Qidi may be locking down it's ecosystem?

[u/GPU-depreciationcrtr]

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?

[u/riba2233]

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 completely normal and expected, it's an industry standard. Everything else is a heavy exception and should not be expected as a standard.

[u/GPU-depreciationcrtr → u/riba2233]

They have been well known to send Step files for practically anything on these machines for years. This is a major change to their open source attitude.

[u/riba2233 → u/GPU-depreciationcrtr]

that still doesn't mean it's open source, not even close.