Just wanted to say I really appreciate the time you put into coming up with solutions to share. It's always helpful.

Your channel is perfect. No flash or BS, just a guy helping spread knowledge about what is, in truth, a complicated system. Thank you.

I only started with my Ender 3 Pro 2 weeks ago and if it weren’t for your videos, I’d still be printing spaghetti. Thanks for all of your help and for the no-nonsense videos. It reminds me of watching Bob Villa when I was a kid with “This Old House”

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

That’s actually the style I created the channel around. Guess it’s still working.

Thank you Chuck, I'm joining the last few commentators who appreciate your straightforward way of explaining things. I'm in my seventies recovering from a stroke, your method connects with me in a way that others don't. Your advice has me working and continuing to do the hobbies I need to live. Thank you. No hesitation in signing up for your Thangs account.

@FilamentFriday

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the support.

I'm new to 3D printing, and I was staying away from TPU / TPE as it looked like too steep a learning curve for now. Finally dived in today, and I just printed my first part, which CAME OUT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!! Thank you! 😊

I've been printing calibration parts for dialing in TPU for the past few days. This video came in at the perfect time!

Thanks CHEP! I've been looking forward to getting a cura 5 tpu profile from you since your pla profiles were such a game changer!

Love these profiles

@mrsnapdragon8659

Жыл бұрын

Same

Thank you so much for all your time, support, and effort. You make this art work.

Just wanted to say thank you for all your profiles you create. Somewhat new to printing and using your profiles not only helped me print faster/better, but streamlined the learning process. Comparing all your changes and learning where and why you did things has been super helpful in learning. You’re a HUGE part of this community!

Just what I need I am needing to do a couple prints in TPU thank you so much Chuck.

And, thanks Chuck. Your information, explanations, and files are great. I have learned a lot. Grateful.

Thanks for explaining the specific settings and why you used them.

Been doing a lot of printing with you Fast profile 5.0 with great results! Thanks!

Used the profile, "as is", on my Ender 3 with direct drive and all metal heatbreak, to print a hex bit holder in TPU. It worked flawlessly. It did not had any clogs, even if there was a ton of retractions, only a little stringing. Great profile.Thanks alot Chep!

Thank you sooooo much man, i printed 16 pieces of stringing tests and couldn't get the right settings until I found your channel. Thank you so much!

Thank you for saving so much time and making this easier to understand

Thank you very much , did my first TPU prints today , using your profile on my Ender 2 pro . As the TPU I used was quite stiff it printed perfectly first time at 210 deg C , bed temp 50 deg C on standard machine with retraction dialed back to 5mm . Filament used was SunLu TPU Silk Black ( perfect finish )

Thanks so much for your hard work Chuck. I downloaded your profile/project and loaded it into Cura 5.1, I then exported the profile out of the project as well as the object. I then erased everything and loaded my Artillery Sidewinder X2 in and imported your TPU profile along with your model. I changed the retraction to 6mm because the X2 is direct drive and then sliced and loaded into Octoprint and its printing like a charm. 👌👍

Thanks. Your advice about the retraction helped a lot.

Used this profile on my Creality CR-10 Smart Pro with minor changes and got really good first print. Thanks

Thanks for the video, profile and the extruder base. It resolved the TPU issue I had with my Ender 5.

It's funny that you mention retraction as I have always had fairly high retraction settings ever since e your video on the creality lucky cat profile that you did years ago, with excellent results, even with an all metal hot end (about 7mm) mostly on pla. Thank you Chuck for all your hard work for finding these settings and sharing them with the whole 3d printing community!

A true legend. Thanks, mate!

You alway do SO much work! Thank you!

You are a genius and life saver, Chuck! I'm new to 3D printing and bought the Ender-2 Pro as a starter - I am loving it! You gave me hope on printing TPU - I successfully printed your test piece for Cura 5.0 TPU profile on my first attempt using the stock extruder and Sunlu 95A TPU filament. Thank you sir!

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear. It’s become my favorite printer.

Great upload as usual. You have always been on my goto list when I have a printing problem especially with profiles. I have had quite a few issues with Cura 5 especially with my CR10 Smart Pro as there is no stock profile for it in Cura 5 so had to do my own. Still a work in progress. Thanks for all your hard work.

Awesome! May try this tomorrow. Not done TPU in years

This TPU profile is going to serve as a base for a profile im trying to make for tpu. Thank u very much as always!

This profile is awesome! prints like a charm on my CR10SPROV2 with Microswiss direct drive, was not able to print before this.

@FATSNAIL-FPV

Жыл бұрын

what are the Retraction settings on your profile? I have a Microswiss DD on my ender 3 Pro and still tweaking it.

Downloaded and used your profile for my ender 3. A few tweaks (nozzle and bed temp, and retraction number) and boom, worked great for printing the cable clip. Came out perfect with practically zero stringing. Thanks for the profile and great video as always.

@josemariafolgueiras6232

Жыл бұрын

Shall I asq you how I can get that ender's 2 3mf archive and use for my ender 3? I had have downloaded the 3mf archive but when I drop into CURA and it changes also the printer and bed size

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/d354k8p8etOzj9o.html

This is the best content - thanks!

Hi chep. I don’t comment much. But thank you for all your help. I’ve have finally got my 3D printer working SO good now I’m in love with it. I found that I had problems with that line down the edge. It turned out the be my extruder only giving me 65.5mms rather than 100mms the difference in my prints now 😮. OMG 🥰 they are perfect. My old CR-10 👌🏼

Great info as always. Thank you

I wrote a while ago saying that I had purchased a Prusa and the worst part of that was not having the support of your videos anymore as you work with Creality. Well, I'm back to Creality due to many reasons, but your videos are one of the most important ones. Thank you sir!

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Welcome back. I do have some Prusa videos as well and a few more coming in the future.

I didn’t experience TPU before but it is one thing I will try now

@slicedpage

Жыл бұрын

It can be fun as long as you use Cheps extruder design.

I still use the replacement extruder that Chep designed years ago. Never any trouble with PETG, PLA or TPU.

I really do appreciate Chep's work on these free profiles, he does not have to make them. Yet he has for ages. I was a died-in-the-wool simplyfy3d fan but that was not getting updated so with all the talk about Cura I jumped in knowing that Cheps profile would get me moving and groovin. Sadly I could not use Cura because I found it too much work, with all the drop downs and settings here there and everywhere not to mention Ultimaker wanted my user data so that was that. I tried and died:) Now what! If I didn't love 3d printing !!!!!

@hologos_

Жыл бұрын

PrusaSlicer is the way ;-)

Your profile was all I needed to get TPU up and running. Stock ender 5 pro. Thank you.

@juliansantiago5798

Жыл бұрын

Did you have issues with it sticking to the bed and layers separating? I.just got my ender 5 pro. Did you change any settings? You're running it at 205 degrees in the profile. Please let me know 🙏🙏

@marcus1202

Жыл бұрын

@juliansantiago5798 the only thing I did was add the profile, load my filament and print. I changed nothing as far as settings go. Also you'd print TPU at a much higher temp than 205. Just leave the settings as is.

@juliansantiago5798

Жыл бұрын

@@marcus1202 Thank you!

Thanks for the great information. Always good stuff for my ender 3 v2. Thanks or sharing.

Thanks Chuck

I put the EZR Struder on my Ender 3 on day one (based on your previous video). To me it solves many of the problems people have with their stock extruder, and it works good with TPU.

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

It’s great.

wow this is great on ender 2 pro, Thank You!!!

Your profiles are great, thank you for the work! I have tried the 5.0 and 5.1 TPU profiles and both are fast and look great. The only problem I had was the inner and outer walls seem to separate. I tried lots of different wall settings but nothing helped, the setting that solved the problem was to slow the inner wall print speed down to match the outer wall print speed. Don't know if anyone else had this problem, but hope this helps.

thanks CHEP I used this and mad it for a 0.8mm and about to run a test print

I printed TPU a few weeks ago & found that all I needed to do to stop the filament escaping was to reduce the pressure on the filament from the extruder pinch wheels. I looked at the filament & saw that it was well chewed & squashed, reduced the pressure to as light as I could, bingo. It worked with Creality TPU which is quite a stiff one & also eSun TPU which is a very soft flexible one.

Thank you! It works!!!!😃😃😃

Hello Chep, I love whenever you have a new video. I switched my heatbreak recently, following your directions and now my Ender 3 works fantastic!. Could you please explore PLA, TPU and other filament profiles using a 0.2 nozzle? I love the detail a 0.2 puts out. Thank you sir!

I'm-a-gonna try this profile with some "flexible PLA" I just picked up. Feeding this stuff through a Bowden tube is going to be interesting.

I've been trying to print "BV3D Desktop Trashcan" on my Anycubic Kobra and had stringing so bad it may as well been infill... imported your profile, changed the bed size, and didn't see a single string. Thanks so much mate.

Yea, Cura 5.4 made me switch to Pruraslicer. No issues since then even though I hate the GUI.

Lost in Tech has a video on tpu and he had good results using retraction

This is where I regret having an all metal hotend, fiddling with retraction on that thing puts me on edge.

Thanks - I was actually printing a phone case in tpu when I found this. From what I'd previously found, folk turned down the part cooling fan - But I found bridging failed. I managed to install your profile -(I got confused in the instructions, Cura is not a good gui, imnsho). I reduced retraction, and increased nozzle temp. Your test printed fine, but a slight bit of stringing (I don't want to retract too far). I have an ender 3 with microswiss all metal direct drive hot end, and have re sliced the case, and print just starting. I'm not sure how supports will be handled, I'll know in a few hours time.

Chuck, fantastic as usual! Any tips or tricks for supports with TPU?

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

I typically don’t use them with TPU

This would be great if I used Ender printers for my TPU prints... I use direct drive printers, so the profiles need modification for them to work on my printers. However, you've touched on a couple of issues you faced that I have also been dealing with that gave me some ideas of how to fix. Thanks CHEP

Hi I love your videos and really appreciate the fact that you give your time and ideas for free :) I tried this profile as am having problems with the tpu I brought and unfortunately am still getting the separation on the skin layer :( can you help please?

Nice, i get little to no stringing with around 7 on retraction with my ender 3 v2 bowden setup printing tpu, with no clogs after hundreds of hours of printing. I'm print speeds around 30. thanks for the video !

@brianmi40

Жыл бұрын

What filament(s)?

@begode

Жыл бұрын

@@brianmi40 sorry I was wrong I was actually at 9mm retraction. Using sainsmart tpu 20mm/s on retraction speed

Nice videos and channel you have here. Thanks to you i decided to buy the ender 2 pro in a great offer at 129 dollars. Now I am planning to do two primary updates, the extruder change it for the mk8 all metal and the bed springs. My questions it's with the metal extruder o going to avoid the filament stuck or skip.? Thanks for your videos new subscriber here

Waow. This was one of the most easy understandable 3D guide videos I've ever seen. absolutely brilliant. I had to turn op the nozzle heat to about 235 tho. i had the wall-not-attatched-problem too. But first after I changed infill to 100% (need a solid part). Any idea what to do here? I'm using ninjaflex.

Do you have available a (Smooth Top) profile for Cura 5.0? That would be amazing if you have. All the Cura 5.0 profiles have been great, thank you...

Been having trouble finding this...thats why im asking but, how far to tighten the tension screw on the microswiss? great video Chep!

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Enough to grab but not enough to squish.

Hi Chuck I'm really enjoying your videos I'm also brand new to the 3D printing world ! I'm an fresh water fisherman and I'm wondering if I can print out my rubber like plastics that go on a jig head with TPU or TPE ? I'm very interested in the ender 2 pro. I've seen guys print injection molds with the PLA and inject the plastic but that's just more steps . Any advise or insight in this idea would be greatly appreciated Thank you ! Bob

Another awesome video, thank you. My question is how would I adjust the settings for a direct drive?

@gardenofai6396

Жыл бұрын

just lessen the retraction, thats all.

Any recommendations on max retract distance when the hot end is replaced with a bimetal?

I finally got TPU working again in 5.0, but I had to ditch retraction and go down to 10mm/s. Using a microswiss direct drive on a CR10S5

I like your profile I found 10mm retraction worked good .. Something I think you would like to try.... use a 0.5 nozzle with your 0.45 line with .... prints look just as good as PLA . let me know if people try and what you think . thanks

I’m printing tpu on my Ender 3. I didn’t know I needed to change settings in Cura maker. I’ve been printing tpu with pla settings

Jus started printing colorfab´s varioshore tpu at 220 C an 20 mm/s, I don´t have an issue with escaping filament yet but it bunches up behind the extruder gear and in front of the PTFE tube. Can this mod help my Ender 3 v2 or is it another issue. Tried with 6.5mm Retraction (25 mm/s) and with retraction off, but can only print about an hour before I can´t extrude.

some manufacturer needs to pick this up and machine their extruder plate to extend the metal toward the gearing in a wedge shape like that. It would make them the only one to buy as an upgrade.

Does this work with Cura 5.2? I am going to try printing TPU for the first time but have Cura 5.2 right now. (I have an Ender 3 with bowden tube and a micro swiss hot end)

Is there a remix for the model to work with a dual gear extruder?

ender 3 can print TPU withour being a directdrive ?? I always thougth it needed to be direct drive

Another great video, I have a problem with my ender 3, thermostat voltage dropping when the nozzle heating up and not staying on 5 volts on motherboard, but all the other voltages are fine, and it causes clogging nozzle all the time, should I replace motherboard? Already replaced hotend

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Maybe. Sounds like it could be the issue.

Do you have any profiles to print TPU on a focus Odin 5 it's a direct drive machine

i loaded the profile on my Ender 3 pro with microswiss Direct drive and didn't realize the Retraction was set for a normal extruder. Minor TPU peeling from between the sprockets ensued 2 sips of coffee later lol. Happy new year in advance btw!

@yobtnirp

Жыл бұрын

What should retractions be with direct drive

@FATSNAIL-FPV

Жыл бұрын

@@yobtnirp I have mine between 0.5mm and 1.5mm for tpu's

@yobtnirp

Жыл бұрын

@@FATSNAIL-FPV ok thx

Pretty interesting indeed! Thanks, Chuck! 😃 The S1s (pro and no pro versions) don't have this issue, right? Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊 BTW, now there's the S1 Plus! Did you see it?

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have it on the channel soon.

Can't you export the profile only?

Hi Chuck, you always have great advice. When printing TPU with multiple walls/shells to increase infill without increasing the infill %, the layers don't bond together. After the print I can squeeze my print and feel all the different layers squishing around in it. How do I make it one solid shell?

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Adjust wall overlap

I have tried to load this profile in cura 5.4 but I get a file not recognized or corrupted. Any Ideas what going on

Would be cool if you had a profile for direct drive!..?

Hi Chuck! Received my Filament Friday tool kit today! Just what I needed for the new hobby! I have a collection of CHEP cubes on my mantle as I print one each time I get new filament so I can see the color and texture. 5 so far. Question. Is there a local seller who sells the magnetic print bed for the Ender 2 Pro? I can't seem to find one... Thanks again for the great vids and getting new started in the 3d printing world.

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Local to where? Amazon has some though not original. Search 180x180 bed. Wham Bam gave me a metal one to try out.

@1larrydom1

Жыл бұрын

@@FilamentFriday by local I meant US. Shipping from China is weeks. But I'll find it. Thanks so much!

Any advice on support for print? I was trying to make my own swatch watch guard but support wont build and the lower legs break off. It seems you can only print things that don't use support.

@jeffreyepiscopo

Жыл бұрын

Maybe print the support separately in PLA and add a print pause where the support is needed with TPU and slide the PLA piece in

got a profile for direct drive?

Video request, Pneumatic couplers vs Compression Fittings, of the brass variety. It seems no matter what pneumatic fittings i use, the teeth eventually 'saw' into the Bowden tube and cause headaches (or in one case during a jam, the teeth in the extruder coupler downright broke) I'm tired of being nickel and dimed buying new fittings and tubes

Chep what hardness do you recommend for bowden style setups? 95A or 85A TPU?

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

95A

Is it safe to upgrade to Cura 5.0? What do I change? Where do I look out for?

First, thanks for all the help to the community. Am trying my luck with TPU-90 the last 2 days, and i have issues with making a phone case. Walls draw out of the line and there is a speed in your profiles that accelerate with no reason..Why u use acceleration and jerk? 5.1 tpu profile was bad and a little better with 5.0 tpu. I will try to remove acceleration and jerk cos the nozzle move like hell for 1-2 times and then goes slowly. Also i see 100% fan speeds. Is that ok for TPU?

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Those work for me but it can depend on the filament. Adjust yo make it work for you.

Hi Chep. Is it possible to get a 0.12 profile for the TPU? Is it even advisable to print in a higher resolution with TPU? Thanks again for the hard work you put in to make our lives that much simpler...

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Just change layer height to 0.12 in the profile. It should work.

@DeanosRides

Жыл бұрын

@@FilamentFriday Awesome. About to start dialing in my TPU and I've never used it before, so thanks again for the help...

I just realized you kinda look like Nicolas Cage

Chuck, wouldn't replacing the Boden tube with Capricorn greatly reduce flex in extrusion and retraction of the filament?

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Possibly but could also cause more clogs. TPU tends to be less consistent in size.

please make PETG profiles too because its really a hard material to print

Hey man im getting allot of stringing in cura. Can you please kindly help

Chuck are you eventually going to put a SEEMECnC ERZ Struder on your Ender 2 Pro?

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Probably.

What is the temperature for the hotend and bed for ninjaflex? This profile seems to have 205 hard-coded. which doesn't work for my printer.

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Adjust to 215.

👍🏻👍🏻

When it comes to all the Extra speed and Hyper speed profile. Does it need a heavy duty/vulcan hotend? I tried them on my Ender 3 Pro with stock hotend using PLA with both 215 and 250 (I know this is too hot for pla but) hotend temperature and its not keeping up. at low temperature the extruder clicks, at high temperature the extrusion is too thin

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

I would suggest adjusting your e-steps. It doesn’t require any special hotend.

One of the first upgrades I made to the Ender-2 Pro was remove the Stock Extruder and replace it with the SeeMeCNC- but I might print the Extruder base you share a link to. I just need to print a MicroSD to Standard SD Card holder and my Ender-2 Pro will be done. I wish Creality made a Glass Bed Sheet for the Ender-2 Pro!

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

SeeMeCNC EZR is an excellent option. I’d stick with that.

@brianmi40

Жыл бұрын

Buy ender 3 glass and have a glass shop cut to size for you or buy glass cutter and cut / sand yourself.

When you switch from PLA or PETG to TPU do you change the nozzle?

@slicedpage

Жыл бұрын

nope.

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

I don’t.,

@RoXolid

Жыл бұрын

@@FilamentFriday Ok, thanks Chuck. I know if I print PETG and then switch to PLA or vice versa I switch nozzles as it just seems to lead to cleaner prints for some weird reason. Not sure if material is getting impregnated in the metal or what, I just know I have had more consistent performance when I do this.

@RoXolid

Жыл бұрын

@Ronin Paterson I have not, I don't own any while I do have spare nozzles so that is easy enough :)

@FilamentFriday

Жыл бұрын

Whatever works I say.

Wish your profiles where able to be downloaded as in the past .Your new way simply dosent work at least for me .Nothing downloads and I use two different laptops neither can work your projects .Thanks again for all your info wish you had a simpler way to grab just the profile .Tks again