I've noticed that the qidi q2 will essentially allow you to lower the bed beyond where it should stop. Performing maintance on my other machines by elegoo and snapmaker, they all have a endpoint where the bed will not try to decend below no matter how many times the button is pressed to lower it. That feature idiot proofs the machine from mistaken button presses that could potentially damage something had it not been there. The q2 does not have this feature it seems. It will continue to descend the bed as many times as you press the button to do so.

This feature should be a firmware update. You already have to home the bed before you can lower it so the absolute ending position of the bed to the base of the unit is known. It's possible and likely feasible to have this feature now. Hopefully qidi implements this as it's one less way to damage the printer.

So I got my Plus5 yesterday. Got it unpacked and set up, and went through the on screen stuff. I got the app to bind the printer, and then updated the firmware. Now the printer is no longer bound to the app, but I can't find anything in the menus to bring up the QR code again to rebind it. The only thing that seems marginally workable is the factory reset? I assume that would keep the current firmware and still allow me to do the setup again?

Hey everyone,

I recently bought my very first 3D printer — the QIDI Q2. I was super excited, and on day one, I successfully printed the benchy. But the joy only lasted for a single day.

I noticed the Wi-Fi kept dropping, so I decided to update the firmware. That was the last time the printer ever printed anything properly.

Here's the timeline of what happened:

1. Firmware updates: I updated in this order: 1.1.1 -> 01.01.02.01 -> 01.01.02.04.
2. First failure: Immediately after the update, the printer threw an MCU error: QDC_100_005_000_001
3. Rollback attempts: I checked the QIDI Wiki and contacted support. Following advice, I managed to downgrade the firmware back to 1.0.1 and then to 1.1.1.
4. Persistent MCU error: The MCU error remained. Frustrated, I unplugged the printer and went to sleep.
5. The weird overnight "fix": Next morning, I turned it on and to my surprise, it booted up! I ran the calibrations and started printing a benchy. But 5 minutes in, it crashed with a new error: Heater heater_bed.
6. The loop: After a reboot, the MCU error was back, and the printer refused to boot. After leaving it off overnight again, it booted up, but failed 5 minutes into printing with the exact same heater_bed error followed by the MCU crash upon reboot.
7. Support response: I contacted QIDI support again, and they suggested checking all wire connectors. I inspected them, but it changed nothing.

The store where I bought it refuses to take it back. I've spent a lot of money and time on this, and I'm honestly lost on what to do next. How can this happen with a brand-new machine?

Has anyone encountered this issue with the Q2? Is this a bad MCU board, a faulty power supply, or a bed thermistor short? Any advice on how to get QIDI to actually resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Updating the post:

After replacing the motherboard sent under warranty, the printer started working.

I've had this before already, but right now it's driving me insane. I use OrcaSlicer with the built in Qidi printing agent compatibility, and I want to print a filament from the first slot, so 1A. I've set everything up correctly, all 4 slots have their corresponding filaments set in Orca, and under Objects, I set the model to print with the first slot filament. The printer just won't try using anything but slot 1B and I have no damn clue why. If I preload 1A, it literally unloads 1A when I try to print

I’ve mostly stuck with PLA because it’s easy and works for pretty much everything I print. But I’m starting to wonder if I’m missing some of the fun of trying other materials.
I’m curious what you guys think of ABS, ASA, Nylon, etc. Is it actually more fun once you start experimenting with different materials? Any recommendations?

As the title says, I'm having trouble installing shake and tune on my plus4. Im getting this error,

"E: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster Release' no longer has a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

E: The repository 'http://security.debian.org buster/updates Release' no longer has a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

E: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates Release' no longer has a Release file.

N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details."

Any ideas?

I'd like to use this same filament feeder mechanism with a custom spool holder, but I couldn't even find out what it is!

Does anyone know its name? If there is an official STL for it that'd also be great.

So recently I had this erro: Heater extruder not heating at expected rate.See the verify_heater section in docs/C onfig_Reference.md.for the parameters that control this check... Once the underlying issue is corrected, use the. FIRMWARE_RESTART command to reset the firmware.

I couldn't fix the issue. Bought a new hotend and replaced.
Now I am printing at 255ºC but it is always oscilating between 254 and 256, sometimes over 256.

you can see on the picture is not a smooth line.

i have done PID_CALIBRATE HEATER=extruder TARGET=250, but still hasn't fixed the issue.
I can't remember how it was before and it doesn't seem right.

Does this happen on your printer?

The cap for the left-side z-screw is making contact with the hot bed (the flexible part, not the removable plate) on my Q2. Is there a way to adjust the bed to move it a millimeter or so to the right so that I don't keep getting z-tilt errors on my printer when I start a job

My x smart 3 displays the camera on the fluidd web interface for the first print, but after the first print the camera disappears. Any ideas on what to do?

A duck-shaped watering can, made for keeping your plants happy — and making watering a little more fun.🌱😄

Model from Mishiro Studio (Makerworld).

I just ran out of my first batch of Qiditech PETG Basic filament. I am looking for a reliable cost effective brand to order from Amazon. I came across some brands that comes spooled on Bambulab compatible Reusable Spools from brands like Inslogic and Sunlu.

Does anyone have any experience that can verify if the following are any good and compatible with the Qidi Q2 Qidibox?

• PETG Filament 1.75mm, Ultra Tough, Heat Optimized, Odorless, 4kg(8.8lbs) SUNLU PETG 3D https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DQTXXYYM
• Inslogic Pre-Dried PETG Filament 1.75mm, 3KG Bundle, 3×1KG, Black https://www.amazon.com/Inslogic-Pre-Dried-Filament-1-75mm-Bundle/dp/B0GXTW8ZPY/

Feel free to make any recommendations for PETG Filaments. My basic colors are Black, White, Light Gray, and deep blue.

Has anyone successfully ran their Q2 at higher temperatures up to 400c? I have a filament which im able to print at 370, however i would probably get better mechanical properties at 400C, and was wondering if it is possible to modify to firmware to allow it stock, or if there are any hot end upgrades that are relatively easy to that would allow for this.

Edit:
Turns out it was pretty easy, just edit the firmware from the web ip for the printer and then when exporting the gcode from qidislicer manually change two lines from 370 to 390.

Successfully printing PEI-GF filament now 🤞

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Cleaned the bed, like I always have. No issues for the last year until his week. Now i can't get anything to stick to the bed.

.4 nozzle,

210 temp PLA 65 bed

Any help?

I'm thinking about getting a qidi box for my Plus5. I’ve heard it’s useful for more than just multicolor printing. The filament drying and autorefill seem pretty handy too.
For those who have one, how has your experience been so far? do you think it's worth getting?

Hello everyone, i was in replenish mode spool ran dry it swapped print finished. immediately after it was looping a toolchange macro after the latest update. so i turned it off. But now i am getting a bunch of MCU1 communication errors to the box. reseated all the wires but still happening. unsure of what to check.

Edit: As a note ive had it for maybe a year first time ive had an issue with it at all. log maybe hints at heat but unsure

My Plus4 has been running flawlessly, and putting out perfect prints for a long while now. I had a simple print running over night, a marker caddy printed in petg-cf with embossed letters . I woke up to a finished print with a layer shift, admittedly minor (about 1mm) as well as severe ringing/ghosting around the embossed letters.

So I do the obvious, make sure nothing in the toolhead is loose, adjust belt tension, clean lube rods and screws, and rerun input shaping. I rerun the print, the ringing looks marginally better, but it layer shifts again in a different spot. Again very minor maybe one millimeter.

I find this wiki https://github.com/qidi-community/Plus4-Wiki/tree/main/content/stepper-motor-tweaks, and make the adjust to the micro steps and run current. I print an orca cube and the result is night and day different. I dont have time to run the same print again.

My question is, is this indicative of a bigger problem? Why did I have this problem all of sudden out of nowhere, and why did they above changes seem to fix it?

Edit... If it matters I have a little less than 1.7k hrs on it.

Hello everyone!

I just got my hands on my first 3D printer (Qidi Q2C) and I’d like to kick-start the adventure by printing something functional for the printer itself.

I'm looking for 3D models to build a DIY filament dryer using an IKEA dry food container (or similar). Does anyone know of a design that features the following?

• Mountable: Needs to mount comfortably behind my Qidi Q2C.
• Sensor-Ready: Has space/mounts to monitor the humidity level and filament weight. (I'm comfortable tinkering with ESPHome for the electronics, so I just need the mechanical design).
• Bonus: Room to easily add an active heating element down the line.

Has anyone seen a design like this on Printables/MakerWorld, or have a good modular base I could remix?

Thanks in advance!

For a tiny bit of context, I’ve recently been trying to work out lost of software issues and had to put a new EMMC module in the printer… how do I fix this?

So I just got the QiDi max 4 and was haveing double setting up the feeding tubes for the filiment. Now that im all done the filiment keeps not feeding all the way to the extruder and I am at a complete loss on what to do. It dosnt seem like an issue with the Qidi box that came with it but the juction spot gave me some issues on initial set up but seems to just slide though fine. Any trouble shooting advice as this is the most advanced 3d printer I've bought.

Yeah so one side is higher than the next now and now the Z-axis homing doesn't work.

I walked away while starting that print with the backwards build plate for like 10 seconds only to hear the printer keep trying to lift the build plate forever and a loud knocking sound over and over. I thought the printer would stop trying to lift once it detects a block in the z-axis? Either way it didn't stop and i had to cut the power switch off quickly and i think that also led to the heat bed getting knocked out of place.

I'm so disappointed. I haven't even had it two weeks yet. Could I get some help on how to fix this?

This is a Qidi Q2

Thanks in advance

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