Creator 5 Pro Second day experience (an essay).
First time posting... I've had an Adventurer 3 (Monoprice version), 5M Pro, and now Creator 5 Pro. Very much a hobbyist.
My first day went well, better than some I have read about. Everything went together well, other than it not explicitly saying to pay attention to front/back vs side for the top, so I initially ended up with a trapezoid vs a rectangle. Fixed easily enough, though.
I wanted to surprise my wife with a multi-colored highland cow the next day, so I loaded appropriate colors and did the test Benchy and FF logo prints, and called it a night.
I woke up the next day at 7:30 am, just after she went to work. As I mentioned, I'm a hobbyist, and I guess my filament was a bit neglected, so I awoke to two of the four colors broken off from just sitting there overnight. 👎 After consulting my LLM of choice, I figured out how to swap those out (who would read the manual, honestly?), and started the print.
I chose to do bed levelling and flow calibration for my first big print, and that took about an hour and a half, so learn from my mistake and don't do that too often. After another hour and a half, one of the supports fell over, so I cancelled that print. I found that the main object was actually detached from the plate as well, so something would have failed eventually.
After cleaning the bed and applying a liberal amount of glue stick, I tried the print again, minus the levelling and calibration, because who's got time for that? That went for about 2 hours under the watchful eye of my daughter, who then called me that the brown filament broke again, and it had stopped... When I got back home, I saw that it had instructions for reloading the filament, and then it continued, which I was pleasantly surprised with.
About 7 hours later, it finished... I did a basic support cleanup, and my wife thought it was awesome, while I showed it to her as she was going to bed.. Honestly, most of the problems probably were due to old, too moist filament.
Overall, it was actually a good first experience with the printer. A couple of things I'm not sure about are why the 4th nozzle seemed to be at 220 degrees the whole time until it was used 6 hours later, and then started to sit at 120 degrees when it wasn't needed like it's supposed to, and why I, as a reasonably tech-savvy person could not for the life of me figure out how to get the live chat AI to help me at all in getting my shipping delay coupons.
Attached is a pic of the final print and video of how it looked after rough cleanup You can see a seam where the filament ran out, but overall it looks good, and the fact that it finished with that issue is a plus for the printer.
And last, but not least, hat tip to the creator of this model, it is awesome! [https://makerworld.com/en/models/1491848-cute-highland-cow?from=search#profileId-1559445](https://makerworld.com/en/models/1491848-cute-highland-cow?from=search#profileId-1559445)