AD5M

Absolutely not, it's an artifact which I call "flashforge surface blight" which affects the printing of exterior walls. Nobody has completely explained what causes it, I've tried capturing it on high speed video. If you look at it as it's printed layer by layer, the artifact is caused by the extrude

I ended up dropping X-Forge onto my printer, having access to Fluidd has been nice. I still have the dreaded MCU shutdown happening, and the G-Code corruption continues to be an issue. Overall while I appreciate the mods, I think I am going to still be looking into replacing the mainboard, or at lea

The FlashForge is louder stock. I ended up replacing all the fans on it. The CC's aux fan is loud as hell (but works REALLY well for additional cooling for PLA), and I am likely to replace some of the fans on it in the near future too, just to quiet it down further, but overall the CC out of the box

probably because this printer can be a massive pain in the ass. I have went through i kid you not 4 of these damn things. First one had badly warped bed second one had random z probing issues. Third one heater went out on it. 4th one well i still have it and its working fine. knock on wood. But i st

For the first month, I was also happy with the AD5M Pro. Then started the MCU freeze-ups. First every other week. Then every other day. Then multiple times a day. I tried everything, including Forge-X, and new replacement fans from Flashforge customer support, but none of it fixed the MCU timeouts.

It's kinda meh! Whether that was the panel kit I got from AliExpress (it wasn't for sale via FlashForge at the time) or them all, I can't say, alhtough the overall dimensions were correct, hole accuracy wasn't. Hinges didn't align so neither did the door catch, and the hole for the IFS was also out,