K2 Plus: BEHOLD! The *SELF LEVELING* BED

[@SavijCoder]

OK, Creality did their homework here. Way nice feature!

[@diablodaub]

Sounds very similar to tilt Z on my ratrig! Once the M8P comes in I’ll add triple z to my K1M and it should work similarly.. but may have to add an extra degree of freedom to the z rod mounts haha This is pretty sweet.

[@3DRundown]

Indeed. It's nice to see more and more of these features, previously only on mega industrial machines, or tinkerer's machines, come to consumer models, out of the box.

[@ESP_P1RA7A]

A question, I have been able to see that after a power outage in the middle of a print, the bed falls towards the base, You can do a test and verify that after powering on, it returns to its position and correctly resumes printing where it left off. Thank you .

[@3DRundown]

This is how it's supposed to work. I have my doubts.... Yea, we can test this.

[@hdfb78]

How is the leveling of the K2 Plus bed? My K1 Max bed warps when I heat it to 110 degrees Celsius to print ABS. I would like to know if this issue of the bed warping at higher temperatures has been resolved in the K2 Plus.

[@3DRundown]

The K2+ has a much thicker bed

[@thomaswalker9277]

This would have been amazing to have on my K1 last night. Would have saved me an hour of manually leveling the bed.

[@3DRundown]

This guy is a K1 on Steroids

[@thomaswalker9277]

@@3DRundown Hope to get one next year.

[@gerrysherman2007]

I've had my K2 plus for 10 days now. It's an impressive machine and a huge step up from my K1 MAX. I &ave huge problem. I'm unable to get a decent first layer because the bed has a huge bow in it. I will be working g with Creality support to hopefully replace the bed. I have read comments on other sites that others have had the same problem. I did need to do some tweaking of plastic stand offs on the K1 but it's printing a very nice e first layer. The trick is the bed is almost perf7flat. Not so with the K2.

[@3DRundown]

Your ABL isn't handling the bed? How bad is it? What are your first layers looking like

[@jsmith7183]

First Creality machine for me and have question. Before I turn of machine off I press the Z "off" button on LCD, but as bed moves down the right side reaches bottom before the left side. When it stops the bed is skew. This does not seem normal to me. Anyone know what is happening here?

[@3DRundown]

You are turning off the steppers.... this allows the bed to freely move. Don't do that. Just turn it off.

[@jsmith7183]

@@3DRundownthanks for reply, even if I just turn off the machine the bed does not return to the bottom level. Measure about 2 degrees off. Should I worry?

[@Mr_XXX513]

awesome, is the nozzle same as K1max?

[@3DRundown]

Depends on which Max you have. It's Unicorn.

[@Mr_XXX513]

@@3DRundown oh it's unicorn, then i can use e3d unicorn obxidian then, thanks

[@sorehammer]

I had my ender 3 do that when I added a second z motor and added the feature to the malin firmware but that's stll cool.

Has your unit shown any sign of z-banding? I've noticed a lot of people experiencing z-banding and thinking it's because this machine uses 2 instead of 3 leadscrews

[@3DRundown]

None at all. Printing very clean...

@3DRundown what sort of thing(s) can cause z-banding with this machine; could it addressed easily with a DIY approach or is it something that's dependent/proprietary to Creality?

[@PeterAgostiniJdcap26]

How come it doesn’t look so big next to you now ? Can this happen to bambu x1 ?

[@3DRundown]

Believe me, it's BIG, I'm a little bigger than I look, behind a desk. X1 does not do this

[@PeterAgostiniJdcap26]

@ ok 👍

[@I-Design-Stuff]

I have a question what does iot issues mean I’m trying to set up my k1c (again) and it has iot issues WHAT DOES IT MEAN thank you ive looked it up and got nothing😅

[@3DRundown]

are you connecting to a 2.4g network?

[@I-Design-Stuff]

@ I fixed it turned out that my cat had chewed on the router cable but it didn’t disconnect so I thought it was not a router issue

[@3DRundown]

oh no! lol.

[@dropbear9785]

Any idea how to make the pitch of the bed more rigid? (i.e. if you push in the front middle of the bed. I know the arrangement has been done before, but also seeing that some units are less rigid in this axis than would be expected. I don't have my K2P yet to have a look, myself.

[@3DRundown]

Not something I have looked into at all. Keep in mind, it's rock solid when engaged, and only moveable, when unpowered.

[@3DPFactory1]

Its great to see lead screw self levelling. I wished my K1 Max's had it!

[@philipershler420]

BTW, Additional CFS units are now on sale in the Creality Store for about $280.00.

[@3DRundown]

Good to see aggressive pricing.

[@arusiasotto]

Now to see if we get the k1 conversion kits.

[@philipershler420]

@@arusiasottoI believe that the K1 adaptation of the CFS will ultimately arrive. Right now Creality can sell K2s faster than they can produce and ship them. So there doesn’t seem to be much of a need to push it. Also, as more K2s get out into the world, there are bound to be reports of problems that will need to be resolved. The “take home message”, don’t hold your breath waiting, you might turn very blue.

[@jasonmeldon3229]

Really cool, wish I had that on my other printers, save at least 20 mins trying to relevel the bed 😊

[@3DRundown]

Freaked me out the 1st time! 😂

[@jasonmeldon3229]

@3DRundown I bet, would have me too 😰

[@cynexion]

I felt phantom pain while watching this video.

[@3DRundown]

Did you feel me holding my breath? 😂😂

[@jasonmeldon3229]

Every time I watch this vid I feel myself wince when you push the bed down😖, must be the old printer in me 😂

[@3DRundown]

I literally held my breath, when I touched home. Isn't new tech amazing!? What time to be alive

[@milosdjordjevic8272]

And what is the real purpose of this?

[@3DRundown]

lol

[@IMS.3D]

@@3DRundown Really!! this is great!! Love that Creality has stepped up their game, Thanks for posting!!

[@RikFastNL]

I rather see it uses the top for leveling the bed, at the nozzle. If the bottom is not perfect, the level is still a bit off. I have printers that do that 👍and it works great! 😁Thanks for showing this.

[@courtk6142]

In my experience the bed is getting very level BUT I"d prefer Voron style with 4 corner leveling.

[@MrHeHim]

Generally you want the frame/tool square and then tram the bed. That way your prints don't come out skewed. I also have bed leveling fade off at the 0.8mm layer height, as my bed only has a variance of >0.23 (300mm x 300mm). Voron printers have a stationary bed and the gantry has a separate motors for each corner, IMO that's too much going on for problems to propagate.. BUT no one seems to have any issues so I'm just being paranoid lol. I have a heavily moded Sermood D1 with similar bed leveling. Unfortunately it's a half measure that should really be either 3 separate motors to properly self level both in X and in Y or a single motor that you only have to level once manually (like in the Bambu Core XY printers).

[@3DRundown]

It also does strain-gauge and AI camera inspection, during calibration.

[@dropbear9785]

I also thought that tramming the bed to the Gantry where the head is would make more sense. I can't recall the printer I saw do it, but all of the motion system referenced the frame where the print head was mounted....so the lower parts of the printer don't matter much as long as the frame for the head end assembly is true.

[@jeffwhite9001]

Cool printer full stop, I think it's going to be the new king.

[@3DRundown]

Creality has come a long way.