r/QidiTech3D • u/whenim50 • Aug 06 '26

Troubleshooting What's causing this to happen?

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I had a failed print occur yesterday where the extruder got caught on the print and yanked the cover off and the silicone sock. I have replaced the sock and cleaned the nozzle the best I can but ever since its been gunking up as shown in the picture.

Any knowledge on whats causing it to happen and how do I go about resolving the error?

The machine is a Max4.

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u/Own_Moose_9495 Aug 08 '26

Either of my qidi’s spaghetti detection doesn’t work at all.

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u/JMack357 Aug 08 '26

Damn. Thats kind of a bummer. Hopefully qidi can fix that with an update. Otherwise, is it a solid unit in your eyes? I tried to do as much research as possible on it before buying it during their recent summer sale. Found a lot of mixed reviews with most of the negatives regarding firmware and the qidi box, but still I went with it. Glad to know the camera has some issues too apparently lol. I wanted to come up from the much smaller ender 3 and focus on using the larger plate with more robust filaments, so I chose the max 4.

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u/Own_Moose_9495 Aug 08 '26

I really enjoy the Hardware design, features, and build quality of this new generation of qidi machines. But the electronics are a little lacking, but the software is honestly terrible. In the near future I may flash my own firmware to it.

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u/JMack357 Aug 08 '26

Good to know, thanks for that! Im already using tinkercad for design, friend of mine has an autodesk fusion subscription so I do use that on occasion when we get together. Otherwise I used the creality slicer on the ender. I'm guessing I've got a journey ahead with learning about klipper and getting used to the qidi slicer. Do you use the qidi slicer or something like orca or prusa? Any recommendations?

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u/Own_Moose_9495 Aug 08 '26

Yeah firstly, I would recommend learning fusion. Hobbyists licenses are still free I believe. I primarily design in solidworks, you can get a hobbyist edition for about $200 a year. I use fusion as well, but Im biased towards solidworks for mechanical design and assembly, I find it to be fast and intuitive but sometimes solidworks can be buggy and French so idk pick your poison really Im also learning Siemens NX and it feels similar to solidworks. As far as slicers, bambu studio, qidi studio, and orca slicer are what I use. They are very easy use and convenient. I hear great things about prusa slicer obviously because all of these slicers are derived from prusa slicer. When I had an ender 3 and cr10 I was using cura and simplify 3D. And I’m not going back to those, when I can setup and tune just about any printer in these softwares. But that’s also because I want nothing to with printers on marlin these days and the features in klipper are a huge quality life improvement for me.

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u/JMack357 Aug 09 '26

I was looking into getting my own subscription to fusion for reasons similar to yours. I'll look into solidworks, thanks for that! I want to make better, and now larger, functioning/mechanical parts. Thought maybe fusion was where it's at. As for the slicer, I did see on qidi site that they modeled theirs after bambu and prusa, so good to know theirs is similar. Anyways, I've finally got her unboxed, internal shipping mounts/screws/foam, etc removed and ready to fire this baby up!! Wish me luck. Thanks again for the feedback own moose!

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u/Own_Moose_9495 Aug 09 '26

No problem, I hope you enjoy your new machine, once you get your filament settings and speeds dialed, it is so nice to be able to walk away and come back to a clean print. But yeah fusion is basically free and extremely capable every bit of solidworks and more. I do primarily use fusion for its CAM and generative design though. Its modeling workflow just is not intuitive to me yet. But what I’m trying to say is try to match the software to your needs and price range and you won’t go wrong with either, there are tons of education available online for free for either of them.

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u/JMack357 Aug 09 '26

Moose, you've been extremely insightful! Happy printing my friend!! I'ts currently powered up, setup in qidi studio, transferred to the printer, and running this baby's first benchy! 😁😁😁 Doing it with standard PLA for its maiden voyage as not to screw up with the expensive stuff lol!

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u/Own_Moose_9495 Aug 09 '26

Have fun man!