Has anyone replaced the knob on any of the Creality printers? The ender series, the cr10, any of them? They all use a similar mainboard, so it should be a similar knob.
Edit, as I seem to have caused some confusion. I'm looking to replace the ELECTRONIC component, not the dial itself. Ideally not with another of the existing setups, but something new of higher quality.
Posted May 11, 2018, 9:53 PM UTC · edited
I would suggest downloading fusion 360 and designing one yourself, not being a dick. The reason I encourage it is I think 3D printing is a great hobby and one thing that makes it even better is designing and printing your own stuff. It makes 3D printing a much richer and rewarding experience. It might seem a bit daunting at first but it's not that hard. You might think you don't want to learn a program for one thing but that is the beauty of it once you do it will open you up to a whole new world and the possibilities are endless.
Apparently I should have worded it differently. I'm looking for the electronic component. I want to replace the entire assembly, mine skips steps when rotated.
I appreciate that you give this kind of advice to new members, I use Inventor for my day job though.
Ok sorry i misunderstood I don't have any knowledge there. Have you tried to google it I know it's obvious but you would be surprised. By the way I like inventor as well it's a really powerful program. However the reason I don't recommend it is because it's not free and I don't want to be sending people of to look for inventor and then find out the price.
Yeah, google turned up nothing, was hoping someone had a nice digikey part number. I love inventor, and if I didn't have a legacy purchased copy, would definitely not be able to afford it. You can always direct anyone remotely related to a school to the educational version though, which is free.
Ok just thought I would suggest it. Sorry I can't help. Thanks for the information regarding inventor that's good to know.
The component is called a rotary encoder. I don't know enough to suggest a specific part but hopefully that helps your Google search.
https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=ender+knob
https://www.thingiverse.com/search?sort=relevant&q=creality+knob&type=things
Apparently I should have worded it differently. I'm looking for the electronic component. I want to replace the entire assembly, mine skips steps when rotated.
The ‘skipped steps’ is due to the firmware implementation of the rotary encoder (the knob). Replacing hardware will not fix anything unfortunately. See here for more details: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin/issues/3791
Well that sucks a bit. My board seems particularly bad with this, maybe it's the processor too. I'd assumed it was interrupt based
Have you updated to the TH3D unified firmware? I reflashed my Ender 2 and it seemed to make a bit of a difference with regards to responsiveness. I also set it up with Octoprint, which has removed nearly any need to use the printer LCD anyway.