This beta version is truly great. Finally — after 5 years — the SM2 is getting to where it should have been since its release. I have been a Snapmaker user since 2020 and have been quite frustrated with this machine, especially regarding 3D printing. In the meantime, I operate several printers from other brands and now mainly use the Snapmaker 2.0 for laser work.
With this firmware, I am finally getting closer to a usable 3D printer. For many SM2 users to truly benefit from this, machine profiles and print profiles for Snapmaker Orca are absolutely essential. You know how grateful we are to finally be able to move away from Luban.
Yes, 3D printing involves a lot of tinkering and experimentation — but having to first adjust the default acceleration settings in the firmware and then start from scratch to create both a machine profile and print profiles is not what I expected. I understand this is a beta, but we have been waiting years for this.
I am also still using the single extruder print heads, versions 1 and 2, and there is no information about them here in the forum either. Snapmaker would do well to complete and consolidate these aspects, instead of scattering parts and documentation somewhere on the internet.
Fair warning to those updating from 1.20 to the Beta: You may receive an error on the touchscreen: “FabScreen not responding” while the .BIN file is transferring. You can safely ignore this or press [WAIT], do NOT click Close App.
After about a minute you will see the transfer progressing and the update starting.
Has somebody already found out the best settings for the Snapmaker Orca Slicer? Or atleast some good startoff settings to get the full potential of the Beta Software? It would be great if you could just post them here. I couldn’t find anything on the Forum yet. Thanks in regards SnapMakers
This is exactly where the problem lies: there is no central place where up-to-date and generally valid information is compiled. The Snapmaker Wiki would probably be the right place for that!
Firmware settings, machine profiles, print profiles – all of this has to be painstakingly gathered from forums, the wiki, social media, and various other sources. And if you’re unlucky, the information applies to the A350 but not the A350T, or only to the SX, or just the DX, and so on.
Yes, we are all makers and we’re willing to dive deep into our machines. But it’s incredibly tedious and leads to countless failed attempts because we spend more time testing and tinkering than actually creating. “Make something wonderful” – absolutely, but preferably without having to start from scratch every single time.
I’ve owned an A350 for five years and effectively an A350T after upgrading the modules. I have three different extruders – and every time, the guessing game starts all over again.
thanks for your responses . Yeah I know its all about tinkering forever and failing 1000 times, even though I’m a freshman maker .
I was just trying out which speeds, you guys have reached with which speed/acceleration settings, that worked out for you yet without completely failing the print and acceptable outcome. Of course you need some Filament that can handle the higher speeds and stuff. I am currently working with SnapMakers Snapspeed PLA and trying around to get big objects out of the F350 in a decent time, because it is an awesome printer and I love tuning and over clocking to see how much things can handle without any servers damage ^^.
I decided to stick with acceleration 2000 mm2/s and printing speed based on filament manufacturer recommendation converted to nozzle size I use for print but not higher 100 mm/s.
Has anyone been able to use the direct connection from snapmaker orca to the beta v2.4.0? I tried the IP:8080 it keeps on saying ”could not connect to octoprint: HTTP 404: the resource [api/version] is not found”.
after updating, my touch screen is showing the following firmware versions:
Printer: A250
firmware version: Snapmaker2_2.4.0_20251231
touch screen version: V1.15.16
Controller version: V5.2.1
Running Snapmaker Orca 2.2.4
using the old method of computer IP:5000 with Luban connected to printer still works, but wondering what am I doing wrong.
Since I am not seeing any of the supposed new features that came with latest firmware (direct wifi connection, or repeat job) I was assuming something went wrong in my update, after much searching saw some people reporting touchscreen firmware not updating when installing overall update, and reportedly they got it to work finally by installing all firmware updates one after another and by removing all connection other than power supply and touchscreen. Well I did all that too, and seems I am not getting newer version of the touchscreen than the one in above message, which is V1.15.16, which I think is older. even tried reset all in developer mode to no avail. AI suggests that since my printer is A250, none of the new features are applicable, can someone please confirm this?
Thanks to Snapmaker support team, my issue was resolved. For anyone else facing the same issue I guess the problem was that I didn’t update my firmware for a long time and I thought that by updating to the latest, it would include all firmwares (including touchscreen, controller) but I noticed that whenever I updated it would go through updating controller, and touchscreen progress bar to 100% but at the end it would just sit there and I had to reboot. Well I guess that was the clue that I didn’t get. Turns out you need to install ALL released updates sequentially for the drivers to update correctly. When I did that, updates were running to the end and no reboot was required, and thus was able to get the latest touchscreen firmware which has the features mentioned (direct connection and repeat job).
I gotta say that was kind of strange requirement, and even the touchscreen check for update button always shows the latest and not the next sequence, so there was no way to guess what the problem was, so hopefully this can help the next person.
After seeing a lot of random blobs on straight surfaces (picture 1+4) and a strong bed wobble (1-2mm up and down when changing directions), I readjusted both y-axis sliders and the left z-axis slider according to the snapmaker video and manual.
I made them nice and snug so that they just start to turn and cannot wobble around. Now I resetted all of my settings via gcode and started everything again, and updated to the newest beta version (2W module improvements and so…), did the e-step calibration and then wanted to start a ringing tower.
I took the gcode for the A350 (I have a F350 Single Extruder) from the forum, loaded some Snapspeed PLA and started the print.
After the first few layers I found out that the layers were shifting towards the back (see picture 2+3). So I checked up my work and found out the right y-axis slider was inserted the wrong way . I fixed that and ran the ringing tower again… and it looked the same. If I take down the speed everything looks fine. Before adjusting I could run higher speeds than 100mm/s without any problem. Did I do something wrong for example: clearance on the sliders to tight? Does anybody have an idea?
For the layer shifts adjust your speed or acceleration settings, they are higher than with the older firmware.
These blobs seems to be bad retraction settings or maybe wet filament.
I use a runout setting of 0.2mm before retraction (this causes little gaps instead of blobs).
. Yeah I know its all about tinkering forever and failing 1000 times, even though I’m a freshman maker 
.
. I fixed that and ran the ringing tower again… and it looked the same. If I take down the speed everything looks fine. Before adjusting I could run higher speeds than 100mm/s without any problem. Did I do something wrong for example: clearance on the sliders to tight? Does anybody have an idea?
