I have Ender 3 V3 SE for 14 days. I unpacked, screwed in the 13 screws, and since then I've been printing with absolutely no problems. It is my first 3D printer.

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

I bought it as an early adopter when there were few reviews out for it. They may have improved consistency on machine quality since then but mine has been a nightmare. I'm a little envious of the people that have a perfect time or only need to make minor adjustments. If everyone was having a bed time they might have done a recall or something but now I'm fighting them on a warranty claim as they try to give me band aid solutions. But at least you're having a good time, especially for a beginner. Though be aware that some people have had problems arise after a month or so of perfect use, so just be ready for that possibility too.

@zonef3ind633

6 ай бұрын

​@@Bowsmin12I'd just like to comment I bought one yesterday, and I'm arguably getting worse adhesion issues. I have pla EMBEDDED in the surface and prints that were next to impossible to get off, even leaving a micro layer that has stained and is impossible to remove without literally scraping away at the surface. My first thought was what everyone is gonna jump to 'nozel too close" and let me confirm to you that it's not - many tests on that even though I felt that wasn't the issue here. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the exact same process you went through (minus messaging Creality to avoid the exact frustration you went through, personally I just have a gripe with customer service in general). I'm still troubleshooting, like I said it's been literally 24 hours since purchasing this, but it's been nothing but bed problems. The prints have all turned out rather incredibly, except I cannot get it off my plate and it's leaving a thin sheet behind it that is practically stuck to the bed

@zonef3ind633

6 ай бұрын

Here to update - I got a gold magnetic pei bed for the printer and it fixed my problem with bed adhesion.

@soyunbonus

6 ай бұрын

Same, it works pretty great. Small tip: never be an early adopter for anything!

@Bowsmin12

6 ай бұрын

@@soyunbonus Yeah, it really be like that. lol. If I waited, I probably would have still bought the printer based on other youtube videos. But maybe with the time they would have had better consistency or something. Who knows.

Bro your supposed to remove that magnetic sheet OFF the bed and Bend it, to remove your prints. When its cooled off. Your fine.....thats why its magnetic and removable

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

I know how it's supposed to be used. However on small prints that don't take up much of the build surface I find myself either doing more damage to the plate or not getting the print off anyway.

@crypto14

5 ай бұрын

The print bed they provide has such strong adhesion it destroys itself, you can see tons of people complaining on Reddit about it. It won’t separate even with bending while cool. The first mandatory upgrade is a PEI bed

@dack4545

5 ай бұрын

Not many people clean it properly or take the build plate of let it cool then bend small stuff might need a few more minutes to cool but it will pop of easy ​@crypto14

thanks a lot for this video youve helped a ton

For over adhesion. I adjust z offset by .02 to 03 in the prepare menu and when I run petg I use painters tape so I dont destroy pei on springsteel plate

I just got my ender 3 v3 se week ago now, probably have 48+ hours on it printing time, and I have a pretty good grasp of how 3d printing works, but I'm still extremely new. I've seen a lot of people having problems with bed adhesion, but I only find that when I'm printing in a very thin first intial layer thickness like 0 .10 so I bumped mine up to point 0.30 and boom never fked with it again, i also keep my bed temp at 45c and im using PLA right now so bout 200c for nuzzle temp

@b4ssripper

6 ай бұрын

Yo i think you should bump bed temp to around 55-60c if you have adhesion problems.

i finally ran my z offset at 0.15 and before that, used armor all on the pei cover-then rubbed with a wet rag. worked well and the second print even better.

Thank you for posting your journey. It is helping me problem solve my own problems with the printer. Right now I belive that my bed is too low so it's not printing on it. Just right above it

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

If that is the case then logically it would be fixable by lowering the z offset. You may find that you need to adjust some of the leveling data points after, but at least it's a start.

You're not alone. I'm fighting the same problem. Even down to the back right corner lift. I've had some success with increasing print speed and flow rate. However, with each print the Z offset has to be readjust and this results in at least 2 or 3 failed prints. It's a huge pain in the ass...

@Wub892

6 ай бұрын

I'm hovering between -1.40 and -1.61 for my Z-offset depending on print temp and speed. I'm getting the hang of adjusting on the fly but I have to babysit my printer

I was having the same issue and it seems like the bracket that holds the standoffs and screws may have seen some unintended pressure inside the box during whatever shipping it went through. Ended up just reading the z axis values it gave and would take pliers to the corners with the standoffs and screws and slightly bending them. After releveling about 6 times with minor bending adjustments to the brackets the bed is now all green and i just finished a 6 hour xun flute print lol.

I received my Ender 3 v3 SE two days ago. Its my first filament printer. Printed the provided example with the sample PLA just fine. Then loaded some local PLA . Could not print that crap to save my life. Either no adhesion, or if I get adhesion by jacking up temp then the print has major defects etc. After a day, I changed to using Orca which gave me tools to calibrate with. Bed temps, extrusion temps, flow rate etc. Now I print just fine. The flow rates were the most critical. First layer extrusion temperature and bed temperature determined adhesion. I now have it set that it comes off quite easily. Just take the plate off and wait to cool before removing it. No hairspray and shit. I am on firmware 1.0.4 and I see 1.0.6 is available. But I will use a RPi and go Klipper rather. The Ender 3 V3 SE was my learning machine. I will play and learn and next build my own now that I am seeing what works etc. Orca certainly produces better slicing and supports etc. If I take the same stl, the Creality slicer does mot do the same job as the Orca slicer does. As a beginner I wanted to avoid diving into the millions of parameters you have to deal with in Orca, but now I am a believer.

got my printer since dec. never had these issues. only issue is noteing that high quality prints would turn into a batch of spegetti. other than taht all been good.

you can turn the skirt, brim off by searching adhesion in the advanced settings in creality print

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

I don't know if you're using an older version or something but it's under build plate adhesion, and in basic mode there are two options which one of them is build plate adhesion type. I talk about it quickly at about 11:18

I had a spare Raspberry Pi available so I went the Klipper route. I also use MRISCOC firmware on my V2s, and got spoiled by the 9x9 mesh. I did the same with Klipper by changing one line in the printer.cfg file.

auto calibration is done when the print bed is at 65 degrees celsius, with the standard settings in Creality Slicer when you print the bed temperature is 45 degrees celsius. the difference between 65 degrees Celsius and 45 can lead to the bed curve effect. The easiest solution for me was to print at 65 degrees calsius and adjust the z-offset with -0.01 - 3

I've always had an underadhesion issue so when the print is done I'm going to get that fucker off. I had to modify the scraper edge that came with my printer to make it easier to wedge the scraper under the print.

I had wrong z offset every time, but with 1.6 firmware it fixed it, and it hase some problem with printing closer to sides, adhesion is just worse there.

Sorry you're having issues with your V3 SE. I've got the same printer (my first) and I've had fair success so far (fingers crossed). I also had issues with the bed being level, but tracked it down to loose screws which hold the heat bed to the undercarriage (the four Phillip's head screws under the build plate). I've read where a lot of people have found other screws which have not been properly tightened. You've probably checked them all, but thought I would throw it out there. I DO have an issue with the heat break fan.... When it first comes on, it howls like crazy, like there's no lube in it. Creality is shipping me a new one, not sure how long that may take. You say there is an Official Creality Bed Leveling Test? Where? I'm already looking at something better. Hope you get all your issues resolved!

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. I read the same thing a few times about the screws and tried tightening them before. Besides a little play in one of them I think, they were all very frim. And about that official creality bed test; I KNOW RIGHT! They don't provide it anywhere right now but it's becoming a necessity. I'm going to try to find a good file sharing platform to post the file to.

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

I have made the file available publicly on github. Or at least tried to. Try this link and please let me know if everything works okay. github.com/bowsmin12/Ender-3-V3-Creality-Bed-Test

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

@@ronaldbrand9696 I added the link you provided for the creality YT channel to the description of the vid for others to use as well. I didn't know that channel existed, thank you for showing me.

I just bought one of these about 2 weeks ago. I've done about 12 to 20 prints and all stuck to the plate really really good. then about 2 days ago I started doing bigger prints using like 75% of the bed space and everything on the outside of the plate won't stick even with Elmer's purple stick glue.

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

Doing the calibration print from this video might help. kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4iVk5Vwh7CfeNY.html

@GlimisTechProducts

7 ай бұрын

Reminder: Clean your print bed

@123fred12357

6 ай бұрын

I have the same problème

That's what mine was doing and now no matter how many times I level it Its under extruding randomly it isn't blocked like at all .. not under extruding not slipping.. one pass is fine next it's the wrong height.... Normally I can adjust my beds but these seemingly have no adjustment!

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

Yup. They intentionally relied solely on the auto leveling system. In theory it would work, but in practice Creality has never seemed to be good at implementing auto leveling. I bought their CR touch kit to put on my Ender 3 V2 and put their firmware in the printer and it never worked right. Then I installed a third party firmware and it was night and day for my auto bed leveling.

Great video. I would recommend a clipboard and do takes in between turning pages in your notes because the paper noises from your notes is a little distracting. Also if you can get a better noise filter (OBS works great for me) to isolate your voice from your ambient noise it will provide a better experience for listening with headphones.

@Bowsmin12

4 ай бұрын

I have other videos using obs. My mixer I use as an audio interface at my desk isn't great and makes a lot of hiss that I clamp down on with a noise gate, but still a few people have complained about that too. So unfortunately unless I plan everything around me for a video, there no real winning for me in this situation.

I just adjusted z offset with my eyeballs and measured the first layer till i got .2 .... probably not the best way but its working for me. After a while doing the auto bed leveling with this printer it decided the z offset is like 2 cm away from the buildplate so i just set it back to -2.45 with my pei sheet. And whatever you do never hit pause with this printer at least for me it will skip the entire layer it was recently printing and move on to the next one and will ruin your print. Hopefully a firmware update fixes these issues but they haven't updated it since October

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

Interesting about the pausing. Have you tried it more than that one time? It could be a fluke but of course I'm not betting on it. Were you able to update to the 1.0.6 firmware? My printer absolutely refuses to accept it. And my leveling has high and low spots typically so unfortunately my Z can't be raised or lowered for a proper all around level.

@bingchungus7064

7 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 I have not updated it yet but creality told me you need a TF SD card (the one that comes with the machine is supposed to be TF from what they said) and a micro SD for the display. Ill try updating it later today and see if I have any luck.

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

@@bingchungus7064You need a micro SD for the screen, that is correct. If I remember correctly, they also say to update the screen first before the board / main slot.

I just use fevistick glu stick on print bed and wash it off after taking out the print. Been great so far

I have one of the same printer and it was always a hide in the park. 3 kg of filaments and till now, never had a problema.

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

But you're having an issue now? Or you haven't had any issues yet?

i always run auto bed level and then adjust the z offset down to get a good bead.

@Bowsmin12

26 күн бұрын

It's been a while now, but I think that I could get a decent print in the middle area doing that, but overall there would be different spots still that didn't work right. I bought this printer for making guitar picks and when doing batch prints, it messes up big time. It seemed like big different results over a small area. I'm on vacation now but plan to sit down with it again and really try to dial it in again and see how it can perform, possibly for a final review of the printer.

yo so i had the opposite problem with my ender3 v3 se but instead of over adhesion mine was under adhesion. Some areas of the bed were perfect, other sides did not adhere at all. The fix i was able to find was after auto bed leveling, I changed the z offset +/- 0.01mm each time to make sure everything sticks to the bed on the first layer. Its not the best solution to this problem but it works.

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, I have a video coming out soon about manually leveling the bed.

@MrPooreboy

8 ай бұрын

Mine was doing the same and I realized the gantry wasn’t level. It was super easy to level. I found a you tube for it and it took under 5min

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

@@MrPooreboy It may not be the exact way but I think I mentioned something like this at 26:13. Glad to hear it worked out for you though!

My one works 24/7 bed is +- easy to remove (just lightly bending PEI mat when it cold ) after 2 weeks of usage it became less sticky (still watching video) but i'm not printing so thin details. Mine came just from box perfectly leveled. All i did is e-steps calibration X axis profile leveling with even bricks laying around. Checked all belts tension as displayed on Creality aftersales chanel on YT. Creality print software is complete BS, last version of Cura have a profile for V3 SE all working perfect.

@OleksiyS

9 ай бұрын

Don't use hairspray on adhesives on that cover, complete waste of time it's good without those stuff.

@OleksiyS

9 ай бұрын

Friends of mine that have problems with bed leveling added height to plastic stand or lightly grinded those to level even food luminum foil works :) Hope you printing those with low cooling or no cooling at all because picks are thin.

@marklepkowski4222

9 ай бұрын

I have the cura 5.5.0 version and haven't seen the v3 se profile, are you sure it's on there?

Dont know if you are going to see this, but consider start doing 3D printing as your main topic on this channel, you helped me a lot! Kudos from Brazil

@Bowsmin12

Ай бұрын

That's good to hear that I'm helping. The 3D printing content has cause most of the small channel success I've had over the past months to year. But unfortunately other than this troubleshooting journey, I don't have a whole lot of knowledge to pass on to people or really innovate things. I got lucky with my bambu lab P1P purge video. I just wanted to save on filament, so I went to the customer support and they told me how. I then just relayed that in a video because it seemed like the only other place I had seen anything about it was on a single reddit post and it was kind of hard to understand and in broken up bits of information. I'm not quite sure how to grow a 3D printing channel if you're not making new discoveries. On top of that, I like 3D printing and what it can do for me, but I do find it insanely frustrating a lot of the time. It's a great tool when it works, but sometimes all the components and programs around 3d printing want to fight me and I don't always have the resources to fix them outright. At least not right now. I would love to work with companies to make videos with them but I'm too small typically for them to be statistically impressed. I'm really interested in the Elegoo Neptune printers but I just can't afford much of anything let alone be able to afford more printers for reviews and projects. That's enough rambling from me. Thank you for reading and your support. If you would like to help, I don't know if it would, but you could try recommending my channel to companies and see if they would reach out on their own. If you have some other people do it too, it may be more likely to succeed. It's a small chance but it might work.

And in my case, the print plate heating went wonky within a day and 4 small prints. At the 4th print and after, the temperature of the print bed would start dropping as soon as it started moving and printing, resulting in spagetti. The nozzle was not clogged. Changing filament did not help. I repeated auto levelling 3 times, the results always the same, spagetti. It was then I noticed on the screen, the temps dropping during print, and occasionally climbing. Clearly a loose connection in the heating element of the bed. Being 2 days old, I returned it to Amazon. No way am I going to go through what you did on a new machine.

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's wild. I've had issues with every printer that I've owned that haven't been truly "fixed". Ender 3 V3 has the auto leveling issue. Ender 3 V2 has a similar issue to yours but to a lesser extent; when I set the temperature to anything higher than 60C, the printer will set the temp back down to 60 when the print actually starts. And the P1P, the printer doesn't have ant issues yet. But the slicer messes up my pick models shown in this video. They say their slicer is "Too accurate." Hopefully they will eventually fix the auto leveling for the V3 in future firmware updates or something.

My issue is that this printer has too many corner's cut. One of which is the bed heater. I have cold spots/hot spots so lots of curl up. This printer is nothing more than a starter-printer with the expectation that you'll be upgrading to a much, much better one. Like a Pursa.

Supposed to be an open-source printer so isn't the Marlin code available for the printer? Can you modify it to include more points? My Ender 3's and Artillery Genius Pros use glass beds for dead flat print faces, did you consider that?

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

I have never had a glass bed. From my understanding they are usually too smooth and you have to use hairspray or glue, which is something I'm trying to avoid when possible. And in this circumstance it should be. And I have no idea what I'm doing if I were to mess with the code, but even if I did, I it would probably mess with the display and glitch that out somehow since it's supposed to only have the 4x4. It should have been a feature to change the grid size in the first place anyway. I don't know if it's just me, but it's more logical to get as fine of a mesh as possible, especially when your printer solely relies on it. It would have helped if the probing was more centered too, it's slightly off. Even compared to the official Creality bed test print.

I Think i have solved it, I have cut out a 2mm steel plate and mounted it on the top of the hotbed, then I have placed my glass on top of the steel plate I have used contact glue on the glass plate to hold it together It solved my problem when I print asa

I have this printer & i concur, prints (especially smaller ones) stick like a MF. I get very nice first layers but its a battle getting the prints off pretty much every time. My bed levelling readings seem very consistent though so my only issue is the super sticky bed.

Sh1ts happens man, im using my Ender 3 v3 SE since 3 months and have problem just with the nivelation, anyway thank you a lot for sharing your experience

Thank you this was very informative, although I’m having trouble with something …maybe someone can help, my Ender 3 v3 se , its self leveling, but when I run leveling, the upper right corner keep showing in blue -.52 And I don’t know how to fix it, I don’t see anything that I can manually level the bed ,

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4iVk5Vwh7CfeNY.html See if this next video will help.

Great video and all but are you sure it's leveling issues try Turning down bed temp to 30-40 the auto leveling is actually so good it causes great adhesion to the bed.. little too great to combat that turn down the bed temp. Few bigger KZreadrs already stated this.

@Bowsmin12

4 ай бұрын

Okay well I did start making videos about the printer toward the beginning of when they were coming out. Only a few came out at the time this did. As well as I moved quickly to my G10 plate anyway because I needed a smooth bottom surface for the project I specifically bought this printer for. This causes it to have poor adhesion rather than over adhesion. This was shown in the video. I also have another video exploring physical fixes, which didn't help my situation, but I have discovered other issues that I am working on fixing.

@MattysWorldOfArt

4 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 No you had a lot of good points my man! There are honestly going to be flaws in each printer and different each time it seems. So hopefully you get it all figured out. That is right though you did swap to the g10 that's crazy you have like super adhesion still. And I get what you are saying about those small ones should just pop off without having to bend the plate they really should. Yours is the first I've seen that happen on

@Bowsmin12

4 ай бұрын

@@MattysWorldOfArt It's kind of all over the place and I'm hoping that's because of the issue I found. Which is that my print head was tilted and my leveling probe bracket was tilted compared to the head itself. So probably lots of tolerances off in that instance. I have received some spare parts from creality and it still isn't proper. My last hope is that I can fix it by switching the V wheels, but the stock wheels don't look worn really. Unfortunately I don't have any spare wheels, I've surprisingly never had to change them on any of the few printers I have.

Try some different make of filament.. try a PEI sheet.. find out after hours of frustration that SUNLU PLA doesn't stick to a PEI sheet at all, but does stick like it'll never come off on the black Ender 3 sheet. Thanks for that SUNLU, your PLA just ruined my build plate.

every time i click the leveling button it does something for a while but then turns off and returns back on? why? or is it normal? because on the manual it says “completed” but it never does that for me.

@Bowsmin12

5 ай бұрын

Have you already tried installing new firmware or downgrading and then reinstalling the new firmware? That might fix what you're experiencing because it definitely doesn't sound normal to me.

Tried to remove a thin straight line printed on the bed with my fingernails and the damn thing just poked through underneath my nails. Was so stupid of me to even try, though I figured I should just get a Pei sheet

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, typically there is a bigger blob on one end of mine that I go for. I had a few times where I got jabbed by that dang pre extrusion line.

@marklepkowski4222

9 ай бұрын

Pei sheet works so much better than the stock plate. 10 bucks

@jclosed2516

8 ай бұрын

@@marklepkowski4222 The stock plate works fine with a (very) little spraying with 3DLAC. I bought a can more than a year ago, and you need so little it last for a very long time. Apart from letting stick a range of materials very well, it also prevents materials from sticking too well. My prints stick well, but not too tight and are easy to remove. This is all with the stock auto-leveling, and without need to adjust any z-axis offset after auto-level. Just let auto-level do it's work, and print away...

I’m having the same problem I did all the reasurch into buying it and I wasted my money because it does not work

@Bowsmin12

4 ай бұрын

Tell me about it. I have been working with support for a couple month trying to figure out how to actually get auto leveling to work. I did the test model once. But I got ambitious and tried to figure out how to make it actually work. I've heard that with some of the newer firmware you can manually level the bed with the paper method, but my printer won't update the firmware properly, glitches, and has a couple languages laid over top of each other when I try! This thing is wild, but of coerce, not in a good way. I think majority of the newer production ones can be saved but I bought earlier on in release and of course, regret it.

have you tried the glass bed upgrade? below video said its worth? any thoughts? kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnZoq7SLadLcc9Y.html

@Bowsmin12

6 ай бұрын

Well for now I personally use a G10 plate. I bought it originally for the V2 and transferred it over. It's the same concept as glass, though it may be more bendy. But unlike glass it has an extremely minor texturing and other properties to help with print adhesion, At least when it comes to more basic materials like PLA and PETG. I have never actually used a bare glass bed before. The V2 came with a glass bed with some sort of texturing, but if I used it, it wasn't for very long. I quickly switched to the flexible build plates for better or for worse. The only problem I have with glass is that I 99% of the time, always requires some sort of adhesive or additive to get proper print stick. I like to make things as simple as possible so I prefer to stay away from requirements like that. But it's all in preference and what you need as the creator. It's typically good to have multiple beds to interchange, but with this printer that may be difficult if you happen to have bed leveling issues.

Hey not sure if you've mentioned but have you tried adding M420 S1 after G28 on the generated gcode for the print? It solved to me, at least for now, found this solution on reddit. Also, I've manually set the z-offset. If it does automatically, it is definetly not that value we see on printer's menu. Had to do it before and after a bed leveling to double check it.

@Bowsmin12

6 ай бұрын

Well the bed leveling exists (as in it seems like it's applied). When I change the values it can work. So I don't see what difference it would make but I can try it.

@cslaviero

6 ай бұрын

I was writing back to you but it turns I've written a whole post on /r/Ender3V3SE right now. Not sure if I can post links so a quick search on bed leveling will do.

@cslaviero

6 ай бұрын

But TLDR, you need to manually adjust the z-offset; the auto-z-offset adjustment does not affect the value we see on Prepare. Then after that do the bed leveling and remember to use M420 S1 after G28. It's only using this command that the printer uses the leveling data. Otherwise it just prints assuming a (physically) perfectly leveled bed.

@b4ssripper

6 ай бұрын

Fyi M420 S1 is present already in Cura slicer with new V3 SE profile.

@cslaviero

6 ай бұрын

@@b4ssripper good to know!

I have the opposite problem, I can't get my first layer to stick...

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

Even with the stock bed? Well the simple fix is to lower the Z offset by small amounts. Of course you can try hairspray, which acts as a adhesive and a release assistant. Then there is the extreme option of doing the big test print and adjusting the level data to make it proper. But it is a good idea to try to get a good Z offset before doing the manual leveling process. Hope this helps.

It is one week I am using my new ender3 v3 se and I have seen the same problem but I simple take the bed and bend it a few times and the PLA prints comes off. I don't know about TPU, but I have heard about using glue to be able to pick those parts.

@jordan-ts9xo

7 ай бұрын

you’ve obviously never touched tpu or you know you can just peel it off with 0 issue on any build surface

@PaymaanJafari

7 ай бұрын

@@jordan-ts9xo 52 years old, 9 years 3DPrinting, building a 3D printed robots since years ago, Academically involved in all of these you call hobby, Yes you are right, I have not touched TPU and all these spools infront of me are just my imagination...

@jordan-ts9xo

7 ай бұрын

@@PaymaanJafari 52!!!! good grief ! what were the dinosaurs like?!

@PaymaanJafari

7 ай бұрын

@@jordan-ts9xo like you. we got rid of them.

Don't use creality slicer every time I use it the dymetions are way off

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

In the slicer or when it actually prints?

I'm new to 3d printing. I have to say that this machine is kind of difficult. I also have to say that it has taught me a lot.

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

That's kinda how creality machines go. They're basically never perfect, and if they are, they don't stay that way for too long. I learned many different concepts and fixes because of my Ender 3 V2.

@AngelJimenez-ee1wx

7 ай бұрын

@Bowsmin12 As of right now, the hot end is burned and in need of replacing. It was my fault but the part will arrive tomorrow so it's not too bad.

@tomheeks2830

7 ай бұрын

I'm also new to it and it's my first printer, so I'm learning a lot too. I've had good results with some filaments but others don't work as well.

Really ?... how do you do it? I can't get anything to stick to my 3v2 with the optional magnetic base

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

I know you said V2 but are we talking about the V3? I may need some more details to help. What kind of bed is it. If it's the stock bed, which side are you using.

@bones007able

8 ай бұрын

stock glass base with the optional flexible magnetic cover on top of it

Yeah . You need to Check the bolds and nuts. Every ten prints

I do it manually with "SUNLU 3D Printer Electronic Bed Leveling Tool(AMZ)" and than it is good as it gets

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

The way I see it, this actually has a few flaws, especially for this machine. After watching CHEP's video about his design, he uses his while using the leveling screws on the bed. This printer doesn't have those and rely purely on auto leveling other than manually inputting data. So he was only using that tool on the four corners, but logically you would have to use it on all data points on the bed for this machine. At least personally I would to fix my problem. So the next problem is that even if I did just do the four corners, there is no live adjustment on this printer except for movement and z offset. And the final flaw I see is that if the bed is imperfected in different ways throughout the bed, wouldn't setting the device on one part of the bed to measure the exact spot of another throw off the data? If the spot you put the base of the device on is higher than the measurement spot, wouldn't the data be higher than it's supposed to be? Either way Creality should have had this figured out in the first place. Complete auto leveling is their first selling point on most of their sales material and half of the units don't work for various reasons. And instead of addressing these issues they just keep pumping out new models of printers. They used to be doing people a service giving them an affordable option to get into 3D printing but it seems they're getting just plain sleezy.

I am confused about one thing. Why aren't you just pulling the bed plate off and flexing it to release prints?

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

With small and thin prints, they stick too well to the plate and flex with it. And even if they are taller, prints that don't cover much surface area don't come off easy even with the flexing. With beds like the stock creality bed, I find myself doing more damage to the bed trying to bend it to get things off. Simply because I don't like to print overly big things most of the time. Some more rigid metal flex beds work better because they allow for deadhesion but are rigid enough to bounce back and of course not get kinks or wrinkles in the surface from bending, but those usually suffer from the same issue when it comes to small parts. And my G10 plate doesn't bend, it's essentially a better glass plate. Typically bending the plate has not worked in my experience.

@802Garage

8 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 Gotcha. Very interesting. I've definitely had some super sticky small parts that were a huge pain to get off on a stock bed where bending it too much could cause problems.

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

@@802GarageYeah, I experienced this problem quickly after when I first started 3D printing with my Ender 3 V2.

why did you dont use the flexible bed?

@Bowsmin12

5 ай бұрын

I bought the printer essentially for my guitar pick project because the Bambu Labs can't slice it properly. I need to have a mostly smooth bottom layer as well and for most things that I make, I do prefer the smoother bottom. The green G10 used in the vid provided excellent performance pretty much the entire time used on the Ender 3 V2 so it was a logical transfer to me.

You need to adjust your Z offset in settings Your too close to the bed even tho it has auto level take small steps on moving the z off set and you can adjust the bedmesh and the screen micro card is on the side not inside kzread.info/dash/bejne/m5V52tx6ibXFdtI.htmlsi=pO0GU0KNAvbkbqEM

Not sure how to tag the creator bit have you got the issue sorted I may have a solution

@Bowsmin12

6 ай бұрын

I have a different lead going right now, but what is it?

@ashlyfranks30

6 ай бұрын

I was having this issue as well an levelling issue i found that the plastic shims under the bed were the wrong size ( well eqch of the 4 were all different sizes which permanently caused the bed to be not level so did some calculations and made some shim Good level good bed adhesion and the print came off Not sure if this will help but it worked for me

@Bowsmin12

6 ай бұрын

@@ashlyfranks30 So, I actually talk about this in my next video that I already posted I think. The one called physically fixing my e3v3se didn't go well or something like that. The standoffs that come stock with the machine are two different sizes between the four of them, but not properly compensating for just about anything. So I tried to print spacers to try to even things out more. This had the best results out of any of the fixes I tried even though it was still far from perfect. So it is a good suggestion, just can be difficult depending on what method you choose.

Hello, greetings from Colombia, I was about to buy an ender 3 v3 se but I see that it has several factory defects. Do you think it is a good purchase or do I buy the ender 3 v2 neo

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

I don't personally own a NEO, just a normal V2. But to me, right now the NEO looks like the better option. The only advantage the V3 has right now is that it has the direct drive system, so if you think you would like to print with bendy flexibles, then you might want to still go with the V3 and hope they fix it. That being said I have gotten the V3 to do a fair number decent prints now, but it was after tedious printed manual leveling. And if you want to print with flexibles, but they don't need to be really squishy and bendy. Most TPUs on amazon have a hardness of 95A I think, and people have said that stuff prints fine on an average Ender printer. (like the V2 NEO) You will probably be able to find parts and find good third party firmware for the NEO as well if you desired. I also kinda miss the little drawer, just a nice convenience for little bits specifically for that printer. You however will need to manually level the corners in the stock V2 NEO Printer. There are some things you can do to work around this but out of the box, that's the way it has to be. I hope this is helpful and thank you for watching.

Not returning it was a strange choice, even for big brands, product defects can occur. Considering most people I have seen are having a good time with this printer, you probably have a defective unit.

@andreamitchell4758

7 ай бұрын

maybe what he is trying to do is not suitable for this printer I think most people are not going to care about what the first layer where it was stuck to the bed looks like. he is trying to print something thin and that has no way to get a good grip on it to remove it and, i can understand what he wants and why for the pick to have sooth surface and the logo but this sem sot be a very specifc and very common use case, most peeople are probably on concrened that the other layers are ok i mos cases

@Hotricky45

7 ай бұрын

I had a similar issue, when I was inspecting my printer, I noticed that my belts were a little too loose. Got them Tightened and now it passed the self-test.

Hey man, I didn't see anything in this video on actually making manual adjustments to this printer. I just got mine and did my auto bed leveling and my readings are all over the place with green yellow and blue bars. Am i supposed to just adjust them numbers in the settings? Roll with it? Or do I need to disassemble something to physically adjust the plate?. The creality video doesn't show them doing much other than measuring the plate with a ruler

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

So first of all your bed sounds pretty messed up. Creality has recently informed me that there are different sized standoffs holding up the bed. There are two shorter ones for the left side and two longer ones for the right. When I had readings like yours it was because I put it together wrong, so I would measure those first and see if they are properly placed. If you do, be careful when trying to put the bed and standoffs back together, it can be an annoying process in it's self getting everything aligned. I'm not saying that you took it apart or put it together wrong, it's just good to check based on what you told me. If you still need to do finer adjustments after that, I have a different video going more in depth about the manual input adjustments. I hope this helps. kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4iVk5Vwh7CfeNY.html

@BelowAverageGaming

7 ай бұрын

@Bowsmin12 so I redid the entire manual setup, I messed with the gantry and redid the Z axis. You were 100% correct about the different sized stand offs! After messing with those 2 things my numbers from the auto bed are all green again and I'm making the finer adjustments now. Thanks a bunch

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

@@BelowAverageGamingThat's great! I was in the middle of replying to your other comment but yeah glad to help. Another thing is to just make sure to properly tighten everything on the printer. Creality has an after support channel where they have a video about. It's titled something weird but it's about tightening things and might be helpful. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHp224-eacy1nZc.html&t

@BelowAverageGaming

7 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 you're the best, you earned a sub from me!

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

@@BelowAverageGamingEpic

I hate leveling. I have an Ender 2 Pro. Every few prints I have to re- level and I'm sick of it.

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

It definitely gets tedious, but that's part of the process with these cheaper printers. Some people get lucky and this printer's auto level works, but I've recently tried to find a physical fix for my auto level and cannot find a logical problem. If I invested my whole life in 3D printing (like a lot of the forum people seems to 😒) I could know everything about printers and find some wacked out fix for it. But as a slightly experienced consumer, I'm at a loss. Shits wack rn.

@bkkorner

8 ай бұрын

​@@Bowsmin12Sorry to hear about yours but it's like some people like tinkering with them. I don't. I just want to print some cool stuff and that's it. For that reason I am looking into getting an auto-leveling printer.

great to know im not the onli one with this isues

I am looking for my first 3D printer and am really atracted to this model, would you recommend me to go for the ender 3 s1 instead? Cheers

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

They seem to be close models. Right now it seems the S1 is the better option. The V3 is too underdeveloped at the moment. Believe me, I just tried to install the latest firmware and instead of improving anything it just had foreign symbols and some other language underneath that all over the display. Be careful with that part cooling fan on the S1 though.

@bl4de938

8 ай бұрын

Go with ender 3 v3 ke

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

@@bl4de938I can't believe they're already trying to sell an "upgraded" or alternate version of this printer. The way Creality is going is just plain messed up.

@bl4de938

8 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 i have SE and can't wait to recieve KE, i think people should just be buying KE.

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

@@bl4de938 You don't even really know it's going ACTUALLY to be any better yet. There is only three videos about it on youtube right now and two of them are straight from creality as marketing material and it's only available for pre sale. Creality can say it's going to be better but that doesn't make it true. Unless they spent all their time fixing the issues with the SE, and for some reason only applied them to the KE, then logically it won't even be anything more special or functional.

just reduce the bed temperature to 57°C

@Bowsmin12

6 ай бұрын

That might help when using the stock bed but when using G10 or something smoother, under adhesion starts to be the issue. Which as far as I know, lowing bed temps doesn't usually help with that area unless I've missed something lately. And I choose to not use a textured build plate because of the project I need the printer to complete.

I just took my Ender 3 V3 out into the backyard and levelled the bed with a sledgehammer. That cured all my problems and I have ordered a Prusa.

Just put hairspray problem solved!

@Bowsmin12

8 ай бұрын

It shouldn't need hairspray if it has the auto level system and after I changed the bed. But yes, it may have made the bed original bed easier to use.

@andreamitchell4758

7 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 There is this guy at a local famrers market who has a table with a shit load of 3d prints for sale so he does this semi-professionally and I always talk to him and pick his brain, and he has like 3 or 4 ender 3 pros and and he recently got an X1 carbon with the AMS and he said that he always uses suave max hold 8 and he has glass beds on his ender 3 pros that he uses the reverse smooth non textured side but he has moved to more PEI now and he said he still uses hair spray on the PEI and then I asked him abou the bambu labs X1 carbon and he said he still uses hairspray every time even with that and I was really surprised by this like you I figured why should you need to use an addative ,maybe I can understand neededing it on an ender 3,pro,v2, neo, 3 SE, but I definitley though it should not be needed for an X1 but he said it is but other people I talk to said they don't use anything at all.

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

@@andreamitchell4758 It depends on a few things and is always situational. If you use harder to print materials that warp on glass then of course you need an additive. But if you print PLA on a textured bed, there's basically no reason. I have a P1P and I have never used an additive on it with either kinds of beds I got for it. Some people just always like tp use it to be safe, but I'm a penny pincher because I'm currently unemployed, so if I don't have to use it, I won't. ESPECIALLY IF IT'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE A PERFECT LEVEL! 😤

@andreamitchell4758

7 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 same here but you can get coupons I just got 2 cans basically free, the CS app sends me $2 or $4 coupons and I just use those not much else you can really get there anyway that is not way overpriced i figured tha was the best thing , I got some other stuff too but I fguress that wasa good choice, it seems like it would last a long time bu twho knows I never used it before, and yes i was speaking stricktly about PLA I got the v2 neo last BF but never had time to set it up and we had horrible humidty here so I was not wanting to stat my 3d printing journey and have wet filament problems into the mix, as your video clearly illistrated there are already WAAAAY to many variable already. I just picked up the end 3 V3 SE last week, it was ont sale at microcenter for 159 and I got a submmit a build coupn for $25 off if you are lucky enough tio live near one all you need to do is make a list of compatible PC parts and upload some pics of a PC with the same specs and they send you a $25 off coupon no min purchase. I hope I have better luck with my V3 Se than you but I am not really going to be doing anything that I will need to have the first layer that is against thebed to be perfect, so have you tried his same guitar pick print on your V2 and did yet get better results?

Please don't do like at @3:14 (holding one hand in the path of the scraper) with any sharp or sharp-ish tools - you'll stab yourself eventually.

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

I actually didn't catch that. Normally I'm smarter than that, thank you for the reminder.

I regret buying my one. It’s just problem after problem. After all the promises of it being easy to use isn’t true. I’ve gone back to my ender 3 v2 Neo with klipper and mods 100% better

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, it seems like they've rushed this model out for some reason.

@theaftermathshow6595

9 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 To me it looks like they are just trying to bring machines out similar to competitors just undercutting in price. Starting with the Neo they are making it hard to customise the machines with the cost cutting. I own a couple Enders and a halot mage resin printer. Every machine out of the box has had to be modded and I am just tired of it. The experience of 3d printing is sullied by all the corners cut by Creality. Every machine I own I have had to get Creality to send me replacement parts for stock item broke from the box. When speaking to creality they really don’t care and you feel you have to prove your problem to them they won’t take your word for it. Also I noticed they respond a lot better and quick if you buy the machines from them directly. The machines I own from them straight away a response but bought third party they are slow to react and treat you like you stole the machine and they don’t really want to help.

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

@@theaftermathshow6595 Indeed. It seems like a lot of their processes are very corporate. I know when I got my ender 3 V2, it lasted a few months then I had the same experience you seem to be having. One thing would break after another. Eventually I got it running so it wouldn't fail regularly but still, if I use it today there are still minor imperfections in most prints. Of course they might be able to be tuned out, but then you have to go through the pain and time of identifying then testing to see if you fixed whatever it was. I also get what you're saying about the support. It was painful just trying to get them to tell me if there's a way to make the auto bed level grid bigger and I don't think they even ever gave me a direct answer. I think at some point I ended up telling them they needed the feature and they said something along the lines of "We'll forward this reccomendation to our development team." I partially hate when companies do that because you never really know if they do it or if it's ever going to be seen by anyone who would do something about adding the needed feature.

@theaftermathshow6595

9 ай бұрын

@@Bowsmin12 I thought I was going mad. It was all most like the machine was having a tantrum after a run of success.

@bowsmin1220

9 ай бұрын

@@theaftermathshow6595 You're almost making me fear for my machine. 😆Ever since I finished manual leveling, it's been smooth sailing. I just hope it stays that way for a while.

Fuck dude just do what i said in my last post and you'll be laughing i have 2 Ender 3 V3 Se,s and i have no problem

Buy a cheap mini fridge

@Bowsmin12

7 ай бұрын

Unless I'm not remembering something, I am really confused. I need more context to a wild suggestion like that.

Buy a Prusa you not deserve a cheap printer.

@Bowsmin12

9 ай бұрын

Thank you, but I just can't afford to pay Prusa's premium. Their Ender 3 style might be better but costs so much more.

Well, that was boring.

@Bowsmin12

6 ай бұрын

Wasn't made for entertainment. But I'll take it into consideration next time.

this is some really unorganized video

@Bowsmin12

5 ай бұрын

How so?