Faster 3d Printers, Bowden vs Direct Extruder, Creality Ender 3 v2 vs Ender 5

Learn the upgrades to your 3d Printer that will speed up your prints and improve quality. This video compares a mostly stock Creality Ender 3 V2 with an Upgraded Creality Ender 5. First, I cover why the Creality Ender 5 is faster out of the box than a Creality Ender 3 v2. Then I look at the remarkable Micro Swiss Direct Extruder upgrade. Micro Swiss also has an Ender 3 version of this product. The concepts in the video apply to all FDM style 3d Printers.

Content

00:00 Introduction
02:29 Setting up the Speed Benchmark
03:19 Overall 3d Printer Architecture
09:01 Micro Swiss Direct Extruder
10:29 Basics of Bowden vs. Direct Extruders
12:43 Advantage of All Metal Hot End
14:16 Benchmark Results
14:45 Cura Profiles Used
16:53 Ender 3 vs Ender 5 Profiles
18:07 Impact of Retraction on Speed
19:41 Direct Extruder Impact on Federate
21:00 Impact of Acceleration Parameters
24:00 Building a Fast 3d Printer
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