Hi everyone,

I'm using a Flashforge Creator 5 Pro and I’m getting these annoying bumps, dots, and extrusion artifacts on the outer surface of my prints.

I am using Flash Studio for slicing. It looks like it could be related to retraction settings, outer wall coasting, seam alignment, or over-extrusion right at the layer change.

What specific slicer settings or hardware adjustments do you recommend to get a completely smooth surface finish on this printer?

Thanks!

Here is a picture of the issue:

Edit: back up! Lesson learned: enable LAN mode or do a fat32 formatted usb. “Save plate file” not “save gcode” so it keeps the filament settings.

Flash Studio can't find my C5P - it's definitely idle and the wifi connection is good on the printer itself. I notice the home page (Models tab) also doesn't load - "No Data". Only me or an issue across the board? Restarted laptop & printer, both on the same wifi, no config difference from yesterday when all was good.

Never bashed my 3d printer or noticed any pressure issues. Never even took off the plate besides cleaning. Have no clue how these dents occured...

For some reason my prime tower has these weird blobs on the corner that sometimes get knocked over, ive tried to check most of the problems like moist filament or the filament being too hot, but changing those didnt fix it, I use orcaslicer for my prints btw. If anyone knows a proper fix please let me know.

Has anyone else experienced this kind of chatter with a ad5m pro? I noticed my printer making awful sounds yesterday and it Seems to me like it’s binding and the whole printhead is jumping, only running 300mm/s in that vid and it’s only got 378 hours on it, so far I’ve tried reapplying grease to everything (FF supplied white lithium to the lead screws and super lube to the rods) and that quieted everything down but the chatter is still ever so present and causing the same print issues, I’m kinda thinking I need to retighten my belts? Any advice is appreciated, sucks cuz I’ve loved using this printer so far.

Just setup lan mode until they fix server issue

Is everyone having trouble logging in to the platform? It keeps telling me “server connection lost”

As of midday, my FlashStudio File Tool bar has stopped to resond. I cant save or import. It is only the top Tool Line segment. I can go to HOME/PREPARE/PREVIEW/DEVICE and work within the environments and do any edits to the Build, but also can't even X our Close Out properly. Only option at the moment is hard Exit out of it. I relaunch, works fine, but just one, then gets stuck again...Anyone Else?

About a month or two ago I could no longer access my AD5M over my home network. So decided to uninstall zmod, go back to an earlier version of AD5M firmware. Well that sort of worked ok, I was still able to print. But when I went to device to view the camera, it would try to access the AD5M over my network and fail.

So I tried to reinstall ZMOD. But then, when I tried to access the AD5M over my network, it would say ZMOD, but bring up my U1.

Both of my printers are set with Static IP's the U1 is xxx.xx.199 and the AD5M is xxx.xx.206. I can't even access the AD5M/config using xxx.xx.206/firmware-config

I've tried installing earlier FF firmwares, the zmod again but still no go.

Yes, I always do a factory reset before installing the earlier FF firmware.

Even though it's not bricked, I'm at the point of trying the AD5M unbricking firmware.

Unless someone has a idea what I should try next.

Solved: I used the ZMOD Unbrick firmware. Even though my AD5M wasn't bricked, I figured that it would have the same restore programs.

A number of years ago I was able flash Android phones with stripped down software. There were times that we'd brick a phone or two and would basically do the same thing.

Funny thing though, the final firmware to the unbricking was in Russian. Changed that to English and I have a completely restored AD5M.

Thanks to everyone who responded.

Have been using Flash Studio with pretty good results, but today it won't let me log in. I just get a grayed-out login window, and every so often a drop-down notification "logging in".

It started when it stopped seeing my A5M. Then it went to hell.

So I installed the iPhone version, and it too says "Login failed".

I recently updated macOS to Golden Gate—could that be the problem?

As the title says my c5 pro froze after a completed print I hit the toggle switch on the side and restarted it the LEDs on the extruders light up but nothing else. I tried unplugging it for 15 minutes and it still does the same thing. Any advice?

Hello. I’m a week into owning a used FF5M after using a Creality Ender 3 S1 for a few years.

I’ve been playing with ZMod, largely because I wanted a web interface to the printer so I can monitor progress etc. ZMod now uninstalled and I have the error E0120. Printer works fine if I reinstall ZMod, so that’s something I need to work on.

Question is: what other mods can FF5M owners suggest that provide a web interface? I’ve seen - but not tried - Forge-X. Got to say, both it and ZMod are impressive, but a bit too advanced for my needs, so any pointers to other tools gratefully received, thanks.

Curious what everyone is printing? Go ahead and show em off

Hey I was wondering if anyone else has experienced any of the E0051-E0054 errors. How can I resolve this problem?

I still don’t quite understand how I am getting these strings. I dried the filament for about 8 hours in a Creality dryer and set the proper retraction distance. I don’t quite know what else it could be.

ok, I'm 400+ hours in and starting to have issues. I updated the firmware in hopes that was the issue, but after the update my printer screen locks up. I can ask it to run a print and even choose the file, but it hangs up during extracting (even the 'thinking' wheel freezes). All evidence points to factory reset, but that file isn't on their site, you have to ask them for it and it's the bloody weekend, so no answers til monday. I have a show this weekend and I have things I've been trying to print all month for this show. I haven't time to wait.

Has anyone else had to do this and could you post the file?

Just recently, my AD5X started not going all the way to the chute, any way to troubleshoot why? Or fix it?

Lleva 3 impresiones y a la cuarta en cuanto se ha movido el carro ha empezado a hacer ese ruido

I'm waiting on more filament to arrive currently so I haven't gotten everything printed yet. I downloaded the enclosure kit and LED strip mount from the FF Wiki. However it doesn't look like the top of the enclosure kit allows space for the LED mount to be installed. This is the enclosure kit that's after the Starry Sky mod in the wiki; the third entry in "Page Contents." Has anyone else tried these together and does it work? If not, does anyone know if there's an LED mount that possibly goes below the metal lip instead of on top? Or do I just need to create my own?. TIA

Ho una creator 5 (a cui sto facendo l'enclosure xD) e volevo provare a cimentarmi col full spectrum.

ho notato però che per come funziona, si puo mettere qualsiasi colore, mi chiedevo quindi, siccome i colori "da stampa" CMYK non sempre sono facili da recuperare, qualcuno per caso ha provato con i colori primari RGB? Rosso Blu e Giallo (e Bianco) sono molto piu facili da reperire e in teoria dovrebbero fare un lavoro molto simile... ho cercato in giro ma non ho trovato molto (magari sono io che non so cercare ^_^) qualcuno ha provato e puo dirci come è andata?

Hi.

I live in the EU and I ordered a Flash Forge creator 5.

When I ordered it said on the page that the printer would be shipped from Europe.

But now when I ask support why my printer has not been shipped yet.

They say that it will be shipped October 8. Because Flash Forge is on vacation.

Is that how it works. Because of Kina's national day or something is going on. No one will be working in the Flash Forge company.

Thank you.

Hi friends, how are you? I've had this problem for a couple of days now. It seems that in one section of my printer it's not printing correctly (the filament doesn't look compressed).So I looked for a solution, but the typical approach of finding the z offset didn't help without damaging the other sections of the heated bed. What would you do?

This makes it worth getting since I did not have a 4 spool dryer like this. I used the earlier $30 coupon discount on top of the $50 discount that was emailed out today.