Awesome its working! Thanks 
! It took me a while to spool it from one to the other. But i am so happy its actually working.
Can’t wait to try other materials also. Thanks once again!
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12 days later
Hey!
I have made some very nice prints with other filament. But when switching back to Da Vinci Filament my prints are terrible. I have cleaned out my extruder and also nozzle etc. Tried many things but still the same. Have u experienced that?..I hope i have not messed up my extruder now due to other filaments?..
When you say terrible, what do you mean? I did find that I needed to tweak the z axis setting a little after changing filaments. The worst was the bronze and wood fill filaments, which were very difficult to print with and needed the most adjustment when I went back to proprietary filaments. I also found that I get much better quality prints using other filaments (not da Vinci ones).
My prints starts fine(ish). But then while building it extrudes too thin. So the build gets messed up and i have to cancel my prints. I have had that already 3 times. I find that my filament does not come out well. Nice and easy without any clogs etc. I am also have a hard time Loading my Filament. It wont load till may tries.
Ok so I just got my Da vinci JR yesterday and I plan on using off brand filaments. I wanna know if there is a way to bypass the chip that tells the printer to print and how much filament it has left.Now if I feed another filament while leaving the old chip in place would it not just tell the printer it is running empty and stop it from printing if so how can I bypass this or trick the printer so that i may use other filaments.
I’ve been running some big prints using the DaVinci filament after changing back from the non-davinci stuff I bought, and they’re coming out as expected, so I’m not sure what’s going wrong for you. At a guess, it sounds like it could be that you need to tweak your z-axis setting a little. I’m told that this z-axis tweaking is a fairly regular thing. Also, on one of my very first prints I did when I first got my printer, the filament clogged up the outside of the nozzle behind the silver plate, and I just couldn’t get a good print. It was only after I removed the plate that I could see how much filament was clogged up behind it. I cleaned big lumps of it out and instantly got better quality results. I’m not sure if this is helpful to you.
Thank you so much for your reply. I appreciate it. I indeed tweaked my Z-axis. I moved it up abit and indeed the clicking is way less. I also removed the plate. There was nothing clogged but the extruder head was a but dirty/smudges so i cleaned it off.
I tested a print. Its started out fine. But after an hour my print got brittle. See attachment. You can clearly see where it starts to go wrong. I am just getting tired now. I have tried so many things i dont know what to do anymore…siigh
2 months later
I had a random thought for this. I’ve been looking at the printer, and trying to determine where it measures the filament. If it’s at the feeder…ugh, but if it’s at the coil itself, wouldn’t it be possible to spoof it simply by locking a nearly empty roll in place, and just feed from an external roll looped around the empty and into the feed? Idk, I’m waiting for my new filament to show and I’ll see if it works.
What I noticed in my da Vinci 1.0 is that the printer doesn’t seam like it measures filament use, I think it calculates the usage in the slicer and basically subtracts it from the cartridges chip memory. There is an optical sensor in the extruder but I don’t think that it would be able to measure the use because the filament is always one color through out. I’m not sure if this is different in the da Vinci junior but it would be interesting to see how the printer does that. I’ll look into it more soon.
Hmm,.that could be, but how would it cope with a cancelled print if things went bad? Still deduct the filament even though it wasn’t all used? That would be unfortunate. Looking at the build, I can see 4 wires going to the feeder assembly. It may have a micro counter there which keeps track, and then writes back to the chip… Which sounds pretty feasible… Ugh… Well, its just a starter printer until I get better stuff down the road. Getting pretty decent prints off of it at least
You make a very good point. I didn’t even think about that. Hopefully someone figures out how to replace the firmware or how to trick the cartridge chip. They have some great people on the solid forum site working on it. Hopefully they will figure out something soon.
Yup, after doing some fiddling about, and ending a couple of prints, it looks like its measuring the amount of filament run through the feeder mechanism, probably as a measure per rotation setup, and then deducts it back from the chip until you hit zero. As long as there is a chip, that hasn’t hit zero, I’m pretty sure that you can run whatever through, but the chip has to be in location above its reader/writer . if the chip isn’t there, and it goes to write to it, bam, no more print, and you get a spool error. And the job gets cancelled . so its going to have to be some sort of spoof, sacrificial roll of filament, or software hack to be able to use other filament.
Maybe there is a way to trick the measuring mechanism. There is a small chance that it only uses it to measure the amount of filament being used and not for if filament is actually being moved through. Small chance, but it may be worth looking into. If that doesn’t work, easy solution thrown out the window. Other options are, faking the cartridge chip with an RFID tag, completely rewriting the firmware to the printer, or resetting the cartridges chips. Hopefully one of these are figured out soon. I’m hoping for the firmware rewrite. Due to the nature of XYZ’s software.
29 days later
Here ya go Robot or human? 14
That sadly does no good on a davinci Jr. Due to the way they’re chippd, won’t work.
10 days later
I saw this video on youtube where a guy bought clear pla and sprayed painted it different colors
I saw this video on youtube where a guy bought clear pla and sprayed painted it different colors
For the Da Vinci Jr the filament card says i have ran out of filament but i can still see there being a good amount still on the spool is there a way to fix this if so please help?
According to xyz, when I asked about it on mine, they incorporate extra filament for loading and for the little test strips it prints down one side before the main print. I’ve got 3 rolls of “empty” with varying amounts of filament left due to this
Ohh ok thank you appreciate the help.
I am pretty sure that you can buy a spool of filament with the chip, unravel the xyz pla then put on your own. Since the PLA will melt at the same temperature, it should still print equally. As long as it is the same diameter it should work. The xyz printer uses the chip to detect how much filament and what type of filament is being used. I dont think the jr has an optical sensor. Maybe this is worth a try…
9 months later
You don’t have to re-spool the new filament. Just leave the old spool (with the chip in place) and feed directly into the feeder. I leave my new spool on the floor - although I could build a custom holder. As long as the filament feeds from below and moves easily - no problem.
I hate the chip - just sayin’
Does this really work Andrew? Thinking about buying a da vinci mini but only be alle to use the XYZPRINTING filament is holding me back a bit.
You do need the chip. So you do need to buy the filament from them. However I am current running with the white chip holder on the spool holder and my required filament feeding from a spool on the floor.
Not ideal - but…
I would like to know why there are wires leading to the spool holder - cus if that is where the RFID piece - maybe it can be spoofed on the spool holder itself.
27 days later
Did you store the original filament correctly ?
Should be kept dry in a sealed bag to prevent moisture. Sounds like your filament may be damp.
21 days later
thanks for sharing! Do you have to flash the chip, or use a new one when the external spool empties out?
thanks for sharing! Do you have to flash the chip, or use a new one when the external spool empties out?