Anycubic Vyper: Quick tips from my first weekend printing with it (and fixes for common quirks)
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- I set up my Vyper this weekend and have been printing several models. I wanted to provide some quick thoughts and quirks from the setup that I found. Full unboxing video is on the way.
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Thanks for the video! I noticed I needed to zip tie mine because my cable was muuuch loser than yours, so it wouldve possibly drooped down over my print. One additional thing I had to do for mine was calibrate the Esteps. Mine was pretty significantly underextruding from the factory, I think I ended up changing my estep value by 10% or so. I didnt know we could change the side the spool is on! Thats super helpful, though honestly the aggressive rocking bothers me too so that holder might change later.
Glad you are enjoying the printer. I have been using a spool holder I made from some scrap materials I had laying around. It's very simple but has been working great. Thanks for watching!
Thanks, just got my Vyper couple of weeks ago, i was impressed with my i3 mega and mega zero 1 so thought i'd stay with anycubic, and the features of this are great for the price. I also had to zip tie the main cable out of the way. A fair few people are saying their strain gauge fails after a short while, perhaps they level the bed with every print or the pressure while printing causes it to fail but mine hasn't yet after about 80 hours printing.
Great to hear! I find the unit to be pretty reliable so far. Thanks for watching!
I got my Vyper a few weeks ago and I've had a lot of issues with it. The OWL print came out well but nothing else I tried would print properly even with uploading the OWL's parameters into the program. The machine would layer shift SEVERELY. I tried contacting the company and even they had no clue what was happening, but instead of repairing the machine themselves or offering to send me a new one, they simply sent me 3 replacement parts and told me to repair it myself. Of those 3 parts, 2 of them didn't match what came on the printer so I don't know if they were newer models or if the printer didn't come properly built in the first place. I also found that I didn't receive half of the tools that should have come with it, such as the clippers. I only got the wrenches, 2 nozzles, and the nozzle cleaner. This is my first 3D printer and I was ecstatic to get it, but it's been a lot of headaches currently and I am hoping this video will help solve at least some of them.
That is unfortunate that you are having a bad experience. The 3D printing community is very helpful so I hope your troubles move on and you can have fun printing!
@@renaissancelaboratories5645 Thank you. Its taken some time but I'm getting used to it. I've downloaded a lot of STLs so I just have to choose what to print next
Now that you pointed it out about the cable rubbing the motor, mine does that as well! Who will be the first one to print something to stop the cable from rubbing?!?. Are you using the 3 profiles that came on the SD card?
I saw a couple of different cable management ideas on Thingiverse for this for a different printer but I think they could work for the Vyper as well. So far I’ve been using the PLA profile for Cura that came with the printer and it has been ok. Thanks for watching!
Very useful 👌 maybe try printing a cord chain to incase that back cord and keep it moving in one axis
Great idea! There are several on Thingiverse that look great but I haven't had any trouble with the cable as it is so far. Thanks for watching!
Enjoyed the watch! I am thinking about ordering one of these seems like one of the best printers for the $.
Glad you found it useful! I have a couple of other vids you might be interested in that cover why I chose this specific printer and some of the prints I've done with it. I don't think you can go wrong for the price point and it's been very straightforward to use. Thanks for watching!
Looking for advice on this printer vs the Ender 3 v2 as a first time 3d printer purchase. Thank you from Canada.
I have had a lot of luck with this Vyper and am enjoying it. The Ender 3 has a large communtiy of people to assis with questions, that is the main strength. Auto bed levelling and the upgraded stepper drivers for me were the biggest selling points on the Vyper. Some good Black Friday sales happening too at anycubic.com.
I have the ender 3 v2. It's a great printer but you really have to spend a ton of time tuning it in. Leveling it and the extruder is plastic. I put about 100 bucks in upgrades. Just installed a Bltouch and a new PEI bed and now it prints amazing. I just bought the vyper and waiting for it. Hopefully I will do some videos on both. Which one did you end up going with?
I just got a Vyper, the first couple test prints were great, the line quality at .08mm is amazing. But I'm getting extremely bad stringing now, tried changing temp and retraction, has no effect, The feed tube also seems well connected, so I'm kind of stuck at the moment.
I just got this printer and the test print prints really good but if I try printing another model it it very weak and does not look good
@@justinbuczek3941 I managed to fix my issues after many attempts. I removed and reinstalled Cura, selected the Vyper profile and kept all settings as standard, and made sure to use the same standard print profile for everything, The only thing I change between prints is thickness and speed. I think at some point something setting I adjusted, or something I printed affected the print profile and caused the stringing. I also lowered the nozzel temp to 185-190 which seemed to help, that will depend on your specific filament.
Glad it is working out. Yes I have gone a bit overboard with changing settings and have had to go back to backups of profiles to sort it. Thanks for watching.
Hey! Just got my printer up and running and noticed that during the early stages of the print, there is a very high pitched constant beep. any idea what that could be?
Hello, I've not encountered that. Can you tell where it's coming from? Does the beeping go away after some time in the print? Have you tried different profile settings? Also, there may be a firmware update available depending on your shipped version. Thanks for watching.
Is anyone able to tell me why my x axis keeps making a grinding sound when trying to print then sometimes it moves fine it keep working then not working and getting stuck
Im getting some small blobs and zits I use cura qwhat should I change to fix my problem and get really even nice prints
Slowing down seems to help if you are going for quality. As I was telling another person, when I get strange behaviors I try going back to basics; be sure things are clean and try the default profile, then go forward from there.
I just got one. I have a question about how to clean a clog- how do you do it? I can't seem to get a ticket started on their site and I don't want to break anything with my ignorance.
I guess it depends on how bad the clog is. I can try to go Prepare, Filament, then Filament In. This will heat the nozzle to 230 and you can press the button to feed filament and maybe press it. OR you can hand push a piece of filament, but either way this is not for severe clogs.
For a more stubborn clog, you can repeat the step, or manually bring the temp to 230. Then, carefully use the long needle that came with the Vyper in the tool drawer, this you can push into the nozzle. Keep in mind the nozzle will be hot and don't push the needle too far in. Then I'd try step one above to see if you can push filament through.
If all that fails, you'll have to take the hot end apart for a more thorough clean (one it's cooled, of course.
Have you tried replacing the Y belt? I feel lost on how to do this
I haven't needed to replace the Y belt yet. This machine is similar to other machines like an Ender 3 or Creality CR6 so if you find a belt replacement video for those it should be very close. In any case, I'll hazard a guess at the steps:
First power off and unplug the machine.
Next, loosen the belt tension using the front tensioner until there's enough slack to slide the belt off of the rear motor gear.
Next, remove the cover that holds the belt tensioner on the front, the plastic piece.
Now you'll need a short allen wrench to loosen the four horizontal wheels beneath the build plate. I used a hack saw and just shortened the wrench that comes with the Vyper.
Once you remove all 4 wheels on the Y axis, your whole build surface should be free enough where you can disconnect the belt.
Reverse the steps above. Belt to build surface, hotbed wheels, belt tensioner at the front, slide the belt over the rear motor gear, and tighten the belt.
Then power up and auto level.
I might be missing a step or two, but this should be the meat of it. Best of luck and thanks for watching!
Did you also try the auto bed leveling multiple times? For me the auto leveling sensor breaks after 2 -3 prints in between...does it work for you guys?
Hi Danny,
I've heard that a number of users are having issues with a failed auto-bed level, it might be worth reaching out to support official@anycubic.com. I purchased directly from Anycubic and haven't had any issues. I've only auto leveled after firmware update or after a disastrous print where the hot end collides with the model. Best of luck and thanks for watching.
@@renaissancelaboratories5645 well, thats where I got the sensor replacements from....doesnt change the fact, that it seems to be an issue of how the sensor is engineered
I have one of these and at first it was great, but now I'm getting massive stringing. I'm not sure what to do. I emailed the vendor (anycubic) and they said they want to replace the extruder and would mail me a new one, but that hasn't seemed to happen...
Hello, when I run into issues I try to go back to the basics. I check that the nozzle is clean and I go back to one of the default profile files. That usually gets me back to a good starting point and I work from there. Hope that helps.
I got one, not sure what's going on. New to 3D printing and all. Printed beautifully in the beginning now I can't seem to get anything printed and remain on the bed.
Hi Daniel,
Something similar happened to me when I started getting brave with my choice in models as well as having may parts on the build surface. I have a video coming up that I think will be very interesting to you as far as some of the printing issues I've had, my suspected root cause, and what the fixes were. I also have some Cura config info in the vid as well.
For bed adhesion, a raft is often helpful, especially if the pieces have small contact points to the bed. Temperature that matches your material is important. PLA will need different bed temp than PETG, not just nozzle temp. Thanks for watching!
cables...
What I did was reposition the bed cable UNDER the extruder cable where it comes out of the control box instead of over it, It takes a wee bit of fiddling to get them to change position but its easy done. Then I removed the tiewraps from the bed strain relief and twisted the cable and angled it to the right (looking from back) away from the Y axis stepper motor, while holding the cable like this I re-tied it to the strain relief with some better quality tiewraps than came with the machine (they are like elastic bands!)
This has completely prevented the cable going anywhere near the stepper, it goes straight back from the bed parallel to the frame and has been that way for weeks of printing.
The Extruder cable, I put a tie wrap around it at extruder height, then made like a little cable tie chain to the runout sensor mount to hold it upright. The cable to the carriage now goes over the top of the extruder, and does not snag on anything at all, the bed cable runs square to the frame sides back and fore, again not snagging anywhere..
I mat make some kind of fixing for the carriage cable instead of the mash up with cable tie chain, but it works perfectly well even if it looks a bit heath robinson.
Thanks for the tips!
I think it is much better to run the cable from the extruder over the tube so it fits better with the tube and has more leeway. If the printer head is moving to the extruder motor its also better to let it wrap over it.
Thanks for these tips & thanks for checking out the channel!
Thanks I'm getting mine this wked
Had the same problem with the Owl file, took me a minute to figure that one out
Definitely a handful of odd quirks in the setup of this but fortunately so far nothing major. Thanks for watching!
Have had any issues so far with it? As am abt to buy one this week 😁
Aside from the weird quirks here, I've not had any problems and I've been printing quite a bit with it. I have a print going now that will be around 11 hours so we'll see how it does. Thanks for watching!
@@renaissancelaboratories5645 how did the 11 hour print go?
Useful thanks 😊
Thank you for the feedback! I'm really enjoying the Vyper and hope to make some other helpful vids.
So, I am having trouble with my filament feeder. When the filament is not present, it spins, as soon as the filament touches it, it stops spinning. Any ideas?
I haven't had this happen yet. There's an adjustment for "grip" on the feeder, I assume you tried adjusting that to see what happens. Also, have you tried a different filament or the piece that came with the printer? I've used only Geetech PLA and so far have had great luck with it. Hope you can get it sorted, thanks for watching!
Mine failed.. Well is works really really soft PLA, but not with the Anycubic PLA. It's one of many parts they are replacing after only 12 hours of printing. Including the print head. :( :(
I completely missed that zip tie underneath. I actually did a test print with that zip tie on. I watched a unboxing video and was like, “oh shit”!
It was a bit tricky to remove. Hopefully you are enjoying the printer, thanks for watching!
Mine was going pretty good until recently the sensor died. Just waiting on support to send a replacement. Otherwise a very easy machine to print.
My sensor died at the first auto leveling… I am still waiting for the replacement.
my sensor failed @2nd leveling attempt
Oh I’m sorry to hear about these problems! I hope Anycubic support takes care of these issues right away!
@@SalsaCookies After 12 hours of printing, the leveling sensor, extruder, filament sensor, Aux board on the head, all failed. They are sending me replacement parts, but this doesn't bode well for the future. I was still working on dialing in some settings and my estop was way off. Don't have a lot of hope for any longevity :(
Today the replacement part failed as well due to material fatigue. it bended down. levelling doesn t work anymore .. frustrating.
there's no way my Viper would be able to print that face sucker your making, maybe my settings are off, would you be able to walk me through some setting?? thanks
Hello. I know this is old but maybe this will help. Size of the item definitely matters. I've been able to print lots of articulating models on the Vyper, even some with very small and delicate joints like the face sucker and even a small skeleton. If all else fails, revert back to the default material (PLA/TPU/ABS) profile for Cura and tweak from there. (Vyper profiles available here: www.anycubic.com/pages/firmware-software )
take the 4 gantry bolts out agine and spin the top section aruond counter clockwise 1 or 2 time that will move the cables out of the way off to the right side
Thanks I may give this a try!
Can you tell me the height of this printer?
Yes indeed, from www.anycubic.com/products/anycubic-vyper#techspecs
Machine Dimensions
516x508x457mm(HWD)
I still very much enjoy using this unit.
I moved file under vyper file English I still can't see any files under the print menue on the vyper
Hello, the .TXT file needs to be out at the top most root level, not under any folders. Hope it works out!
Spool holder... make a clip, like a pipe clip, to clip onto the spool holder ;)
The magnets of my little drawer were reversed too ^^
Seems to be a very common problem, fortunately an easy fix. Thanks for watching!
you can use OctoPi for WiFi
Good to know! I will check it out, thanks!
Thanks for the video and advice, as I am interested in this printer. Now friend, let me part some advice to you on making a video, become a sloth when you are shooting, and get a tripod, and use it. Your constant movement and quick in and out is making me nauseous. Which means, I could not sit and watch the video in it's entirety. All the best.
I'm also trying to improve the lighting in my work area since it's dark there. I'll consider the feedback as I do more filming. Thanks for watching!
lmao bro the zip tie thing is super obvious
True, but I almost overlooked it. Thanks for watching!