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I would love to see an update video if anything ever gets released from Sovol to make the out of box experience better. Or any modification the two of you have decided to do.
Hey great review, I'm curious as to the scoring on your site for the QiDi Plus 4 vs the Bambu X1C. - X1C has an extra point on print quality. Is this due to the tolerance test? As you for the quality comparison you stated the QiDi was slightly better (than the P1, but I've heard the P1 and X1 is the same?) - X1C has an extra point on technology, but the QiDi seems to have more features/tech than the X1C, what was the reasoning? Or is it just that time is also a component of the scoring, and at the time the X1C came out it was significantly better on features/tech where the QiDi is just a small step up in a few areas?
Hi, thanks for the review. Can you confirm exactly what size was the rectangle you printed for the first layer test....was it 305mm? I really need to confirm, as I have been waiting a long time to print an object that needs a bigger print volume and this printer should do that and some more. I just loaded the object into Fusion and placed a 305 by 305 rectangle around it...and with some careful rotating, it fits with a millimeter or 2 of wiggle room -wahoo. so I was ready to buy BUT got "Add to card" nerves as I need to be sure. Many thanks in advance (just subscribed to 🙂)
Ciao Aurora. Mediante la tua recensione ho acquistato anch'io questa stampante. Ho una domanda per favore, anche a te se imposti la temperatura del piatto ad 80° in realtà misurandola con la pistola termica, ne risultano solo circa 70°? Grazie mille
After testing, can you please disassemble the printers hotend and tell us what nozzle it uses? Alongside any recommended maintence tips from the manufacture?
I just buy the QIDI Q1 Pro but I have problem for print, I check the temperature on hotend with thermal camera and i see I have only 72 deg C maximum on hotend outside when I setup for PLA 220 deg C. If you can please check with thermal camera what temperature on hotend you have on your Q1 Pro, thank you.
Hi. Thanks your videos. One the the best reviews what I ever saw :) One question about this printer. Could I modify the esteps/rotation distance if I would like ? Thank you.
Do you actually realise that you became an institution? AuroraTech reviews, brilliant. Keep up the great work and thank you so much for your hard work.
This printer is only lacking a second tool head, but the Qidi decided to go to the AMS rout =( if this printer had a second tool head man... It would be perfect, high temp nozzle, heated chamber, high temp bed, fast with quality, klipper, OMG!
Thanks for your review. Looks like a very good printer. Only worry I have is about the hotend. On their website you can see a replacement nozzle/hotend. It looks like it contains a piece of PTFE tube. Is that correct? That would be really strange with those high nozzle temperatures.
Thank you for the review as there is very little about this printer online at present. Questions you may not have considered - does the network feature require sign-in to the slicer "network"? aka could you transfer files completely isolated from the Internet? I read that newer versions of the voxeldance slicer re-introduced network connectivity due to "optimization" from former versions. Does this come with a copy/license for that slicer? Does it come with a screen protector? Thanks again for the review!
A great review of a well-designed printer, but... "Plus4", is an even stranger model name than "X-Plus3". I doubt their marketing department consulted with a native English speaker. Also, it bugs me that (on their website) they aren't consistent with the spelling of their own products. Are the letters all capitalized or not? Are there spaces or not? It might seem nitpicky, but have enough pride in your own product to know it's name. Also, is their company branded as "QIDI", "QiDi", or "QIDI Tech"? They need to pick one. I'd suggest "QiDi", because it's not an acronym. It's a word composed of two hanzi. People tend to drop the "Tech", so why bother to include it. They are certainly the only "QiDi" selling to the English-speaking market. 1:23 On the topic of sloppy marketing...that image is a bit ambiguous, but these temperatures are too high to be suggested temps for printing PPS-CF. Instead, this appears to be a conflicting claim for maximum printer temperatures. Most likely the claim was increased at some point, but they failed to update this particular image. They have a bad habit of needlessly repeating the same specifications in many places on the same page. 10:22 Rather than the printer's motion system or unique capabilities, I'd say this primarily tests how well the out-of-the-box setting for "extrusion multiplier" is calibrated for a given nozzle, filament type, and layer height. To a lesser degree, it also tests "pressure advance", but more-so for the square peg/holes. This might be a more meaningful test if you reduced the extrusion multiplier, reduced the clearance, and then performed a go/no-go check at multiple orientations/rotations. Of course, one of the risks of reduced extrusion multiplier is reduced layer adhesion. It would be nice to have a FF multiplier, so it's clear which clips have been sped up. Also, I'd love to see another video of you testing this printer with some higher-temp filaments (like PPA, PPS, or PPSU) that really push the claimed limits of bed and chamber temperature. If you do, don't forget to dry them thoroughly.
Overall nice review but I think by judging the quality of the ink-jet prints you didn't change the intensivity to maximum which makes the prints much more vibrant. Still it's better to use sublimation printer combinetd with M1 Ultra as the print module leaving much more to desire.. And BTW I duont see any links to your website in the description?
QiDi's design philosophy gives a lot of Flashforge vibes, which is good. It's a style that works well to make it consumer-friendly, but also allows introducing more complex user-interfacing. But that 280mm Z height was a bit odd, they couldn't slap another 20-25mm in there?
Looking to upgrade from my ender 3. This seems like a good value for $760 shipped. I hope I don’t regret it. I was deciding between the p1s, potentially the k1. I didn’t realize the z axis only had 2 screws. Hope this isn’t an issue in the future with leveling
@4:19 IMO it's best to get the bed as level as possible, i.e. 'TRAM' so your parts don't skew. The real hum dinger is you don't necessarily want it to match the gantry's level of flat but the Z motion. As there is not guarantee the gantry itself is TRAM to the bed motion. That is so that it moves perfectly straight up while being perfectly horizontal. Think of the bed being perfectly 90 degrees flat of the motion rods both in the X and Y direction. With that said.. Don't think most anyone printing needs NASA level CNC precision on plastics that will shrink and warp anyway. It's fun tho! that's why most people 3D print lol Love the reviews! Amazing work guys 👍
@@riba2233 I bought 2 Bambu's , listening to all the hype. BOTH machines have been the most unreliable troublesome printers ive ever seen. Blown CSM boards, bad belts, nozzle clogs so bad i had to replace. The gears on my P1P extruder started grinding themselves out less than 10hrs after coming out of the box. Bambu customer support told me "we dont take returns" then ghosted me. I have 7 open tickets that they have never helped with. Yeah you could say i dont like Bambu.
I really wish the tolerance test was corrected for the warping. That had to have affected the tolerance level. If possible I’d like to see this have a successful print and see the actual tolerance from a properly tuned print for this machine. I’m on the fence from this and the Bambi lab P1S for this price range but that really put me off not knowing the full performance stack up to the P1S that passed tolerances from a clean non warped print
i think another important question is if you want to be able to print high temp engineering filaments. With this printer having a max nozzle temp of 370, and max chamber temp of 65c, you can print so many materials on here you can’t print, atleast well, on any of bambulab’s machines, even the x1e that isn’t even sold to consumers. I think that the tolerancing issue is totally solvable with a little bit of tinkering (running the linear advance test in orca slicer) and further firmware updates. TLDR: I don’t think one tolerance test should be the determining factor since that is likely easily improbable, you should look into what other needs are met by either printer that can’t be met by the other one.
I have already seen several reviews for this printer. However, I had been waiting for your review because I trust you and take your experience more seriously than others. To be honest and fair. There really are only a few other people who I would rank as your peers as far as printer reviews. My favorite part of your reviews are the fact that you show footage of your experience. Not just sit there and talk them up like you're reading from a PR marketing sheet. Not waving your hands and doing fancy flashes and cut scenes. Just stick to data points while showing your experience and laying it all out. Pros and Cons. I hope you know how much myself and others like me appreciate and respect your efforts.
Thanks for the review! Typical QIDI half done product IMO. They Have one firmware release of their XMAX and not one of the slicer. Wonder how they will support a Klipper based system....The Hardware seems solid though.
Part of Qidi's own product listing says the max hotend temperature is 360C and the chamber's max temperature is 55C, but then they also say the specs are 370C and 65C, respectively. Uh...
I have watched a couple of reviews of this QiDi plus 4. But no one has talked about accessory availability. How is it changing the nozzle heads? Are they HSS? Diamond? Hot swappable? edit: Oh, subscribed and liked for sure! This is a great print test review.
About to buy my first **New** CoreXY with the QiDi Plus4. (I usually buy used on Facebook Market then fix'em up). I asked QiDi about the firmware these ship with, and received a short but so sooo sweet answer ... "we ship with the latest, but you're going to have to update when you get your printer".... :) LOLZ!!! But Aurora is my goto review on the NuNu.... I call "Today". Like in the first battle in Braveheart ....Hold..... Hold......Hooold
A couple things I don’t get. Why 2 z motors and not 3. You can only level the bed in 1 direction with 2 z steppers. With 3 steppers you can level in both directions. If you go through the trouble of moving from 1 z stepper, why not just go all the way? Second, why have an inductive sensor if you can use the nozzle? I think leveling using a strain gauge on the nozzle is the best method and all 3D printers should just move to this.
Sadly the company has the worst support I've ever had and it took 3 months to get ONLY half my money back as my Qidi Xplus 3 never worked. Problem after problem, an awful print head design - switching to Bambu Labs has made 3d printing a real tool and best of all when they've had problems they own up to it and sort it all out. Print after print with no failures - if reliability is what you want then, for me, Bambu Labs is the way to go. As for interfaces and screens showing random measures that belongs to 80s and 90s not 2024! That's just poor testing and accepting and selling the product before it's fully tested.
