I just upgraded my Creality CR-10S to the Micro-Swiss Direct Drive. Now when I print it extrudes way too much and I made sure to change the Esteps from 415 to 130. I have also tweaked the Extrusion multiplier but that hasn’t worked either. I really need some help.
Hi @twoody65 Welcome to the forum, glad you found us
Is there any way you can post up the output from your M503 command? Let us have a look at your configuration. Sounds like you are in the right ballpark, Something is just not saving for you
That’s perfect, So your earlier post stated that your steps were 400 and you reduced them to 130,
400 steps seems a little high for a standard 1.8 deg motor so I would assume that you have an E3D stepper motor or a high-precision LDO or the like.
You did not mention what type of printer you are using or what the setup was before the upgrade, I can imagine it was a Bowden setup. The standard creality setup would be esteps @ 93 and you raise them to 130 for the micro swiss but that’s on a 1.8 deg motor.
Magic wand math time… lol, I am guessing your steps would be about 75, Approx 2/3 of where you are now. You will absolutely have to dial that in after but it should get you close. at least to the point where it will be measurable for a 100mm extrusion test.
Here is where you are going to go from here, Set your new esteps to 75, save with an M500 verify with the M503.
Feed and load the filament of your choice, and preheat your hot end about 10 deg hotter than what you normally print at.
Now from a solid place on the top of the extruder measure 120mm and 150mm on the filament
extrude 100mm of filament and measure to the first mark you can see, Hopefully, its the 120mm mark
Let’s say for example you measure to the mark and you have 10mm that means you requested to extrude 100mm but actually extruded 110mm, (120-10) this means you are still over-extruding by 10%
Quick math for you is .9x130= 117, (90% of your current steps of 130 give you 117 as your new step value. Now update your new esteps and now you can dial it in exactly using the tutorial linked below
a proper calculator is also on this page
https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html#esteps
Hope this helps
Let us know how you make out
Thank you I will give that a try. I had a BMG Bowden setup and that is why the Esteps were set to 415. But I wanted to print with TPU and Carbon Fiber filament, so I switched to the Micro-Swiss.
That makes sense, that would be a .9 deg motor, Should be able to get it dialed in now,
Hi Jason,
Thank you that did it. I got it dialed in just like you said.
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