Sovol SV05 Metal Frame Metal Direct Drive Extruder FDM 3D Printer with Upgraded 32-bit Silent Mainboard CR Touch Auto Leveling Flexible Build Plate 220 * 220 * 300mm

The media could not be loaded. This is my second 3D printer and have a fair amount of experience with them in an academic setting. This will also be my second Sovol 3D printer, my first being the SV03. I was already very impressed with the SV03, but the SV05 blew my expectations out of the water.The build experience was great, well packed with great open cell foam. All needed elements are provided:- hex wrenches- nippers- nozzle cleaner- micro SD card- micro SD reader- micro USB cable- extra nozzle- tube holder- sample white filament (enough for provided test gcode)The sound of the printer is pretty quiet overall. The main source of noise is the cooling fan for the hotend. You can hear the sound in the videos.One huge improvement since when I bought the SV03 is the provided manual. There were some problems in the past with the manual due to differences in the firmware and the process in the manual for bed leveling. Everything is well written and quite clear with links to resources for further help in the case it is needed.The other large improvement is the cable management. I had a problem with the heater cable getting caught between the heated bed and the stepper motor. There is far more flexibility with the cable management and I'm a HUGE fan.Sovol will also release firmware updates and are quite proactive about it. You can get their announcements from the Facebook page and get download links from there. The community is also very welcoming and always willing to help.The size of the SV05 is also quite compact and fits really easily on my desk table. There's a huge number of features that I would expect from more expensive printers. Like backlash nuts, flexible build plate, power outage protectionThe pre-sliced gcode provided is a Benchy and a 20mm test cube. Dimensionally, it is quite accurate. At most, it was 0.5% off on the Z axis. I also did another test print for dimensional accuracy with the Voron test cube and had lower inaccuracy. I did a harder test print with the spider. It handles the overhangs and unsupported parts extremely well.The construction is very sturdy as can be seen with the Voron cubes. The right one was printed with the SV05 and the other one was printed with my other printer. The other printer I spent a bit of time tuning and had its calibration down pat. It however, does show ringing while the cube printed with the SV05 does not show any signs of ringing on any axis.Overall, it works quite well. It also includes a Sovol flavor of Cura and has their own 3D printers provided as presets. I would highly suggest this printer due to its ease of assembly, robust documentation, and history of future software support.

Me and my friends have been the happy customers of sovol, and have found thier quality and price to be great. I cannot say this for the sv05. If you go to the sovol website, it does not contain any support/repair information on this model of printer. It pains me to say that thier customer service email is also useless. They will give you a run around and ask you to do the same steps verbatim over and over. This wouldn't be an issue if they had customer service personnel which worked during the daytime in North America, but as a Chinese company sovol doesn't do that. I'm currently going through this and will update this as it continues.Also note: Mine does clog alot, and the reason is the faulty heating block. This is why I'm emailing them, but they say it's thermoresistors.

Bought it on a whim and I'm pretty happy with the purchase. I've bought several 3D printers over the years, mostly cheap open box units. This one IIRC was around $170.It makes good prints and there are some mods out there for cooling ducts and other light modifications. I'd consider it a good first printer and a good value for someone taking the chance on getting into the hobby.Having your own 3D printer is a great addition to your hobby desk if you do a lot of repairs and such at home. I use mine all the time to make small spacers, brackets, etc. There are plenty of on-line resources to teach you how, and plenty of on-line tool for designing your own parts.

I have been working on printers for 20 years. I made this my first 3D printer. It was very easy to assemble. I used it everyday day for 2 months before I had a major issue. Working with Sovol support ([email protected]) it was determined that the board was bad. I was sent in a week and I am back up and printing. I would recommend reading " 3D Printing Failures " by Sean Aranda before starting. My only con would be lack of filament out sensor, and no way to add one in the menu. Unfortunately modifying the firmware would cancel the warranty.

I've been using this printer for about a week now and from opening the box to having a printer i could just send a file to and print, took about 3 hours.Unboxing and assembly took about an hour.Figuring out how the Cr-Touch worked took another hour, because i had never used this before. But, trial and error prevailed.1 more hour of fiddling with the z-offset for the cr-touch and using the 'paper test' for just a little bit of drag in all four corners and in the center.As of this point, i have not leveled it again and i have done over a dozen prints of various objects and models, all of which are coming out fantastically.First layer, 0.3. all others, 0.2.0.4 line widthextruder at 200, bed at 60.Speed, 80, first 25 (because the first layer and bed adhesion is key. If you want to go faster, go for it, but i would rather a slow first layer to ensure it goes well.)Yes, these are standard settings, but i didn't even do any tuning or the like to get it to work well. First benchy on the SD Card came out with so little stringing, i was already impressed.If anything changes, i'll update my review.Only 1 Con! (and it was more anecdotal?) One of the wheels was loose on the upper X-Axis, giving it some wobble, so i got out a 10mm wrench and adjusted the single wheel to firm it up. now, no more wobble.Note: This didn't even cause print failures, i was just being fiddly with it and noticed it was loose.

Purchased for Christmas 23 and used about 10 times and main board has gone out.Product should have had a warranty but no way to contact

Let me start off by saying i was a big fan of Creality, has a heavily modified original ender 3, and modified ender 3 v2, it has taken me time and money to get both printers to were they are today and both have been my go to workhorses over the years (i also own an Flsun q5 and qqs but they are different beasts). I have over ten years of 3D printing experience, i dont see myself as an expert but experienced (there are a lot more makers out there better than me). In the past i have been asked "what printer would you recommend for a first timer" and i have always replied an ender 3, cheep, easy to build and a wealth of information on the net about it. Then i got the Sovol SV05 and boy has my opinion changed.At the time of purchase the Sovol SV05 it cost me the princely sum of £130, yep a £130, couldn't believe how cheap it was, but was expecting a nightmare of a 3D printer that was going to require a lot of attention at that price (think TRONXY X5SA). The Sovol SV05 took me about an hour to build with the included tool kit and follow the instruction booklet. Had one little mishap during the build and put the Z module in upside down, but that was about me not concentrating and not the instructions fault.Once everything was plugged in i powered it up, followed the bed levelling procedure in the instructions and sliced and printed my very first Benchy on it, i know there are pre sliced files included but wanted to get my slicer settings dialled in. The Benchy came out absolutely perfect, good layer lines and adhesion, the right angles were nice and sharp and the overhangs were spot on. there was a tiny bit of fine stringing but sorted this out in my next print by upping my retraction distance a bit (slicer retraction settings Distance 0.8 and speed 35).So after a week with the Sovol SV05 what do i think. I think its a fantastic 3D printer for the price, prints far more superior than an Ender 3 out of the box, comes with direct drive, CR touch for auto bed levelling and a nice basic intuitive menu system on the screen (had enough of touch screens and fancy graphics, just want to print). During the week i have printed a couple of torcher tests, a print in place fold out katana and some component storage boxes, all of which have printed perfectly with a perfect 1st layer, even with the bed only being levelled when it was first built, it is still level.Would i recommend this to a beginner?yep i would, if its a very first printer its going to take time for you to build it, but its not complicated and its very easy to set up. This printer is what a 3D printer should be out of the box!I was that impressed with the SV05 that i decided to buy the SV06 plus, building it tonight and will be putting it through its paces, look out for the review ;-)

The basic frame is good and the price very low. Being a version of the Ender 5 will make it seem like a very good option for a beginner but....Mains wiring is unsafe with bad separation between low & high voltage wires pushed together in the cover assembly.The extruder is in the E3D Hemera+Titan style (good idea). The tension spring is very weak so expect some under extrusion when you least expect it. You can tighten the screw down all the way so it works better but this goes against all guides a novice would follow when seeking help.It uses a basic teflon lined hot-end. The catch is that if you want to upgrade to an all-metal hot-end the heatsink end is a less common size so options are not always easy to come by. You can order them direct from Sovol but if they end up sending you the wrong version (as to me) good luck with getting support from them.The out-of-box firmware had a Z-homing issue. Solved by dropping in a SKR Mini and Klipper (not exactly beginner friendly way to solve things). I did revisit this and found firmware from Sovol that made the thing work.I bought this on a sale for the specific reason to test it out then convert to a ZeroG Mercury 1. Look it up.

I bought this as an upgrade to an Xvico X3S printer that I've had a few years now. That one ended up more of a project printer than anything else but I learnt a lot.This leads me to the Sovol-SV05.Assembly was easy but not 100% straight forward. It took me an hour to put together following the manual that came with it. I did spend another 15 mins cursing to myself when it came to cable management and I'll explaine why later.There is a video on the micro sd card supplied, but I didn't use that. Maybe I should have, but I little logical thinking solved how to access the cable trunking. I had to take the rear support so the trunking cover could come off. This isn't covered in the booklet instructions so beware of this hence the cursing.I was surprised that it worked 1st time after assembly. Powered up with no noticable problems, leveling was fairly easy (thank you cr-touch), and the cube on the sd card printed great with no tuning. I ran out of the supplied sample filament printing the bench.I printed one of them articulated slugs to test tolerances and that came out way better than my old printer could do.This is when I then noticed a problem. The main fan for keeping the hot end cool wasn't working and causing heat creep over time and some failed prints. This turned out that it was down to a wire not connected to the mainboard.It wasn't easy to get to without removing the board but I did get it attached again and was pleased to hear it being a silent fan.My advice is to check ALL wiring before assembly to make sure they are attached right.I've still to properly test it since the fix, yet from the simple tests I've done it's performing better than expected.

The media could not be loaded. I really wanted to like this printer. Already owning an Ender 3 V2 Neo I thought this would be a good addition & that as a Core XY printer this would deliver better quality lacking the bedslinger properties. I went into this with open eyes, knowing that it has some issues, which Sovol have tried their best to correct. I knew that the direct drive unit had issues but wanting to try it out, I fed in filament & it clogged within the first 30 seconds! It's not the easiest unit to take apart & clean, as you have to take the fan & the radiator off the side to do so. I decided at this point, as I had already planned to replace the direct drive unit with my own tried & tested unit, namely a Bondtech LGX Lite. I don't suggest trying this unless you are good at working out problems! In the end I had to order an Ender 5 X-axis carriage plate from Aliexpress to make it fit. Being based on an Ender 5 Pro you would think it had that plate already but it seems Sovol removed it to add their own direct drive which in my opinion is not an upgrade. While I was waiting for the plate, I used a printed temporary fix which I made on my other machine. I immediately ran into a problem. The whole bed was so badly warped that even after hours of trying to correct it I could not. I eventually resigned myself to contacting Sovol & to their credit they offered to replace the bed. They did not have any in the UK but express shipped from China in 3 days. Once this bed was fitted I ran into further problems as the whole bed assembly tips forward. It seems that the support arms are not enough to hold the bed rigid. I made some alterations to the setup & made sure the arms were tight up against the base. This helped for a couple of days, but after that I started getting issues with it sagging again. As I use Klipper I could see a bed mesh of exactly where the issues were & suspiciously there were peaks & troughs across the mesh, which oddly enough the troughs were exactly where the support arms are. I was getting pretty fed up by this point, as I said above I expected some problems but not to this extent. I have now had to order an adapter kit from Aliexpress that adds a second z-axis to the front & I really hope that will solve the issues. The concept is great & Sovol tried to fix some of the issues with the original Ender 5 Pro but sadly it would seem those efforts are not enough, which is a shame, if they thought to add the second Z-axis & sold it for a little more I am sure the machine would be great OOTB. I suppose you could say this machine is ideal for tinkerers & modders who know what changes to make. The cooling fans are not too noisy & I like what Sovol have done with the electrics. They have added a convenient cover to the otherwise dangerous terminals that Creality tend to leave open & have added XT60 connecters to the main PSU to board connections & to the beds power line as well. I am not really sure why one of the reviews thinks this is dangerous as it is a lot safer than most base printers which tend not to have the covers over terminals & are generally just bare end wires running into the main board. Talking of the main board, that is another nice touch. Sovol took the time to add ferrules to the wire ends in the screw terminals which make the connections much safer & less risk to short & cause a fire. Assembly wise, the machine goes together fairly easily & the instructions are clear & practical. If you have any difficulties there is a video on Youtube that shows the assembly steps. All in all it's a fair printer which could be fantastic. I am glad I bought in offer through Amazon Prime Day, otherwise I would have needed to spend much more. In the end I have it running off a Creality Sprite Direct Drive kit. as I need the Bondtech elsewhere. The Creality Sprite kit is not expensive if you don't mind waiting for it from Aliexpress, otherwise you'll pay roughly double to source it in the UK. I am hoping that the dual Z kit will solve the remaining problems. I added a couple of photos so you can see print qaulity (when it's behaving) & a small video of it actually printing & you can hear there is not much background noise.

Wanted a slightly bigger machine for projects for my kids.. the build plate Is poo. Even upgrading the mat.. poo. The glass plate on my old machine works great. Also it's worth getting a laser temp reading as it's not accurate on the machine by any stretch of the imagination. I'm so disappointed after a long set up I couldn't be bothered to do this review earlier. If only the resin printer was large and low cost.. would have saved time.