Creality Sermoon D1

О Sermoon D1

Sermoon D1 is an FDM 3D printer from a Chinese manufacturer Creality. This vendor has been known within the industry for its affordable machines and popular printers like CR-10 and Ender-3. Sermoon D1 surely stands out due to the darwin type of structure and features an enclosure. The machine also has a print resume function, a quiet motherboard and an all-metal direct drive extruder.

Features:

• Print resume;
• Easy to assemble;
• Has a transparent (almost) full enclosure from acrylic;
• Aluminum alloy frame;
• Filament outage sensor;
• 4.3” colorful touchscreen;
• Textured glass printing plate;
• Quiet printing.

Sermoon D1 is an FDM 3D printer from Creality that stands out both visually and price-wise from many other machines from this manufacturer. Though the printer’s advertisement is a bit tacky at the first glance, promoting the assembly process as “fun” and a way to “indulge yourself”, Sermoon D1 actually has something to offer.

Frame design and Structure

Sermoon D1 is shipped as a set of modules (top and bottom), side profiles and doors, which are easy to put together. The machine itself weighs quite a lot, which is a good thing for a 3D printer since rigid and heavy structure helps prevent wobbling (and rippling/echo on the prints, as a result).

This printer has a Darwin style of frame, meaning that your printing bed will be moving in Z-axis. In the case of Sermoon D1 it travels on 2 rails from each side, which aren’t mechanically synchronized. The printing head of the machine is moving in X and Y axes in a “MakerBot” style (a separate belt for each axis) with one of the motors traveling the carriage. Such structure has been tested for many years. It is reliable, though, eats a lot of space, making the printer itself more massive - Sermoon D1 takes a space of 500 x 500 x 531 mm with the build volume of 280 x 260 x 310 mm.

Sermoon D1’s insides

This printer has a decent power supply with a variable voltage. Sermoon D1 has a Creality motherboard with 4 drivers and works quietly. As for the handy features, there are pretty common ones: filament runout sensor, ability to resume printing after a power outage and a semi-automatic bed leveling.

Downsides of Sermoon D1

There are no huge disadvantages for the machine, it prints well and performs reliably. However, it would have been really satisfying to have minor details improved. This includes covering the cables at the bottom of the printer and the boards on the sides. The biggest fail from the design point is having a control panel inside the enclosure – it had been proven to be an issue for connecting the USB cable directly to the printer and for working with tougher filaments that require no temperature changes (if you are printing plastics like ABS, accessing a control panel mid-print can ruin the part).

Some users report issues with the print plate, too. It works and it is removable, which makes for easier cleaning or upgrading, however, this Ultrabase look-a-like performs worse than Anycubic’s version. Creality’s slicer that comes with the printer seems lacking, too. Though Sermoon D1 is compatible with other slicers and delivers really good prints after setting up on suitable temperatures and speeds.