this is any cubic's new ftm 3d printer cobra any cubic has released two new fdm 3d printers
cobra and cobra max about a week ago and i have to say that firstly there are serious
differences between cobra and cobra max this one is any cubic's cobra model you see and it's one
of my favorite 3d printers these days any cubic cover offers many features at an affordable price
pei spring steel magnetic sheet lev iq precision bed leveling and integrated direct drive extruder
for easy flex materials printing cobra has almost everything it has been released in a complete
upgraded design and first of all let's start with the printing value any cubic cover has a 2 to 1
by 2 to run a heated magnetic printing pad and a printing height of up to maximum of 250 millimeter
and one side textured pe i counted spring steel sheet that one of my favorites is used as the
printing surface this rough coated steel sheet is really great and i totally trust it on the
sticking i think it's the one of the best surfaces we can use for 3d printing yes it's that good
thanks for rough surface even the smallest part of the print can stick very easily
and also one of the best part is that it's very easy to remove the print from the bed when it's
finished when you bend this steel sheet slightly from its edge the print easily pops off the bag
and when we look at the bottom layer of the print we get a nice
slightly rough and glitter looking first layer as you can see it's very easy to use
i really love this surface by the way as you can see there are no springs and level knobs on the
bed this is because cobra comes with the level iq inductive bed level and sensor developed by any
cubic and after pressing leveling on the interface for automatic bed leveling the printer makes
precise measurements from 25 different points in a short time and saves them to the memory
then we set the z offset with the paper and so we complete the leveling process
i found this probe quite reliable and having a bad probe in this budget printer is really important
and nice because you know leveling the bed manually sometimes turns into nightmare however
any cubic has completely solved this problem it's great and as you know once you make automatic bet
leveling you don't need to make for a long time i think it seems impossible for this printer to
have something like sticking problem since it has both an autobat leveling and a pei magnetic sheet
when i look at the left side of the leveling probe i see big improvements here any cubic
used a direct drive extruder on its cobra model and from what i have seen it's an ultra compact
integrated titan aero extruder making the hot end an extruder super compact form the titan arrow is
more reliable takes up less space and lighter and it could be used as slimline stepper motor
to drive the titan error unlike standard stable motors to show that it cares about lightness and
i see that this type of model is well fixed here also an advantage of the direct drive extruders
our bowden extruders the titan aero extruder with a shorter filament path provides more
precise control improving print quality and best of all great for a flexible filament it minimizes
places where filament can bend or buckle giving a better flexible printing experience and if you
ask me anycubic has made a good choice of direct drive extruders here as you can see by the design
of this extruder there is no heat sink on the hot end peril the cooling of the barrel is provided
by these fins on the extruder cover which is in contact with the barrel and a 40 millimeter fan
a heating block with silicone sucks just below the barrel and commonly
used 0.4 millimeter nozzle that can reach up to 260 degrees were used
extrude the stepper motor tighten arrow extruder and all the other parts are mounted on a metal
cover and can be attached with four screws on the x-axis carriage like a printhead module
and also in the rear inner we have a part cooling fan and a circuit where all the wires are gathered
in order to cover all these parts a nice blue cap has been designed and although
the printhead looks a little big with this cap it looks very neat and cool at the same time
the first thing i looked at after seeing the direct drive on the printer was whether there
was a double z-axis and i saw that despite the direct drive a single z-axis was used
not double z of course it would be better to have double z-axis but after all it's an affordable
printer and double z-axis would increase the price a little more i don't think there will
be a remarkable difference between wz and single z for a printer that doesn't have such a large
print volume anyway however anycubic has already used a titan arrow and slimline stepper motor to
make the printhead light and the total weight of this printhead is around 480 grams not too heavy
but also not too light so as a result i don't think that single z-axis will cause problem after
adjusting to eccentric wheels well any cubic cover uses the 3 gorilla pro a version 1.0.4 motherboard
with silent stepper motor drivers on it and unlike other printers here we see a large 80 millimeter
fan instead of 40 millimeter for motherboard cooling i honestly found it kind of interesting
i don't know if such a thing was necessary was the 40 millimeter fan weak or something like
that i don't know anyway the average speed of the printer is 80 mm per second by the way you know
the average speed in 3d printers is usually 60 millimeter per second however in cobra this value
is slightly higher which means that the printing time will be slightly shorter now i am printing
at 80 millimeter per second speed and also the big motherboard fan is running at full speed
in this case the sound level is around 55 db at distance of 1 meter from the printer there
is no stable motor sound the only sound i hear is the fan noise and i think it's a bit louder than
normal i suppose the reason for this is the big 80 millimeter fan as a result in short the sound that
will is at a reasonable level by the way looking at the bottom of the printer on the front there is
only the motherboard and a big fan there is no any drawer in this empty part next to the motherboard
i think these wires are getting in the way it would be nice if we have a drawer but it's not
a big deal at the back of the painter we have a power supply across the width of the printer
cobra comes with a sensitive response bright tie screen like any cubic swiper model and it
comes disassembled out of the box and is fixed to the right front of the printer with short screws
on screen interface menus are designed to be very simple and easy to use there's nothing extra
useless in my opinion it's a nice user-friendly touchscreen that doesn't tire the user by the way
touch sounds can also be turned off i couldn't see the option to change the filament on the screen
during the printing nothing also comes up after i hit the pause i suppose not but maybe the
filament can be changed manually have you noticed there is no end stop on the printer a fun fact is
when i first saw those holes i thought they forgot to attach the end stops however cobra
makes autohome without end stops and i can say that it works very stable without any problems
speaking of the sensors let's also take a look at belts and tensioners these two gt belts transfer
the rotational movement of the steppers to the carriages and when i look at the tensioners
see an interesting nice design they work smooth by the way it's nice to have bad
tensioners on the printer because as you know the belts directly affect the print quality now
i want to talk quickly about inside of the box and the assembly cobra comes almost installed
out of the box and the printer can be set up quickly and easily in about 10 minutes
the biggest thing to make for assembly is to fix the gantry to the base we fix it with four long
bolts then the screen and spool holder finally we plug in a few wires and done it's that simple
and these are the tools and spare parts that came with the printer okay i think cobra seems pretty
nice looks neat and high quality the very top which the spool holder is fixed is made of hard
plastic not aluminum and i think the purpose of this is to cost saving if it's okay which looks
pretty solid i think it's a good decision now let's move on to my thoughts on the printer first
thing i want to say is i think the cobra offers great features for its price autobad leveling
and this awesome pei magnetic printing surface even just these two features make the sticking
of the print perfect and give the printer to be used for long time without any problems
besides surprisingly we have a direct drive extruder which i think is up level bd direct drive
increases the print quality and as i said one of the best part is that is great for tpu filament
so if the printer doesn't have a direct drive extruder it's very difficult to get flexible
prints it's almost impossible besides we have a sensitive touch screen the printing speed has been
slightly increased which is a nice improvement in design i think it's very good it looks pretty cool
as for my negative thoughts about the printer actually not negative but i think it would be
better if there was a drawer it's not a big deal but anyway in short cobra is a budget printer that
even beginners can use easily thanks to its automatic bed leveling and pei magnetic sheet
ok these were my thoughts on cobra hope it was useful thanks for watching see you next time bye