Aside from the religious disclaimer at the end, this was a decent video. I just received my SV06 Plus printer and I am thoroughly pleased! I never expected this printer to do so well. Out of box, I set my Z level, checked a few other basic operational functions and just started printing to see what this beast can do. Well, first print off was the notorious Benchy! It did very well at 1 hour 42 minutes, I didn't change any settings from factory, and it printed flawlessly. Second print, then Benchy again. But this time Accelerated at 100%, and I have to tell you I am impressed with the quality and the speed, the second Benchy look just as good as the first in half the time. It clocked in at 53 minutes. Sovol now has a 500w 24v power supply that can easily keep up with the demand. The packaging of this printer was perfectly done, and assembly was so easy, it was up and running in 45 minutes. In short, I am very pleased with this printer and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a starter printer without having to go through too much trouble. Simply put... I love it.
I'm coming up to my 10 year 3D printing anniversary next month too! I bought my first printer, a Printrbot Jr, at Bay Area Maker Faire in May 2013. It's pretty incredible that you can now get a printer like the SV06 Plus for about the same as I paid for that 150mm cubed printer kit made of laser cut plywood.
In my engineering class was my first introduction to a 3-D printer, well seeing one in person, and that their got me hooked on 3-D printing. so I decided to get one for myself and this video helped me out a lot. Thank you for helping me choose my first 3-D printer.
his videos got me to get the adventurer 3 as my first 2.5 years ago, it lasted 6700 hours, it started smoking a little while changing filament. I now have anycubic mega x, viper, neo, go, just got the sovol sv06 plus, and my new adventurer 3 is on the way. I also had a fokoos Odin 5, wont make that mistake again. I would have liked to get the Bambu X1C, the best as far as I can see, I wear glasses....
wow this machine is so solid at that price. love the results that i've been seeing in various reviews. sovol's gotta get to work on making an MK4 clone now lol great video
I dont think I have ever found anything I did not like about Sovols printers, I wish they were around when I bought most of my printers as I would have a nice collection of Sovol machines by now, I hope they release a core XY enclosed machine as I would buy it and probably just on the reputation of their previous machines!
Hi Prof, Question on the plastic paper you printed. Did you turn off the base pad for that? If so could you discuss the under what conditions you turn off the pad, if possible? I am in the process of printing the Dr. Who Tardis with the infinity mirror behind the door that I found on 3D Cults. It is a separate print for each of the panels for walls, floors etc and the back side of each is just flat. Would save time and materials on my Flashforge Adventurer 3, if I don't need to print a base. Love your work and your personality, Tom (Driftless Heights)
@@3dpprofessor Interesting, thank you. Calling it a raft was new to me. I will figure out how to do that on FlashPrint 5. Seem like the raft really sticks with PLA when I turn on Fine setting.
Or just tilt it back and let gravity do it's job. Unless you're printing in microgravity, in which case a slip disk would help. Also, very cool 3D printing on the ISS.
I can't even describe the number of videos and discords I have gone through trying to decide if I should get the SV06 plus or the Neptune 3 Plus as my first printer haha. Both seem like great printers.. I like Neptune bigger print volume and the all metal print end on the SV06 plus. Would be curious as to your thoughts since I like you am curious to eventually get to printing some larger cosplay items and statues etc. once I understand it better.
I don't have any hands on experience with the Neptune 3 Plus, but I'll tell you the truth, looking at these two machines I don't think it makes any difference. They're so similar, I'd say flip a coin and you won't go wrong.
@thechosenowl I ended up going with the elegoo 3 plus as the reviews just seemed so overwhelmingly positive about it. And it has been a good printer so far.. did a whole mandalorian armor for my kids Halloween.. various statues etc. Also have done alot of learning with a bunch of screw ups almost all of them being my fault haha. And you are at a similar point.. there isn't really a wrong choice which is both good and bad so I feel you.
@@TheSucc33d thanks for the reply. Yeah it's tough. The Sovol is more open source I think in terms of Klipper than the Elegoo which may be the deciding factor
@thechosenowl BTW I assume you meant the Sovol s07 plus not the 6.. though the 6 and the 3 plus from elegoo both have really good prices ATM with black Friday deals guessing you are after the newer faster ones heh. To be fair both the new neptune and sovol do run klipper which appears to be a good thing.. both have wifi etc. I have seen a couple reviews comment that they had mixed results with such high speed 'bed slinger' models when they really crank up the speed but I haven’t looked into it much so those might just be outliers.
Good review, Prof! Thank you! Question: Have you tested the filament run-out sensor? According to @ModBot the motor is not locked during filament re-load, so the print fails because the head returns to the wrong point.
@@3dpprofessor Yes, I read your blog as well. It actually sent me down the rabbit hole... In preparation for the arrival of my SV06+ (within a day or two!), earlier I basically found the SV06Plus profile (json file) in the Sovol Cura 1.5.7 Program Files folder, and copied to my Cura 5.3 installation, to bring the Sovol recommended profile here, and I was pretty happy with my "cleverness". But then I saw your video, and read your blog post. And it had me start looking at the actual speed settings in these profiles. Although I did not find everything the way you describe in your blog post (maybe you worked with an earlier version of Sovol Cura? ...or there really was just a bug in your case), I do realize some strange things: Both in the Sovol Cura, and in Cura 5.3 with the imported profile I see extremely large values for various speeds for the "Normal 0.15mm" profile of the SV06Plus (like infill speed of 250m/s and 200m/s inner wall speeds, and initial layer speeds of 60-80mm/s). And these same values are also in the same profile in Sovol Cura 1.5.7. And here the "main" speed setting does affect the other speeds proportionally (unlike the way it worked for you with the constant 60mm/s). BTW we should not even need to worry about these speed values, since they are highly limited by the acceleration (which are set to 500-1000mm/s2 - maybe those are a bit too much too?). Either way the printer doesn't really get to these unless we print enormously large things without much detail which could slow down the print head... I guess, all this doesn't really matter. When I get my machine I will be able to experiment with the various speeds and work out the profiles which give the desired results for me.
Do you have them patented? I got out of 3d printing and into more engineering and milling my own pcbs and using wood. I have sunk about 15k in my hobby room. New guitar and effects processor, new high end oscilloscope, microscope, driving simulator, a ton of electronics development and theory. Insurance hurricane money from needing our house rebuilt. That sovol is making me want to buy the smaller one.
Does anyone know what the full measurements of the SV06 plus is when in use? (I.e. how much space does it need so that the bed can go all the way back and all the way forward and a spool on the holder). I’m trying to figure out if I can fit it in the enclosure I have.
Sovol sponsored this video, so it was more of a showcase than a review. But, there's a pinned comment there that leads to a little controversy if that's what you're looking for.
I had serious trouble with my SV07's print bed ahering, and in the end I had to conclude the bed was just bad and that to fix it I'd need to get a new bed from BuildTak and replace it. If this is your first 3D printer, I'd send it back. While I had an okay experience with the SV06, my SV07 experience, and yours, makes me worry that they're cherry picking what they send to reviewers, and I don't support that.
Thank you for reply and suggestions! I ended up forgiving how how to lower the extruded on the touch screen now everything works how it should I was able to print a benchy.
From the images of the board shown it looks like a single driver, but they advertise auto X axis leveling. Already preordered mine a few weeks ago, so I’ll find out when I get it. Coming from an ender3v2 with a dual z upgrade, not really an issue for me.
@@arfifteen9344 Klipper requires an external computer like a Raspberry pi, and you'd probably want a screen for it, in order to work. So definitely some additional hardware. And a lot of work. It isn't easy. I'm currently evaluating the SV07 and... it's still a lot of work. But probably less than doing it from scratch.
@@arfifteen9344 Theoretically, but it's not a drop in solution for anything but Creality machines. Plus there's the issue of figuring out how to mount accelerometers on the X and Y to take advantage of input shaping
this machine has super bad x level issues and constantly needs to be re-leveled. There is not z sync on it and the built in tramming function is acknowleged not to work directly by sovol engineers on a live stream. It's very loud also. When you klipper it, it screams like a cat in heat. I sold mine and got an Artillery X4 Plus instead.
Just so you know, giving a shout out is not the same as a product placement. Produce placement is paid. It's sponsorship and if that were the case I'd mark the video as having sponsored content. But if someone sends me filament and I use it (and I like it), I'll let you know about it. That's what I'm here for.
