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Getting started with your BX

Congratulations on becoming a BX owner. You have in your posession one of the most capable 3D printers in its class with some unique features that you will not even find on other, more costly machines.

Despite the capabilities of the machine, it will only be able to perform well if you take the time to carefully ensure that the mechanics are well put together. Fortunately the BX is a very simple machine to assemble so if you follow this guide carefully you will not have any problems.

Installing the uprights

The BX comes with the frame already pre-assembled. All you will need to do is align it with the base and insert four bolts to hold it in place. Unfortunately the process involved in trimming the aluminium extrusions to length at the factory does not always result in a perfect, 90 degree cut. This means that after you fasten the uprights in place they may not be at 90 degrees to the base.

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BIQU BX RASPBERRY PI TIDY INTEGRATION MOD

The BIQU BX is advertised as "RPi integrated". This statement can understandably cause a lot of confusion as to what it actually means. Some people have an expectation that it means that the pi will not need to connect to the front USB port of the machine. Others may have a different expectation.

The reality is that the integration comes in the form of a very clean mounting solution for the Pi combined with the ability to power and interface with the pi using the machine (touch interface). The USB port on the back of the TFT that connects to the pi does not offer a serial link back to the motherboard. It simply interfaces with a little MCU (CH554G) that translates the I2C signals from the touch controller on the TFT into signals that the pi can understand over USB. If you want the raspberry pi to communicate with the motherboard in order to send and receive commands (hint: you do) then you are still going to need a USB cable running from the pi to the micro USB po

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Using the custom firmware on the BX

If you decide to go ahead and install any of the custom firmware branches on your BX then you must read this guide before using it as it has been carefully written to cover the most common questions that users of the firmware have.

If you ask a question in the facebook group that is covered in this guide I'm going to scowl at you through my monitor and with three mighty waves of my finger declare "tsk, tsk, tsk".

First things first

This guide has been written to supplement the information within the main readme under the "Using the firmware on the BX" heading over here: https://github.com/looxonline/Marlin. Please make sure that you read both as they are equally important.

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Klipper on the BIQU BX

So you want to run Klipper on your BIQU BX? Well too bad it's not supported.... but I do have some good news. I have a preliminary branch ready to submit to Klipper to support the BIQU BX. Here's what you need to know in order to get started.

NOTE: If you have a V3 board, click here

_**UPDATE: The Biqu BX is now supported in mainstream klipper!

NOTE: CAN will not work on this board due to a hardware mis-configuration

NOTE: I2C is not quite working yet!

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READ THIS FIRST

Adaptive bed mesh is merged into klipper master branch. You can use this feature without this custom macro. Official klipper adaptive bed mesh

Klipper mesh on print area only install guide

What this macro do

• This macro will dynamically changing the bed mesh area based on the size of the parts will be printed. The fw will only probe on the area that the part will be printed (plus mesh_area_offset value)

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Klipper Backups to Google Drive

Have you spent a lot of time configuring your Voron? Perfect current settings? Got those klippy location coordinates exactly where you want them? How about all those fancy macros that you built and collected over the last X days. Wouldn't it SUCK to lose them due to data corruption on your SD card? The sad truth is that your sd card has a limited number of read/write cycles and will, over time, eventually fail.

If you aren't running periodic backups, you are playing a risky game. So enough fear-mongering...besides popping your card out and backing up every once in a while or rsync'ing files when it occurs to you - you should be backing those files up. There are a million ways to do this, but we are going to focus on just one here - because it's easy for most people. We are going to be running a nightly backup task to send your files to google drive. If you have a different provider in mind, you can swap the google drive settings for any of the other [numerous options](http

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BIQU BX RASPBERRY PI TIDY INTEGRATION MOD

The BIQU BX is advertised as "RPi integrated". This statement can understandably cause a lot of confusion as to what it actually means. Some people have an expectation that it means that the pi will not need to connect to the front USB port of the machine. Others may have a different expectation.

The reality is that the integration comes in the form of a very clean mounting solution for the Pi combined with the ability to power and interface with the pi using the machine (touch interface). The USB port on the back of the TFT that connects to the pi does not offer a serial link back to the motherboard. It simply interfaces with a little MCU (CH554G) that translates the I2C signals from the touch controller on the TFT into signals that the pi can understand over USB. If you want the raspberry pi to communicate with the motherboard in order to send and receive commands (hint: you do) then you are still going to need a USB cable running from the pi to the micro USB po