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

Commissioning

In order for the printer to calibrate itself, the print bed must first be heated up to 60°C, if the supplied filament is used for testing.

Wiping the surface with a cloth and isopropanol is also not a bad idea.

After that, it’s a matter of waiting a short time until the homing of all axes is complete.

A good thing is also the thin plate of spring steel (?), which is used in the next step for setting the Z-offset of the nozzle.

More stable than paper and so the surface of the PEI printing plate can be protected

When creating the bed mesh, the process then runs completely automatically again.

If everything has been done correctly so far, the process should then also be confirmed successfully with a short message. Before tapping on “Completed”, the front door should be closed and the lid should be on top of the printer.

At the latest, now is the time to put the printer in its final position and also not to forget the rubber attachments from the scope of delivery!

The X-Plus 3 performs resonance compensation, which can sound a bit scary. But don’t worry, nothing is actually broken in the process, even if it sounds that way.

I can’t quite understand why the manufacturer placed the filament roll on the back of such a large device. I’ll come back to this and possible solutions later. Now first push the filament either with or without box through the sensor on the back to the hotend.

If it can’t be pushed any further, you have to tap the down arrow on the touchscreen. After pressing 1 to 2x, filament should come out of the nozzle.

With this, we have put the hardware into operation, but I recommend updating the firmware at this point.

Detailed instructions can be found at the manufacturer support or at Github.

And as a hint: I first thought that the update time of up to 40 minutes was a typing error ..

… but no, only after 35 minutes I got the message with the successful update to version 4.2.10. So prepare and start the update already, then you have more than enough time to deal with the setup of the slicer.

Slicer Software

Of course the manufacturer recommends the own software with the appropriate name QIDI Slicer, which is based on PrusaSlicer, Slic3r and apparently also Bambu Studio.

The user interface is almost identical to PrusaSlicer, only in blue instead of orange and other symbols.

A few useful changes are hidden here and there, for example the automatic generation of test objects to set the flow rate.

You also have direct access to the very good Wiki with various tutorials by clicking on the “Guide” tab at the top.

In addition, the Fluidd web interface of the printer can be integrated in the slicer, so that print jobs can be transferred directly. All in all, the whole thing is very usable, and the standard print profiles also looked good and reasonable at first glance.

In the filament settings, a field for the temperature of the build space was also added.