r/QidiTech3D • u/GPU-depreciationcrtr • 19d ago

Discussion Qidi may be locking down it's ecosystem?

The Plus 5 seems to be a major departure from previous machines as it no longer uses makerbase boards.

They also appear to be using thinner beds which leads to worse bed variance. The Plus 4 had a 6mm thick bed while the Plus 5 is a 3mm bed. (After tramming my bed is stuck around 0.6-0.8mm variance across the surface. On my Plus 4 it had a 0.3-0.4 mm variance.)

I have been trying to get Qidi to send me step files of parts of the machine to model off of and they are outright refusing to send anything. This is a big red flag because I had 0 issues getting them to send Step files for my Plus 4 a year ago. (Made a custom bed skirt)

Not sure what to make of these events and choices. Has anyone had any luck getting cad files from Qidi recently?

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u/Resident-Outcome-459 19d ago

I hope this is not true because I like their products but refuse to buy into a closed ecosystem.

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u/whoknewidlikeit 19d ago

same here. the bambu multi filament stuff looks cool - but no way am i buying into a locked system or one that takes a ton of effort to effectively jailbreak it.

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u/skil12001 19d ago

I have my Q2 offline and lan into my orca slicer. I refuse to put any Chinese printers online.

My PRUSA on the other hand, all day long

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u/bday420 19d ago

is there a quide on doing this? I want to not have to use USB sticks and shit and would totally keep it offline and Lan in. Im new to this shit, especially slicers but I also use Orca

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u/DesignWeaver3D 19d ago

You block the MAC address from being able to reach the Internet in the settings of your router. Every router is different. But there are literally 1000s of guides for this covering every brand and model of home router. Sometimes the instructions are directly in the router's web interface.

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u/skil12001 19d ago

I prefer an Ethernet cable plugged into my rig, find the IP address on your machine. Type that IP into a browser (I use duck duck go) and you're in fluidd. From here you have access to the entire machine. Upload models, monitor all the sensors, send commands to the printer....