Ender 3v2 - How to Calibrate E-Steps (Quick & Easy)

[@Ken-zg3ze]

THANK YOU for not making a 20 minute video on tutorials that should be under 5

[@jnssmnsn]

Amen. This is short, good and precise! Love it

[@prestondavis5933]

After 10 hours of head scratching and replacing parts, this 3 minute video saved my life. I'm printing again! Thank you so much

[@RickyImpey]

Glad it helped!

[@BradleyG01]

Installed an aluminum extruder arm and so i had to recalibrate. was getting around 92mm out of 100mm of extruder run time. now its within a mm of 100! Great tutorial, no blubber, just straight to the point. We need more people like this guy..

[@BeyondPhotography]

Everytime Ricky uploads a video, i am sure to watch them. Becos his video is easy, quick to watch and always i will learn new stuff. A natural and friendly teacher he is. A gem in the 3D printing industry!! Thank you Ricky. U dabest, really - Andrew Boey

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks Andrew, lovely message to read.

[@jeffallen3382]

I agree Andrew.

[@ohadoz78]

those 3 minutes solved 20 hours of suffering troubleshooting. Thank you so much! this is gold for any customized 3d printer owner.

[@Xw3dn3sd4yX]

Thank you! This is very precise info without any 'KZbinr padding' which I greatly appreciate! I'm a visual learner so seeing this process with it explained on screen like this was perfect, thank you so much.

[@Jaxakai]

This helped a lot thank you. I also really appreciate that it wasn't another 20 minute video, 3 minutes was perfect, and the process was very easy to follow.🙏

[@bentaylor73]

Straightforward, thorough, and concise. You are a model of an educator. thank you

[@everythingknife8763]

This is my first 3D printer so I have ZERO experience with any of this. I first watched your assembly video and it saved my sanity. The printed manual is utter trash. It doesn't even say which bar is left or right, or which way 'round they need to go. Now your calibration video is pure gold. Super easy to follow. Thank you for the effort you put into this.

[@kylelongwood11]

Seriously I wish all help videos were like this! All facts and steps! No bs fluff! This is the type of creator I subscribe to and hope can make a career on KZbin.

[@dfordesmondg]

holy moly my ender 3 v2 was extruding just 66mm at 100 mm extrusion !! i did change the extrusion gears to a 3rd party aluminum one but never quite figured out why i was getting thin lines! life saver man! thanks a lot.

[@creatorTWin]

I was at about 71mm on a 100mm extrusion- had to change e steps about 50 points to fix it.

[@scorpian78]

same here, mine was at 65.74mm on average. mind blowing

[@canhedotricks6078]

I had just received the Ender3v2 as my first 3D printer for my birthday and was so frustrated that it wouldn't print anything. All of my attempts at trying to print the demo cat would inexplicably turn into spaghetti. None of the beginner guides or instruction manuals mention calibrating the E-Steps before starting the first print so I was completely lost. Thank you so much for this video, I'm finally able to print! So excited I was able to get past this setback and finally begin learning to use this incredible technology.

[@DecaffeinatorZero]

I usually hate instructions for things as videos, but this was nice and clear and concise, tyvm!

[@tiltos4515]

Best video on E Step conig by far. No RPi needed!

[@kloakovalimonada]

I have seen a lot of 3D printing videos and yours are the most concise, accurate and actually helpful.

[@RickyImpey]

Great, really glad it helped 👍

[@RomanNumeraXIII]

I was having lots of print issues after changing my extruder to a duel drive gear, found out I was only putting out 67mm. Thanks to this video I got it all sorted back to 100mm. Thank you!

[@Mclovin-ct6kw]

Awesome video which fixed my extrusion problem (which came out of nowhere). was under extruding at 96.6mm. Also I love when creators keep it brief but retain all the steps so you can just pause as you do the work. Liked and subscribed.

[@ogthebarbarian641]

So fast and so informative. Bravo, sir.

[@alexlafond9362]

thank you for making this easy. every 3d printer youtuber out there talks as if they are isaac freaking newton and make it 10X more complicated than it needs to be.

[@dohsky]

My prints had walls not sticking to one another making bridle output. Then I realized I had not calibrated the extruder after changing to a full metal drive. My "100mm" were extruding only 66mm. Very efficient fix and my prints are back to what they should have been! Awesome!

[@crooker2]

I was TEARING my hair out wondering why my first layer was constantly failing... until I came across this video. Thank you Ricky. You have prevented me from committing several acts of very bad things. This solved my issues... for now. :)

[@dumwee]

Thank you! After 2 days trying to figure out what was wrong I got a tip about e-step might be off. Upgraded my firmware and didnt think about it before I got tipped about it. Easy to understand and short to the point.

[@BTB_Works]

Great tutorial! Straight to the point, no nonsense, and clear to follow! Fixed the major under extrusion problem I had. it was pushing out only 76 mm out of 100 (dual gear extruder upgrade. Thanks!

[@thatguygary3969]

Was troubleshooting for days. Followed your video and it’s perfect. Thank you for making it short and easy.

[@YouScrapbook]

Always concise. I recommend your videos to everyone. Thanks for making this one simple and easy to follow. 😊

[@bilinz]

Simple, to the point and far easier than any other solution/video I've watched. Subscribed!

[@RickyImpey]

Welcome 👍

[@jeffallen3382]

My favorite Ender 3v2 channel! Your videos have been a great help since getting my printer this last Christmas. I just printed your V2 dryer box and waiting for the plastic bin from Amazon.

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks Jeff. Hearing people are getting something from my videos really helps with my motivation to do more. Let me know if there is anything else in particular you'd like any help with. There are a lot of videos in the pipeline but it always helps to know what people would like to see.

[@jeffallen3382]

@@RickyImpey thanks Ricky! The only problem I'm having is using Fusion 360 to design things to make. Your video you posted with the surf board fin helped a lot. Maybe expanding into more Fusion 360 would be a great series of videos. I had CAD/CAM in my senior year of high school and that was 34 years ago. Lots has changed since then and I haven't used it since.

[@RickyImpey]

@@jeffallen3382 ok thanks Jeff. I've not done much more with Fusion 360 as I'm far from an expert and only started using it in the 2020 lockdown. I do love using it though so I'll see if I can think of useful tutorials specifically relating to 3d printing for the future. In the meantime, check out Kevin Kennedy's channel Product Design Online. I found him the most useful.

[@jeffallen3382]

@@RickyImpey I will do that, thank you!

[@TheXvitalka]

You have very useful videos. Short and clear. Awesome! Thank you!

[@290Alenka]

So clear so precise a joy to watch... THANKS Others should take note to stop waffling don't pad with silly errors.

[@Racecar564]

Thank you for this! Didn't know anything about it before watching, but now have my Ender 3 from 92mm to 100.

[@RickyImpey]

Perfect, glad you got what you needed from the video👍

[@M-L-W.2001]

Seemed so long but did it in 2 minutes and works lovely

[@thealterrazero]

THANK YOU!! Mine was 85mm. Way underextruding. Followed your video and now it's exactly 100mm.

[@klausrimdoi45]

This is the most simplest and efficient E-steps calibration I found on-line. I appreciate your videos very much, thanks.

[@Waynetta180]

Thanks a million. I have my printer for 3 years and never calibrated the e-steps. Hadn't a notions, sounded overly complicated and it was mostly printing nicely. Still tho had i known i wouldve done it a long time ago. Anyways just changed the extruder to the metal grey one, instaled a cr- touch & mriscoc's professional marlin 2 firmware for the ender 3 v2 & found your vid. Thank you again, my printer was underextruding with newly installed extruder anyways. New setting for me is 98.3

[@skarpantre]

Thank you! Short and everything important said without dragging it to 10+ minutes!

[@fredericochej3251]

Thank you, I figured out how to connect my computer to send the M280(?) command and you just showed me an easy step to do my esteps. Big up to you

[@fakeuser87]

everytime i need to re calibrate e-steps i watch the video again

[@mastajon44]

To the point. Love it. Your videos have been very helpful.

[@jamestebby]

excellent video! no faff straight to the Point and clear instruction my printer is calibration is perfect! thank you

[@jonruehle9186]

This worked for me! Mine was an average of 96.35, so my E-Step ended up being 96.5. Dialed it in and.... BOOM! 100mm perfecto!! THANKS!!

[@mattpreece6453]

Perfect. Thank you. Fixed my problem. Wish I had seen the video before all the stress of everything thing else I tried…

[@ChadsterKerman]

this was so helpful! thank you! just subscribed because you are the only one who clearly explains this stuff!

[@BEG_Bueno]

Thank you very much no beating around the bush, super clear and exactly what I needed to know! New sub here cheers mate

[@damienwilkinson4694]

I’m gonna subscribe because you’ve helped me out on back to back videos. Thank you kindly

[@equisclassictouringrallies3353]

Fantastisch. Kurz, knackig und auf den Punkt.

[@joemechanic2751]

Just replaced the crappy Ender extruder and this video was quick and easy video to follow. BTW, if you re-home after each piece, you don't need to shut down to zero your extruder. The nozzle temperature doesn't need to reset either.

[@K9vBara]

Thank you. You instructions were spot on.

[@zx7rr]

great info, i recenty moved up to a .6 nozle and i was ghetting gaps in my prints. I tottally had a moment then realized this was the issue. Thanks for great content mate.... cheers

[@DavidSmith-te9gg]

Excellent, nice, quick and straightforward, I have the exact same values as yourself.

[@w3k11]

Me too. This is best tutorial for e-steps on youtube.

[@JustGeorgiaxD]

Clear and concise, thankyou so much!

[@joefowler8464]

Kept suspecting that I wasn't getting as much filament on the surface as I should have been. Found this video and... I was right. Thank you for producing this in easy for a novice to test and fix.

[@natedorske6509]

Thank you Ricky for an easy to follow video. Super helpful!!!

[@yatox8]

Short and sweet thanks! I got the red aluminum extruder on stock extruder motor. Was only putting out like 50mm of the 100! My print walls were never even touching -.-

[@weekendwireless]

This guy is the now my go to place for information. There’s so many American offering that wrong advice. This is great. Keep them up

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks for the support 👍

[@skylerbulford8927]

Thank you so much. I was only getting 66mm of extrusion which was causing all sorts of bed adhesion issues, what appeared to be ghosting, weak parts, thin useless infill, walls that weren't properly fusing. All kinds of issues I've been absolutely chasing my tail with. Thank you.

[@tarkovcitizen4435]

Thank you so much! My display stopped showing icons properly by following another tutorial where they used pronterface and couldn't even get it right. Fixed the e-steps within minutes by following yours. Now on to the next challenge - fixing the display..

[@RickyImpey]

The screen files and printer firmware have to match. What printer firmware do you run?

[@tarkovcitizen4435]

@@RickyImpey It was fixed by unplugging the screen and plugging the cable back in. I didn't change anything firmware wise, I only sent a command to update the e-steps via a windows tool and restarted the printer with the on/off switch. Then my screen icons did not show properly. No idea how that command caused the problem, but it's fixed now :)

[@tyotee4361]

My measurements were 67.5 mm for 100 steps. Ayup, that would do it. Thanks for the vid, you are amazing!

[@Gavin-oq5nl]

Thank you so much!!! Super helpful! You are a blessing!!!

[@MasterofXRankGamers]

Thank you so much I came across this video after watching one of your other videos, I've always thought it was something difficult because they go really in depth on a bunch of stuff so it makes it extremely confusing to understand which is why ive never touched it, but you explained it perfectly and went strait to the point so thank you;D

[@RickyImpey]

Really glad you got something from the video. I really dislike how complicated some people make these things too.

[@yonielha123]

Super helpful! Thanks for an easy to follow video

[@AJ-Palermo]

My Ender 3's extruder arm finally cracked after nearly 2 years of printing, so I ordered a dual-gear metal extruder as a replacement/upgrade, and I was a little worried calibrating E-steps would require messing with firmware, but wow that's easy!

[@shyaaroseee505]

youre channel is so good! youve helped me so much mine was def under extruding, It was 69mm

[@Adriano50811]

thank you for this, short and informative video, amazing!

[@mrdaneens]

Super easy method. Thank you!

[@olibarahosasa1137]

This method it way easier than other vids lol. I'm going to do this

[@crumpet_]

two of your videos have helped me today. liked and subscribed. thank you!

[@Javed_Khan_.]

❤😢 People like you are the reason why this community is still alive and running Thank you for helping me ..

[@nordiccitizen]

Really nice guide :D Took me like 30 min to do, had to do the compulsory headscratching in between and when doing the calculation ^^

[@vratos]

Amazing video!!! You really rock!!

[@monah5673]

Thank you, really short, nice and time-saving tutorial. But regarding precision in measurements - better to extract one but long line. It will increase precision. Because cut filament + measurement error - give you some wrong +/- 1mm. And there is a difference 1mm error for 100mm or 1mm error for 300 or 1000mm. So if you got one 300mm line (I do 1000mm) - it will provide you more accurate measurement value. For question how to correct measure long filament line - I use separate white teflon tube (didn't find a transparent one) - it's good enough to see length of a filament in it. Thanks for tutorial again - it really save my time

[@a7xfanben]

Great tutorial, thank you for this!

[@smiththers2]

great simple method!

[@necdetkurtulus3713]

Its the best video that contents is excellent I've seen at KZbin. Welldone and thanks you very much. Unfortunately there are not enough videos such as yours one, because of the knowledge and the lack of English of the people who could translated the videos from foreign sources. I will try to do so. Thank you again for this helpful explanation.

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks for your comment. I would love to be able to offer the same content in other languages but unfortunately, as much as I would like to, I'm not clever enough to speak any language other than English. Perhaps one day I will find someone to present the same content in many other languages. It's certainly worth thinking about🤔

[@tomidomokos2993]

This helped me a lot

[@FlyB4UDie]

I did not know I had to do this when changing the motherboard, I got a Voxelab Aquila X2 and changed the motherboard because it came with the H32 motherboard and could not use jyers UI, Going to do this test when my printer is done printing , I had some stringing problems that I finally got under controle , Thx for this video

[@Clixlol]

Wow this was so short and still had all nessesary info. Though my new ender 3 v2 neo was calibrated, factory settings had 93mm e-steps. had a 92.9 average after extruding 100mm. set it to 100.1 and measured 100mm extruded. Now i did print the test 20x20x20 cube before changing anything and some other things and they came out pretty good quality.

[@MJ-nq2en]

so quick and esey to follow and helpfull

[@israelrojas7500]

Really to the point, thanks

[@jameshenninger8894]

Great vids, best Ive seen. Been printing over a year but have had great success and few problems. Just trying to back track now and learn all the things Ive missed along the way.. Like the way he explains, most people assume we know more then we might.

[@ryanschultz7051]

Cheers Ricky just subbed to your channel, very informative and you don't try to drag the video out to 10 minutes for something that can be explained in 3!

[@RickyImpey]

Thanks Ryan, yes I hate having to wait through 10 minutes of filler to get to the information you actually want in a video. I always try to keep it simple👍

[@MrAws0m3Gaming]

@@RickyImpey how do you do this with a direct extruder like the ender 3 s1

[@RickyImpey]

@@MrAws0m3Gaming it's a slightly different method with a direct drive extruder. In most cases you have to do the e steps with the filament going through the nozzle and you have to measure the filament going into the extruder not coming out. Difficult to explain, I need to do a video on it really....

[@weavbrian]

Thank you for this. Worked perfectly

[@23toxsick]

Geez I sure hate doing math and you made me do it but it was certainly worth it like all your videos very simple and to the point thank you so much for this video and the others you have made they've helped me so much in the month and a half I've been working on this printer

[@RickyImpey]

Great to hear and sorry about the math🙂

[@sebastianriveradominguez2301]

Thanks so much, it help me a lot!

[@arthurboo_m3045]

THANK YOU, saved my nerves. I was ready to throw it away.

[@bilalkaraman]

Thank you so much Ricky

[@hendob6883]

Worked perfecctly thanks!

[@marthacraycroft1388]

awesome! straight to the point!!

[@bobbylim1971]

Thanks Rick! Helped so much!

[@JamesSmith-zk7ck]

Thanks. Never known that I should do this until trying to print tpu. Just did mine and was only getting 75 mm.

[@CK56323]

Great video thanks

[@koent7788]

The problem using this method is, once you put your roll of filament into a drybox or spool holder that has a little bit of friction your e-steps don't match anymore and start to under extrude. Mine went from 100mm to 96mm when I was printing out of the drybox.

[@lnt3ch]

Doing my e steps now, thanks for breaking this down! Quick question though, each one of my 100mm sections of filament extruded with teeth marks in them from the extruded gear. Is this normal?

[@RickyImpey]

Yes, the extruder will leave marks where it grips the filament.

[@goose1498]

Nice video. I'm curious cause I keep seeing videos and comments on other videos saying you have to do calibrate it pushing the filament thru the hot end. Is that really necessary cause your way seems much easier

[@Mailmartinviljoen]

I replace the extruder with a metal one that has duel gears, and I only got 65mm, had to push the 93 setting up all the way to 139 ish

[@dohsky]

same.

[@artemkonyukhov6635]

Thx, from Ukraine. We are printing a lot now, for our win.

[@beamplays1484]

worked flawlessly! now i have 100mm instead of 94!

[@VanBuilds-ut2cm]

thanks for making a short video on this! In addition to it only being 3 minutes, the intro could be cut. we know what the video is.

[@Cybeija]

About plugging in a sd-card beforehand, what if i use different sd-cards from time to time? I didn’t had an issue with other settings getting lost. Do they really get stored on the sd card, or are they only stored on the card until you apply them via „store settings“?

[@demetriodelgadillo1629]

I put a new one on my printer the type where they both move on the beam together so how do I do like what you demonstrated on your KZbin video ?

[@RickyImpey]

I think this video may be more helpful for you kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIeyqWSPqJV8fqM

[@filmweaver2013]

Am so surprised that mine was soo offf! thank you so much!

[@RickyImpey]

You're welcome!!