r/ender5

Hello smart people that didn’t buy an ender 5s1, I unfortunately did and got scammed by Creality as they have completely stopped help with this machine and told me to get a new one at my expense.

the problems I have had have been vast and numerous, the current one and the fatal one is that I keep getting a message on my sonic pad telling me that my print is “unable to parse move …”, this comes up with every print, 3 different usb and an sd card, Creality haven’t been of help wondering if you lovely people can be, any help would be great, thanks folks

I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this but whatever. I had originally bought the ender 5 pro around 2020-2021. During that time I remember taking weeks or months to get everything calibrated correctly (TONS of issues at the start), including updating the fw to th3d 2.34a. Do I remember any of the stuff I had done? Nope. I don't think I even saved all my print settings in Cura that I had cultivated during that time (I've died inside multiple times now just thinking about it). My head is swimming and I am hoping that someone here can help and offer some direction so I'm not running around in circles.

My daughter is wanting to start using the printer and I know I'm going to have to go through all the testing again for temps, retraction, etc. to fine tune my cura settings, however, I figured it's been over 5 years since I really tinkered with it, I'm wondering if I should be aware of anything that has occurred since then (specific fw I should grab, settings that are for public download, etc.). I'm assuming I should do a firmware upgrade since it's been 5+ years, I just don't remember what I had done to make that custom fw and it looks like you now have to pay for it on the few sites I've gone to. I had read I can compile my own Merlin, I just don't know where and if there are recommended settings from the community for it. I have a micro usb next to my sd slot, so I'm assuming I have a 4.2x board - I remember originally taking the printer apart to see the version, but again...I'm getting old and can't remember what it said lmao and does it matter for 4.2.2 vs 4.2.7 or just knowing 4.2x is fine?

I appreciate any help or direction from everyone here. If you point me in the right direction, I'll get the work done.

Hi! I'm new to printing big projects on FDM and also new to printing on a Ender 5 MAX... I've printed both the spatula 1º print that comes with the printer pendrive (using the creality hyper PLA) and the Kickstarter & Autodesk collab 3D printer test (using eSun PLA - basic), both went well so I jumped off to start a bigger project: a bust expositor (400mmX400mm) using the eSun PLA basic as well. Part of the print failed because the support broke and some parts of the print are open but they're fine on the 3D model... I suppose the problem is with my support's walls for the first issue, but I have no idea why is there holes on my print when the model is ok...
I'm uploading photos of Creality Print 7.1 slicer's setup (both of the printer and for the filament) + some photos of my test print and the fail big print... any help will be appreciated!

Printer setup

Support setup

Support setup

Kickstarter & Autodesk collab 3D printer test

Kickstarter & Autodesk collab 3D printer test

fail big print - supports

fail big print - supports & holes

filament setup

filamet setup

filament set up

I recently received a Ender 5 plus when my make space got a grant to upgrade some of their equipment.

It looks like it has a glass bed with black surface and the logo on it.

I adjusted the printer head height with a business card, and and have tried different levels of offset from too low to too high

First layer sort of sticks, but them will pull itself up before the full first layer is layed down.

I have had a monoprice IIIP and my PLA filament works good on that printer, same spools of filament, same temps.

If I ever have problems with adhesion on the monoprice, I just use a glue stick and it solves the problem, but on the Ender 5 glass plate, glue doesn't seam to make any difference.

Any suggestions on what I should try next?

I have the stock ender 5 print head with a cr touch and the sprite direct drive conversion kit and was wondering if anyone has tried and succeeded in printing tpu on it bc of the distance between the extruder and the hot end.

I put an e3v3.0 board and a 3.0.1 screen in my ender 5 plus. And I can't find firmware. I found 1 through dremc that wouldn't register the printer so I flashed the screen witch was apparently supposed to fix it (didn't work) . Then I grabbed firmware through the big tree tech's github page but they were all for normal e5's or an e5 pro and I haven't managed to successfully fix the dimensions I tried compiling my own and got sick of trial and error after it not working correctly like 5 times if anyone has the firmware or knows how to fix the dementions please let me know if been trying to figure it out with Claude and chat gpt and haven't gotten anywhere

Some dude on marketplace selling his 2 used ender5, they do work, I'm interested in modding them, mostly to learn and to have a proyect.

Opinions?

Also thought about using an extra extruder and extra hotend for a creality k1 that I have around, don't know if its posible.

Is anyone here currently running DGUS Reloaded on a stock E5+ screen? If so, which repo/release are you using for the DWIN_SET folder, and did you have to tweak anything special in Configuration.h / Configuration_adv.h?”