Qidi Printer - How to do a config backup

Config Backup of your Qidi

Please do a config backup as first step always before you change anything on your printer. You can open and look at the config using a simple editor like notepad++.

The backup might be very helpful later on in case you need to know which values were set at the time you took the backup.

To do so run the following as gcode on your qidi. Details will follow below:

Code
M8512 "mycurrentconfig.txt"

This zip includes the command as an example: BackupConfig.zip

As you know you can excute many command on you printer by placing them into a so called "gcode" file and print them. Means you can create a file with your editor (ASCII Editor like NotePad++) or unzipg the attached file and use this. To execute

  1. Save the file contained in the ZIP on your USB drive (obviously you have to extract the zip for this)
  2. Insert the USB drive into your printer USB slot.
  3. Select the file via the touchscreen on your Qidi
  4. Execute the print (print the BackupConfig.gcode)
  5. If print is done (there will be no object printed) remove your USB drive and connect it again to your computer
  6. You should find a file named mycurrentconfig.txt on the top folder if the USB drive

File on your USB drive - after insertion in your printer select and print it

   

Print takes a second - confirm and reinsert into your computer

Result

If you open the file in your text editor you will see something like

which are the current settings of your printer and we hopefully never need this - as for any backup :)

Octoprint

You can do this as well via Octoprint terminal then you will get

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FurthSend: N9 M8512 "OLE_XPLUS_2021_06_06_OCTO.TXT"*15
Recv: Delete failed :OLE_XPLUS_2021_06_06_OCTO.TXT
Recv: Done saving file!
Recv: // OLE_XPLUS_2021_06_06_OCTO.TXT
Recv: ok N:9

the failed can be ignored as there was no such config yet - if you overwrite a backup it looks like

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Send: N54 M8512 "OLE_XPLUS_2021_06_06_OCTO.TXT"*55
Recv: File deleted :OLE_XPLUS_2021_06_06_OCTO.TXT
Recv: Done saving file!
Recv: // OLE_XPLUS_2021_06_06_OCTO.TXT
Recv: ok N:54

auf dem Stick ist dann:

In case you are interested what gcode is really doing please read the following.

Comments 2

August 26, 2022 at 12:13 PM

Hallo,

hat super geklappt, vielen Dank.

Eine Frage hätte ich aber noch: Wie kann man das zuvor erhaltene Configfile wieder zurück schreiben, also der umgekehrte Weg?
August 28, 2022 at 6:58 PM
Author

Eigentlich einfach die Datei wieder als gcode laden. Habe ich aber bisher nie gemacht - immer nur einzelne Konfigurationen rauskopiert. Speichern mit M 8500 am ende ist wichtig wenn es Stromaus überstehen soll.