No More Spaghetti? Testing Creality Ender 3 V3 KE Printer

[@jddes]

I've had an Ender 3 Pro for almost 5 years of moderate printing. I've spent maybe $100 buying parts - extruder, hotend, filament guide, etc, and it just keeps chugging. If I ever upgrade I'm definitely looking to creality first, and bed leveling is the only part I really dislike, so this was very informative!

[@scottmasa7774]

take a look at the cr10 se

[@SeventhCircle77]

I upgraded from an ender 3 pro and would highly recommend the KE. It's incredibly fast, and just better than the 3 pro in every way. The WiFi printing is sweet

[@pileofstuff]

That builds up a lot faster and easier than my Ender3 V2 did. The V3 looks like it's got several nice upgrades from the V2. With a bit of tweaking the speeds and feeds, you ought to be able to get rid of some of those odd artifacts.

[@2000blackthorns]

Awesome video. From your previous 3d printed posts I could definitely see that you actually enjoyed this ender printer. Glad that they were able to sponsor your video!

[@FitzCrafter]

Like others have said almost all the problems you had with the prints would go away with supports, I use tree supports they seem to work the best and use less filament hence less waste. have fun with the new printer. I have the exact same one coming Friday to be a sidekick to my K1 Max.

[@michaellichter4091]

They got a really nice 3D printer there, and at 500 mm/s, it's also very fast. The 3D prints have turned out really well; a lot has been done in recent years, and with a nozzle temperature of up to 300 °C, you can use all types of filament. I'm looking forward to the satellite projects and how the 3D printed parts perform in practice.

[@michaelenglund]

Turn on combing/ironing. Try the Cura slicer. Overhangs of 45 degrees is not a problem for me with my 3 year old Ender 3. Somethings wrong. Maybe helps with the cura slicer. Or turning the speed down.

[@dralenvan]

Came here to recommend the Cura slicer, glad somebody already did.

[@16FEET]

Orca slicer is great for dialing in the prints .

[@BangBangBang.]

Get it dialed in. Your opinion will change. Voxelab Aquila is an Ender 3v2 clone with a glass bed. Ready out of box for your parents, techy middle school'ish age kids, etc. Monitor your environment for temperature changes/humidity. I have problems when humidity changes due to storms and my area gets humid during prints. Also watch out about drafts from fans/AC vents. I have an Ender 2 Pro that I stored over at my cousin's house for awhile and I'm about to start printing small stuff on it while using my other printers for longer tasks. That's the cool thing about 2 printers (or more)

[@anime_reference]

I'd love a video on that lidar scan thing

[@saveitforparts]

I'm using public data from the state for mine, I'll try to put something together about it :-)

[@andrewwaller8499]

I absolutely love my Ender 3 Pro. I've slapped a Capricorn bowden tube on there, flashed the firmware to Klipper, and us a RPi 4 with Mainsail on it and never had a single issue. I manually level the bed maybe once a month, I don't know if I just happened to win the lottery with this particular machine but it has always just worked.

[@xandergreer]

please show how you got the lidar scan of your house, i want to do the same

[@saveitforparts]

I got it from a government project, I have it on my to-do list to show the process.

[@FranklyPeetoons]

If you slow the printing down, this particular Ender will give you MUCH better prints. The native Creality profiles are a bit show-off-y. You can get further into the adjustment weeds with another slicer. I use Cura. Adding and adjusting supports is super important for little figures and stuff. It's interesting that you're so impressed with the V3 KE's features, which are pretty standard these days. However, it IS worlds beyond the horrible older Ender 3s, one of which I was cursed to own. Glad you got this one up and running.

[@alexjh47]

I've found more success when I got a box for my filament to keep it at the right humidity level.

[@3dpathfinder]

Your Hotend cable harness support is in that bag with the nozzle

[@JuniorTechnologyCorner]

On your antenna mount try using supports that way it doesn't Bend as much and deform.

[@LeadDennis]

For those models I would print on a resin printer. Love your channel. Thank you for all of your hard work.

[@GlimisTechProducts]

That cat was too cute to not click 😂

[@matthewf1979]

Prints look nice, especially without supports. I think these less expensive printers are great for lower detail functional parts. Something like electronics enclosures and what not.

[@sheerluckholmes5468]

In the plastic bag along with the spare nozzle I see a small plastic clip that screws onto the mount where you plugged the cable in and you will also have two M3x8 screws in a separate bag left over. RTFM

[@stuheaton1062]

For overhang parts use supports then you won't get any messy parts in your print and easy too add the supports in the 3d printer software but good job on your 1st few prints on the printer

[@alexdhall]

4:42: Such great kitteh "helpers"! 😹😻

[@myboringadventures]

Definitely, look into a filament dryer. Makes a world of difference. Wait until you start experimenting with petg and tpu. Its more fun,once you get things dialed in.

[@orca984]

Food dehydrator works great too

[@mastasolo]

You should 3D print a parabolic mirror mold to cast and create your own antenna. Also, that antenna scaffold could have been split into 2 parts to make it was easier to print nicely. Great video and hope to see more

[@bill360]

Great review and customer support

[@JoesComputerMuseum]

Oooh, try a Bambu Lab A1 Mini next!

[@cuoops]

I had an Anycubic and loved it. The only problem I had was it was stringing out when it first started off so I just edited the file to make it put out more before it started printing.

[@waynekozak3121]

I hope you since secured the hotend cable with the included brace

[@GizzyScootNation]

Nope still on the bag with spare nozzle 😂

[@QuinnGinger]

I recommend you use Ultimaker Cura as your slicer. The automatic supports are really good in that program (especially tree supports to save filament) and I have not had any issues with it. On my ender 3 v2 NEO I needed to download a plugin for Cura to get the preview to generate on the actual printer screen but that is not entirely necessary.

[@someguy9175]

try looking into prusa slicer

[@derf95]

I tune in for the cat

[@SpartanA054Moose]

8:30, could you show us your model railroad please?

[@saveitforparts]

Right now I'm working on a weird S-gauge thing with cheap holiday trains, in an underground tunnel (the train goes through tunnels, and is completely underground!). I'll have a video about it on Friday!

[@kevinleee3408]

How about scaling that Tugboat up a bit and then building a pop pop motor insert for it

[@felipemiranda5873]

How do you map your house, street etc..? Make a video about it

[@saveitforparts]

I have it on the to-do list to do a video on that, just too many projects all at once :-)

[@TheDistur]

Haven't got into 3d printing yet. More of a machining guy but I think they have their uses.

[@p9000-r5q]

gcode plus salvaged old 3d printer pcb plus Winegard Satellite Antenna equals fun.

[@rey273]

it seems like printers, 3d or 2d, tend to be finicky in all forms. even the one on the ISS they hardly ever use because its so finicky and theres not a lot of use for them after making tools

[@ET_AYY_LMAO]

You should save your old printers for parts :-) There must be something useful or cool to do with the steppers and the microcontrollers can often be programmed using Arduino IDE...

[@Rebar77_real]

Bout time you got a decent printer! Have fun!

[@unl0ck998]

Thank god. I though your previous experience burned you out of the 3dp space. Its a dream for leveling up your tinkering.

[@Checkmate1954]

Ender is the Sony of 3D printers.

[@GizzyScootNation]

Is Sony good or bad xD

[@kuukeli]

thank you for the video

[@sadiewynn3016]

I just got the Ender-3 V3 KE and have been running it that past few days with zero issues. What I have been able to print comes out perfect. Now all of a sudden when the machine is starting to print and starts to calibrate, I'm getting an error "unknown exception" Key: 2194 while it is trying to find home on the Z-axis. I can't get any of the self tests to work either. The machine is clear of any obstructions. I've been able to turn if off and on again a few times which would resolve the issue but now it's not working and I can't figure it out.

[@matakaw4287]

Spaghetti is good but can it print meatballs? I know nothing about these printers' parameters so it makes me wonder if there is an appreciable trade off concerning print time versus quality. Also I'm curious if you ever tried a hand held laser scanner to copy and print objects. It would be neat to print your face or some other interesting thing...like Donnie.

[@cnsapam]

Nice Review. I also got my Ender3 V3 KE few days back. Are u using Creality Hyper flow PLA or generic PLA? What material profile I should be using if I want to print Generic PLA filament which is rated for 100mm/s only. Should I copy the provided setting for 0.1 / 0.2 mm and reduce the max speed to 100mm/s leaving rest of the other settings same?

[@hamhacksandhome]

Nice review video. I want to print the manhole :)

[@loosehandle1]

Fluff thought you were going to print a mouse lol

[@olik136]

I rarely use my 3d printer... a bad reason for that is lack of motivation.. but good reasons for that are: the print time is just too long, fusion 360 drives me up the wall.. and the material (PLA in most cases) just isn't great for most parts. I would like to use 3D printing more for my job as an architect- but SDL printers are especially bad at printing boxes aka as models of buildings.. and on top of that there is no good way to use the 3D model of architectural software with the printer.. so I have to start from scratch and nobody is paying me for that. That being said- almost every print I actually did was usable. I mostly designed a few novelty items like lamp shades but also some missing knobs for old electronics and such.

[@kevinleee3408]

Have you tried using ground penetrating radar yet?

[@saveitforparts]

I want to, but I haven't found a good how-to guide. All the DIY projects seem to give up at some point, or make a confusing and specialized prototype that only somewhat works.

[@kevinleee3408]

@@saveitforparts I wonder if stuff made here or backyard scientist or Mark Rober would be willing to help?

[@GreyBeardTrains]

What kind of layout do you have?

[@saveitforparts]

Right now I'm working on a weird S-gauge thing with cheap holiday trains, in an underground tunnel (the train goes through tunnels, and is completely underground!). I'll have a video about it on Friday!

[@GreyBeardTrains]

Can't wait to see it

[@EricWAtchesVideos]

There are some good slicers available for linux. I like Cura, and Sl1c3r.

[@technoman9000]

Anyone else find Creality's naming very confusing... Ender 3 V3 KE what

[@eiotclub-sim-card]

3D printers，so fresh to me! always like your video

[@jamesedwardson605]

Your fucken brutal......that should be the best add for a product...

[@lukeyna1]

I’m confused what you mean by this?

[@ET_AYY_LMAO]

Honestly ify ou want something that "just works" you cannot go wrong with bambulab, and I say that as a Prusa fanboy. You need to use support if you have overhangs...

[@mako040472]

Good peinter bit i have 3 of the ke bit in every single one the boat print like crab

[@alex5251]

8:03 -- Just uncheck the box [x] "Printer Matching" and you will see the printer .. it's a bug -> Ender 3V3 KE dont matching Ender 3v3 KE 🤣

[@fornaxwim]

If you could get your hands on a Prusa MK4 the world of 3D printing would change for you. I have had nothing but excellent results from mine, but there is the sticker shock that comes with it. But I guess if you don't want to spend a bunch of time messing about then Prusa is the way to go.

[@fornaxwim]

Oh and the fact Prusa is opensource is the icing on the cake.

[@gorak9000]

Why would they default it to ur'a pee'in mode?

[@LjL-Videos]

Because it's kinda "most of the world except North America" mode...

[@jonatinoo]

Highly recommend the Prusa MK4/Mini+ series of printers. The guy who owns Prusa is very passionate about 3d printing and since getting my Mini+, it has received several updates still to this day which improve the experience so much. I picked Prusa because I wanted a printer that didn't need tinkering, something that could sit for months unused and be perfectly fine when asked to print again. Every print has been super reliable, and I haven't had to do anything to it other than firmware updates.

[@TheSaltyExplorer]

Fun fact: you can use that 3d printer to print another 3d printer! Well, just the framework and some supporting hardware, but still… a machine that can create machines! Sort of

[@ExtraFungus]

You're really bad at 3d printing and I find it amazing. But I think part of your problem is just poor guidance.

[@KillerEnder37]

I am a noob at 3d printing, why is he so bad?

[@ExtraFungus]

@@KillerEnder37 there's a lot of variables in 3d printing, getting good at it means you need to know those variables, be able to print a part, understand what needs to be changed to make it better by looking at it and do it again. Eventually you develop settings that work well for your machine and filament and you just have minimal adjustments and settings to make. If you get into smarter and better made Bambu machines it's easy easier, but you're going to pay a premium. And this is really something you should expect from all CNC machines. Wether be a spindle or a laser, those just have less variables. You cut something, you don't like the way it chattered, so you need to change your speeds, feeds, cutting tool, fixturing or make a change to the machine for stability.

[@KillerEnder37]

@@ExtraFungus I understand your point (I’m kind of going through the process myself right now), but I don’t get why that means he is bad… From the video he is basically trying different things to get good prints, I assume he tried adjusting other settings and when that didn’t work he tried a similar process with the hardware itself…

[@ExtraFungus]

@@KillerEnder37 he's bad at it because he's not reading the prints and understanding the changes he needs to make. And this comes down to not utilizing the wealth of info you have online and feedback you can get from other people if you're still not getting it.

[@ppg_forever]

printingforparts

[@greatgooglymooglyoriginal]

You should 3d print a new crypto coin.

[@ahbushnell1]

Learn support

[@gigifrana940]

Use orca slicer 😉 don't waste your time with cura slicer or whatever creality software puts on their card 😁

[@elijah3807]

Please dont turn into a product review channel.

[@saveitforparts]

The product review ones are usually extra videos during the week, with my regular videos on Wednesday.

[@cuoops]

I like his reviews. I've been watching him for years and I don't see no problem with it. He gives an honest opinion I trust it. He has about the same skill level I do so it's cool... And he uses junk to make stuff work lol😅

[@april7_]

I have different experience using Ender 3 Pro over 5 years and I love it's manual bed. If I correctly remember I once leveled it years ago and it has worked ever since. Done lot of RV parts and many car parts like hinges for hat shelf or older cars and other parts that you can not get any more, mostly from Thingiverse of course. This new one seems a lot of faster but as I only print small objects no need for speed 😆