guess the enable is the second instance (a couple lines below) but i show that.
Thanks bro. I've been actively looking for a step by step to do an edit to the firmware on my ender 5's. I had updated the hot ends about a year ago and have been keeping my eye open for a solution to get those temperatures up a bit.
I ended up using a stable version versus the bug fix, but for the most part everything went well. That z offset wizard is the best!
I noticed two issues that were solved after doing some research, one was that a manual negative z movement was not possible and that a bed PID tune was not possible.
As I said, there were some adjustments that were made to fix these issues.
I kind of liked how the CR touch did a 16 point level versus the 9 point level, but with a glass bed, it's really not necessary.
Thanks for your help!
Hi. Thanks for the feedback and you're welcome.
Thank you so much!!! I was using stock creality firmware on my ender 3 pro and it wasn't letting me use the full build plate. Now I have unlimited power, thank you for this!!!
You're welcome!
Total lifesaver. My printer was pretty much bricked until I went through the steps you laid out. Thank you.
You're welcome!
first off thank you for the explanation and your time.
I followed the video get Marlin to flash on the MB See the changes under printer info :) Great
CR Touch lights up probe push out
When i try to auto home it starts to lower but one it Probe hits the bed it retracts but the Z axis continues to go down making a horrible grinding noise.
I have tried increasing the z level then trying to auto home it as it goes down i hit the stock z switch and press the probe which makes the llight turn red but it continues to move down and does not stop
Hi. To confirm, you have both the z stop and crtouch connected right? Is it autohoming in the middle or front left and is this a custom or prebuilt firmware?
Hey @@3DPrintscape thanks for answering, I went back and rewatched your video. Seems that the Marlin website changed up a bit from the time you did the video. I didn't realize but i downloaded Marlin Patched Source instead of the Marlin "Nightly" Source zip. I would get 4 options in visual studio but i tried the one that most resembles your screen.
Reflashed the firmware with the options you suggested on this video and loaded CHEP profile in CURA, since then i have had no issues and printing has really just become slice and print.
Thank you for your videos and taking the time to answer these question in comments.
Def got my subscribe and thumbs up, also recommend you videos in all my groups im in. great stuff man.
Im glad you got it working and thanks for the support @@erickdeleon4959
Thanks for this! I flashed the stock firmware yesterday while waiting for this video. Onto Marlin we go!
Glad I could help
Great video and instructions. I recently applied your instruction to the most recent bug fix 21 Feb 22. The initial test run after the edits failed, failure related to "manual probe" line 1079 #define MANUAL_PROBE, changed to #define BLTOUCH. Test build successful!
Thanks again for the great insight.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback. If your running anything like the bltouch, (so a clone or a cr touch) you need to enable that in the firmware.
Honestly was struggling with a fail to home error - followed your steps and BOOM fixed. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
This video filled in a lot of gaps left by other tutorials, great video.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback.
Love the video. Also want to make a comment for others - do not unzip the Marlin files to either a network location (i.e. \\some-pc\some_share_directory) directly to the C folder. On the first you'll get errors about remote directories not being supported. On the 2nd, it will attempt to delete some temp files and give you an error due to admin privileges. There are probably ways around these - but just save yourself the headache and use a directory in your c:\users\username folder.
Hi. Thanks for sharing this.
This is amazing, thought i had bricked my printer and this got it not screaming at me. Thank you for the very detailed video!
You're welcome!
Thank you. I was struggling with this for over a week after adding direct drive. I had to make a few more changes in the firmware but I'm up and running again.
You're welcome!
HUGE THANKS! My CR-Touch went down no mm when leveling or homing with the working BL-Touch Marlin, this worked and fixed it, thanks a lot :)
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Thanks for the video after spending hours getting no where I followed your very simple instructions and even found the correct files for the Neo I can now look at the bed level graph in octoprint as well thanks to the tutorial you did on that thanks again
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i love you its 7:52 am and ive been up getting my cr touch to function and this video finally helped.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback, im glad i was able to help :).
The video is unbelievably informative and thank you for all the info you continue to put out. I for the life of me keep running in to issues with error codes....is there anyway someone can follow along and just send me the file. Just installed the CR Touch and been pulling my hair out for a day and half now.
keep getting "X Comments are not permitted in JSON"
Hi. I have firmware that you can download here. 3dprintscape.com/marlin-firmware-builds/
Thank you so much for all your great videos. You make it so easy to understand everything. So great help to me. Thanks a lot.
You're welcome!
Most TH-cam authors can be rather long winded. However I come across this GREAT posting and could use just a little more detail with the coding. Any chance you could post another longer video explaining some of the commands you've activated? It's been literally decades since I've done any coding and trying to wrap my brain around the coding documentation doesn't leave me much confidence in what I'm doing at the moment. Otherwise excellent job. I really enjoy and appreciate your other postings for being concise and to the point. Nothing worse than sitting through a 20min video for a 30 second answer.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback. I will add something to my backlog for this.
great vid, just downloaded marlins software and config files and installed with marlins autobuild and PIO.. then i found this, compiled a build with your vid after going over the congiuration.h changes - so much easier when i dont have to research all the steps - cos youve done all the hard work which i just copied! thanks for sharing
just wnanted to point out though, BLtouch is electromagnet, CRtouch is optical sensor - not sure if that makes a difference to how its set up on configuration.h
oh, another thing, if you check your vid at 10:58 -10:59 youll see a bunch of yellow text regarding DRIVER_TYPE, do we just ignore that?
Hi. Thanks for the feedback. Your right, the sensors work differently but the signal sent back to the board is the same, so the config is the same for them. The yellow warning is more of a reminder to check your drivers. The 4.2.2 ships with the normal and silent drivers. The firmware assumes you have the normal drivers but its telling you to verify there.
Great videos, informative, to the point, and easy to follow, thank you!
You are welcome!
Hi and thanks for this video it is very well done and one of the few if not only one I have been able to find regarding installing the new cr touch with marlin firmware! I followed both your videos to a "T" have tried everything and cant get the crtouch working yet on my cr10s printer. I have the v2.1 board that does not have the 5 wire connector so I had to wire it several times using z minus and d11 pinouts because wiring diagrams differ so much its been trial and error and is just really pathetic! I have the creality bltouch firmware installed now because there is no hex file available for the cr touch and I cant get my sd card reader on my control box to read the only available .bin file but even if there was i cannot use the creality firmware at the end of the day because of my upgraded heated bed and all metal hot end is not supported in the creality firmware for high temperatures that I need! by putting in the Creality bl touch firmware at least my y axis homing errors finally went away but the cr touch does not work still. It auto homes and then the z axis goes up 3 times before completing auto home sequence and stops at least 50 or more mm above the bed. I cannot adjust the z offset that much!! but am able to go in the negative direction now at least where as it wouldn't using every version marlin firmware there is..I tried them all! I also have upgraded my bed to a 750 watt silicone bed so Creality firmware is not going to work at the end of the day for me but I just wanted to try the crealtiy bl touch firmware to see if the cr touch would at least work and it doesn't even though it did fix my y axis auto home kill errors and allow me to adjust z in the negative direction now. Question: When I use the configurations for the cr10s which one do i use for the 2.1 board? The crealityv1? or the Bigtreetech skr minie3 2.0? I tried the V1 and it does not work at all so thats why I am asking. to be honest I really am wondering if I am ever going to get the cr touch working on my 10s as I have dealt with this mess on my own now for about 2 weeks to no avail and if by starting completely over with another custom marlin firmware build for the cr touch and then adding everything back in that is needed for my upgraded heated bed doesn't work I am going to throw the printer out the window as I am at my wits end here!! Your help would be greatly appreciated! update1: I just used marlin bugfix with V1 config file and edited it per your video and now my printer gets homing error kill every time for y axis again! when i start the z offset wizard the cr touch will home to center of the bed but will not exit the wizard after homing in order to continue setting z offsets. tried setting z offset manually and z will not move in minus direction again! This is definitely an all marlin firmware issue at this point!! Can anyone at all please assist?????
Hi. I think the CR10s comes with an 8-bit board, so that will make this upgrade difficult. I dont have that printer, but thats what im seeing based on the research. Can you confirm?
How do you even learn how to do this :O thank you sir! Happily printing away on Marlin :D NOW MY CR TOUCH ACTUALLY WORKS! WOOHOO
Glad I could help! :)
Very helpful video. A couple of comments. Can you add a note as to how you "search" within the different sections of Visual Studio - I managed to find the sections to amend manually but it would have been quicker doing it your way via the "search" function. Also how do you find the X and Y offset figures to put in the relevant entry in the firmware for a Ender 3 v1 (with 32 bit board). I used your figures as I couldn't find a definitive answer on the net for this.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback, i will try to work on that. For the x and y offsets. Its the distance from the nozzle to the probe on those axes. I cover it in more detail in a couple of my videos.
Hi, thank you for this tutorial, you made great job !
Maybe you can help me with my problem, I assume that during printing heating of the bed is turning off in some time, maybe you can help me to turn it off ?
Hi. Im not following your question. When you are printing, the bed will continue to heat as needed to stay at the set temp.
Hello, my set up is, ender 3 pro, glass bed, cr touch. I followed the guide and upgraded to marlin bugfix 2.0. X, . If I go to motion/move axis/move z/ move 0.1, I can't go bellow 0, therefore I can't find the proper z offset. Any ideas?******* I just saw your video on Z-off set wizard, eveything works perfect!!!! Cant wait to apply your next video... YOU r the BEST!!!!
Hi. It sounds like the software endstops are enabled. If you built the firmware you can comment out #define MIN_SOFTWARE_ENDSTOP_Z . If its prebuilt, you can disable it with m211 s0 g-code command.
@@3DPrintscape you r the best thx!
Great video. Why would someone want to leave the z-axis stop switch in place? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
Hi. I know some people still like to home their printer with that, vs the probe. Also, if setup right, its basically an insurance policy incase the probe fails.
Mine says “your configuration.h file is for an old version of Marlin. Downgrade Marlin or upgrade your configuration” what am i supposed to do here and how? 6:32
Hi. It sounds like your config example is from a different marlin build, download the latest of each and try again.
I had similar issues, had to delete all my files (including downloaded zips) and start again, I think there must be an ant trail in Visual Studio Code somewhere. Anyway this fixed the problem.
Where is firmware you mentioned 3:29 ? Should we download it from somewhere else? Or is it in the files we downloaded with the video? Do we copy the firmware in the sd card to computer?
Hi. Creality moved over to their creality cloud, i cover that a bit in this video th-cam.com/video/r0KEW01QDwI/w-d-xo.html . You can also try the firmware i have on my site. 3dprintscape.com/marlin-firmware-builds/
@@3DPrintscape Thank you so much. Didn't expect you'd reply. So what we're doing here is like bug fixing the original Marlin Firmware I guess
@@NotBukowski You're welcome, and ya that's pretty much it.
Great informative video.. i got marlin 2.0.9 running on my ender 3 pro now and got rid of some nasty bugs it came with when i bought it. I also tried the CR touch part.. the major problem seems to be when it wants to do the 9 points measurement it moves the CR so far left that it's off the bed. I tried NOZZLE_TO_PROBE_OFFSET but it doesn't seem to make any difference.. i ready about clearing the eeprom and bed settings.. so will take a look at that later. Keep up the great work.
Hi. Do you have a direct drive or anything like that? You can make the needed adjustments by modifying the #define X_MIN_POS and #define Y_MIN_POS values.
I'm having a strange problem with my ender 3 with added CR touch.
The touch worked perfect probably been running it for a year now but yesterday i was printing the dancing jelly fish tentacles on vase mode sliced with Pruisa slicer. (witch is something new i was trying out) printed the dome of the fish and everything else just fine. got to the tentacles and done them on the recommended vase mode.
after starting my print i come back to the bed being cool.
So I ran another it done basically nothing and cooled down.
So I thought i would resliced it and take vase mode off and sliced and the base for it.
I printed the base it ran like it was gonna probe the bed then just stop and it sitting a bit higher then the bed.
i have a video if you would like to see it. none of the groups or forums get much response.
Hi. Can you send me the video, i want to make sure i understand the issue. My email is admin@3dprintscape.com .
@@3DPrintscape yeah it’s definitely lot to take in lol. Video is simple I think I sent it
Hey,.i was wonder do you have a marlin bl touch firmware bc the ones i got on your site made my LCD gargled text. I can fix it but it removes bl touch to work. I need help?
Hi. I do have builds available, i cover it in more detail in this video. th-cam.com/video/t4QE1jPncms/w-d-xo.html
Hey do i have to change anyother other settings in here for a direct drive setup?
Hi. Not in the firmware. You will want to adjust the e-steps, speed, flow rate, etc.
thank you so much! i finally got marlin to build and work!
Glad I could help!
This is great. Very easy to follow and get things working!
Glad it helped!
Hi, sorry if I don't understand, I use a translator. I've seen that you receive a lot of positive comments and I wanted to ask you if you have tried the Cr Touch with the E3 free-runs board.
Hi. I have not used that board but it looks like it has a bltouch port. If thats correct, it would work.
HUGE SHoutout to you my man, this got me up and running! Seriously! Life saver!
Hi. Glad to help :)
Can you add a part about when the leveling of the bed occurs off the bed? Like the first point after the center is completely off the side of the bed. Thanks!
Hi. Try to clear your eeprom, that fixes that issue most of the time. If that doesnt work, you may need to adjust the X_MIN_POS and Y_MIN_POS in the firmware.
@@3DPrintscape how?
@@RC_John Eeprom would be cleared by resetting defaults.
Just stumbled across your video. Very straightforward I am looking to update firmware for Ender 3 Max Neo I ended up corrupting the stock firmware after installing sprite pro extruder. I do see the max neo as option. I also am looking for specific offset locations in the code. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi. I would start with a printer config example that is close to your printer and has the same board. The main thing here is the board needs to be the same. Then, update the build size and any other settings.
Thank you. This worked perfectly for me on an Ender 5 pro
You're welcome!
@Declan Swords when install cr touch, do you need unplug Z limit connector on board?thank
@@khoinguyen1963 The instructions say to remove it but I have hear mixed results from people on this. I removed it and it worked fine, I have had others tell me it had an error until they plugged it back in. Its possible they updated the firmware, and not their instructions. I would try to leave it plugged in.
How do you do the search, I cant figure out how to get the bar to pop up
Hi. Its ctrl + F when in the text file.
July 2022 and this video saved my life! Just got a sprite extruder with a CR Touch, wanted to configure it on my SKR Mini E3 v2 but the firmware in the BTT site is all buggy, not working at all, but thanks to you, its all done now! Thank you SO SO much!
Glad i could help :)
Hi, I’ve been very interested in your videos. I wonder if you can help me? I purchased a Creality Ender 2 Pro in 2023. I am trying to install a CR Touch. I read many articles on the subject and don’t want to blow the main board so I began measuring and checking the 5 pin socket on the board. I have Creality 2.4.4s board, looks like it was manufactured in 2022. Anyway, I probed each of the 5 pins in the hope of checking the grounds were correct etc. I read 12v or thereabouts on each pin when using a multimeter. I’m glad I didn’t just plug the CR Touch in. I’m running stock Creality firmware at the moment. So my question is this, if I upgrade and configure Marlin, will it work and change the pin assignments / voltages etc. for the CR Touch or is my CR Touch interface faulty? I’ve built a couple of RepRap printers from scratch in the past but auto levelling is a new topic for me. Do you have a an email ?
Hi. I dont think changing the firmware will impact the voltage. The 2.4.4 board is 8 bit so that complicates things as well. You can reach out on discord or email. admin@3dprintscape.com
Super helpful. I created a great version on Mac for my ender 3 pro. It builds nicely with no errors, but when I try click the final product and get a “terminal process “bash ‘-I’” failed to launch (exit code 1)
Hi. Can you get the actual error and send it over, it should be in the terminal section and would probably be the first section that is red.
@@3DPrintscape it’s not an error code in terminal. It is an error that occurs when trying to export the final code. I have a screen shot but can’t seem to attach it. It pops up at the bottom right corner. I tried everything and people who have had the issue see to be after an update. So I started over on my laptop with newer operating system and it worked. Hopefully they patch it eventually.
@@dmedeiros81 If you join the discord server, the invite is in the description, you can send the image over.
Hopefully it's not foolish of me to proceed before I get an answer, but when I went to run the test compile of the Marlin Firmware I had several options including: "STM32F103RE_creality (512k)", a (256k) version, and a couple others ("xfer", "maple").
I'm choosing the STM32F103RE_creality (512k) version. This is on an Ender 3 Pro with the v4.2.2 board. Sound good?
Fingers crossed. Thanks!
Hi. The short answer is it depends on the chip you have on the 4.2.2 board. I cover it more in this video. th-cam.com/video/t4QE1jPncms/w-d-xo.html
Amazing video! thank you for all the help i thought i was doomed!
Glad I could help!
@3D Printscape not sure if you are still answering questions about this, followed your tutorial, upgraded to the 2.4.7 board, got the right files etc built fine, but when plugging it in, when I auto home, x-axis homes to the right and not to the left, any idea what this might be?
When I control manually X axis moves right on plus and left on a minus, which I assume is right, so seems to be just the auto home causing the problem
Hi. Can you try a new build with a stable release version/config? Im wondering if the config example got messed up.
@@3DPrintscape i think i did the stable version of the bug fix one you did, when i tried to buil the others it gave an error that my configuration was out of date. as the video is no a year old, obviously theyve had new updates, which one do you reccomen to us now? and should it always be under the nightly build section?
@@RoscoNutting I typically use the nightly builds, but sometimes there are issues and i wait for a new release.
I'm very new to the 3d printing world and these videos helped me alot. I'm curious though, why couldnt the firmware come precompiled per machine?
Hi. Crealty has precompiled firmware, this video is if you want to use Marlin. I also have premade firmware on my site.
Perfect upload! Thanks for sharing 👍🏾
Thanks for watching
8:24 Nozzle to Probe Offset. Do you have a video for this?
th-cam.com/users/clipUgkx6Jye7wlohT65wHzG5CtnHrM0M8Jl9UjU
Hi. I dont sorry. Im mention the process in a couple of videos but dont have one dedicated for it. You basically measure the distance between the nozzle and probe on the x and y axis.
@@3DPrintscape Ok no problem. I linked a clip from another video showing how to enter the offset.
I followed this but when homing z axis moves down and touches bed even after probe trigger
Hi. Is it stopping when you trigger the probe at all? If not, you may have "#define Z_MIN_PROBE_USES_Z_MIN_ENDSTOP_PIN" uncommented. Comment that out and uncomment //#define USE_PROBE_FOR_Z_HOMING
@@3DPrintscape //#define Z_MIN_PROBE_USES_Z_MIN_ENDSTOP_PIN
// Force the use of the probe for Z-axis homing
#define USE_PROBE_FOR_Z_HOMING
thats what i have. Do youthink it has to do with the fact it wont let me use enviroment STM32F103RET6_creality i can only use STM32F103RE_creality
Also your correct it doesnt stop at all when probe is pressed in@@3DPrintscape
//#define Z_MIN_PROBE_USES_Z_MIN_ENDSTOP_PIN
// Force the use of the probe for Z-axis homing
#define USE_PROBE_FOR_Z_HOMING]
thats what i have. i also cant use STM32F103RET6_creality i can only use STM32F103RE_creality
@@3DPrintscape im unsure why my 2 previous replies wont show up
This really helped me a lot thanks so much!
Glad it helped!
Just would like to say that this looked very daunting at first. I would like to ask that I've gotten E1 heating errors ever since installing the CRtouch, I read from reddit it might be the firmware from creailty is no longer able to support it or something like that.
Hi. The e1 error is related to the thermistor, either firmware or hardware related. Check the connections going to it first.
In the Marlin Auto build, it shows 8 different environments. What do I choose? There are ones for USB and ones for maple and ones with both. There also ones for the processor that ends in either RC or RE. Can I find out what processor of my board has without opening the mainboard compartment?
Hi. This video should help answer that. th-cam.com/video/kUIPmVeY7ns/w-d-xo.html
Thanks. After updating i noticed that everytime i turn the printer back on I have to re-level the bed and Bed leveing is always set to OFF as default. I do press store settings but dont even see the EEPROM file on my SD card anymore.
Hi. Try to clear your eeprom. It should be saving it there but if you didnt clear it after the upgrade that could be causing the issue.
I've tried every combination of firmware, forum suggestions, and triple checked the wiring, but after installing the CR-Touch & direct-drive hotend; every time I try to auto-home or calibrate XYZ, the printer just jams the print head into the bed and I have to turn off the printer to stop it... No clue what I've done wrong, but I'm trying to print some stuff before Christmas, and its not looking like I'm gonna make it...
Hi. How is the crtouch wired, is the z stop connected, and what firmware are you using?
this tutorial has been great help but i have followed this step by step but when auto homing the prode does not stop the z axis from pushing the extruder into the bed. can you help?
Hi. Can you verify that #define Z_MIN_PROBE_USES_Z_MIN_ENDSTOP_PIN is commented out and #define USE_PROBE_FOR_Z_HOMING is uncommented?
I have an Ender 3 Max, have made the changes that you have input here... but when I go to "level bed" on my machine after flashing new firmware the probe when it gets to the right side of the bed (closest to screen) is sending the probe over the edge of the bed and it's causing it to stop the level and saying it's complete/printer ready when it has failed to get the bed level.
Hi. Try clearing the eeprom and make sure that the bed size is right in the config.
Love the content, yet keep having an issue trying to download my file. Admittedly, no experience writing code & no clue what I am doing other than following your instructions on this video. Can someone help???!!!
Setup: I have an Ender 3 Pro and upgraded to SKR Mini E3 V2.0 Control Board 32Bit with TMC2209, and installed a CR Touch. I am using Visual Studio on my Macbook Pro (OS Big Sur 11.5.2). When I go to download/export my build I get the error code: The terminal process "/bin/bash '-l'" terminated with exit code: 1. Any suggestions are very welcomed!!!
Hi. The exit code 1 just means it failed. Can you get the full error out of the terminal output?
@@3DPrintscape the file looks like it was successful. When I try to download the file to put in my sd card, the error code comes up. Appreciate any insights & help based on my notes below.
In my VS Code ABM panel, I see the Environment that has a successful build. Then when I click on the build to save the file I get this code: "The terminal process "/bin/bash '-l'" terminated with exit code: 1."
The VS Code Terminal reads:
"[SUCCESS] Took 310.35 seconds
Environment Status Duration
------------------- -------- ------------
STM32F103RC_btt_USB SUCCESS 00:05:10.355
=================================================== 1 succeeded in 00:05:10.355 ===================================================
Nicks-MacBook-Pro-2:Marlin-bugfix-2.0.x nickberard$
Session contents restored from 3/20/2022 at 4:02:35 PM
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
Nicks-MacBook-Pro-2:Marlin-bugfix-2.0.x nickberard$"
Two questions
Will this fix my z off set problem with my ender 3 and what am I measuring when you refer to x y for the c r touch
Hi. It depends what the issue is with the z offset and the x and y offset is the distance from the nozzle to the probe on those axis.
I've built a new firmware.bin following the steps in this video, but my Ender 3 does not appear to use the new firmware. Instead my ender is using the previous marlin firmware without bltouch support.
Is there something I can do to make the Ender use my new firmware on the SD card?
Hi. What board do you have? If one of the creality ones, try to add a number or something to make the file name unique. Also, make sure its not firmware.bin.bin . Windows hides the file extension sometimes and i have had people add the second .bin in without knowing.
Hello, I'm having issues with my Creality Sprite extruder. It works correctly with the CRtouch until I send it to home, and that's when it stops working and responding. After conducting more tests, I noticed two peculiarities. It works when I connect it directly to the v4.2.2 board, but when I connect it to the mini board of the extruder, it stops working correctly. By "correctly," I mean it doesn't activate during homing (the nozzle doesn't drop; it stays inside the CRtouch). The second thing I noticed is that this happens after activating a motor. When a motor is activated, a kind of protection is enabled where you can't move them. It's at this moment that the CRtouch stops working when connected to the mini board of the Sprite. When I press "disable steppers" and remove this "protection," the CRtouch starts performing all the actions it didn't respond to before.
Update:
Yes, indeed, it's the motors. When they receive this voltage, it renders the CR touch unusable. I don't know if you would know how to help me with this?
Hi. So its working with the 4.2.2 board but not the skr mini? What mini do you have, what firmware is on it, and are all the end stops connected?
Great video! With Marlin 2.1, you need to define the probe type for the compile to work, specifying BLTouch, as opposed to manual probe, fixed mount, Z servo probe, etc. I've been having issues with my leveling, with the left side of the bed (the size with the Z-arm) being consistently lower than the other side, producing a slant in my level. Any idea why this might happen?
Hi. Make sure you cleared the eeprom after uploading the new firmware. Does your build plate or carriage have any excessive movement?
Hi there. I installed the Cr-touch, installed the firmware from the creality website, but the problem is, that with the auto bed leveling program that comes with the firmware, my custom fan duct would crash into most of the clamps that hold the print surface to the bed, so I had to remove most of the clamps, but that of course is not good since the surface has not much to hold it in place now.
So my question is, is there a way to customize the points where the auto bed leveling program measures?
I could buy a magnetic build surface, but that's not really what I want, since I want to use my own surfaces.
Hope you can help. Thanks
Hi. The only other option would be to run a custom marlin build and change margin for the bltouch.
@@3DPrintscape yep, I shyed away from doing that in all these years that I own the printer(2019), but today I tried to set it up, and it seems that it's now working all fine with the custom firmware. Took me a whole day, but I guess it's worth it in the long run.
Thank you.
HI rob, I've followed this video exactly and im having trouble with the cr touch actually helping compensate for an uneven bed, it seems to not even take it into account when printing
Hi. Are you running the bed mesh at the start of the print, if not try that. If its still not doing anything, try to purposely make the bed uneven by a decent bit to see if it compensates for that.
@@3DPrintscape it does run a G29 after the G28 auto home but I haven’t actually tried making the bed genuinely uneven, so that’ll be my next test. I’ll report back.
@@Toad00 Were you able to run that test?
@@3DPrintscape yeah it looks like that didn’t do the trick either, I’ve hit my stopping point for this project as of now and just went back to manual bed leveling.
@@Toad00 Thats interesting, it could be a hardware issue as well.
I have some problems I need help with. Mt Cr touch is working perfect and I have sett my Z-offsset and that is working great. However since Im´using Direct drive from Micro swiss I´ve had to adjust my HOME OFFSET point and now it´s completely off and I cant get my prints to start in the right position and sometimes prints outside the build plate. Im using latest JYERS with CR touch 3x3
Hi. I would try to clear your eeprom, set the home offset, then set the z offset.
only one that got the job done with no bs...thanks bud
You're Welcome
I followed all these steps and I'm still struggling. CR Touch probe does not extend when homing our leveling so the hot end drives into the bed and I have to force shut off the Ender 3. Used the "Self-Test" under the settings and the probe deploys and stows properly then, but not when trying to home or level the bed. Any tips?
Hi. Assuming the crtouch is plugged into the bltouch port on the board and the z stop is connected, i would look to see if any wire is damaged and check for loose connections.
I love this video, i need your help I just installed the CR touch on my Ender 3 Pro. i upgraded my motherboard to the BigTreeTech SKR Mini E3 v3.0 and have download the latest firmware and installed it. when i have the Z axis disconnect from the both ends (motherboard and the old stop) when i home my machine it will only do it in the X and Y axis and not in the Z axis. When i reconnect the Z stop and have the CR touch connect it will measure the distance from the best but print to far away from the bed. I need help trying to understand. Thank you
Hi. The z stop should be connected with most recent firmware builds. There were only a few creality ones that required it to be disconnected.
@@3DPrintscape oh okay thank you so much been trying to read online and can not find anything on this! So I will leave the Z limit switch connect and also when is the difference in the bin files with respect to bltouch.bin or the bltouch-z homing.bin?
Thank you!!! I am new to this still
@@3DPrintscape when i hit auto home it still does the front left corner it will not auto home to the center how do i change this?
@@alvarezz09 Sounds good and yes there is a difference between the two. If you have the z stop connected and all 5 wires from the bl/cr touch connected to the bltouch port you want the bltouch firmware, not the z-homing one.
@@3DPrintscape I have a question for you when I use the regular bin without Z homing, and everything is connected at homes in the X and Y and Z but it does not home in the center so then I have to disable it so that way I can physically bring the extruder to the center and try and get the Z offset the Z offset as well when I say move the axis, it only goes to zero it won’t go negative. How do I fix this in order to get the correct Z offset thank you.
My configuration.h doesn't appear as yours does. I've followed all of your steps thus far. But I got an error message stating the file is not displayed in the text editor because it is either binary or uses an unsupported text encoding.
Hi. The configuration.h file is a text file. Can you open it with notepad++ or something like that? If not, i would try to download everything again.
Rob, I'm using the Sprite extruder with my CR Touch and I've downloaded on of your preconfigured files from your site. Shouldn't I be able to edit the probe/nozzle offset and then change the bed size (something that needs to be done to make that combo work), copy the files into the Marlin firmware folder then hit the build button?
Hi. If you have a build from the same config file it would work but this is a bit older so im guessing you will need to move all the changes over to a fresh copy of the config and binaries.