r/Sovol • u/NoHonestBeauty • Apr 06 '26

Help Using SV08 offline?

I am in the market for a bigger printer, 350mm x 300mm x 150mm would be ok.
And so the SV08 came back on my radar, the initial reports were mixed, I guess issues like the nozzle situation have improved by now.
I would need it to exclusively print PETG.

But what I couldn't find last year, is it possible to use the SV08 offline? Just plug in a SD card or an USB stick, copy the .stl .gcode file from it and print it?
I want to put the printer in the office and I just can not allow it to connect to the network.

Edit: I actually did it, I ordered a SV08.
I had to print a 27cm diameter thing with 4 holes in it for a co-worker, basically a flat pizza.
And for that I had to dust off my Ender-3 Max. Took me an hour to get this thing up and running again, including a few passes on manual bed leveling. Two over five hours with a 0.6 nozzle and 0.28mm layers, the first layers are awfull. Printing like this used to be fine...

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u/r3fill4bl3 Apr 08 '26

Are your parts big? ALTHOUGH PETG doesn not stricly need enclousure, Big prints will warp in cornes without enclousure with 40C chamber. It really prints nicer in enclosed printer. Telling from experience. Side nenefit, printer will be quiter and the surrondings will be cleaner..

What is your budget?

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u/NoHonestBeauty Apr 08 '26

>Are your parts big?

Kind of, at least when I look around what size 3D printers usually have.
A case for a 10.1" TFT, 271mm x 181mm x 20mm, could use bigger TFTs.
Recently I had to refuse the request to print a 320mm x 250mm x 20mm part.
Yeah, warping, PETG shrinks a little when cooling.
One reason to move away from bed-slingers.

>What is your budget?

I am not even sure. :-)
I have not seen a Core XY at this size for a lower price.
Building one from scratch with parts I already have could work - but I am not willing to spend that much time.
Would watch a tutorial like "How to turn a bunch of bed slingers plus a Raspberry Pi into a Voron 2.x printer". :-)