ASWX1-FW-MOD

Artillery Sidewinder X1 Firmware Mod

The ASWX1-FW-Mod is an optimization for the Artillery Sidewinder X1 3D printer.
The Artillery Sidewinder X1 is delivered with Marlin 1.19 link and deactivated EEPROM memory function M500.

This optimized firmware is based on Marlin Firmware Version 2.0.x
and on Marlin Artillery Sidewinder X1 config

There is also an optimized firmware for Artillery Sidewinder X1 touch display which you can install too but it is optional.

Releases

20.03.2020 ASWX1-FW-MOD-v1.2 - ASWX1-FW-MOD-v1.2.zip based on Marlin 2.0.5.1

07.03.2020 ASWX1-FW-MOD-v1.1 - ASWX1-FW-MOD-v1.1.zip based on Marlin 2.0.4.4
Maintained some basic changes (e.g. the possibility to store babystepping)

29.02.2020 ASWX1-FW-MOD-v1.0 - ASWX1-FW-MOD-v1.0.zip based on Marlin 2.0.4.4

Improvements

Save to EEPROM
Enabled EEPROM M500 to persist settings.
Now you can store PIDs and Z-Offsets to EEPROM
LIN_ADVANCE activated
Linear Advance brings you better dimensional precision due to reduced bleeding edges.
Higher printing speeds are possible without any loss of print quality - as long as your extruder can handle the needed speed changes.
Visible and tangible print quality is increased even at lower printing speeds.
No need for high acceleration and jerk values to get sharp edges.
Read https://marlinfw.org/docs/features/lin_advance.html for more details and how to calibrate.
By default the K_Factor is set to 0, so it is disabled.
To enable it using gcode you should first calibrate your specific K factor.
You can do this here. Accordingly set the K factor within your slicer using e.g. M900 K0.2
S_CURVE_ACCELERATION activated
This option eliminates vibration during printing by fitting a Bézier curve to move acceleration, producing much smoother direction changes.
ADAPTIVE_STEP_SMOOTHING activated
Adaptive Step Smoothing increases the resolution of multi-axis moves, particularly at step frequencies below 1kHz (for AVR) or 10kHz (for ARM), where aliasing between axes in multi-axis moves causes audible vibration and surface artifacts. The algorithm adapts to provide the best possible step smoothing at the lowest stepping frequencies.

Individual adjustments

Individual adjustments can be made in Configuration.h and Configuration_adv.h

Examples can be found in the links below.
Enabling BL-Touch, also look at Issue #6
E3D Hemera - Artillery (Evnovo) Sidewinder X1 Firmware Modification

Flashing

Important: Don't forget to read and backup your current EEPROM-settings with M503!

The display and the USB-Port are sharing the same wires so flashing the motherboard-firmware need some extra work.
There are two ways possible to flash the firmware.

1. Disconnect the display

be careful, DISCONNECT the 230V power cord, you do not need it for flashing, everything will be savely powered using the USB Connection
Either compile the attached source or flash the precompiled hex file. For flashing the precompiled hex file you can e.g. install and use Prusa Slic3r 2.x. In order to be able to flash the firmware you must unscrew the bottom plate of you printer (danger, 230V connectors, unplug power cord first) and disconnect the MKS LCD cable. Otherwise it wont let you flash as both, the TFT and Flasher communicate using serial. After flashing and powering off you simply reconnect the tft+enclosure fan and install the bottom plate again.

2. Loop method

With this method we try to talk to the motherboard before the display is ready to listen. You have to use a Linux or Mac mashine for this.

The flash.sh script is trying to flash the command in a loop until the command finishs succesfully.
Steps:

Make sure Artillery Sidewinder X1 is unplugged from the power supply.
Unplug USB Cable too.
Connect your linux box (or mac) with the printer USB-Port
Place firmware.hex and flash.sh in same directory and execute flash.sh.
You will see timeout errors thats normal.
Plug USB Cable
Leave flash.sh running and unplug / plug USB Cable or hit the reset button until the flash.sh finishs

A detailed explanation of this procedure is available from joskfg at Github

Reset to factory defaults

I recommend to reset the newly flashed firmware to its defaults and overwrite any older settings.
Don't forget to read your settings by M503 and copy/save them somewhere.
The gcode command to reset the firmware to the hardcoded defaults is M502,
followed by M500 to save these default setting to EEPROM.
After that you can restore your settings from your M503-Backup e.g. M92 X80.12 Y80.12 Z399.78 E420.00
Save again by M500 and finally reload all stored data from Eeprom by M501

You can execute the gcode commands using a terminal program like Arduino-IDE, Pronterface) or using the Terminal Tab in Octoprint.

Credits

The repository here is the continuation of the MarlinFW from Robscar's firmware mod at Thingiverse.
The modified firmware for the Makerbase MKS-TFT 3.2 touch display has been seperated to an own repository:
https://github.com/pinguinpfleger/ASWX1-TFTFW-MOD

Links

Disclaimer, use at your own risk!

There are inherent dangers of upgrading your firmware and config files. I caution you to make sure that you completely understand the potential risks before applying/uploading any of the files provided to your 3D-Printer. The firmware and Config Files are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.

pinguinpfleger / ASWX1-FW-MOD

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