Creality CR-5 Pro in Cura?

[Llama_Over_Lord 0]

Upon launching Cura, it's required that I choose a printer. Problem is that my printer, the Creality CR-5 Pro, is not on the list of printers...
What do I do? I'm assuming that it matters which printer I choose, but mine isn't available.

[Godbee 1]

Since my questions is near the same I will not start a new thread but expand on this one.  I just got the Creality Ender-6 and it also is not listed.  I tried to create my own "Ender-6" from the Ender-5, but being new to this it did not go well.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Smithy 1,144]

You can always create your own profile with the custom printer or you ask your vendor if they can provide a working profile for Cura. The 3rd party profiles in Cura are created by the Vendors itself or by someone of the community.

[Llama_Over_Lord 0]

1 minute ago, Smithy said:

You can always create your own profile with the custom printer or you ask your vendor if they can provide a working profile for Cura. The 3rd party profiles in Cura are created by the Vendors itself or by someone of the community.

Right, just have to figure out how to do that then haha

[Smithy 1,144]

User the custom printer to start:

 

Or maybe better, choose an other Creality printer and just the change the values for your printer model.

[Mari 36]

Simply choose one of the other Creality printers, for example Ender 3 Pro and rename it... after that you only have to change a few settings (buildplate volume)... after that you are ready to go!

 

 

For CR-05 Pro:  X = 300, Y = 255 and Z = 380

For Ender 6:  X = 250, Y = 250 and Z = 400

[Godbee 1]

On 11/15/2020 at 4:40 AM, Mari said:

 

Simply choose one of the other Creality printers, for example Ender 3 Pro and rename it... after that you only have to change a few settings (buildplate volume)... after that you are ready to go!

 

For CR-05 Pro:  X = 300, Y = 255 and Z = 380

For Ender 6:  X = 250, Y = 250 and Z = 400

 

That is exactly what I did with my Ender-6 but found there were other settings that were better selected with the Ender-6.  The printer came with a slicer that uses Cura (New Creality Slicer) for it's GUI.  Is there any way to export those settings from Creality Slicer and import into Cura slicer since they are the same GUI?

 

 

 

[Mari 36]

... there are 2 different things, machine settings and cura profiles... you create machine settings once for a printer, but the cura profiles you keep tweaking to get better prints.... Luckily there are some people who create Cura profiles and share them...

 

The profiles I like the most are to be found on this website:  https://www.chepclub.com/cura-profiles.html

 

Creality Slicer is and old version of Cura (and Cura changed a lot in the past year) so don't think you can export/import the profiles that easy...

Edited November 17, 2020 by Mari

[tarzzz 0]

On 11/15/2020 at 10:40 AM, Mari said:

Simply choose one of the other Creality printers, for example Ender 3 Pro and rename it... after that you only have to change a few settings (buildplate volume)... after that you are ready to go!

 

 

For CR-05 Pro:  X = 300, Y = 255 and Z = 380

For Ender 6:  X = 250, Y = 250 and Z = 400

Should be 300/225/380 for CR-5 Pro ?

 

[Mari 36]

We all make mistakes now and then... 😉  You are right, it must be 300/225/380...