Creality's Best Upgrade - Ender 3 Max Neo 3d Printer Review

[@globglob3D]

I'm happy with mine that I got at a discounted price. I wish the fans were less loud, but that's an easy upgrade.

[@colincrooky]

Thank you very much, I thought it was quite thorough and the project timings were helpful but I would have liked them on the technical ones too.

[@jblakey]

Hi, I bet that blobbing artifact was due to 'resume print after power outage' being enabled. I've seen that causes a slight delay when the printer writes the current position to the sd card, which results in a slight blob.

[@judahcortez3270]

Put glass in the freezer, it will release the prints fast

[@chazgordon3642]

Hot soapy water cleans most of the marks, and a good accessory for print removal is an Industrial Razor blade scraper, this gets the remove started cleanly, to be completed with the paint scraper. Also, let the bed cool for PLa print removal with greater ease.

[@J.E.Taylor]

I don't want to say that I hate the glass bed, but I do dislike it. I was able to test and review the Max Neo and that was my biggest complaint, the prints stick hard. I did try putting it in the fridge recently and that helped but I don't want to have to pull the bed off and put in the fridge every print. The dual sided PEI sheets are great. Even the Creality E3 Pro PEI coated glass bed is fantastic but not available in the 300x300 size. Hopefully it will be eventually. I wasn't impressed with the manual bed leveling instruction and maybe it was my fault but I scratched the bed with the nozzle when moving to the first corner. It never said to loosen the springs and such. I wished they were a bit more detailed than saying to set Z offset and go to the corners. I thought the menu is a bit watered down vs the E3 Pro but I haven't used the stock firmware in a long time. I hope to be able to do my own firmware for this eventually but don't know what that will entail being a color screen like it is.

[@HoffmanEngineering]

Very indepth comment, I appreciate it! I agree, the glass bed isn't my favorite. It is very grippy, though I think I found just the right nozzle height to where it grips enough, but I'm still able to get a scraper underneath without destroying the print or the bed. It took a few cut fingers and scrapes to find it. Creality does have a 310x310mm pei spring steel plate which does fit the ender 3 max neo (I have it linked in the description), but I haven't yet installed it on mine. It's bigger than the stated build area, but that's because the cr touch probe reduces the printable area a little. I haven't tried any custom firmwares on these yet, but I'd have no doubts people will be making them soon.

[@bradc7827]

Take the scraper with a hammer put it on the floor. Put your foot on front of the plate. Take scraper to buttom of back the print or supports. And one hit with with hammer to the scraper pops right off usually.

[@jasonbryant3814]

Mine started out good two months in the glass bed lost its sickness and nozzle jams up a lot

[@-Gunnarsson-]

I dont understand why the belt would improve something on the z axis?

[@HoffmanEngineering]

The belt forces the two motors to stay in sync, even when power is off. Without the belt , it would be possible for the two motors to move independently. Which could cause one side to move up or down, causing the x axis to tilt. You'd just have to run the auto bed leveling more often.

[@DKJens44]

Nice video and thanks for the info. I have now also bought this 3D printer. Now I wanted to download the Rex skull, but the file no longer seems to be available.

[@HoffmanEngineering]

The Rex skull is thing:308335 on thingiverse, if the following link gets removed by youtube.

[@HoffmanEngineering]

www.thingiverse.com/thing:308335

[@Hoellewood_Solutions]

i like mine, but im having issues getting the speed up without causing rounded edges to not adhere. like its really slow. My first was an Anycubic Kobra 2 Neo and it runs circles around this thing, but isnt as good with overhangs and is much smaller. I could use some advice

[@Max24871]

6:30 seems like the small pauses power loss protection causes after each "layer". Did you try with it disabled?

[@markkennedy5955]

That T REX skull is badass!!!

[@will4may175]

I connected mine to the PC to print as my Ender killed off my memory card and won't recognise a new one I bought. Though I did catch the USB cable connecting it during a long print and it ended up failing as there was no way to continue, also don't like the USB is the old Mini USB. My main problem is the fan noise but I cannot find any vid showing an upgrade for the Neo Max, they all show the smaller Ender 3s with the power supply on the side vertically where the neo is underneath.

[@VRStudio6969]

hi did you try to print some face for example ,can you make real face to 3d and than printing ?

[@nitrorrat8190]

Hi im curious about the magnetic bed im not a glass bed fan any information would be greatly appreciated thank you

[@enigmaticreverieproduction5169]

This is my first 3d printer. Have not set it up yet, so they work with iMacs. ?

[@TechMaestro01]

How is it? Is the glass bed really as annoying as people are making it sound?

[@martinokeeffe513]

Your review are great. Could you please review the ender 3 V2 neo?

[@frankfransen5892]

what is the assembled size of the unit?

[@DeKleinnn]

so TPU works on the ender 3 Max Neo? cuz the manual says it doesn't do TPU...

[@raynbow6]

Rather than the user created versions, does anyone have the stock specific Marlin config for the Max Neo? One that doesn't kill the screen? My TJC screen only shows the logo and a few numbers when I mod the firmware.

[@bipsendk]

What size spring steel pei sheet should be used ?

[@Dagoatsebas]

What size filament does it take to

[@hybridwolf3032]

What can I do to get my ender 3 max neo print tpu?

[@samuelfowler5921]

Printed objects over 100 hours and is really good at maintaining good quality

[@graphguy]

Not a bad printer, but the company support is a 'F'. I bought one of these 2 months ago. Printer 5 rolls of filament with no real issues. I cleaned it after each print, leveled the bed after each print etc etc. Then the other day. I had a 15 hour PLA print going and I checked in on it after 8 hours from my remote app and the printer was moving fine but no filament was coming out. I went to my print room and stopped the job. The hotend had become clogged and the extruder continued to force filament down into the hot end where it built leaked and created a mess of the hot end. It wasn't salvageable by cleaning and so I contacted their support. I am sorry, but it is terrible. This is a $15 part and I am having no luck get then to even understand. This should be a slam dunk - send me another cheap hotend, but no they don't seem to get it. I bought this as an entry level printer and was going to buy another Creality higher end model, but that is not going to happen. Worst support I have even had. I'll send the whole unit back to Amazon.

[@hd-be7di]

It's a piece of crap without upgrades as are most of Creality's machines.

[@brandonbawgus9448]

Can you put a sprite extruder on the neo?

[@HoffmanEngineering]

I haven't tested it myself, but if you get the Sprite Pro kit, that comes with a replacement x-axis carriage, I think it would work. The aluminum extrusion size is the same as the original, so the carriage should fit.

[@Spencers3dprints]

All's mine does is make a screening sound . I can't figure out what's wrong it's brand new

[@daspeed198]

did you manage to fix it and if so how's it been printing?

[@thekauders567]

they have it on sale atm £369 to £269

[@roddsmith8954]

i cant get a good print out this thing with a 0.6mm nozzle,may as well get rid,i dont want a 0.4mm in it to slow,waste of money,doesnt run half as good as my ender 3 max.

[@carlaschrum]

what cura profile we use the ender 3 max?

[@HoffmanEngineering]

Correct, the Ender 3 Max profile, but then set the z-height to 320mm in the machine settings to match the Neo's max height.

[@hd-be7di]

I've had this printer for 6 months. It's more of an upgrade platform with the most bottom tier parts bolted on to get it to print for a few dozen hours. Pretty much everything on it besides the frame and steppers have to be changed in order for it to get reliable high quality prints. New hotend, new extruder, new bed surface, new controller board, better bowden tube, the wiring needs to be ferrule crimped, the power supply cover is lacking venting holes... ok I think I covered everything? You get the idea... if you're not into tinkering and don't have solid CAD knowledge to build new parts, stay away from this thing.

[@Jagthunder1]

What would you recommend ?

[@gunnarswanchara5270]

​@@Jagthunder1probably some $1500 printer lol

[@guillermobarrera6620]

Extremely disappointed with this printer. I got 2 solid prints out of it before it quit working.

[@bigcoates81]

This in not a review. It’s a promotional video 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@HoffmanEngineering]

I'd love to know what else you'd like to hear in these review videos. Always looking for ways to improve.

[@alexanderforbes2126]

I hate that they are still using the 4.2.2 board it's trash and they know it.

[@roddsmith8954]

worst printer ever,y axis is very noisy,only prints ok with odd filaments gantry plates are naff,should have got the ender 3 max and upgraded it like my old one.the price on this neo should be around £250

[@Tinhead426]

No the M3D Crane Quad is the worst printer ever. I just got my Neo Max a week ago. And after calibrating the XYZ axis E-steps i have my prints roughly within +/-0.03mm. Its amazing compared to the POS that i have been trying to fix.