#sovol — Public Fediverse posts

As it turns out, seeing an Arc Fitting section in your (klipper-based) printer.cfg does not mean you should turn it on in your slicer. Definitely do not do that.

#FDM #3DPrinting #Sovol #Klipper

After a lot of tweaking, managed to get 90 hours of uninterrupted printing out of my Sovol SV08 Max - a gridfinity-based riser for my filament dryer.

If you're considering one of these printers, they''re absolutely good units but the stock settings are absolutely garbage.

This thing has a stock acceleration of 40,000mm/s2. That's insane, and the pulleys absolutely can't keep up with that. I had constant layer shifts due to the belts slipping, even when tightened to recommended specs. Also had a fair bit of roughness on top surfaces as well. I'm currently running at 6000, which is a very conservative starting point but it's printing without any issues whatsoever.

Secondly, the auxillary feeder is trash. The stock acceleration and current are also way too high, leading to it chewing filament and making terrible noises when running. It also constantly generates false positive clog alerts. I initially tuned the settings, but I've switched the printer to running mainline klipper, which isn't supported by the feeder, so it's switched off. Haven't had any clog issues since.

Other handy hint is that the hotend is susceptible to heat creep when printing at PETG nozzle and bed temps in an enclosure - running the chamber fans at around 40% seems to resolve that.

#3DPrinting #Sovol

Just remembered the Z-Hop* setting in #Cura. Now my C64 keyboard dust cover should hopefully print without incident. :D

* Causes the print head to jump up whenever moving over a printed layer to prevent the print head from snagging the part being printed and yanking it off the build surface (print/print head collision)

#3DPrint #3DPrinting #3DPrinter #Sovol #C64 #C64U #Commodore #Commodore64 #Commodore64U #Commodore64Ultimate

Hey #3dprinting people! Is someone around here thinking about the #sovolm1d? I'm currently looking for a new printer and this one is at the top of my list. I want to have full access to the software side, #opensource is very much welcome ❤️

#3dprinter #sovol #sovol3d #3dprint

My SV08 hot end had a major blockage today.

Is there a better option than buying a new one from sovol?

(I can probably harvest some parts from the old one, but it kept printing for 3 hours.....)

(The part cooling fan was crushed)

(Pics tomorrow)
#sovol #SV08 #3dPrinting

Juhů 🥳
Upgrade z 8G na 32G již brzy 😄 Teda snad, jak Qidi, tak Sovol by měly používat Makerbase desku 🙂 Pinout souhlasí

#Sovol #SV07

Au 🥲

No tak pojď, tohle bude debian upgrade přes kolik, 3 releasy? Co by se mohlo asi tak podělat 😅

#Sovol #SV07

10 minut a můžu tisknout i se zavřenými dveřmi od pokoje! 😄
Zavření dveří znamenalo pro Sovol prakticky ztrátu připojení. Přesun tiskárny jinam by bylo nepraktické, anténa je pár korun a udělá hodně muziky.

#3DPrinter #Sovol #SV07

Dneska taky trochu těch 3D tiskáren. Upgrade #Sovol #SV07, konkrétně WiFi antény, a QC, který asi továrna zapomněla 😄

#3DPrinting #3DPrinter

@selea @carapace i’m a huge fan of #SOVOL lately; they’re actually doing open source #3DPrinters correctly.

I have their SV08, which is a 3D printer hacker’s dream rig: everything on it works well enough, right out of the box, and most everything in the box is compatible with many of the Voron 2.4 modifications out there. https://www.sovol3d.com/products/sovol-sv08-3d-printer

The Sovol Zero is their take on the Voron 0.2 - I haven’t played with one of those but they seem to be well received by the community too. https://www.sovol3d.com/products/sovol-zero-3d-printer

I do however understand that a hackable printer may not be the ideal choice for a #hackerspace: there’s a lot of temptation to modify such a machine, and machine mods in a hackerspace often mean machines that just don’t work anymore, with a bonus side effect of members being angry with one another.

A blunt advice for #3DPrinting:

If you want to diy, look into #Voron designs, RatRig, ProForge 300 and others.

HOWEVER if you just want a printer that works, from a company that won't fuck you over, buy a #Prusa. Period. Their attempts at OSI-non-compliant licenses are a piss in the ocean compared to what #BambuLab, #Creality, #FlashForge, #Elegoo, #Anycubic and even #Sovol have been done or are still doing (to be fair, with Sovol it's mostly trashy customer support).

@geerlingguy I'm 69 years old and was an attorney for 40 years, many of which were spent in litigation. One thing I've learned:

You fool me once, you dumbbell.
You fool me twice, me dumbbell.

That, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

#Sovol #Voron

Built a custom exhaust flange to vent 3D printer fumes out a window—designed in FreeCAD using parametric modeling and printed on a Sovol SV06 “ACE”. Includes model, slicer settings, and lessons learned (including what not to forget 😄).

Full write-up: https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=612

Model is open sourced.

#3DPrinting #FreeCAD #ParametricDesign #Sovol #Voron #Maker #DIY #OpenSource #OrcaSlicer

With my new Sovol SV06 “ACE”, I learned the hard way what the Y-belt tension dial does 😄

Too loose → ~20 mm layer shift mid-print.

I used Gates Carbon Drive to tune belt “twang” frequency, then built a stress test suite to validate motion stability:

https://salemdata.net/repo/jlpoole/motion-diagnostics-suite

#3DPrinting #Sovol #SV06 #Klipper #Calibration #FDM #3DPrinter #Maker #Diagnostics #OpenSource

Exploring the Debian (Bullseye) system inside my new Sovol SV06 ACE 3D printer.

SSH access works and the default account has root privileges.
Looks like a Rockchip RK3308 board running Klipper + Mainsail.

Before printing anything I'm making a full OS backup and inventory of what's installed.

Anyone else poking around inside the SV06 ACE at the system level?

#3DPrinting #Klipper #Sovol #SV06 #Linux #OpenSource #Maker #Voron

INDX has an Open Source Slimline Tool changer in Development.

https://youtu.be/941lrKT-fIY?si=XGuuV6pe6NaxXrG6

#OpenSource #3dPrinting #ToolChanger #MultiMaterial #Voron #INDX #Bondtech #Prusa #Sovol #SV08

Hey @clayton,

Re: https://claytonerrington.com/blog/2026-w03/,

Are you still thinking about getting a #3DPrinter? What brands are looking good to you? I've got some recommendations and contra-recommendations. I'm a big fan of #Prusa because of their (mostly?) #OpenSource stance on things, although I've been decently happy with my #SOVOL printer, which was both inexpensive, and also mostly open.

I'd recommend staying away from #BambuLabs, as they're trying to become the #Apple of #3DPrinting, and I absolutely mean that as an insult. XD

Re: Laptops really being "portable computers," I recall [referring to] the Classic all-in-on Macs as laptops, so I guess that should work both ways! ;)

We met family members for the holidays who recently began #3Dprinting, and we discussed #3Dmodeling. They use a nice Bambu Lab printer; it operates in a walled garden with cloud services in China which would be a deal breaker for me.

Long story short: I discovered #CadQuery for parametric design, and soon noticed that the market for 3D printers is saturated... I ordered a cheap refurbished #SOVOL SV06 which mostly runs OSS. It arrived today, on new year's eve!

There is lots to learn.

Ok, so I've been poking around in the software. It's running debian bullseye 😭 and has a custom kernel installed for the Allwinner H616 chip.

I think the medium term solution to this madness is following the various guides online to get it running mainline klipper as they seem to use armbian images. I'd love to get nixos on it but not apparent chip support appears.

#3dprinting #sovol #sv08

@kims @MamaLake I have successfully wrangled the manufacturer-provided firmwares off my #Sovol SV08 (#3DPrinting) and replaced the code on all three of its microcontrollers with mainline #Klipper and the Katapult bootloader.

I verified it’s a proper upgrade to the printer’s stock setup by proceeding to print a picture-perfect, gapless, 350x350mm first layer.

The first critical step in upgrading this bargain basement #Voron to my multi-toolhead #INDX dream machine is well underway! 🤩

Now I can keep up to date with the coolest new 3D printing software developments! Eddy current bed probing! Adaptive bed meshing! Hacks ahoy!

I bought a #Sovol #SV08 for multiple reasons that are still valid, it arrived yesterday, the ‚build’ was mostly easy, it‘s a fine machine, it’s large, fast and very loud, and I‘m really happy.
But dang, it is not a #prusa in so many ways I didn‘t know my #MK3 was a Prusa!
Still, it‘s amazing how far we got in about 7 years.

Decided to go ahead and pulled the trigger on a #Sovol Zero 3D Printer the other day. I remember when it was initially announced, thinking that while it was dang nice, just a bit more than I wanted to spend. However, with the holiday sale, it was down to $380, $120 off.

I debated for half a day, but went ahead and did it

Should be here soon.

Now, just to figure out where it's gonna live. 🤣

Second print attempt on the SV08. It's made it past the second layer, so that's nice.

I have no idea if Sovol actually contributed the Orca profiles, but it's always a bad experience when they don't work.

#Sovol #SV08 #3DPrinting

Vorher gab es auch noch eine Maus der 1kg-Gewichtsklasse.
#fdm #wdrmaustag #sovol

Looking at maybe upgrading to a new 3D printer at some point in the next year, and as much as I'd love to build a Voron from scratch I'm not sure I'll have the time or the money.

Currently I'm looking at the Sovol SV08 (with the enclosure) and the Prusa Core One.

Does anyone here have any recommendations?

#3DPrinting #Prusa #Prusa3D #Sovol #Sovol3D

Sovol SV07 držák ventilátoru na chlazení výtisku. Vyměnil jsem původní trysku za Volcano, která je o 2mm kratší. Původní chlazení by naráželo do podložky dřív, než tryska a bylo potřeba ho upravit.
Je to absolutně primitivní model, ale minimálně zpočátku bude fungovat dobře.

https://3dprint.social/models/g1lk5sc7fgbg

#3DPrinting #Sovol #FreeCAD