What I DON'T like about the Anycubic Kobra 3!!!

I've seen a lot of people praising the Kobra 3 all over KZbin and Facebook, and my experience has not reflected that. This is my honest opinion about the #anycubic #kobra3 with ace system. If you still want one after watching this video, feel free to grab one at the link below from amazon or anycubic. Some links may earn commissions.
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[@IdiotCraftMan]

I've seen a lot of people praising the Kobra 3 all over KZbin and Facebook, and my experience has not reflected that. This is my honest opinion about the #anycubic #kobra3 with ace system. If you still want one after watching this video, feel free to grab one at the link below from amazon or anycubic. Some links may earn commissions. Anycubic kobra 3 pro-amazon amzn.to/4exDadC Kobra 3 combo-anycubic shrsl.com/4l1a8 My Etsy Shop! barksandbullets.etsy.com Filaments: Kingroon Grey Filament bundle: amzn.to/3KRgAPD Blue Gradient PetG: amzn.to/4begiwH Kingroon Multi Color Filament Bundle: amzn.to/4baTduR

[@Resin-Art-4beginners]

The Kobra 3 does have an auto leveling and claibration and now they have updated the firmware which I think re-levels it before every print. You can also turn off the purge tower and set the purge lower to stop a lot of waste , but it can cause colour bleeding

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

i set my purge to 0.5

[@house4rentPhoenix]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 waiting for mine to ship. i thought it did have auto leveling, im watching videos of that now. sorry but i stopped your video at that point, hard to determine fact from fiction

[@armitris]

I just got my printer. Hooked it up tightened everything ran calibration and it printed perfect every time. No issues. Love my prince with this Cobra 3 and I did get the ace with it

[@thepeacemaster1]

I have this printer and guess i was one of the lucky ones and didnt have any of these issues. All prints, normal and multicolor came out great.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

That’s awesome! I’m getting mine figured out slowly but surely

[@stiffler69er]

upto now my printer is doing its first print and looks perfect but i heard stories about certain printers not been as good as others in the kobra 2 series so this is probably the same i didnt even have to level mine

[@sniperpronerfmods9811]

I noticed on other reviews sample prints having extremely visible layer lines, as in auora tech channels... Terrible layer lines... Have you or anycubuc fixed this? Thanks for an honest review bro!

[@chadpepper801]

I did the early bird special. I started with setup and leveling and tried a test print that came on it. It doesnt adhese the first layers very well and if it makes it half way printing without slinging prints around, it does a major layer shift and drags the pringt around. I didnt get my camera and I havent been able to print since day 1 and now it just sits. Contacted Anycubic and nothing.

[@obtv6827]

I like the K3 for the convivence of changing colors for single color prints. If I do multi-color prints its by individual layers.

[@adamwg80]

I bought mine on Prime day on impulse. It is supposed to areive today. Not sure i will even open the box. I really want to like this one though. But i have the A1, the mini, and x1c. Im wrestling with my j1s at the moment and really don't want to add another headache. The mk3s+ chugs along as usual and bother nobody. I don't know if the k3 will get along with the others.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

I’ve heard from many people that their run with 0 issues. My experience may very well be an outlier. I will tell you that when mine works, it’s awesome. Quite a few of the issues i had were because of software, which has since been fixed

[@DigitalGenXer-zi4su]

Thanks for the video. In my experience, the Kobra 3 is amazing! It's very fast and the prints are amazing! I didn't really adjust anything. Maybe I was lucky.

[@archemity]

this is the exact vid I was looking for. I have a Bambu A1 mini, A1, and a P1S. Placed an order for the Kobra 3 combo because it looks nicer and is cheaper than the A1 combo, on July 1st. To this day, they still hasn't ship it. I just canceled the order and got a refund. Then placed an order for another A1 combo. I don't want to have to deal with a machine where I have to calibrate and adjust stuff to get good prints. The Bambu just makes good prints on its own.

[@BTGDelta]

Thanks for sharing, you've done a decent review and mentioned all the weak spots of kobra 3, but to be honest, I wouldn't say that it's a bad product. I just recently got my Kobra 3 and it's a steal. At this price point I expect some amount of jank from a 3d printer, but so far it was way better than my previous kobra 2 pro. There are many things with their printers that require you to take a deep dive into servicing and setting up 3d printers, instead of just printing your stuff. For example, from watching your video, I think your printer could use either an x-axis gantry tramming or leveling the bed. Also, print speeds are mostly marketing wank, if you are not printing a high volume of commercial stuff, go with the slow/quiet mode. The prints will be way more consistent. Multicolor prints are notoriously wasteful, which is true for most of multicolor 3d printers, since purging the hot end every time costs a lot of filament. One undeniable major pain point is the software side of things. Anycubic slicers do the job, but they are very lacking in options. You can get better results if you set up stuff properly with orca, but then you are forced to go with USB drives. The whole anycubic cloud thing kinda sucks honestly. And that's where I hope to see some improvements over the next months.

[@MrJlhhagood2]

Right out the box you're wrong. Bambu fan boy or didn't spend any time on the kobra3

[@IdiotCraftMan]

What am i wrong about?

[@anthonyfigueroa2395]

I think those lvling problems and stuff happened in the beginning because your printhead wasnt properly put together and you put it all up and ran it thats why it wouldnt lvl and you had a volcano inside your nozzles printhead...and why agter you cleaned it out and retightened the print head youve had little problems perhaps..you almost had me man i ordered one yesterday and saw this today...but im glad your story helps us put everything together...at least for ourselves lol.. ty

[@calilifestyle]

Man i got mine in the box and had for a week. I now need to get this thing things setup and make sure everything works. If not i might just send it back. thanks

[@risraels]

You mentioned the camera, prepare for more disappointment. I got mine, also shipped separately from the printer and filament. It's the lens, board and cable, you have to print the enclosure. It goes underneath the left side of the x-axis bar close to where the cable and filament tubes go through on the side. You'll see the circle and rectangular holes in the metal bar there, that's where it connects.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

That’s not ideal. Is it at least any good? Does it record at all, or just monitor?

[@risraels]

@@IdiotCraftMan I'm doing my first print with the camera after printing the housing and installing it. It looks like real-time monitoring through the app so far, and the refresh rate doesn't look too bad but the quality isn't great, but that's as expected...I don't see any recording option in the app, unfortunately. It's a bit odd because to use the camera, the lights on the printhead are disabled, so the image is pretty dark, though the camera has lights on it but they're not on...unsure if mine is defective (wouldn't be surprised) The mobile app doesn't show an LED option but the anycubic slicer workbench section does, but it's not selectable. Also if you try to view the camera from the app and anycubic slicer, one will timeout, not a huge issue, but I thought it was interesting. Also haven't experienced any of their ai sensing abilities for the camera, so I can't speak to that. I have only tested it via Wi-Fi so not sure how the image would do over cellular.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

@@risraels Thanks for the info. I don't know when I'll be receiving mine, but I had a critical failure on my Kobra, so I gotta fix it back up and recalibrate and all that.

[@risraels]

@@IdiotCraftMan Me too... I've got constant sensor errors and it can barely get through an auto level. It even fails that most of the time. Support thinks it may be a bad strain gauge, but we'll see...I think they may send a new one out.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

@@risraels I will give them credit. Their customer service and support is top-tier.

[@aronjaeger]

i agree with the point about the slicer. i hope you can use the printer with the cura slicer im the future. otherwise i'm going to use the orca slicer too if it's easier this way

[@fidllercom]

thank you friend! This is a good video. I think you were able to save many people from making an early purchase.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

I really wanted to love this printer, and it’s been much more of a struggle than i anticipated.

[@CTBoater1]

Just got my Kobra 3 this is only my second printer my first was an Anycubic I3 Mega which I had done some minor upgrades too over time but it's been an awesome printer so I figured lets give this a shot it's time to upgrade to higher speed and multi color. Not sure what is causing the issues here but all I can say is mine has printed almost perfectly right out of the box. Just a couple tweaks in the slicer (using the Anycubic Orca Beta) and items I have just printed recently on my old printer are even better on the new one in 1/5 to 1/8 the time in single color. Multi color prints have come out well considering how new the tech is. I did some prints with the shipped firmware and some with the latest firmware all were great. I wouldn't let one persons issues stop me from buying a Kobra 3, I hate to see something being bashed that doesn't deserve it in my opinion.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

I’m glad your machine is working for you! I love the company, and would recommend their products to anyone for sure! I got a bad unit, and am in the process of getting it replaced! Hoping to put out a new video shortly!

[@CTBoater1]

@@IdiotCraftMan So if I understand you correctly this review means nothing more than you got a bad printer and didn't like it which we know can happen no matter what the brand and decided to put a review together to voice your frustration?

[@IdiotCraftMan]

@@CTBoater1 when i put this review out initially, there weren’t many videos about this machine out yet. I was sharing my experience, and yes, my frustration. My experience seems to be an outlier for the most part, but i have come across many people who have had similar issues to mine, and there were some issues that the company addressed, ie, slicer issues.

[@alcawmk]

You mentioned that the Kobra 3 doesn't come with any sort of auto leveling or auto calibration. That is false, as it states it directly on the Anycubic website that it does. I'm racking my brain on which to buy and that piece of false information almost made my decision.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

It has the options to run those on the machine. What i was saying is that it doesn’t run a full calibration before each print like other machines do, which has caused print issues for me.

[@MelchiorumJS]

He said that Kobra doesn’t run it when starting a print, not that it doesn’t come with it. He was talking about printing speed, and the point was to contrast the fact that Bamboo runs the levelling every time and Kobra doesn’t. Later on he explicitly says he ran the levelling, so obviously it does come with it.

[@thepeacemaster1]

I'm sure you could add the gcode to make it auto level each print correct?

[@IdiotCraftMan]

@@thepeacemaster1 I've been told that it will soon be a feature in the slicer, and you can select which calibrations you do or do not want to run for each print.

[@BuzzingGoober]

​@MelchiorumJS why would you want to run it before every print? There's no point.

[@aronjaeger]

try enabling z hop to prevent layershifting. it works on my kobra one. i hope it will work the same with the kobra 3

[@EdimusMaximus85]

Could you please do a video on "dialing" or tuning this thing in? I can't find anything on how to.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

That is currently in the works!

[@enosunim]

They have a lot of software issues which they fix on the fly. You know that 'agile' methodology, when someone sells crap, and fixes it until it sells or get bankrupt = ). Computer games are often sells with this method. Glad you could make it. This machine does not look like you can do much with it.

[@ElectroMac74]

its kind of unfortunate because i had i wonderful experiences with their consumer service very committed

[@IdiotCraftMan]

Their customer service has been the best of any 3d printer company I’ve dealt with so far!

[@jebus182]

It's a shame, I had a Kobra 1, it was so easy to print with. A few times I accidentally gave it the gcode for a Bowden style ender 3 and it didn't even care.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

@@jebus182 yeah I had a cobra Neo and that thing was easy as pie touse! once you get the Z offset correctly set, it ran like a dream

[@dukebrandon1988]

Thank you! Was about to waste my money on this thing

[@chrisaddlesee4664]

A lot of people have recieved the printers with a slightly loose nozzle, that made a big difference for me!

[@IdiotCraftMan]

I haven’t heard that yet! Interesting!

[@sniperpronerfmods9811]

​@@IdiotCraftMandid your nozzle end up being loose?

[@IdiotCraftMan]

@@sniperpronerfmods9811 weirdly no

[@sniperpronerfmods9811]

@@IdiotCraftMan I got mine in... It's great minus I messed with z adjustment and rammed into the pro sheet

[@oneanother1]

I hope they get it all sorted out quickly. I definitely don't want to be tied to their slicer for the multicolor. They have to make it compatible with other slicer if they want to sell them. Seems like the bwmbulab a1 is just way better for the money. The kobra3 resembles a lot like the kobra2pro hardware wise. If they can get their multicolor to work on other printers, than that's a big plus. Otherwise, bwmbulab a1 is better for the money.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

Agreed. I’ve had a lot of problems with this printer in general. Not just with multi color.

[@mccainben5]

I have a profile built for prusa that works for this printer. Someone else built it and distributed it. I haven't printed much with it yet because I clogged my nozzle and they had it installed so tight that I twisted it in half. Waiting for new hot ends now...

[@petercallison5765]

I have both printers and both are very good but you get a lot more for the money with the Kobra. Bear in mind that the ACE is equivalent to the AMS not the AMS Lite. It is early days so keep an open mind.

[@mundanealpha9665]

I didn’t get my filament or camera with mine

[@IdiotCraftMan]

It comes separately!

[@mundanealpha9665]

@@IdiotCraftMan I’m new to 3d printing what slicer do you recommend for multi color printing?

[@IdiotCraftMan]

@@mundanealpha9665 it depends on what you are looking for, but orca slicer is currently my favorite. Anycubic has launched their orca based slicer on their site. It is still in beta version, so you are not able to use wifi capabilities with it yet, but it is the most reliable version I have found. Here is the link to download it directly from anycubic. www.anycubic.com/orcaVersionDownload

[@TheDeadManSwitch]

Someone who is having a belt tension problem and then consistently accuses Z offset shouldn't ever make any reviews. Ever. If you see other Kobra 3's printing properly and yours is printing very not proper, that is a you problem or you have a dud. This whole Bambu Blower Cult just makes me want to get out of 3D printing. You see the same issues with their products but never the shame, only hand waving. It's as if you have to pay in the thousands for a 3D printer in order to not feel inferior. Bambu has really made the space such an elitist wasteland.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

Thanks for the information. I had issues with both z offset, and belt tension. When anycubic contacted me, they were able to replicate some of the issues i was having on their side, and are actively working to correct it. I’m more than happy to discuss issues with bambu printers as well, which I have. That being said, when they fix the issues on their end, i will be posting an update video. I’ve also made several videos giving credit to much cheaper machines being able to keep up with bambu printers, and try to give helpful information about my experiences. If you want nothing but glowing reviews for anything that isn’t a bambu, then my channel isn’t for you. I give all the machines that i test a fair shake, and discuss what i do and don’t like, and the things that i did wrong. Cuz there’s a good chance that if i did something stupid and wrong, someone else out there probably did too.

[@petercallison5765]

Remember when the Prusa shills had to make comments on every printer review.

[@enosunim]

This printer have trouble with firmware, so it may not save settings (like Z offset). Common trouble sadly for those printers. Preassure advance also does not work until you upgrade firmware, which as far as I know also does not work over wifi network, you should do this manually over thumb-drive downloading firmware from the website. So you should not accuse someone before you make some research yourself.

[@cdnbrit]

I just like the p1s. I put it together, turned it on and it immediately printed something which looked pretty damn good. As you know it does all of its own bed, leveling and calibrations. That's too bad about this printer but then again this is cheap and this printer is also probably rushed to market.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

I think it’s something they could easily correct with a software update. But who knows if they will.

[@brunorrfernandes]

now i'm worried, i've bought this printer because of your excitment on this product, and now you have this opinion... crap...

[@IdiotCraftMan]

I might have gotten a rare lemon. Anycubic saw my video and reached out to me. They seem genuinely concerned about the experience that I’m having with my machine. Don’t lose hope just yet.

[@SuperJoycem]

Have you received yours yet ? If so, could you let me know how things are going with it please?

[@brunorrfernandes]

Nope, was sent like 2 days ago from the warehouse

[@SuperJoycem]

Thanks for your reply. The one I ordered has been in the delivery depot for the last 2 days but still no sign of delivery. Hopefully we'll get them soon 🤞

[@SuperJoycem]

I'd ordered mine on 11th June but knew it would take a while.

[@iserlohner_tastings7169]

Hmmmm🤔 I think, you‘ve a monday maschine😅

[@kennykobi]

Aesthetics man it's for the 80% of people that are going to use the cloud and that way there's not dust in other objects that go in there. Regardless it's nice to see that someone is being somewhat critical but putting something together is actually better so you understand a little bit more about the machine. Instead of always having to contact support.. You're layer shifting has to do with your z-axis belt being way too loose. I mean it's a turn of it now it's not rocket science. Aurora tech put it together no problem had no issues so I don't understand because you did not like that you're to put together that you're going to pick at a company that literally is the reason why Bambu is cheaper now.. home the z axis. Along with a level calibration but usually it is not many people know to just home the z-axis. It seems like you just want your viewers to applaud you for putting it together properly. Also orca slicer exactly is bambu like all you have to do is transfer your bambu profile. And that is not true because you can use and fill flush within orca to eliminate waste. You also paid 415$ no shipping

[@IdiotCraftMan]

Yes the belts needed tightening, Which I did before printing and all that. I have no problem with putting together a 3d printer, I have about a dozen of them, most of which had to be put together. The whole point was saying that this machine(in my experience) is not as beginner friendly as many others on the market right now. There are more and more people buying 3d printers for their kids, or who may just be wanting to get into it to experience something new. From my experience, this has not been a beginner friendly printer, as I am still having issues with it. That being said, I love the company. Anycubic has been in direct contact with me to resolve the issues that I have been experiencing, as well as fixing issues they have been able to replicate on their end. I'm hoping that I will shortly be able to put out a video about this working correctly, but so far, I stick by my statement, that this is a machine for an experienced printer, who doesn't mind tinkering with this machine.

[@davedempsey5282]

Aurora Leung says it's faster, it's faster.

[@IdiotCraftMan]

With stock settings running side by side, they finished at roughly the same time, with the kobra printing much worse. I haven’t been able to run side by side multi color prints, because the kobra keeps messing them up. So for me, it doesn’t matter if it can go faster, if it can’t finish a print.

[@enosunim]

Hey dudes, even Ender 3 (the first model) on stock belts and motors is not much slower than Bambu X1C printer, which is the most advanced to this day, just upgrade firmware and install DD. So speed and all that head shaking is just pure marketing. You should choose what is more comfortable for you, not what have better marketing = ) For me $100 Ender 3 is better than X1C. Well, Prusa XL5 would be better, but price is incomparable. But I do not mind to print some parts on printer and install them. With correct setting Ender 3 is very reliable and cheap, and can be quite fast too. But I talk only about first model, others are BS in my opinion. But people buy them and use, and have different opinions. Someone thinks you need BS-touch and second Z spindle. I am not spending my money on those useless tools. It works alright without those. So it depends. There are FlashForge clones of Bambu P and X models now, people say they are quite good. I would not buy those too though. Ender 3 works find for me. It does not need any maintenance as it have only POM wheels and Z spindle, which also can be upgraded to POM nut. Not greasing at all. I am a lazy man. And Bambu clones have rails and shafts and complicated boards which are not cheap and so on and so forth. So it really depends.

[@davedempsey5282]

@@enosunim This is PATENTLY false.

[@enosunim]

It depends what speeds do you compare. Most printers are marketed as 500mm/s or 600mm/s or 1000mm/s. But they do not tell you real flow limit and that those speeds are only on certain plastic type and brand. So every printer speed is a lie. Even Bambu. Its base templates for example use only 10000 accelerations. While every video you see they repeat and repeat 20000 accelerations! While printer template have 20000, in printing template (normal, draft etc) default is 10000. And those actually does not change a lot, just set 5000 and it will print a bit slower, and may be not so spectacular. Even Bambu on high speed PLA will have maximum speed of 450 (from their official template) but only on 0.08 layer height. It will not print on 0.2 layer faster then 300. So it depends on template and settings and what do you 'define' with 'faster'.

[@playuk-tiktok]

i have had mine for 1 day and im already having problems with the ace pro were number 3 is not working at all anycubic said its a blockage i do belive its more faulty tho