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Creality Ender 3

  1. Octoprint backup archive
  2. Slicers
  3. Print profiles
  4. Filament set up
  5. Marlin custom firmware
  6. Printer calibration
  7. 3D printed custom parts & mods
  8. Klipper custom firmware

Octoprint backup archive

[2025-02-11] Ender3-backup-20250211-234353.zip

Slicers

Ultimaker Cura

Ultimaker Cura download link.

Cura Printer configuration

Printer Extruder
Printer Extruder

Start G-code

; Octoprint's Octolapse plugin required G-code
; Script based on an original created by tjjfvi (https://github.com/tjjfvi)
; An up-to-date version of the tjjfvi's original script can be found
; here:  https://csi.t6.fyi/
; Note - This script will only work in Cura V4.2 and above!
; --- Global Settings
; layer_height = {layer_height}
; smooth_spiralized_contours = {smooth_spiralized_contours}
; magic_mesh_surface_mode = {magic_mesh_surface_mode}
; machine_extruder_count = {machine_extruder_count}
; --- Single Extruder Settings
; speed_z_hop = {speed_z_hop}
; retraction_amount = {retraction_amount}
; retraction_hop = {retraction_hop}
; retraction_hop_enabled = {retraction_hop_enabled}
; retraction_enable = {retraction_enable}
; retraction_speed = {retraction_speed}
; retraction_retract_speed = {retraction_retract_speed}
; retraction_prime_speed = {retraction_prime_speed}
; speed_travel = {speed_travel}

; Ender 3 Custom Start G-code
G92 E0 ; Reset Extruder
G28 ; Home all axes
G1 Z2.0 F3000 ; Move Z Axis up little to prevent scratching of Heat Bed
G1 X0.1 Y20 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move to start position
G1 X0.1 Y200.0 Z0.3 F1500.0 E15 ; Draw the first line
G1 X0.4 Y200.0 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move to side a little
G1 X0.4 Y20 Z0.3 F1500.0 E30 ; Draw the second line
G92 E0 ; Reset Extruder
G1 Z2.0 F3000 ; Move Z Axis up little to prevent scratching of Heat Bed
G1 X5 Y20 Z0.3 F5000.0 ; Move over to prevent blob squish

End G-code

G91 ;Relative positioning
G1 E-2 F2700 ;Retract a bit
G1 E-2 Z0.2 F2400 ;Retract and raise Z
G1 X5 Y5 F3000 ;Wipe out
G1 Z10 ;Raise Z more
G90 ;Absolute positioning

G1 X0 Y{machine_depth} ;Present print
M106 S0 ;Turn-off fan
M104 S0 ;Turn-off hotend
M140 S0 ;Turn-off bed

M84 X Y E ;Disable all steppers but Z

Print profiles

OrcaSlicer

⚠️ Important Security Alert ⚠️

Please be aware that "orcaslicer.net" or "orcaslicer.info" are NOT an official website for OrcaSlicer and may be potentially malicious. This site appears to use AI-generated content, lacking genuine context, and seems to exist solely to profit from advertisements. Worse, it may redirect download links to harmful sources. For your safety, avoid downloading OrcaSlicer from this site as the links may be compromised.

The only official platforms for OrcaSlicer are the GitHub project page.

Filament set up

PLA

Brand Filament desc Printing temp Build Plate temp Retractation Distance
Geeetech Black 210°C 60°C 0.75mm
Geeetech Silk Silver 210°C 60°C 0.75mm

PETG

Brand Filament desc Printing temp Build Plate temp Retractation Distance
Geeetech -- -- -- --

Activate button and led support

Full tutorial

Raspberry Pi Power-Up and Shutdown with a Physical Button

TL;DR

Add button support

  1. Edit /boot/config.txt file.
  2. Add line dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown.

Final result:

[...]

[all]
# enable raspicam
start_x=1
gpu_mem=128

# Simple button on/off
dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown

Add LED support

  1. Edit crontab
#> crontab -e
  1. Add the line
@reboot raspi-gpio set 4 op dh

Final result:

# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each task to run has to be defined through a single line
# indicating with different fields when the task will be run
# and what command to run for the task
#
# To define the time you can provide concrete values for
# minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon),
# and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').
#
# Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
#
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).
#
# For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts
# at 5 a.m every week with:
# 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/
#
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
#
# m h  dom mon dow   command
@reboot raspi-gpio set 4 op dh

Marlin custom firmware

⚠️ Notice ⚠️

I upgraded my Ender 3 printer with BIGTREETECH SKR MINI E3 V2 mainboard.

Firmware above is built for this mainboard!

Installed firmware

Useful resources

Firmware configuration:

Theorical documentation:

Printer calibration:

After firware update, proceed with the different calibrations in the above order:

  1. Z-Offset Wizard A Complete Guide
    On my custom firware, you can use the Z Probe Wizard feature to help performing the Z-Offset.
    To do so, on Ender 3 screen menu, select : Motion > Z Probe Wizard.
  2. Bed leveling
    To have a printer bed properly leveled when you make changes to the printer, here the list of operations to be done in that exact order.
    Both bed tramming and ABL require a BLTouch (or equivalent) hardware. See 3D printed custom parts & mods.:
    1. Do a bed tramming (a.k.a manual bed leveling). On Ender 3 screen menu, select: Motion > Tramming Wizard.
    2. Do an automatic bed leveling (ABL). In Octoprint, go to Bed Visualizer plugin UI and click Update Mesh Now button.
  3. Marlin PID Auto-Tune - A Complete Guide
    • ⚠️ First do the PID Auto-Tune for the bed. Else you may have false positive thermal runout.
  4. Linear Advance (also know as Pressure Advance)
    Linear advance tunning is filament specific.
    For a given brand & type (PLA, PETG), you may use the same LA tunning.
    But for optimal result you should tune PA for each filament roll.

3D printed custom parts & mods

Item 3D files Final result
BTT SKR E3 mini mainboard n/a show off
BLTouch for Automatic Bed Leveling (ABL) n/a show off
Raspberry Pi 4 / Octoprint case (tutorial to enable power switch/LED) Printable show off
Ender 3 PSU Support Bracket Thingiverse show off
Filament runout sensor n/a show off
Filament Guide Thingiverse show off
Gantry led holder n/a show off
Aukey LM1 WebCam holder Thingiverse show off
PSU exhaust fan silencer Printable show off
 Tool holder Local show off
SATSANA Ender 3 - BLTouch (Z-Offset: X-51 ; Y-12) Printable show off

BBT SKR mini E3 v2 pinout

BBT SKR mini E3 v2 pinout

Klipper custom firmware

Klipper configuration backup

2025-03-05 : klipper-config-files-20250305-150641.zip

  • Initial config save

Printer firmware build and update

  1. Access klipper host using ssh
ssh ender3k
  1. Stop Klipper service
sudo service klipper stop
  1. Browse to Klipper directory:
cd ~/klipper
  1. Pull the last version of the Klipper firmware from Github:
git pull
  1. Clean up working directory before building firmware
make clean
  1. Check the firmware build configuration
make menuconfig

Klipper firmaware build configuration

  1. Build the firmaware:
make
  1. Transfer the built firmware on an micro SD card The built firmware klipper.bin is in the ~/klipper/out/ directory Use a SCP client to retreive it, and rename it firmware.bin.

  2. Flash the new firmware to the printer's SKR mini E3 v2 board

    1. Turn off the printer power.
    2. Introduce the SD card into the SKR board reader
    3. Turn back on the printer power.
  3. Restart Klipper service

sudo service klipper start
  1. Check Klipper service is properly restarted
sudo service klipper status

Klipper service status check

ADXL345 accelorometer

Model used: Aliexpress
Klipper ADXL345 config

Software prereqiusites

Note that resonance measurements and shaper auto-calibration require additional software dependencies not installed by default. First, run on your Raspberry Pi the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-numpy python3-matplotlib libatlas-base-dev libopenblas-base

Details on Klipper documentation

Firmware configuration and build

  1. Configure the firmaware:
cd ~/klipper
make clean
make menuconfig

ADXL345 Firmare config

  1. Build the firmware:
make

Firmware flash

  1. Set the ADXL345 board in DFU mode by plugin it to the USB cable while maintaining the RST switch down.

  2. Check that the board is actually in DFU mode

lsusb

ADXL345 board in DFU mode

  1. Note the device ID (in our example: 2e8a:0003)

  2. Flash the firmware

make flash FLASH_DEVICE=2e8a:0003

Once flashed, the board will automatically reboot and goes back in operation mode.

Auto-reconnect printer after power-on

Source by Arnav Jain.
Wallabag backup

Start off by accessing klipper host using ssh.

ssh ender3k

Then create the 98-klipper.rules file in the /etc/udev/rules.d/ folder:

sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/98-klipper.rules

Retreive idVendor and idProduct for the Klipper MCU:

  1. Retrieve Klipper MCU ID
lsusb

Find Klipper MCU ID

  1. Retrieve idVendor and idProduct using the Klipper MCU ID
lsusb -v -d 1d50:614e | grep id

idVendor and idProduct

Then add the following text into the 98-klipper.rules file just created:

  1. Edit the 98-klipper.rules file
sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/98-klipper.rules
  1. Add text (remove the 0x at the begining of the IDs)
## rule to restart klipper when the printer is connected via usb
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1d50", ATTRS{idProduct}=="614e", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/sudo -u pi /bin/sh -c '/bin/echo RESTART > /home/pi/printer_data/comms/klippy.serial'"

Finally, re-load the udev rules:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules