Sovol SV06 Plus 3D Printer with 300℃ High Temp 250mm/s High Speed All Metal Hotend, Planetary Dual Gear Direct Drive Touch Screen Auto Leveling 32-bit Silent Board, Printing Size 11.8x11.8x13.4 inch

The media could not be loaded. Short(ish) version: I'm a medium-level 3D printing enthusiast, 3 years of mixed experience/results with an Ender 3 since 2020. I picked up the SV01 Pro in October 23 and it was so easy to build and use, but I wanted more build area, plus a second printer so I could run concurrent print jobs. I did a fair bit of research and determined the SV06 PLUS to be a solid value. Purchased this guy November of 23, and holy cow was that it a good decision. I mean, here are some of the important boxes this printer checks for me: 1) More build volume 2) Higher print speed capable 3) Self-leveling (not perfect but shockingly good!) 4) Pause/Resume when it runs out of filament (more details below how this saved my six-day print) and 5) In general terms, for my uses, this was a wonderful next step in my 3D printing hobby. Honestly, I can say my new printers have made printing FUN again, and I get to spend time printing again instead of constantly calibrating in between prints.More details: I'm not here to trash Enders, especially since my Ender got me into the hobby (January 2020). I did however eventually get tired of the bed leveling, failed prints, and constant babysitting. To tell the truth, I was hardly printing any more come 2023. My coworker was talking about this SV01 Pro he got cheap and how reliable it was. I said why not, got myself an SV01 and was just instantly having a GREAT time! My only problem - I had the desire to print larger stuff. I joined the Sovol groups on Reddit and FB, and did a lot of reading. The clear consensus was that the SV06+ is one of the best bang for the buck printers available in general. I chose the standard (read: non Klipper) model. Klipper is a whole other (and interesting) topic but I'm not looking to address that in this context, I may tinker with it on my Raspberry Pi later, but I'm just running things stock. So the SV06 arrives, and within about 30 minutes I had assembled it and started the leveling process. As soon as that was done I connected my Raspberry Pi with OctoPi and set up a printer profile so I could print from my PC instead of using the SD slot. I'll go ahead and mention the con I have with this printer because this is where you'll notice it too: The power supply has a significantly loud fan. It's not a deal breaker for my situation because my printers are in the basement, but trust me about the noise of the power supply in case that would be a problem for you.Anyway, It's been about 4-5 weeks of non stop printing for me. I've shared several photos, and one video for this review. I printed a cool marble track model but should have scaled it up in size because it would only fit smaller ball bearings. Turns out the SV06 was big enough to increase the model to a size where I could use regular marbles! The model took up most of the build volume on the SV06 and would provide a great stress test. This beast was a 6-day print and on day 4 when the spool of filament ran out, the filament sensor on the printer paused it automatically, moving the hot end to the side so I could mount a new spool and load the filament. Then I hit resume (holding my breath because I hadn't actually tried this before) and it just picked up where it left off. If you check my video, you can see the finished product which is pretty cool - it has an Archimedes screw that lifts the marbles back up where they randomly fall out to the 4 different tracks and down again.Summary - I hope this helps someone that's on the fence! Potential buyers should be aware of the loud fan on the power supply, but I can sincerely recommend my SV06 plus based on my experience. It's fast, it has been reliable, it successfully printed a monster print for me (hopefully the first of many), and it's been easy and fun to use. I still don't know if I'd call it a "beginner" printer, but I've been teaching my son and he picked it up right away. We're having a blast printing organizers and accessories for a bunch of our favorite tabletop games. Two thumbs up!

Updated Review: We had the extruder nozzle snap off and become bound in the hot end. The nozzle looked like it was made of very low quality metal so we are likely to look for a more durable replacement. I contacted Solov customer service and they informed me that since it was purchased on Amazon we needed to contact a separate support group. Ok, so that group was initially helpful and it looked like they were going to handle the replacement as expected, but suddenly they just stopped responding to email and provided no updates. I ended up just buying a replacement part directly from Solov. Due to my customer support experience, I can't recommend this at all.Original Review:Updated with Klipper Pad: Still an amazing 3D printer that produces outstanding prints. Here are some additional observations - The out of filament sensor works great and the software allows for seamless continuation. The print times are really fast, with good quality. I really like the heated bed and good first layer adhesion.Original Review: This Solov 3D printer is what 3D printers should have been all along. We were early 3D printer adopters and have 4 other models from various manufacturers going back several years, but none of them worked well out of the box.Setup and calibration took us about an hour or so and the provided instructions were easy to follow. We made a few test prints with the included PLA spool, including the articulated Dragon shown in the picture. The detail and speed with the default settings was quite impressive.Be sure to watch the many available videos on setting up, tuning, and using this 3D printer.Highly Recommended!CFH

The media could not be loaded. Setup was pretty simple once you understand what’s going on. I installed the hard spacers initially but the level was all messed up, so I put the springs back on once I found the ofne that decided to take off. After that did the z off set, then the adjustment wheels which was super dope since it tells you how much to turn them. After that leveled it and the bed is all within 0.1-0.2 mm difference all the way across the bed. Printed the usb deally that came preloaded. No issues. Little stringing but I Bellevue that’s due to the filament I was using and the temp it chose for me 190, suppose to print at 220 and up to 60 mm per second. Other then that that’s all I have printed. Will be laying down some layers this weekend. Will update this with how it handles. But so far so good.Well, it’s a printer I almost feel comfortable walking away from and can count on it not becoming a hairball of a mess. Everything I’ve printed that was made to fit together, actually fit together. Been throwing some pretty thin stuff at it and it just prints. Right now I wish I would have bought this printer to start with. Do your self a favor and make this your first printer.11-14-23So just an update, printer is still printing just fine, started making strange noises while moving. Tightened the belts and no more noise. I’ve only had a few failures and it was due to me trying to use regular filament at high speeds. Swapped to high speed filament restarted the print same gcode and the print came out just fine. Although the print had the artifacts in it at the same spot as the failed print so I’m pretty sure it was a bad design from someone. Never condemn the printer right away. Change something, speed, filament, temp and if the print has issues in the same exact spot then it’s probably the file it self. Other than that, still loving this printer. Printed petg, tpu, nylon pa(follow the speed recommendations and get a filament dryer you can print from, it helps) abs, so far no issues. I did upgrade to a hardened steel nozzle, for carbon fiber pla and still no issues other then I bought some cheap roll that apparently doesn’t adhere to it self and comes apart. But again not the printers fault. The printer does its job and I’m just throwing it curve balls to see what happens. Great printer.Still going strong, I have to manually set the z offset, which isn’t that hard. Great print after great print.