ADVi3++, an advanced and better firmware for Wanhao i3 Plus Printers

Introduction

ADVi3++ is a fork of the Marlin Firmware for the Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus (and its clones: Monoprice Maker Select Plus, Cocoon Create, ...). It includes both Marlin itself and screens for the LCD Panel.

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Working on ADVi3++ takes a lot of time and effort. I make my best to release good quality software, useful and precise documents. I track bugs reported by users and replies to help requests. I invest also time and money to implement new hardware features.

If you like what I am doing, please consider supporting me as a supporter on Patreon so I can continue and develop new releases and new documents. Supporting this project is a guaranty for you that it will continue and become better and better.

Objectives

The objectives with this custom version (when compared with Wanhao stock firmwares) are the following:

• Based on the latest version of Marlin available (currently: 1.1.9 + post 1.1.9 fixes, 2.0 is on the way)
• As few modifications of the Marlin code as possible. The goal is to be able to port ADVi3++ to new versions of Marlin with only a few effort.
• Open source code.
• Object-oriented code with as few hard-coded values as possible. For example, instead of constructing a frame by hand, use instances of classes that know how to construct themselves.
• Documented code, logging and error handling (without using exceptions as they are not supported).
• Full color and nice LCD screens.
• Support of hardware such as the BLTouch sensor for automatic bed leveling.
• Etc.

ADVi3++ User Manual

A complete and up to date User Manual is published on ADVi3++ Community Web Site. This manual contains:

• A list of features and of compatible printers
• How to Flash the firmware
• LCD Touch Screen Guide
• BLTouch Sensor installation instructions
• Tuning instructions
• Default Settings used by ADVi3++
• Starting and Ending G-Code
• Resources

Sponsors of the ADVI3++ project have also access to advanced topics:

• Build ADVi3++ from Sources
• Alternative ways to Flash

Support

You can get support from various resources:

• The User Manual. You may be especially interested by the Troubleshooting part.
• The ADVi3++ Community - Get Help. It is a forum, based on Discourse. In particular, it includes a Search page. I monitor this forum and try to reply to all requests, from sponsors and non-sponsors of the ADVi3++ project.
• The Facebook ADVi3++ Page. I use it mainly for announcement, but I reply from time to time.
• The Patreon Page. it was the may to get help during the development of ADVi3++ version 4. But it no more the case. I will no more reply to support on Patreon page and will redirect everybody to ADVi3++ Community, open to everybody.

Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus

I have posted an article on my web site: Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus 3D Printer - Everything I know about the Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus 3D printer and its clones. It contains several technical information about the printer internals.

Other projects

There are some other projects (I am aware of) on a similar topic:

• i3plus+ from Leo Lüker (Silverquark): a modified version of the Marlin 1.1.2 firmware for the WANHAO Duplicator i3 Plus 3d printer. Important: No more actively developed (that's why I created ADVi3++).

• i3extra from Nemcsik Péter: a modified version of the Marlin 1.1.0-RC8 firmware and updated LCD resources. Important: this project is no more maintained.

• Wanhao-I3-Plus by James Armstrong: Sources of version 2.18 of Mainboard firmware and LCD resources.

• Wanhao-I3-Plus by WANHAO 3D PRINTER: Official sources of version 2.1.803 of Mainboard firmware and LCD resources.

Thanks

Thanks to Dylan xKoldx and weidercs for their forks supporting BLTouch. Thanks to Matt Cowell SureshotM6 for the fork supporting M600 and head parking.

Thanks to Leo Lüker (Silverquark) for his i3plus+ project. I take many ideas from his code. But the project is no more active and I do not like the screens (personal taste) so I have created the ADVi3++ fork. It is technically a fork of Marlin, not of i3plus+.

Thanks to MarlinTeam for their great work.

Copyright

ADVi3++

• Copyright © 2017-2020 Sebastien Andrivet GitHub ADVi3pp project
• Copyright © 2016-2020 MarlinFirmware
• Based on Sprinter and grbl.
• Copyright © 2011 Camiel Gubbels / Erik van der Zalm

ADVi3++ LCD Panels

• Copyright © 2017-2020 Sebastien Andrivet GitHub ADVi3pp project

ADVi3++ User Manual

• Copyright © 2018-2020 Sebastien Andrivet

License

ADVi3++

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

ADVi3++ LCD Panels

ADVi3++ User Manual