Ender 3 Max Neo with Sonic Pad newbie questions.

[vartech 0]

I have a Max Neo that I just got with a upgraded board 4.2.7 sprite se and Sonic pad.  I see that everyone recommended Cura over Creality Slicer.  I am trying to setup up printer in Cura 5.8 I selected max as my profile and increase the height number but I keep getting errors also the line it prints is off the heating pad.  Do I modify the current profile or setup/download one if so how?

 

I was told that the Sonic pad will over ride the printer settings I setup in cura is this true if so how do I override this? 

[Slashee_the_Cow 442]

Can you be more specific about the error messages you're getting? Are they in Cura or on the printer?

 

35 minutes ago, vartech said:

also the line it prints is off the heating pad

Go into your machine settings and make sure Origin at center is turned off. 75% of the time the problem is that it's accidentally turned on.

 

38 minutes ago, vartech said:

Do I modify the current profile or setup/download one if so how?

I guess it really depends on what the differences between the regular Max and Neo (or your modified Neo) are. I had an Ender-3 V2 Neo (before Cura had a profile for it, that was only added fairly recently). It had several of the most common upgrades to the regular V2 as stock (CR-Touch, stronger bed springs, metal extruder, bigger colour screen, couple of others) but the only salient difference from the Cura definition for the E3/E3V2 was that I had to update the startup gcode to run an ABL sequence.

 

When that died and I got an E3 V3 SE (around launch, so a while before Cura had a definition for it) it was different enough that I made my own definition file for it rather than change almost everything about another printer. I've been digging through configuration files for various things for years so it wasn't too hard for me, but it's probably a bit hard (read: easy to mess up) for people who haven't been tinkering with stuff for as long as I have. You're probably better off just using an existing profile and making sure to pay attention to settings which will be different to the regular version (i.e. if the regular version doesn't have the Sprite extruder, you'll need to change the retraction settings).

 

55 minutes ago, vartech said:

I was told that the Sonic pad will over ride the printer settings I setup in cura is this true if so how do I override this? 

IIRC the Sonic Pad runs Klipper, which isn't natively supported by Cura, but it supports a large enough subset of Marlin (probably the most common gcode flavour) to print stuff that uses that.

 

To answer your question... having never used a Sonic Pad or a newer Creality printer which runs Klipper (like the Ender-3 V3) I don't know what exactly 😞. I know that my E3V3SE will often ignore speed or acceleration settings in gcode, so I have to manually limit the maximum speed and acceleration on the printer's control panel.