Has any XYZ DaVinci owners here tried to print with flex filament? MicroCenter is running a sale on some flex and I would love to print some custom phone case.
Xyz has proprietary filament but maybe there is a hack?!
It has a chipped cartridge and localy atleast they only sell pla and abs. I guess you could put in a cartrige and feed other filament in but it will count down on the inserted cartridge. Also it sets temp for filament and bed according to the chip. Id love to see the inside electronics to see if it can be flashed with marlin. If youbcan reset the chip it could also be an option. But for me if i was stuck with it id rip out the board and wire it with a ramps board.
@Michael_Scholtz is right. You can get a cheap ramps for like $50 and at that point you would have paid it off by buying normal filament in two or so rolls
@Griffin_Paquette or you can just reflash the existing electronics with repetier firmware.
I have flashed it and now run Repetier, but just wondering if anyone here used a flexible filament with the daVinci.
The stock extruder setup won’t work with flexible filaments. There’s just too much gap between the extruder gear and the cold end.
I have printed with microcenter flexible on my davinci. It has to go really slow though, and takes alot of trail and error
@Evan_Nguyen can i swap extruder or it is not even worth it?
Have converted all 3 of my da vinci to Bowden drive. One is running the E3D v6, the other is running E3D v6 Lite and the last one is running the E3D v6 Volcano. Technically they should work with flexible filament, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Bowden is really hard to print flexible width. 1.75 bowden is near impossible with flexible. I’ve fought switching to 3mm just to print flexible but it wasn’t worth the cost to ke
I personally gave up on my Da Vinci Duo and sold it off to buy my Printrbot
@Adam_Steinmark flashing repetier fixed so many things wrong with stock. It’s now an awesome cheap device. Although I have the 1.0.
@Ruald_Andreae I had a good look at them when they launched here a few weeks back, my primary reservation has been the cartridges and how to work around it. I had hoped there would be a firmware or chip reset hack but for the hardware and the price it it’s so borderline on cost to build a machine that replacing the board with a ramps board was still a good option. To find out there is a firmware version for it is cool. Does the internal display still work? Do you need to print from USB port or is there a way to get an sd card on it.
@Michael_Scholtz the repetier firmware flash is amazing. The display still works, with added features and much better calibration tools. I use repetier server on linux, which will work on a Pi. I believe the sd card works but I have never tried removing it. This just works for me. I still use cartridges but they don’t count down. They will run or soon. No chip hacks needed since firmware doesnt care
Repetier firmware flash fully unlocks this machine. You can now use any filament you want because the chip is bypassed and the SD card works just as any other reprap.
I’m not sure what you mean by current firmware @Nathan_Walkner . I’m referring to Repetier .92 firmware for the da Vinci. It’s a replacement of the factory XYZ firmware.
Yes. It works with the latest 1.0.6 stock firmware on the 1.0 machines. I can’t vouch for the da Vinci 1.1.
@Nathan_Walkner You’re just flashing new firmware. It doesn’t really matter what the old firmware is, just the hardware.
@Nathan_Walkner it is true that it doesn’t always work. Don’t buy one just for this.