Upgrading the Artillery Genius with a BL Touch

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3 жыл бұрын

In this video I'll be upgrading my Artillery Genius 3D printer with a BL Touch. This upgrade allows auto bed leveling with mesh compensation.
This means that you mostly never have to worry about manually leveling your bed again, and that you can now get a very good first layer even if your print bed is slightly warped.
To complete this upgrade, you'll need:
- A BL Touch. I ordered mine from Banggood: www.banggood.com/Original-BL-...
- Waggster Mod BL Touch firmware and mount STL files: 3duk.co.uk/index.php?action=d...
- The mount with the improved fan duct I used is no longer available on Thingiverse unfortunately. Here's an alternative: www.thingiverse.com/thing:371...
- The TFT (touchscreen) firmware: github.com/wgcv/RAWR-TFT-Firm...
- 2 M3x20 bolts, one M3x10 bolt, one M3 nut.
Doing this upgrade requires you to open the case for your Artillery Genius. This may void your warranty.
As mentioned in the video, I also tried to use this TFT firmware but was not able to get it working: www.thingiverse.com/thing:429...

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@markjones9180 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Very helpful. Have been meaning to get around to installing this for ages. Great guide!

@asadjibran 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Happy to hear my video was helpful.

@stefanguiton 3 жыл бұрын

Great guide

@asadjibran 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@DammLore 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, when you need to disable hot glue, put onthe glued parts 1-2 drops of alcohol. After few seconds you´ll be able to peel off the glue without using force. Anyway, good job. Your guide is very usefull. Thanks a lot.

@asadjibran 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words. And thank you for that awesome tip! I have a spray of cleaning alcohol next to the printers at all times, and I'll try it out the next time I need to unglue something. Thank!

@ProductMatta 13 күн бұрын

Could you please provide the firmware as a Google Drive/Dropbox link? The 3DUK URL has gone dead sadly.

@CHEMA7720 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks

@asadjibran Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@awsome14619 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I just had a question. Do I print the mount with no supports? if I add supports it adds some on the inside where I won't be able to reach them. Also I can't find the small piece that connects the BL touch to the mount.

@asadjibran 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'm happy you found the video helpful. I don't fully remember as it's been a few months, but I think the mount prints with no supports, standing up. I did have to use glue stick on the print bed to make sure it stuck to the bed, as it has a very small contact surface with the print bed. If you do need to print with supports, you can use the paint on supports feature in PrusaSlicer (help.prusa3d.com/en/article/paint-on-supports) to stop supports from being generated in places where you won't be able to remove them. Another quick hack I use is the "supports only on build surface" setting, which usually generates supports that I want. You should play around with the paint on supports and the supports only on the build surface setting to figure out what works best.

@aidan2235 3 жыл бұрын

Great guide! One question, do i have to add any gcodes in my every print ?

@asadjibran 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I use PrusaSlicer 2.3.1, and they have built in profiles for an Artillery Genius with a BL Touch. So that works for me. I created a Gist with the start and end gcode, so you can copy from there if needed. gist.github.com/theonejb/70becb351508719b5411bb604258b621

@aidan2235 3 жыл бұрын

@@asadjibran If I use M420 S1 without Z3, does it load the saved z offset by default ?

@asadjibran 3 жыл бұрын

@@aidan2235 The M420 command only enables or disabled the mesh bed leveling. It does not effect the z-offset. You set the z-offset using the touchscreen once during initial calibration. The Z3 in the M420 command sets the fade height. The bed level correction is gradually reduced over the fade height, and then the bed level correction is disabled once the fade height is reached in the print. You can find some more info about the fade height if you're interested at marlinfw.org/docs/configuration/configuration.html#leveling-fade-height

@aidan2235 3 жыл бұрын

@@asadjibran thank you for the replies

@gecked8560 2 жыл бұрын

Just waiting on the bolts for my fan to arrive, in the meantime I was just wondering if you had a new link to the TFT firmwarer?

@asadjibran 2 жыл бұрын

Hi. Sorry about the broken link. It's fixed in the description now. You can get the firmware for the TFT from github.com/wgcv/RAWR-TFT-Firmware-Artillery3D/releases.

@gecked8560 2 жыл бұрын

@@asadjibran Thanks man 👍

@antoinedavitoglu4527 2 жыл бұрын

hello, Can you give me the link to download the firmware because I can't find it at 3DUK. Thank you

@asadjibran 2 жыл бұрын

3duk.co.uk/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=19

@sdop Жыл бұрын

Hi, the link to mount file does no longer work. Can you provide a replacement, please?

@asadjibran Жыл бұрын

Thanks for flagging. Unfortunately the original mount I used is no longer available on Thingiverse. Here's an alternative: www.thingiverse.com/thing:3716043/files

@Gilby88 3 жыл бұрын

When I am using Octoprint connected to Artillery Genius, will be BLTouch working ?

@asadjibran 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I'm using Octoprint as well. The BL Touch functionality depends on the G-code your slicer generates. If you've setup your slicer to do auto bed leveling before printing, it will work as expected. Octoprint only forwards the commands your slicer software decides, it doesn't do any pre-processing on those commands (by default, plugins are a different case).

@Gilby88 3 жыл бұрын

@@asadjibran Thank you for the explanation

@rikufanboy 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please update your URLs?

@asadjibran Жыл бұрын

Thanks for flagging. Unfortunately the original mount I used is no longer available on Thingiverse. Here's an alternative: www.thingiverse.com/thing:3716043/files

@user-vu1tw3pe6x Жыл бұрын

you never plugged your tft back in to mother board ???

@asadjibran Жыл бұрын

I did. Not sure if the video shows it or not, but I have been using this printer since this upgrade and the TFT works perfectly.

@user-vu1tw3pe6x Жыл бұрын

@@asadjibran was just saying you didnt tell them to do this nor did you show it !!

@zeusking4686 2 жыл бұрын

dose this work with 3d touch ?

@asadjibran 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not a 100% certain, so it's better if you look at the wiring diagram of the 3D Touch and make sure it's the same as the wiring diagram for the BL Touch. But I have seen some sites say that the 2 are compatible. If not, then you'll need to make some slight modifications to the firmware to work with the different wiring scheme.

@zeusking4686 2 жыл бұрын

Okay thanks imma look around my probe is not going out

@zeusking4686 2 жыл бұрын

can i use different tft fw? it i must pair the tft and the board fw

@asadjibran 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. The TFT firmware is different from the main board one and you can use a number of different ones. I chose rawr because I liked that feature set, but you can use others and it will work.

@dooley9621 2 жыл бұрын

Can't hear you

@asadjibran 2 жыл бұрын

The sound is a bit bad at the introduction, but is pretty good after the first few minutes, when we start with the actual installation. I'm working on getting better equipment for recording though so hopefully soon my videos won't have audio issues, even for a small segment.