I’m fiddling around with the zero, but I must say I find the speed underwhelming. Whenever I slice a benchy with default PETG profiles and 10% infill for the Zero it will take roughly 45 minutes, on it’s bigger brother the sv08 it will take approximately 30 minutes. That’s not what I expected I c…

If I remember right, the pre-sliced Benchy on the USB printed at 8:45 min. The stock profiles for the Zero have a more reasonable speed, a little faster then the A1 Mini. If you didn’t get any files on the USB, you can find them here. SOVOL ZERO EDIT: I edit…

There was no benchy on the usb, but I found a gcode version that some engineer at sovol apparently sliced with insane settings, it printed in 8 minutes but was far from perfect. I just find it strange that the default profiles are worse speed wise than the sv08

Where did you find this profile?

I edited my post above after looking for the Benchy that came with the Zero, it was at 8:45 min.

I am also surprised that the Zero would be slower than the SV08 (although the SV08 Max is the closer comparison architecturally). Could you post or link their 8:45 speed benchy? Then I can compare those insane settings to the stock profile, maybe split the difference between them to create a faster…

You’ll find it in this post: [image] No Benchy file on USB Sovol Zero Sovol has returned from their four day workers holiday and they emailed me the Zero speed boat Benchy files. Zero-Benchy-08min22s.gcode (1.7 MB) Zero-Benchy-08m22s.3mf (2.4 MB) It’s very …

OK, here are the differences between stock and speedBenchy. I also made an intermediate column that splits the difference. Not sure when I’ll get around to turning this into some new profiles, but I’ll post them here if somebody doesn’t beat me to it! Stock speedBenchy Intermediate Benchy…

I made some profiles according to these settings and the print speed did indeed improve.. but the quality was dramatic So I guess the advertised print speeds were just theoretical nevertheless still a nicely built and functioning printer for this money, a big bang for the buck

Nice! An export of your profile, and perhaps some photos of the quality issues you’re observing, would be greatly appreciated. My impression is that the bigger brand put in the labor into making well-tuned profiles, so even 6+ months after release the Zero is still at a bit of a disadvantage.

[image] rpcyan: My impression is that the bigger brand put in the labor This is entirely true. I’ve seen reports that Big B had 100 mules running 24/7 for 6 months prior to their last product release. You can spend $2M on R&D when you expect to move 500K units. Sovol can’t when they expect t…

Disappointing print speed

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mich0111 November 20, 2025, 7:03pm 7

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Disappointing print speed

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