Starting A Print With A Sonic Pad And Finding Your Way Around The UI - Sonic Pad Basics Part 3

In this video I'm going to give you a quick tour of the user interface or UI on your Sonic Pad and show you how to start your first print.
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[@zerandisemorgalis8048]

legit one of the best youtubers I have seen. No way my sonic pad would be running on my SV06 without this. watching for the advanced stuff!!

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks, glad it helped. More coming soon

[@nepcior9208]

This series is a great guide. No fuss, just information, instructions, and the essentials. And all at a dynamic pace. Thanks for that!

[@RutgersPeter]

Thanks!

[@faustomega9755]

Thanks Ricky, your videos on the Sonic Pad are truly special, very rarely can you find such complete, clear, exhaustive and intelligent guides on KZbin. A true reference

[@c0mputer]

Just got the sonic pad. All connected and set up. Can’t wait for your more advanced videos!

[@Hedgewalkers]

Your videos are a lifesaver! I was going through a series of migraines over my new sonic pad before I found this channel! Thank you so much for making these videos! You are a real pro and an incredible teacher! ❤

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks for your kind words, I'm glad you found us!

[@shwagonvids]

Fantastic series so far. Completely new to printing and purchased a sonic pad off a whim for my first setup. These videos have been invaluable for setting up for the first time. Great format and clarity, thanks for your time in putting this together!

[@RickyImpey]

Great, glad you are finding the videos useful 👍

[@stevegpsych68]

Mr Impey, as a newbie setting up this exact setup, can I say you are an absolute lifesaver and legend. Brilliantly explained and intelligently presented without the showy crap of others. Thank you so much. I hope creality look after you because they should. I will say, it strikes me as insane I had to remove the bottom cover to find the chip version on a "ready to go" set up! 😅😅😅😅 Thanks so much.

[@MrYabbie]

Ricky, these videos are fantastic. Thank-you for taking the time to produce such a thourough series. I will watch and utilise every one!!

[@johnnybueti]

I've heard and used "bricking" before for a huge plethora of different devices but never _actually_ realized what it meant. Jaw dropped when you said "turn your Sonic Pad into a brick with this" 😂

[@truck2041]

Definitely looking forward to the more advanced stuff

[@CornBred89]

Fantastic job on these videos. I am looking forward to the more advanced uses and calibration.

[@RickyImpey]

I'll try and get the next batch out as soon as possible 👍

[@silmaz40]

You really are a pro youtuber.. thank you for those great videos about sonic pad.. helped so much.

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks, glad the videos helped 👍

[@quasijones]

Ricky - I notice at 7:29 that you have a nozzle target of 21c and bed at 50c. I have a new Pad and have been following your setup instructions and have an issue where the print job seems to be ignoring the temperatures set in the slicer and setting very low targets like yours. I'm wondering what I have missed (I am using the Creality profiles and the first layer temps are set correctly) - What am I missing?

[@TheSuburban15]

Ooooh! I did not know the Sonic Pad had that many features. I have been using an Ender 3 with Marlin for a few years, and I can already see that the pad will make a lot of things easier. I'm a little bit surprised that nobody mentioned all the built in tuning features in their Sonic Pad reviews. Although the Sonic Pad is not cheap, I'm feeling better about buying the pad over using a Pi computer to run Klipper.

[@oswaldoamaldonado6778]

Gracias por esta serie, tengo la Ender 3 S1 conectada y ahora voy por la S1 Plus. Muchas muchas gracias. 🙏

[@990SpeedFreak]

Hello! Your videos are amazingly usefull. They helped me to set up my Sonic Pad and learn my Ender 3 S1 Pro better. I have a problem...i tried using the start and gcode from cura pdf to set up Orca Slicer (or even Prusa gcode would be very valuable because i have moved away from Cura long time ago) without using Macros yet but the extruder and the bed does not take in consideration the material temperature i set in Orca Slicer for first and other layers. So now i have to preheat it and print with that specific temperature. How can i fix this?

[@waynebarrow2517]

Hi Ricky. Thank you first for your enormous effort put in to producing this series; greatly appreciated. Quick question - I have followed most of your tutorials and my Ender 3 Max Neo is printing much faster with no loss of quality however. If I switch my printer on first, the fan over-revs and makes a vibration sound. If I switch my Sonic Pad on first, it comes up with a comms error and I have to restart the sonic pad. What is the correct way round? Switch on my Sonic Pad first, my computer on first or both at the same time? Just want to avoid damaging anything and make both components last longer. Regards WB

[@leobultje9117]

Thank you very much for your very good video’s. On my sonic pad I miss movement parameters instead it says camera control

[@RickyImpey]

The latest update has changed some things. I have a video coming very soon to explain the differences

[@robpaintsminiatures]

Just having the sonic pad, does it speed up the printing time for real? I saw creality's video on how to really speed up printing time but you need the ceramic heating kit, the cooling fan kit and the hyper series filament along with the sonic pad... do you think that is all necesarry?

[@RickyImpey]

You are correct in that to gain the fastest print speeds, you will need a higher flow hot end and better cooling but most machines can handle much higher speeds with a 0.4mm nozzle. As an example, machines that I used to print at 60mm/s max velocity now print at over 100mm/s

[@robpaintsminiatures]

@@RickyImpey I guess I will have to settle for the slower prints for now... thanks for the reply. Love your videos.

[@mikecurtis1796]

Hi Ricky, thanks for the best video so far on the Sonic Pad set up. I have the upgraded Creality Official Ender 3 Silent Motherboard Upgrade V4.2.7 Mainboard Control Board with TMC2225 Driver, a CR Touch and a Sprite Pro Extruder kit. Planning to fit to my standard Ender 3. Two questions as Google and Creality etc. are suitably vague. What firmware version do I need to use? Will the changes in hardware make it compatible with a Sonic Pad, i.e will it behave as a S1 or V2 with the upgraded hardware? Any advice much appreciated. Thank you

[@Janvanos-j5e]

Hello a have a problem with choosing my Cr10 max printer it is not in the list I have found the code op the chip from my printer and choose that printer what corresponded with it but then the hotbed is to small do you have a solution?

[@jmorgan5519]

This is a great series and has been very helpful however I don't appear to have estimated time remaining or number of layer. Are they added from somewhere else? I'm using Ender 5 Plus with silent motherboard and micro swiss ng with revo. I also have to reset the z offset every time, it says its saving but it doesn't!!

[@SgtNateHigers]

one thing i cant wrap my head around: WHY would they not include a .01mm adjustment parameter to the z offset calibration screen? the smallest adjustment they allow is .05, I need much finer adjustments than that when it comes to dialing in my offset. Wtf creality.

[@rikidawson7510]

What size feeler gauge you used to set the z height

[@martingo22]

Hello how to add sonic pad speed profiles to prusaslicer?

[@ajhansen92fs]

My printer is printing off center. I have the same printer as the video. How do I fix?

[@times420]

So far I’m loving the sonic pad. One thing that it’s not showing me is the estimate time it’ll be done my print. Is there a setting to have it show?

[@aofcole]

I have a question, My CR-10S Pro V2 automatically sets the Z offset. I don't have a limit switch for the print head to hit, it has a sensor. When I add the Sonic Pad will the functionality still be the same as in will it set the Z offset set automatically? When I print the Z offset is always different after auto calibration. I don't have a save feature on my printer.. I am only adding the Sonic pad for ethernet and WIFI Printing.

[@christianstills]

After update i dont know it stops at 99% and will stay in the middle of the model and dosent go home. please any idea how to fix this? Ender 3 S1 Pro + Sonic Pad latest sofrware

[@Oldmanflyfishing]

Would you recommend this for a beginner? Or should I learn the firmware that comes with my Ender 3 S1 pro?

[@RickyImpey]

I would recommend that you get comfortable with the standard machine to begin with. Otherwise you could introduce too many variables if you're not careful.

[@Oldmanflyfishing]

@@RickyImpey thank you for responding. I tend to agree 😁

[@dannymartin4225]

Ricky your videos are very helpful and I have gone through the first four. At this point I want to change my internet connection to wired instead of wifi. When I go to the settings I see both are displayed and I have been able to disable the wifi and use the wired, but everything reverts back to wife at the next restart. Is there any way to make the wired connection the default setting? Thanks PS my printer is the Ender3 ver 2

[@davidcastellanos2492]

What’s the purpose behind disabling the stepper motors?

[@RickyImpey]

If you want to physically move any part of your printer without pressing buttons on the screen.

[@davidcastellanos2492]

@@RickyImpey copy that, thank you I was able to restart the previous error code i had by simply disconnecting and and shutting down bot the sonic pad and Ender 3v2, thank you for these amazing videos, the only issues Im having now is the Ned will not level, I have a dual z upgrade, bl touch and glass bed

[@Air_Goyo]

I am puzzled the manual and auto leveling menus disappeared from the sonic pad menu. Besides Changing the z-offset is disregarded. Anyone has a clue?

[@RutgersPeter]

Ricky thank you for all the great information and help as I get started with the hobby. I got the Ender 3 S1 Pro and the sonic pad on your recommendation. Please let me know if there is a better forum to post this question. Now the question. When I slice with Cura 5.3.0 I'm getting Z scaring. This just started with the sonic pad. When slicing using Creality Slicer 4.8.2 it disappears completely. The only thing I change is the slicer. Any Idea what I'm doing wrong? I've seen videos that talk about turning of the power outage recovery. I can confirm that is off. I'm using the same temp, filament, speed both times just something in cura is causing z blobs. I sliced multiple times cura only decrease speed 100mm to 50mm and the blobs are identical. They don't appear on the straight runs, mostly just the curve of the bow. The matching pattern is why I suspected the slicer. Again thank you for your informative and entertaining videos. Can't wait for the rest of the series. Cheers!

[@RickyImpey]

Sorry for the delay. I won't say that I know the answer but there are a few things to check. Firstly, how much calibration have you done with the Sonic Pad? I would advise working through the basics and now intermediate series and the next couple of videos I have coming out. As part of these, I advise turning off acceleration control in Cura. It may be that it is only activated in the newer version, you want the Sonic Pad to handle accelerations now. Pressure Advance would be the next thing I would focus on for particularly visible z seams. I am currently editing this video but it should be out soon. You can follow a klipper pressure advance guide if you can't wait but make sure you also do input shaping. Hopefully, once these things are tuned, you will see big improvements. It's annoying when quality goes with a slicer update but it will likely be a simple setting somewhere, You can of course go back to the version that was working for you until you get the newer one dialed in.

[@lawriestewart6377]

Dont know if you have an Ender6 with BLtouch. If you do could you share your Printer.cfg file for the Sonic Pad. I have made what I think are the necessary changes to include the BL touch in the Klipper cfg file for the Ender6 but I cannot save or restart as it just says "Unknown pin chip name 'probe' Once the underlying issue is corrected, use the "RESTART" command to reload the config and restart the host software. Printer is halted. " Regrattably I cannot understand how to resolve this issue.

[@gwilder1]

I got it installed, but it doesn't go to the control screen on the pad. I can connect via my computer, but am not able to load models. What am I doing wrong?

[@RickyImpey]

If you can connect via the web UI then you should be able to 'add files' directly to the Sonic Pad this way. When you say that it doesn't go the control screen, is there no 'control' option or does it not respond when you press it? Are you using a Creality printer or a different machine?

[@gtarson]

I have an ender 3 max neo. The board says creality v4.2.2 but the chip I have is GD32F303RET6. The Sonicpad printer configs for max and max neo say STM32F103(V4.2.2). There is a Printer config for ender 3 V3 SE that has GD32F303RET6. hummmm.... What to do?

[@musictypefoundry7345]

This looks very cool. Can this give you control of individual parts during printing? Specifically, if one part fails during printing, does this allow you to remove that part from the build so you can continue the other parts rather than just scrap everything?

[@RickyImpey]

Ooh, good question. I think I read somewhere that it is possible with Klipper but I couldn't tell you how to do it without further research.

[@musictypefoundry7345]

@@RickyImpey I think the bigger problem with doing this is that there isn't a standardized way in the gcode to delineate which portions of the code belong to which part so that it can be skipped reliably. I'm kind of surprised that this hasn't become a normal thing yet. This is hugely important in industrial printers, and yes it exists there, but should be everywhere IMO.

[@musictypefoundry7345]

@@RickyImpey I was just reading through the Klipper features page and it says this in the "Additional Features" section: - Run-time "exclude object" support. When configured, this module may facilitate canceling of just one object in a multi-part print. So, sounds like it's possible, which is super cool! This feature alone might be enough to get me to change over from Marlin. Guess I need to do some more research since there isn't a config file for the Anycubic Chiron.

[@RickyImpey]

@@musictypefoundry7345 good find, I knew I'd read something about it somewhere.

[@HumamZaki]

hi ricky i have question i have a ender7 and after changing the nozzel the cooling fan is a littel bit up can you tell me what is the perfect height for the cooling fan

[@RickyImpey]

Which cooling fan do you mean? If you mean the part cooling fan then it should blow air below the nozzle and not at it.

[@HumamZaki]

@@RickyImpey thanks,i ment the part cooling one

[@paulowen9628]

At the moment I’m disappointed (to say the least) with the Sonic Pad and I haven’t got to printing yet😮 Time doesn’t appear to be from either a real time clock or from the local network. When WIFI network connected you see a Green Arrow and IP address, when it’s not disconnected but not working you see the word ‘connected’ but no IP address. There is no ‘Forget this network’ or similar message. Who knows what I’m going to find, when or if I get past this point.

[@RickyImpey]

The clock finds the correct time when it connects to the internet through a wifi connection. Yes, I noticed that the labels are wrong for the network connection. I found that mine sometimes has connection issues if it's further away from my router. Hope you manage to sort a connection for yours.

[@paulowen9628]

Thanks, Ricky. Once I had achieved a WiFi connection I saw the correct time displayed. Getting WiFi to work must have taken me best part of a day (8 hrs) I reset my AP which is only 5m away, changed the WiFi password, reinstalled the Sonic Pad and I think the printer firmware. Unfortunately, the manual is not particularly well detailed. I’m still not certain about the USB stick operation and when I do plug it in as shown I get an error message that is can’t be accessed. If I ignore the message and ‘Next’ again it says it’s successful. 😵‍💫 I’m glad there are those out there like you that at least give us a chance to get things working. Going through your videos and attempting a basic bed level test print has revealed what I think are some teething problems but may be my complete ignorance of Klipper. As for ‘Plug and ‘Play!!!!!! I look forward to your upcoming videos for fine tuning of and required default settings for Klipper/Sonic Pad. Kind Regard, Paul

[@RickyImpey]

@@paulowen9628 Glad you're making some progress. Hopefully it will all be worth it for you.

[@RamenNoodles22]

Received my Sonic Pad today after watching this series of videos so far. I bought my Ender S1 Pro after your review and I love it so buying the Sonic Pad seems like a no brainer after seeing these videos. Really looking forward to the intermediate videos now. I am looking forward to seeing how to create profiles in Cura to unlock the potential of Klipper. Keep up the great work Ricky. Do you have a Twitter or Instagram page for your channel?

[@RickyImpey]

Sorry for the slow reply. Some more videos are now out with more to come. I don't have any other social media accounts just yet unfortunately.

[@tropenband]

What is the advantage of this? Find my Ender 3 S1 UI much more intuitive and more productive to use 🤷‍♂️

[@RickyImpey]

Did you watch my review?kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6XPhoZ8brt2ha8 there are lots of advantages to Klipper, the main one is that you can improve quality by.controlling more parameters. This means you can speed you prints up massively as they don't get all of the defects they would if you just sped up a Marlin machine.