Upgrading the Artillery Genius with a BL Touch

[@markjones9180]

Thanks for this. Very helpful. Have been meaning to get around to installing this for ages. Great guide!

[@asadjibran]

Thank you! Happy to hear my video was helpful.

[@CHEMA7720]

Great video, thanks

[@asadjibran]

Glad you liked it!

[@DammLore]

Hi, when you need to disable hot glue, put onthe glued parts 1-2 drops of alcohol. After few seconds you´ll be able to peel off the glue without using force. Anyway, good job. Your guide is very usefull. Thanks a lot.

[@asadjibran]

Thank you for the kind words. And thank you for that awesome tip! I have a spray of cleaning alcohol next to the printers at all times, and I'll try it out the next time I need to unglue something. Thank!

[@ProductMatta]

Could you please provide the firmware as a Google Drive/Dropbox link? The 3DUK URL has gone dead sadly.

[@stefanguiton]

Great guide

[@asadjibran]

Glad it was helpful!

[@awsome14619]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. I just had a question. Do I print the mount with no supports? if I add supports it adds some on the inside where I won't be able to reach them. Also I can't find the small piece that connects the BL touch to the mount.

[@asadjibran]

Thank you. I'm happy you found the video helpful. I don't fully remember as it's been a few months, but I think the mount prints with no supports, standing up. I did have to use glue stick on the print bed to make sure it stuck to the bed, as it has a very small contact surface with the print bed. If you do need to print with supports, you can use the paint on supports feature in PrusaSlicer (help.prusa3d.com/en/article/paint-on-supports) to stop supports from being generated in places where you won't be able to remove them. Another quick hack I use is the "supports only on build surface" setting, which usually generates supports that I want. You should play around with the paint on supports and the supports only on the build surface setting to figure out what works best.

[@sdop]

Hi, the link to mount file does no longer work. Can you provide a replacement, please?

[@asadjibran]

Thanks for flagging. Unfortunately the original mount I used is no longer available on Thingiverse. Here's an alternative: www.thingiverse.com/thing:3716043/files

[@antoinedavitoglu4527]

hello, Can you give me the link to download the firmware because I can't find it at 3DUK. Thank you

[@asadjibran]

3duk.co.uk/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=19

[@gecked8560]

Just waiting on the bolts for my fan to arrive, in the meantime I was just wondering if you had a new link to the TFT firmwarer?

[@asadjibran]

Hi. Sorry about the broken link. It's fixed in the description now. You can get the firmware for the TFT from github.com/wgcv/RAWR-TFT-Firmware-Artillery3D/releases.

[@gecked8560]

@@asadjibran Thanks man 👍

[@aidan2235]

Great guide! One question, do i have to add any gcodes in my every print ?

[@asadjibran]

Thank you! I use PrusaSlicer 2.3.1, and they have built in profiles for an Artillery Genius with a BL Touch. So that works for me. I created a Gist with the start and end gcode, so you can copy from there if needed. gist.github.com/theonejb/70becb351508719b5411bb604258b621

[@aidan2235]

@@asadjibran If I use M420 S1 without Z3, does it load the saved z offset by default ?

[@asadjibran]

@@aidan2235 The M420 command only enables or disabled the mesh bed leveling. It does not effect the z-offset. You set the z-offset using the touchscreen once during initial calibration. The Z3 in the M420 command sets the fade height. The bed level correction is gradually reduced over the fade height, and then the bed level correction is disabled once the fade height is reached in the print. You can find some more info about the fade height if you're interested at marlinfw.org/docs/configuration/configuration.html#leveling-fade-height

[@aidan2235]

@@asadjibran thank you for the replies

[@DBeilke66]

you never plugged your tft back in to mother board ???

[@asadjibran]

I did. Not sure if the video shows it or not, but I have been using this printer since this upgrade and the TFT works perfectly.

[@DBeilke66]

@@asadjibran was just saying you didnt tell them to do this nor did you show it !!

[@rikufanboy]

Can you please update your URLs?

[@asadjibran]

Thanks for flagging. Unfortunately the original mount I used is no longer available on Thingiverse. Here's an alternative: www.thingiverse.com/thing:3716043/files

[@Gilby88]

When I am using Octoprint connected to Artillery Genius, will be BLTouch working ?

[@asadjibran]

Yes. I'm using Octoprint as well. The BL Touch functionality depends on the G-code your slicer generates. If you've setup your slicer to do auto bed leveling before printing, it will work as expected. Octoprint only forwards the commands your slicer software decides, it doesn't do any pre-processing on those commands (by default, plugins are a different case).

[@Gilby88]

@@asadjibran Thank you for the explanation

[@zeusking4686]

dose this work with 3d touch ?

[@asadjibran]

I'm not a 100% certain, so it's better if you look at the wiring diagram of the 3D Touch and make sure it's the same as the wiring diagram for the BL Touch. But I have seen some sites say that the 2 are compatible. If not, then you'll need to make some slight modifications to the firmware to work with the different wiring scheme.

[@zeusking4686]

Okay thanks imma look around my probe is not going out

[@zeusking4686]

can i use different tft fw? it i must pair the tft and the board fw

[@asadjibran]

Yes. The TFT firmware is different from the main board one and you can use a number of different ones. I chose rawr because I liked that feature set, but you can use others and it will work.

[@dooley9621]

Can't hear you

[@asadjibran]

The sound is a bit bad at the introduction, but is pretty good after the first few minutes, when we start with the actual installation. I'm working on getting better equipment for recording though so hopefully soon my videos won't have audio issues, even for a small segment.