QIDI TECH X-Plus 3 V2 3D Printer Review – Got some room to spare in your basement?

Assembly

Even with this printer, the “assembly” is more of a “disassembly” of the various holders from the transport. For the next steps, it is quite practical to simply place the printer on its cardboard box. This way, you can reach all sides easily, and we’ll put it in its final place later.

First, we pull out the foam padding so we can access the inside.

The box with accessories and the filament box wrapped in styrofoam can then be pulled out upwards.

Opening the front door, the second large block of Styrofoam with the included lid can be removed to the front.

To set the correct tension for our part of the world, the entire printer has to be put on its side.

The two (!) switches of the two power supplies are namely on the underside.

There are extra cutouts in the cover, but it’s not really easy to reach them. A small screwdriver is definitely helpful here.

Once you’re really sure that the correct voltage is set, you can move the printer to the planned installation location and connect the included power cable. The display above the front door should then show the boot sequence.

I’ll be running the interface in English as we go along, but according to the patchnotes of the latest firmware, the German version should now have been translated quite well by the community.

Those who have not yet removed the plastic cover will now be reminded again.

The next step is to free the print head.

On my copy, there was one more cable tie to cut through than was shown on the display, but that shouldn’t be a problem.

To keep it out of the way, I would recommend moving the print head to the center of the X axis.

For the zipties on the Z-axis, you’ll definitely need a slightly stronger pair of pliers, as they are quite thick and sturdy.

Again, there was a third zip tie between the two big ones that didn’t show up in the instructions.

On the accessory bag it needs then the small hexagonal wrench.

The screws including the direction of rotation are thankfully very well marked, so out with it!

By the way, red writing on a blue background is not a very readable combination.

After the print bed has been raised automatically, we can remove the cable ties on the side as well as two more pads made of foam from the printer. At this point, we are done with unpacking for now.