Why Are People Saying The Kobra 3 Is Bad?

[@CaptainHowdyOG]

I agree with you amigo. I'm loving my combo. Any errors I've had are user, elements or random stuff. Nothing I could really blame on the machine. The slicer has improved markedly and I agree connection issues seem to pop up. But not a deal breaker for me. Digging the vids. Keep them coming!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, i am enjoying the kobra 3 as well.

[@ddrmaxdan386]

Here is the my thoughts since i got it: It works well, but the only concerning thing is the extruder, if the filament breaks where the gears are, it's impossible to switch filament, it doesn't want to go strait and you're for a 30 minutes headache when skilled with 3d printers (got to do it without going to the wiki), and dismount like 75% of the head (you need to free it from the gantry as it's impossible to do it on the gantry). It works well with TPU (like too well when using their 3d photo finish preset on their slicer) the other concerning stuf is the filament funnel that causes some problems when loading filament, it would be a good thing if they added a passthrought block for when it's sold without the ACE or for when you use it for TPU or with only one spool (we can print the printables id 994862 to have a short receiver with only one PTFE tube input) to get rid of the problem , since we can swap it easily with only two screws

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah I did once it filament stuck in there but I got it out. You just need to remove the front cover of the print head, then remove the nozzle block to get access to the stuck filament inside.

[@802Garage]

That large print is really nice! I think you are on the right track with your channel, but a bit of advice if you don't mind. I would recommend adding B-roll and/or images to your video while you are talking. Ideally it would be videos and pictures you have taken, but even product images from the internet or videos by brands for brief periods would work well. Overall, it should increase your engagement a lot as people are more likely to watch than when it is just a talking head. Good luck!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks. I think that will be a good idea, adding short video clips while talking over it will be a lot better than just seeing me talking. I integrate that into future videos.

[@802Garage]

​@@Scratch3DPrintingYeah not the whole video of course, but a good mix. 😁

[@sunriseshell]

People say just about EVRY printer 'sucks'. Most of them are new or 'newish' to printing and don't know what to do when things aren't perfect. Heat soak the bed and hotend for like 20 min before leveling. I also do a heat soak before printing and it's working great. Just a slight tweak to Z when the skirt prints and it's perfect. The finish is easily the best I've had. Probably because it's my first printer with input shaping.

[@raynlaze1339]

What do you mean with heat soak? Like keep them heated for 20 minutes?

[@sunriseshell]

@@raynlaze1339 Yes

[@brunorrfernandes]

well, you got lucky my friend, i've the kobra 3 combo as same time as you, i've comment with you about that on a prior video, and the problems keep appearing, changed nozzle, x motor, belt, y rod, now is the ACE making problems, disconnecting randomly and making the nozzle clog, so or you get very very lucky or maybe there is a reason why people mention about the quality of the product and results.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully you'll get things sorted out.

[@amikell94]

I've had network issues with this printer with AnycubicSlicer Next not showing the print preparation options such as leveling, input shaping, time lapse, and AI Detection but the printer itself works great. Definitely an upgrade from the Ender 3 V3 SE. I do have adhesion issues with small models or articulated models on the stock PEI sheet. Switching to the gold PEI sheet once it arrives this weekend to see if results improve.

[@tanithis]

I am curious if the network issues are an Anycubic problem because the flashforge version of Orca does the same thing.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Sometime I do have the issues where it does not detect the 3d printer, but with a quick restart it detects it and works fine.

[@frozenepsilon5295]

I got one of the first batches and I’ve had a bunch of issues. Anycubic has been great with support and sending free parts but I don’t have the time to fiddle so much. Especially when the bed leveling seems to reset every time you turn it off and manual bed leveling sucks so much compared to other printers. Looking to sell mine and save for a Bambu labs printer.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Hope you get the printer that works with no issues. Good luck.

[@jesusbaez4390]

I have one too, I had the same issue with the leaking but also got it replaced. I like it a lot. super fast and I love the multicolor feature.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yes, i love how anycubic address the leaking issues and providing free nozzle replacement.

[@wochenendedestodes9015]

I had problems with my cobra 3. I'm 3d printing for 6 years now. The quality of printing is great but it had problems. My first nozzle had a production error and wasn't printing right. It was replaced and this solved the first problem. After drilling the first nozzle to 0.5mm it also worked perfect. After several flawless prints the filament detector sensor failed and I had to replace it. Know I hope that it won't brake again...

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah, lots of hardware issues. It could just be that you got a bad unit. Hope it will be working with no more problem.

[@juanramongomez2843]

In this case I dont agree with you, the black piece shows that the ender needs maitenance (maybe just a new noozle), this result is quite common when you have a damaged nozzle, I also have a Ender and a Kobra 3, and of course I can assure that the Kobra 3 is much better but not in the field you are refering, but for example we can say that is superior in: speed, lan connection, mobile app, the multicolorness, the camera (not included but is very cheap in the official store, this is the first thing I purchased for my printer), the touch and full color screen (I love the kobra 3 screen), the fact that the ace pro is ALSO a Dryer and maybe I am forgetting 2 o 3 features more that I love.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That could be the case, but as of now the ender 3 v3 is still printing fine, layers are good, no problems. It's just that it cannot print as high of an angle as the kobra 3. The kobra 3 combo is a good setup at a good price.

[@keaton7667]

I got the Kobra 2 Neo, and it's an absolute beast! It paid for itself. But of course, you will need to know how to tweak your slicer settings to get any printer to do what you want it to.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Messing with the 3d printer and getting it to work is the best feeling

[@t3po3]

I had issues with my Ender-3 at first getting consistent results. I’m doing the same with the Kobra 3. I see it’s like the E3 and I know eventually I’ll get used to its quirks.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah some 3d printer are like that and some printed great.

[@tanithis]

Love mine. Only problems I have had is the hotend got jammed once with the last bit of filament off of a roll, #4 of the ace is squeaky and next tends to crash sometimes if I don’t hit print fast enough

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Every 3d printer will fail at some point, but yeah the ACE seems to have a squeak or clicking noise in 1 of the 4 slots.

[@loganmacneil3424]

Got mine first wave from the early bird deal, aside from needing a tweak to its Z axis offset of 0.06mm its been a workhorse and combined with using cheap bed glue I havnt had a single first layer issue. I particularly enjoy hearing all the bambu shills loose their mind calling the Kobra 3 a bambu knockoff while bambu is going through a patent infringement lawsuit lol.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Lol, that last part got me. Yeah the kobra 3 is an amazing 3d printer. Have not have to adjust anything at all, out of the box and it's printing good. Glad to hear your is working fine.

[@marioperez2443]

I really like my printer. And also have the first layer issue, after that everything is ok, like others. Yeah, the first layer never come uniform, and that is almost ok. But after the update happened this: The printer clean itself, and the temperature goes from 170 to 140 and a little bit of plastics stays on the tip, then the printer take the center measurement and the z offset changes by itself with taking the plastic height as the new z offset and it finished print the first layer on the air. That is my only problem, but it is frustrating wait to the brim and adjust the z offset quickly on every print.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah each printer has its own fault. There's no 3d printer that can print first layer 100% perfect all the time.

[@rockels_journals]

It might also be hardware specific. I had returned 2 Bambu Lab P1S now. The first unit had great first layers (but was arrived with factory damage) The second unit seemed to have a problem on the z-axis and it's first layers sometimes were a hit or a mis compared to the first unit. So sometimes you even have to be lucky with the batch you got. And even at brands like Bambu Lab, quality control seems to be pretty bad. And you pay a lot more for those...

[@teresavanearden7458]

I had some hardware issues. I opened a ticket through their wiki page. Anycubic asked for a couple videos to figure out the problem. They have sent me all new parts. Unfortunately they come from China and I am in the US. So it takes a couple weeks. Once I got the parts my printer is working like a beast. I have around 220 hours of printing on it already.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's amazing to hear that they sent you new parts and now it's working.

[@teresavanearden7458]

@@Scratch3DPrinting they were really good with their customer service!

[@brunorrfernandes]

@@teresavanearden7458 that is completely true, the printer can have issues, but the support is even better than the bambulab one. so well done on that end.

[@albertovosgerauneto5107]

My personal experience with the Kobra 3 combo as someone who owned quite a few 3D printers already is that it's an incredibly unreliable printer. When it prints, it prints really well and it can achieve stellar quality, just as good as my previous Creality K1 Max, but you never know when you're gonna get a finished print. For the very first week I got 2 successful printers and almost two filament spools wasted. The first layer would never stick, then when it sticked the filament was breaking inside the ACE and then eventually I god a combination of firmware and slicer that worked. It was by far the worse initial experience I had with any printer in my 7 years 3D printing. Now that everything is sorted out, I still don't feel I can trust the printer. Sometimes it just gets feeding errors only to then resume as if nothing happened. Sometimes it says it's clogged but it's not. Eventually it throws me errors when calibrating the bed, but then I try again and it works. Then out of nowhere I get a few flawless days with amazing prints. I honestly believe most of its issues are fixable by firmware so I hope to see this printer being as good as it is in your experience, whenever I get a finished printer I'm amazed by the quality it can achieve.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah people have says they experience some of those problems, same here. Anycubic just drop some new firmware so hopefully it fixes more things.

[@SledgeHammer-ht2rq]

Your videos are very informative. Good job. Kobra 3 is a solid printer. In my case everything works fine, except the bed leveling (abl w. LeviQ). And i dont mean the offset. Thats not the problem. Bcause the OS is not open, i cant really figure out, why the compensation with an abl dont work. I am not able to print big objects on the full size bed. Thats a no-go in the year 2024. My another old 3d printer from 2018 works excelent with a blTouch (upgraded by myself). It compensates an uneven bed perfectly. With a perfect 1st layer. If you can, it would be great to see, how.your printer prints afull size bed 1st layer. Or did i miss it...?

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah sometimes many 3d printer have problem doing the first layer on the full bed. Mine works, I show it in my review of the kobra 3 that I made like 3 months ago. It printed the first layer, the best I have seen from my 3d printers.

[@cristianosorio32]

I have the Kobra 3 combo, and I’ve made some very good prints in good print times. However, it has been a headache, I always have a hardware issue with it and I have to take it to technical service. This week it definitely stopped working; the temperature shows over 700 degrees Celsius with the hotend completely cold, and the print head does not perform any action. If I press the button to perform homing, the printer does nothing. I will share a video and I’ll see how to tag you so you can see it, but I must say that what I have been able to print has a very good finish

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's great to hear. It's sad that you gotten a bad kobra 3, usually is the temperature showing 700c and it's not heating up then you got a bad thermistor sensor, and need a replace hotend. If it's not homing then the whole print head has gone bad. If you just got the 3d printer then maybe contact Anycubic and see if they can do anything. Good luck!

[@teresavanearden7458]

I have had hardware issues with my printer. I went into their wiki page and made a ticket. I sent a couple videos so they could see the issue. They sent me all new parts for everything. Now my printer works like a beast.

[@kwynton]

They have completely revamped the firmware 3 times since it launched due to several issue, i bought one to try it. The printer has potential but its not there yet a printer of this caliber shouldn't have to be tuned not to mention the base speed feels like a printer from 2015, if your not woried about multicolor get a kobra 2 pro if u want multicolor get an a1.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah, there are many other options of 3d printer out there. Each one has their own flaws.

[@mikaelputs]

the kobra 3 is not bad but it's not just buy and use, I'm having a problem with the alignment of the first bed and I'm not sure if I'll be able to get around it, it's as if the table came crooked from the factory , the hotend I requested a warranty because my blowout, I got around it by applying silicone for car engines on the conections, these are small things that with time you can fix but if you don't have time don't buy it

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Did you tighten the screw under the bed, they said that will make the bed more leveled.

[@mikaelputs]

@@Scratch3DPrinting yes but it's still the same, I'm trying to use washers to level "manually"

[@i_aint_hydrated]

What settings do you use to get it to print so fast? Does this work on more complicated prints or/and with PLA filament?

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I change the flow rate to 23mm/3 and uncheck the slow down option, and do 600mm/s for printing speed.

[@kronisknatur]

I learned this on another KZbin channel. If you have the kind of Offset that you have there. Is it a good idea to turn off the slowed down overhang. it was supposed to give a smoother surface. well enough it was on a Bambu printer, but I think it must be the same in the orca slicer. p.s. this has been translated from danish to english so i hope it works.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah, you're right, the speed and flow rate effects those kind of offset when it has something poking out like the model I have there. There is a setting in Orcaslicer to turn off slow down overhang.

[@_ThatOneRobloxPlayer_]

Hey those prints from the kobra look great i have one and i cant get such a good print what setting are you using

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, I'm just using the default settings the 0.2mm one. I change speed, infill, layer height, and adjust the temperature based on the filament I'm using.

[@Lorddarthvader1701]

I have one, I still believe that look it's a 3D printer, they all have their quirks. I deal and print plain and simple. Not downing it just work with it and get printing Good video

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, yeah each 3d printer has it's own problem. Just need to deal with it and make it better.

[@moeharley8801]

My Kobra 3 has a warped bed autoleveling can‘t compensate. Still trying to figure out whats wrong… should have bought a bamboo…

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Not all 3d printers are perfect, navy you can open a ticket with anycubic and see what they can do.

[@moeharley8801]

@ i did now. I know. I don’t want perfect, i just want to be Anke to print normaly. In this state its useless for me

[@tubekau]

if....bambu enables 2 ams lite on the a1s, i might forget my plan of buying anycubic kobra, but i admit, the kobra 3 combo is far cheaper than a1.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yes, I heard the a1 is a good 3d printer as well. But you can't beat the price on the Kobra 3.

[@computechguy2063]

I'm doing fine with my Kobra 3. But Anycubic dropped a slicer update recently. After I updated and reopened the slicer, and my printer was gone. Others had the same issue. Don't upgrade that Anycubic slicer next .

[@calilifestyle]

that's weird , i don't recall the Anycubic Next Slicer removing the Anycubic 1.4.4 slicer. I know i ended up with 2 version of the slicer. All original slice models were still i that slice.

[@tanithis]

Next is a different program so it makes sense that you have to add the printer again. I have both installed

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

@computechguy2063 I have mine to the latest version and nothing is wrong with it. I guess I'm just luck. Hope you will get your kobra 3 working again.

[@ДанилЛарионов-д7х]

то что вы приводите в пример никак не связано с принтерами, а с настойками и программами для нарезки. Кобра 3 в целом не плох, еслиб не его прошивка, если бы изготовитель не мудрил а установил туда чистый клипер то пользователям было бы проще получать хороший результат. сравнивая ender 3 v3 ke и kobra 3 combo я отдаю предпочтение ender, а kobra взял только из-за многоцветной печати. может через год пользователи сами доделают прошивку и принтер до хорошего результата.

[@dougpeterson5186]

Share your slicer settings

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I just use the default settings, with change in speed, infill, and layer height. I don't change that much settings.

[@kwynton]

The problems you are listing are very fixable those errors can be fixed by changeing to orca slicer.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

True, but doing so, it lost the lan/remote printing.

[@shahshahram]

I sold my Kobra 3 for half the price I paid. I've never had such a bad 3D printer. I would recommend everyone to pay a little more and buy a Bambulab A1 with AMS. the difference is incredible. Out of box A1 works great. I will never buy an Ancubic product again. I also have Kobra 2 MAx and am just having problems with it.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

The A1 is a good 3d printer. It could just be that you gotten a bad Kobra 3, it happens.

[@nekrosoft13]

My Kobra 3 combo, zero issues. Either you don't know you are doing, or you got a bad sample.

[@bobbydigital9323]

After having a bad experience with an anycubic chiron , i will never buy any anycubic printer ever again. But i still like to watch this channels videos, even if it's about a printer i dont like!

[@MikeMPharmaCyclist]

I have two 2 kobra 2 Maxes and one Kobra 3 combo with another on the way. They have been excellent.

[@bobbydigital9323]

@shahshahram i see them on local auction sites. Do you think its worth getting to try out? I suppose i can sell it if i dont like it

[@vablackbelt]

People who have bad experiences are always louder than those who are working fine, even the Bambu has flaws

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That is true. People who have a good working 3d printer just print. But those that have problem will try to figure out a solution and post stuff online on their problem.

[@scottmcbride2237]

It's OK to start out with but there are better ones out there.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah, there are always a better 3d printer out there. This one is fine.

[@scottmcbride2237]

@Scratch3DPrinting you said it. "IT'S FINE" it's ok. That's what I said. It's fine to start out on. Good luck

[@majkysilipa]

its your ACE ok already? I soo you have poblem with it ...

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Still the same clicking noise, but no problem at all.

[@shanepearce1629]

not my first printer but by far the worst printer i have owned i would not recommend it for first time buyers first time i used it well and truly clogged up i think you will find the clicking in the ace is from eaten printer filament under the gears and cogs out of my printers i would rank it just better then my tronxy xy2 pro worser then ender 5 pro behind voxelab aquila voxelab aquila c2 voxelab aquila pro and a mile behind my flashforge adventurer 5m

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You might have gotten a bad unit or something, you can request a free nozzle replacement from Anycubic. Some people find the Kobra 3 very bad and some find it good. I will have to re-check my ACE pro to see if there are any stuck filaments.

[@nick4088]

Anycubic sucks period. They don't support their printers. No profiles or anything. They love to make hardware, not software. I have two Kobra 2 Max and a Mono X 2 and Mono X 6K and the kobra's were bad bad. I got rid of the kobra's for $200. I have an X1C and an A1 now and they are 10x better ten Anycubic. I will not buy Anykobra anymore., Why replace the hotend when it will leak again.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah, their software aren't the best but since they updated their slicer it works better now. I need to get my self a bambu lab 3d printer and see for myself. I have the new nozzle and it has no leak since.

[@dougpeterson5186]

My vyper is way better then my kobra 3

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's good to know.

[@davidwilson4669]

I have been printing for more than 5 years, and I own 5 printers of different brands this printer is the worst ever, I will never buy another Anycubic product again. Without a doubt, this is the worst pile of crap I have ever seen.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Dang, you must gotten a bad unit. Just get the 3d printer that works best for you. Good luck.