r/SovolSV08

Perhaps I didn't realize this, but I've always used the baked in stock macros for filament swaps. That means I had to sit with tweezers and snag the bits of filament before it goes to the model again. Was I being dumb by doing that?

I assume I can utilize orca's features and the flush tower, to not have to grab that bit of filament, and make the filament swap transition to the model clean.

I always had bits of filament dangling, and catching on the prints because I didn't use any towers.

Am I correct here? This can be done? Any recommendations on settings?

Any emc suggestions for a 32gb emc for sovol sv08 on Amazon? I'm afraid of choosing the wrong one just to brick it 😂

I've been looking to get a bigger printer and I came across the SV08.

Reading some of the reviews here and understand it's a tinker printer, if that's still the case.

I do want to print bigger and this seems like a good upgrade.
Although, I don't know whether I'm supposed to buy the extension kit somewhere or print one...?

If you guys don't mind I'd love to hear your experiences with this model.

Thank you.

My extra_mcu is not being recognized anymore. Even when I SSH into my sv08 I only see the main mcu. So I assume my extra mcu is dead.

I'm looking in buying a new pcb but they all seem to be sold out. Even looked into full toolheads to buy, but those are also all sold out. Anyone know what the best thing I can do is now?

I'm in EU if that helps in any way.

Hello, I 3D printed some things at school and then decided to get a 3D printer for myself and I built it. I went through all the calibrations including PID (not really sure what it is) but I did all of the avalable calibration options on the machine. Then I made a benchy, it was bad but I just had to tighten a belt. Then I did another and it was perfect, but whenever it is cleaning the nozzle/calibrating, it scrapes the nozzle on one spot on the heatbed. The prints are perfect though. How can I fix this?

Hello! I'm looking at my next 3d printer and Im very highly considering this one. I'm open to others as well but would really like to either try out a delta style or flying gantry printer. Saw this in person at my local micro center and liked it so I'm thinking of getting it. Any common/immediate upgrades that are recommended?

Im in conflict....I finally took some time to install the carage for the toolchanger....but not on the standard voron but my Sv08 ....I had this one taking dust fir 15 months because I really didn't need that one running. Ofcourse it's running main klipper/ canbus and so one.But it wil never be a voron 2 4 so I do have a frame ....ldo motors ...pi and the huge mainboard from bigtreetech tech what im missing is the bigger pullys the rails and the powersource to build another compleet voron 2.4. Also missing the buildplate....and I was thinking can I just dismantle the sovol sv08 and rebuild it all on the voron frame would it be worth the time ? I realy want a toolchanger and my 1ste idea was building the sv08 as toolchanger and as soon bondtech comes finaly out with there index system compleet the orders for the new build ( I have already 3 printers taking dust and 4 running ) what is the best option here.

this is an follow up to my original post https://www.reddit.com/r/SovolSV08/comments/1t4pl3r/how_screwed_am_i/

I replaced the toolhead but the printer still stuck on the system loading screen. I cannot reach the mainsail and when I try and ping the ip on terminal, the host cannot be found.

When I take off the bottom covers there are solid blue led lights on, no red. I tried unplugging the toolhead umbilical, still nothing.

Is the next step to try and reflash the emmc? Do I need to get a new main board?

Thank you again for all your help.

I recently got a Cryogrip Frostbite build plate for my SV08, and it is working very well. The one problem I have had is that the bottom face of it adhere to the top of the heater plate. I got it off, but it actually pulled a chunk of the foam or whatever is covering it off. I am thinking I should gewt a thin sheet of PTFE to put betweeeen them to prevent this from happening again

After discovering that Orca emits filament and extruder details in indexed lists for multicolour prints, I had the idea that I wanted to use a neopixel (or in my case the stock screen backlight on my SV08) to show me which colour each Filament Change wanted, as well as showing the vendor and ID on screen.

Here's my new Change Filament section from the Machine G-code tab;

M117 {filament_vendor[next_extruder]} {filament_settings_id[next_extruder]}
; Hex colour codes include a leading hash
; DO NOT omit quote container or the code will be commented out
NEO_HEX_RGB COLOUR="{filament_colour[next_extruder]}"
M118 T{next_extruder} - {filament_colour[next_extruder]}

M600

Figuring out that the leading hash in #44D24F (for example) was causing Klipper to treat the colour code as a trailing comment took some time & reading (duh!). Adding quotes solved the parameter pass.

The M118 started life as a troubleshooting line, but I found I liked having a timestamped filament change in the console history so I've kept it.

In addition to the macros below, I made two changes to my existing macros;

1. The PAUSE macro announces itself with an M117 that almost instantly overwrites the text I called in my Filament Change gcode, so I wrapped it in an IF;

   {% if state != 'filament_change' %} M117 Pause Print!!! {% endif %}

2. I added a reset to the stock screen colour at the end of the RESUME macro - easiest way to find your stock settings is to use Mainsail to change it, then hit the restore arrow. The stock colour command appears on the console.

   SET_LED LED="Screen_Colour" RED=0.5 GREEN=0.4 BLUE=0.7 SYNC=0 TRANSMIT=1

Here are the two macros I made:

Nozzle LED (mine is a GRBW Neopixel, but Klipper corrects the sequence in the neopixel configuration so I still call it RGBW)

[gcode_macro NEO_HEX_RGBW]
description: Set RGBW NeoPixel based on RGB Hex code (not balanced for colour temp, gamma, etc.)
gcode:
  {% set led = params.LED|default("nozzle_led") %}
  {% set rgb = {"r":params.COLOUR[1:3]|default("ff")| int(base=16),
                "g":params.COLOUR[3:5]|default("ff")| int(base=16),
                "b":params.COLOUR[5:7]|default("ff")| int(base=16)} %}
                       
  {% set white = [rgb.r, rgb.g, rgb.b]|min %}

  SET_LED LED={led} RED={(rgb.r - white)/255} GREEN={(rgb.g - white)/255} BLUE={(rgb.b - white)/255} WHITE={white/255} SYNC=0 TRANSMIT=1

Screen backlight

[gcode_macro NEO_HEX_RGB]
description: Set RGB NeoPixel based on RGB Hex code (not balanced for colour temp, gamma, etc.)
gcode:
  {% set led = params.LED|default("Screen_Colour") %}
  {% set rgb = {"r":params.COLOUR[1:3]|default("ff")| int(base=16),
                "g":params.COLOUR[3:5]|default("ff")| int(base=16),
                "b":params.COLOUR[5:7]|default("ff")| int(base=16)} %}
                       
  SET_LED LED={led} RED={rgb.r/255} GREEN={rgb.g/255} BLUE={rgb.b/255} SYNC=0 TRANSMIT=1