On my previous video I showed you how to tighten the belts in your Ender three
and get better prints but I had some minor flaws on the side of my CHEP cube
I'm going to show you how I fix those and how I improved my profile for Cura
4.4 I'll share that profile with you and all the steps to get there on today's
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supporters. this is the Ender three that I used I use in a previous video
installed this dual gear drive and also these adjusters for the both the X and
the y-axis to tighten the belt and here was the result if you don't remember I
had these bumps on the side of the X and also elephant's foot at the bottom I
knew what this was I had the initial layer set to 120%
now you won't see this in the preview but it will flatten out so I just reset
it back to the hundred-percent but it was these bumps that I want to get rid
of and I thought maybe it was related to the seam so I thought maybe I had random
turned on but I didn't have a sharpest corner but smart hiding so because it's
got smart hiding you can see at layer 67 it's starting here at the X but when it
got up to 85 where those bumps appeared now it was actually starting in the corner
so this is essentially random with that smart hiding but I decided to try
something different many people have told me to use coasting and it'll get
rid of this so I figured I'd try because I haven't had a whole lot of luck with
coasting but I decided to try it and so I enabled coasting which says it will
basically stop extruding at a certain point based on these parameters and I
played around with them but the stock seemed to work pretty well and you can
see the gap it's doing it on every outer layer there's a gap or it just stops
printing plastic and it just kind of lets it ooze out and it definitely got
rid of the bumps but there's still some variation there so I decided to play
with the outer wall so I searched an outer wall and realized there's a wipe
distance that it could set I had it set to 0 and retract before outer wall I had
that enable so that was good so I decided to go back to that wipe distance
so I decided to try this wall wipe distance and it even says in cura it
helps hide the Z seams so I should have done this a while ago I set it to 0.4 or
the width of the nozzle and then you can see
in the preview it shows the wipe it actually finishes the layer and then
wipes into the print here it is in slow motion it goes over and into the print
so any excess that may end up being a blob goes into the print and when I
printed it this whole thing just looked a little bit better so I decided to try
another trick I've been playing with and that is to set the outer wall to 95
percent even though everything's flowing properly, make the outer wall a little
bit thinner and it doesn't really show it in preview, but this whole print
everywhere I look the edges of the X everything just looked a little bit
smoother by doing this and you can probably play with the percentage but I
really like the way this looked with all these new settings I decided to get rid
of the randomness and shut off smart hiding and put everything at the
sharpest corner maybe it'll turn out good but when I did that I still got a
lot of material on a corner of the X here so I wasn't real happy with that
and this got me thinking maybe random would work better so I went back to the
Z seam alignment setting and chose random now in the past this left little
extra plastic all over the print you can see where the coasting is now all over
the print but when I printed it it looked really good at 0.28 so then I
tried 0.20 and it looked fantastic so I tried 0.12, unbelievable.
this thing was just so smooth so good looking this is the best CHEP cube I
have ever produced next I printed a benchy at 0.20
layer height the sides are smooth the smokestack was perfect this is probably
the best Benchy I've ever printed on Ender three. I was gaining confidence in
this profile so next I printed my CHEP pawn and this thing is near-perfect
there is no seam on this round print absolutely no seam that I can find so I
tried print really small this is 25% size of the Phil A Mint matter hackers
test print the detail on this is incredible it looks really really good
with a point four nozzle. so I decided to stick with this profile for now. I love
the way these prints came out I even printed some bigger ones these are truly
the best prints I've gotten on my Ender three these are some of the best prints
I've produced at any Creality machine and to get them on a sub $200
it's pretty amazing. but there's always room for improvement so I'll keep
playing with them but until then, there is a link in the description below where you
can download these profiles and try them out for yourself. if you like what I'm
doing here maybe check out some of the other videos that are popping up. if you
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