Creality Ender 3 Ender 5 and CR10 Hotend Repair, Understanding how to troubleshoot and repair your Creality 3D printer hot end is an important skill to ensure your printer continues to run consistently and produce quality results. This article takes a deep dive into the standard Creality hot end, looking at how the hot endRead More
Pronterface is a super handy program that allows you to easlily control and adjust your 3D printer without messing around in firmware. Pronterface is a portable program so no install is required, just save it somewhere convenient, right click the exe and send a shortcut to your desktop. You can grab the latest windows distoRead More
STL to Solid FreeCAD Converting is a cinch in FreeCAD. Source: Benjamin Goldschmidt / All3DP A free alternative with which you can convert STL files to STEP files is FreeCAD, a downloadable CAD program. First, you need to bring your STL file into FreeCAD. Hit File -> Open and select your STL file. Once open, ensure that you have TreeRead More
3D touch V3.0 Install instructions 3D touch is a reliable lower cost alternative to Bltouch. The first thing you’ll notice is the wiring colours are different to bltouch, other versions and brands of 3D touch. You can usually find the pinout marked on the printed circuit board of your 3d touch, you may need toRead More
Wiring diagram for NPN Inductive probe running 6-36 Volts No doubt you’ve seen posts using resistors with these probes, we found it makes your probe unreliable, we prefer the 5.1 volt Zener diode method as shown above. **Important** play close attention to the colour codes, these probes use international colour designations. The signal wire fromRead More
