Beginners guide to Artillery Sidewinder X1 - Unboxing, building and first print
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- A simple step by step guide for beginners on how to get started with your Artillery Sidewinder X1. We cover all the basic steps from building your machine through to doing your first test print. The version used in this video is the V4.
Link to the Sidewinder X1: ban.ggood.vip/WSvD
Files used in the video: 1drv.ms/u/s!AuoE9S3Cr4VZgpcbi...
Enyone filament: amzn.to/3b3rhNM
Amazon Basics filament: amzn.to/2O66joC
Sunlu Filament: amzn.to/3r9EQ44
UK spare parts: www.t-tek3d.co.uk/store/c62/a...
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Excellent , I received my V4 last week and put it together, what a great machine!
just ordered mine, 3d printing novice as well. Watching this video was so helpful as to what I should expect/the procedure that I should follow when I recieve it. Very reasonably priced as well.
Thank you for making this video. I was putting mine together and found a random cable just laying around. I figured I knew where it went, but watching your video confirmed it for me (it was the stepper motor cable you connected at 13:40), and it reassured me that I was supposed to have a bolt and hammer nut left over.
watched a lot of setup video,s on youtube gotta say james yours has to be the best on the sidewinder i have seen by far im subscribed cheers mate
I have been waiting to see this one, just going to make a cup of tea then sit down and watch this :)
Hope it meets expectations. Always difficult trying to do a beginners video when you are a beginner your self 😆
@@JamesDeanDesignsyes I could imagine being new to it also could make the video difficult but that was really good, I think this 3D printer could be my next purchase..
Thank you so much! Very helpful and excited to enter the 3D world
Thanks for your video! Really helped a lot getting my printer set up!
Even after 2 years still a very helpfull video. I just changed the bed (old bed worn out after so many prints) on mine. And this video was very helpfull with remembering how to do the bedleveling and so. As far as filament recommendation goes, I have good results with Esun PLA and PLA+.
fantastic video man! I have my Artillery arriving within there next couple hours and I'm super excited now :)
Excellent. Hope you enjoy it, I live mine
Thank you for the clear and concise explanation for a beginner. It did a blob at the lower left first, then a thin long string heading 45° near the upper left corner of the cube. It then proceeded to do the cube flawlessly. I used ZYLTECH 3d printing filament TPU Red 1.75mm.
Glad it helped!
Great vid James got my X1 last week :)
Great tutorial! Thanks for this!
I have two of them. Both run like absolute tanks. The X1 was my first foray into a larger build volume and I've never looked back.
Great choice in my (possibly highly biased) opinion.
Another great video
Keep em comin!
Thank you 🙏 any recommendations, upgrades etc appreciated. Printing the cable suppor mod tomorrow hopefully
I'd suggest changing the PTFE tube out to Capricorn tubing. That's the only thing that failed for me. It took about a year of steady printing but it did eventually deform and cause a jam. I'd like to upgrade to aluminum build plates to even out the temperature across it but I can't justify the expense. I just print with about 12 brim lines and corners never lift.
Love the X1s
And my Sainsmart 3018! Seems we have similar taste in hobby toys! One day when I grow up I'd like to have a 4030 too, lol.
Take care, James
Happy printing!!
@@JamesDeanDesigns Change the idler arm for an aluminium one. Also, my bed was warped in the middle, just like many others. I've ordered me an aluminium heatbed with integrated magnets and a Biqu spring steel sheet. Also, I love my raspberry 4 with octoprint. Also, I've printed and installed Z axis support.
Edit: also, I'll be installing octoklipper, so that the calculations aren't run on the main board which is only 8 bit, it'll speed things up by a lot, I imagine it'll be very fluid afterwards. Also... for the bed rollers, reinstall the middle two rollers! They are redundant and only make it much more difficult to adjust the traction correctly.
Thank you so much for this video it help me a lot! I am a beginner too and you explain everything so easy!
Thank you. Interestingly this video didn't do very well with my followers so I never did anymore on the subject
Very nice! Thank you!
great video, most helpful thank you
Glad it helped
im also a beginner and brought this printer this video was so helpful cheers
Glad it helped 👍
Pretty informational thanks for the vid helped a lot, thank you
Glad it helped. At the time the video get much interest so I never bothered making any more 3D printing videos
Thank you so much for this, just got mine and this video helped me set it up.
Glad it helped 👍
@@JamesDeanDesigns I am somewhat struggling to get it to feed on the feed on the fillamment. Then nothing comes out during printing. Any help would be great pls
@@DUDEDRUNK check your machine is pulling it through, you can adjust the tension on the arm. You may also want to get something quit thin and check your nozzle is clear
@@JamesDeanDesigns Thank you for this James.
I had somewhat managed to fix this issue that day but don't know if you can help with this issue. Now since this happened I cannot get this machine to print out anything right. Only 4 to 10 mins in the printing process, fillament will have issues sticking down on some parts or all of the sudden start dragging the some parts of the printed fillament which in turn drags everything else after. I have tried hairspray, adjusting settings in the cura slicer. Not sure if my settings are good. It is even worse when I use support. It is extremely frustrating and at this point I am starting to feel like this machine is a lost investment and not worth it. I will return this to seller next week if I keep having this issue. It is a big put off.
Thank you so much for the info!
No problem
Awesome video! Very clear and helped me print my first cube. Keep up the great work and support!
Thank you very much. Glad it helped
Thank you for a thorough beginners guide! I couldn't figure out how to start heating, the manual just says to go to the heat menu and nothing was happening. It also didn't have much info about leveling.
My first 3d printer was a monoprice mini V2 and was a bit more detailed in how to get started, so I was surprised at how vague this manual was in comparison.
Your tip about the center not seeming level was my next needed bit of information. Your explanations are such a huge help. Thank you!
Thank you. Glad its helped 👍
test files?
I had this printer on my shortlist when I was buying an additional large format printer, the things that put me off is the bed has the heater mat attached to the glass build plate with no aluminium plate and I like to print with spring steel magnetic PEI beds and the conversion would just be a pain in the backside, and the USB is on the top making it easy to knock it and damage the USB socket, also the Titan knockoff extruder and Volcano hotend nozzle knockoff would play on my mind.
I ended up buying the Creality CR-10S V2 and a Micro Swiss all metal hotend
The CR-10 v2 is a nice machine from what I have read, one thing I do like about it as opposed to the X1 is the supports on the Z axis. However it was just a fraction out of price range when I was looking. I think the V1 was cheaper but as with these things you typically want the better model if you know it exists
@@JamesDeanDesigns I don't have that printer I have the CR-10s Pro V2 however I did look into the one with the supports and found a fault with it when the printers X gantry is sent to the extreme of the Z-axis it crashes and grinds the stepper and I didn't fancy printing something tall and losing the print down to this, the printer has been around for a while but Creality have not fixed this bug,I have built a Pro 3D V-King with 400mm all round and belted Z-axis and this printer and its prints are perfect and if were not for the enormous cost ( I stopped counting after £1000 ) I would have built a second one
I put a magnetic sticker a spring steel plate with pei on mine, and switched to small low-profile usb sticks. (www.aliexpress.com/item/4001127197964.html) Problem(?) solved
I would suggest snipping the white cable ties an raising the extruder up 20cm BEFORE putting the base bolts in. That will make it easier to mount the H frame in the recessed holes and ensure that you have plenty of space tightening the bolts without the nozzle hitting the bed.
Thank you 👍
Hi sorry but I disagree with your research the creality printers do not need upgrades to get the machines running correctly there are many people running creality printers stock with great prints. There are so many variables with hardware tuning and software/slicer tuning. Upgrading printers does not fix problems it enhances the printer. I have been printing for a few years now I have a Ender 3 which was my first that I learned a lot with and is now in an enclosure and heavily modified, and I have an Ender 5 plus which is stock and printed great straight out the box. If you look at teaching techs channel is a great resource for 3d printing. By the love the channel its helped me start into the world of CNC. 👍
Hi Darren, thanks for the info. I think I started replying to you yesterday but it looked like the comment went. I did do a fair bit of research across various forums and chatted to quite a few people. It generally was "they're great machine but you need to do X, Y, Z....". I think what made my mind up in the end is essentially the fact there is 3 versions of the ender 3 and the consensus I was getting is the bed is better on one, the control board is better on another etc. To some degree I wish they had just focused on one model. It was the V2 I was about to purchase. I am loving 3D printing so far so who knows, I might still end up getting a V2 and seeing how I get on with that as well. Going back to the X1, the larger printing area was also a big plus point for me. I do follow teaching tech although I'm fairly certain he is sponsored by Creality as they feature him on their website 😉. Genuinely though, I'm always after tips and stuff from people more experienced that myself so do let me know. I had my first failed print Sunday night and already had to take the hot end assembly apart 🙈
Very nice review (of a printer I've had for a while now, but still...). I tried your gcode for the spiral vase, care to share which slicer you use, and the settings? Because the first layers are pure p0rn, and it came out better than anything I've sliced sofar.
Thanks. All sliced in Cura. I read it had quite a good standard profile for the X1 and so far it has. I have nothing really to compare to but few people say its a little slower than other slicer profiles. I won't act like I know what I'm doing yet though, still have a lot of calibration to do.
I have the X2 and I’ve gone through the whole process and when I did the part where it’s suppose to print the cube, the part that puts out the filament does not go up or down. The filament also does not stay put, it moves around.
For some reason whenever I lower the fan speed and go into a different icon it makes the fan speed stay the same. Similar to the heating up process. When I try to heat it up it knows it's meant to heat up but doesn't. any tips?
Hi James. I bought a Davinci Aio at the NEC Gadget show (your neck of the woods) back in 2015. I've never been happy with the results and it's very noisy. I'm seriously tempted by this one. Looking at how quiet it is and the results you get. Jim
I also bought a Davinci as my first printer but managed to sell it within a couple of months, I bought from a recommendation from Which, whose advice I will never trust again.
Hi Andrew, I think I've upset mine. It's been running all day. It's currently on the 4th part of something I had to split to get onto the 8" square print bed. It's on the biggest part of the 4 and almost fills the bed but it's sticking ( so far) (48 minutes in) nearly 3 hours to go. I can't believe it. Never had such good results from it ? ? ? ? It's noisy though and my Wife's in the next room . . . working from home! I'm still alive but for how long ? ? ? :)
I hope there's plenty of safety allowance on the spool of filament or it'll run out before the job's finished.
so the Z Limit Switch is that the one you show at 23:26 ? and that is the one you can move a tiny bit down if the center dont match the corners?
Yes thats the Z limit switch. You need to adjust it so the hot end gets close to the bed but doesn't hit it. You then adjust the bed accordingly to get the correct gap you need on all the corners
Hey all just wondering if there is anyone out there possibly able to give a newbie some tips and or advice please.
Just picked up a artillery sidewinder x1 to first get into 3d printing. I can print flat objects perfectly fine with really good quality like keyrings etc. However anytime i try printing something that is not flat and slightly larger it all goes wrong and ends up like spaghetti for some reason.
I'm using ERYONE PLA Filament 1.75mm
Bed @ 60
Nozzle @ 195
Strewth James, you're never going to be able to get back to the 4030 as you're now hooked on 3D print!!
I'm back on the 4030 this week, dont you worry 😁
Phew ... Go for it mate, don't know where you get the time for do many learning projects !!
On the SainSmart FB group, you're a CNC God, your instruction videos get referenced often.
Does the printer come with software so I can design and print more than just the square?
No, but that is because there is a lot of really good free software already available. I use TinkerCAD to design and Cura to slice
Was someone taking bong rips in the background?
My printer could not power on.
Bad cord ?
Could not connect w computer despite 4 cords and 3 ports.
Could not read any files from usb or micro card.
My 4th brand of printer. All have some problems.
Do you know how to wire E stop on woodpecker 3.4 Controller Grbl board
From what I understand you have to solder it to the reset button, I dont think that board has a connection for it
Hey idk if you’ll see this but… my nozzle seems to be rubbing against the previous layer and my prints are looking really bad and failing. Ive tried tightening the nozzle and fan head, changed nozzle out but nothing works any ideas on how to fix
they do run extremely close. Make sure you belts have enough tension and that your nozzle isnt too close for the first layer as that can throw everthing else off
i cant get the material to load into the machine
Did you get stung for VAT or import duty when buying from banggood.
Haven't got stung with anything although I think this was in their UK warehouse. I should have another item arriving on Monday which is from China so I will find out then if I get stung
Well James good to see you went to 3d printing as well. Too bad you bought a el cheapo one but ok you gotta learn with something. You mentioned about you spend a little bit more to have a printer thast printed ok out of the box. my you are going to be in for a treat, there is not one printer, not even a 5000 euro printer that will give you that pleasure. So yes your first results are fine but you will have your share of troubles don't worry. My current printer, a Prusa I3 MK3, has more then 600 prints on his back now but still there has to be tweaked and so on. So welcome to the game and welcome to feeling proud when another nice print came of the printer. Just remind yourself that you will have frustrating times sometimes but then again there is always a reason for failure and in that way we learn. Good luck.
I think like most things, its all about expectations - aim low and avoid disappointment :) . But you are right, these still are budget machines. I've been pretty happy so far, one or two kinks but just a mountain to get my head around with so many different settings and options for temps, speeds, retraction etc. I'll just keep chipping away
What type of usb I need to use?!
Im guessing you mean USB stick not USB cable? If so just a regular USB memory stick, doesnt need to be too large, 4GB is more than sufficient
Was that a cat in your test print at the end ?
A fox off thingiverse, called low poly fox if I remember correctly
Ahh, ok, I had birthday idea for Mrs C, I'll CNC kitten SVG file instead