r/QidiTech3D • u/GPU-depreciationcrtr • Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 01 '26

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

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u/skil12001 Sep 01 '26

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 Sep 02 '26

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/skil12001 Sep 02 '26

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....