Easily Connect Your 3D Printer to your PC!

Before you can run commands on your 3D printer, you first need to connect to it over USB. In this tutorial, I show you the easiest way to connect your 3D printer to your PC using Proterface. This kicks off my "10 Minute 3D Printing Tutorial" series.

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[-bitsamurai]

Thank you for this vid. I was having problems getting my printer to have permissions on my COM port and it was because of Cura Slicer being opened. Your brief comment about closing other software saved me a lot of time. Bravo!!

[santiagoblandon]

Thanks!! Everyone takes for granted that everybody knows this stuff, but many of us don't ahah now i know =D

[NeilBartlettSocialFreak]

Many Thanks! I was having issues setting up the printer/computer connection but your video set me down the right track!

[woodwaker]

Kris, Great as usual!! I forgot you can hook directly to a PC. Have been using Octoprint for so long. I think everyone needs a direct connection to their printer and this is a good solution.
I like your new 10 minute series. Keep it up

[karlosss]

Mate this helped me heaps. Pronterface kept crashing & all that was wront was I was using the wrong com port. Saved me a heap of time. Thank you!!!

[barbaraanderson]

I really like how you present things in your videos. Great job!

[VMTDesign]

When I plug my printer in with device manager opened, it shows the printer in other devices, and not the COM & LPT drop down. Under other decices it says USB serial with a yellow exclamation triangle. Basically wont show up under COM ports.

[SpidermanMRVL]

Thank you for taking the time to create this video. Great Job.

[snarkfinder]

Clear, concise and useful. Thank you.

[hernanfigueroa]

thx, too many tutorials asume you hace the correct driver . you help me a lot :D

[billbyrd]

Thank you very much for the tutorial. I learned a lot.

[oliversparks]

hey i love the videos but i cant understand my printer egeloo 3 pro does not have a usb hook up

[techdiyer]

I'm trying to connect to a Mingda D3 pro 3d printer. And the device descriptor is failing...

[fate]

Nice video, but aside from making infrequent firmware/settings changes, I don't really understand the value of using pronterface. It sounds to me like it's more of a speedbump than anything, or is there something I am just missing?

[michaelfoxfoxster]

You can do a 10 min on those battery op leveling sticks that light up an led to help level your printer.

[CraftedChannel]

I wish you had done the Pronterface connection step by step. I can't get it to connect using all the same screens. Creality 200B. I get USB Serial but not beyond that. Never finds the drive, even when I take it to the factory SD card to search.

[davidbutcher]

Hi i cant find the drivers for my cr10 max 1.70 bl not even on their website plug cable in can make the connection and shows non as a port com no options can you help thanks David NZ

[BanDog_VR]

can a cable combinder thing work becouse my cable is to short?

[Yatukih_]

Thanks for the helpful video! Happy summer!

[avejst]

Great work through
Thanks for sharing 👍😀