Ender 3
V3
SE
let's go.
The Ender range has been synonymous with budget 3d printing since 2018 and there have been
a LOT of enders since then.
This one is the latest...
Hello?
Oh hi creality how's it going?
Ender 3 V3?
What?
This isn't the End...Oh this is the SE?
I thought SE meant secon....Oh okay.
Gotcha.
Cool.
This one is ONE of the latest in the Ender family tree, not to be confused but totally
going to be confused with the teased but not yet released Ender 3 V3 that's going to be
revealed in about a week.
This ender 3, the SE, is really following the true Ender path, as a budget machine that
runs marlin offline, and is aimed squarely at beginners.
Headline features include twin Z screws, linear railrods, and full auto leveling, and that
last one is definitely the biggest in my opinion, we'll look at that in a minute.
On the face of it it looks pretty normal and endery but if you spin the machine round you
see that there's some interesting thing going on here.
I'm no engineer but this looks like bespoke Z extrusion and I...think it's done for rigidity,
it also makes the front look a bit nicer by hiding some of the hwheels.
Also with regards to the frame we have some interesting design elements like this stepper
is here and not...let me get steve, cmon steve.
Steve's got a sticky outy bit here - they've moved the stepper to inside the frame, that's
nice from a footprint point of view because it takes less room and makes it look neater.
You can also see that where steve has wheels the V3 SE has no wheels.
This is the future and this is why I think this machine will be so big.
Let me take the hotend to bits and show you.
You see this?
This is a crtouch.
This bit is a strain gauge.
It's normal to have one or the other, but they've put both in this machine.
I don't entirely know why but I can guess - these strain gauge based leveling systems
are very needy, the bambu has it and the K1 has it and they have to put a lot of effort
into cleaning the nozzle, but a crtouch is just a probe so it's quicker for mesh and
general leveling.
What a cr-touch doesnt do though is calculate z offset, the distance between here and here,
and that's why it has both.
You see the V3 SE is the first ender that is completely hands off.
You don't have to calibrate anything.
When I open the base I expect to see...actually you never quite know what you're going to
see in a creality printer..
(points randomly at stuff inside)
There's wires and...I went off script.
Something about ferrules.
I mean, it's a normal board.
And
there's loads of space in there, you could hide in there, and pretend you've gone to
get groceries.
Print quality wise, I am having exactly zero problems.
There's nothing to say.
It's a well known extruder/hotend combo, the same as the Ender 5 S1, and so it will work
fine, and that's what I'm seeing.
Things I don't like about this printer are the bed and the bed.
If you plan to buy it, just also get a PEI bed - creality do one that fits, but any old
ender bed will do, they're relatively cheap if you shop around.
The screws on the back can be removed, these are for when you have dents in the bed for
aligning it.
Things I do like are the user interface.
It's not touch screen even though I keep trying to, but it's very simple and logical, which
is something we haven't seen in a while.
It's close to Steve's UI but better.
Possibly the best UI on a bed slinger yet, I might speculate.
One final point which is almost certainly moot - my unit and a lot of other units have
a bent plate under here that taps the screw when it goes forward.
I haven't fixed it because I wanted to make sure I could film it, but it's just something
you need to slightly bend upward.
I've reported it back and I am sure that will be fixed on the release printer, but even
as is, it doesn't actually do anything unless you're really maxing out the bed which is
why it hasn't affected my prints.
So, conclusion time - this almost certainly is the next big ender, I fully expect this
to be hugely popular, the price is basically 200 dollars and for that money you're getting
a completely automated printer that okay, lacks some high end features, but still pumps
out pretty decent accurate prints and you don't even have to build it from a kit like
the ender 3 - it's the ideal printer for anyone who wants a basic trouble free calibration
free printer.
So what do you think?
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