Hopefully you got an Ender 3 for Christmas I've got one to put together
for a family member if you didn't there's a link in the description below
including a link of my filament Friday toolkit which will go great with any 3d
printer but that's not what I want to talk to you about today. Prusa slicer
version 2.2 alpha is out and it includes a profile for ender 3. is that awesome? so
let's check it out right here at Filament Friday. Filament Friday is
brought to you by these patreon supporters. here's a location where you
can download it. I'll put a link to this in the description below so you can try
it out for yourself. this is actually the 2nd alpha release of this slicer so
they've been doing some work on this and if you scroll down you can read all
about it. there's all kinds of information about version 2 and version
1. I'm using it on my Mac so this is the link I use to download it. here's the
part that's exciting. it's now supporting third-party printers and the first one
that they're including is the Ender 3 How awesome is that so let's take a look at
it. i installed version 2.2 alpha and for proof I'll go here to help about Prusa
slicer and there it is version 2.2 alpha 2 plus so now I'll go to configuration
menu > configuration assistant and here's where you can select the printer profile.
there's already a bunch of prusa's in here including the new mini but I'm
going to go to other vendors and there's a Creality box I check that, then creality
FFF shows up. I click on that and there it is the ender 3 with a 0.4 nozzle. so I
clicked on that and I thought I was done so I clicked on finish. but it gave me a
warning I needed to set up at least one filament. so I'll just do a generic so
I'm gonna select PLA and then generic PLA and I'm ready to go. and once I did
look at this, the ender 3 bed shows up in the PrusaSlicer. That is
really cool. to the right are all the standard settings you have your print
settings and this is your layer height 0.12 0.2 0.2 for generic PLA and Ender 3
profile that I selected. now let's go to file and import, to bring
in a file to print so I'm gonna import a dot STL file in this case my CHEPcube
and there it is on the bed and you can move it around just like any slicer and
you have that Ender 3 bed. now let's go to print settings.
I had already changed the layer height from 0.12 to 0.2 at that
drop down but I want to change the seam position it was set to nearest and now I
want to make it random. so I'll click on that then I'll go to filament settings
and I found that the temperatures are way up. these were like ABS settings not
PLA. so I changed it to 205 and 205 to fit my Filament Friday Filament and the
bed I made 50 degrees. so once that was set then I could move on. next I
looked at the cooling and there was no fan enabled which would make sense if
it's ABS, you don't want a fan so I checked that box. but then it said zero
percent for the fan speed so I just set the minimum to 100 percent because
that's what I wanted. and then once I did that this message fan will always run at
zero percent except for the first three layers, that changed to a hundred percent
when I clicked on the next box. so that was good so I went back to the main
screen and now I'm ready to slice it so I sliced it and it said to take 42
minutes and 48 seconds and then I could scroll through the different layers.
everything looked fine so now I was ready to print it am i Ender 3 so I
saved it to my SD card and now they have this little X that you click on that and
it will actually unmount the SD card just like Cura does. I love that. so now
let's just compare some prints. the one on the right is with my cura 4.4
CHEP profile the one on the left is a prusaslicer. it's definitely not
as good. the profile needs to be updated and improved but overall for our first
print off this thing not to bad at all. there was definitely some sagging on the
letter so the bridging is not right. that fan isn't completely right. and the
random produced some little nerds or bumps all over the print that needs to
be fixed.
this is an early alpha but I know it's just gonna get better. I like the
direction this is goin.g I think it's great the Prusaslicer now includes
the Ender 3 in the machine profiles and it makes sense from a business point
of view because if you get used to their slicer you might want to buy one of