Creality Ender 3 V3 KE Review: So cheap, what's the catch?!

[Music] hey there RC girl here today we're taking a look at one of the latest editions to the very affordable creality ender3 Line This is the ender3 V3 K don't let the name distract you this is a really great printer if you're looking to start 3D printing for the very first time and or expand your print Farm on the cheap this should definitely be at the top of your list to consider for under 300 bucks this one is packed with a ton of features that make it really accessible for a beginner 3D printer this one has Auto bed leveling Auto Z offset wireless printing 500 mm of second Max printing speed in this video we'll talk about the main features of the ender3 V3 K we'll walk through the workflow of getting your first print with this and also take a look at some of my test prints make sure to stick around to the end I'm going to walk through some pros and cons to to consider before picking one of these up let's get [Music] printing before we dive in I want to say a huge thank you to our 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description box below or visit betterhelp.com rcir clicking the link helps to support my channel but also gives you 10% off your first month with better help thank you for letting me be vulnerable with you I super appreciate better help for sponsoring this video if you watch my channel I'm into the radio control hobby so a lot of my printing has focused on printing things like these scale accessories this cool 110 scale surfboard and this cool 110 scale trailer which was actually like 37 pieces my first ever 3D print project I am pretty new to 3D printing myself this is my second fdm printer and this was definitely a low frustration experience I've been testing this out for about a month now have a bunch of prints on it and we've been getting really great results this is available on Amazon it was shipped to me by an Amazon Seller to feature on my channel I will put a link in the description box below if you want to check it out one really amazing feature is that it had a 20 minute setup time since the printer comes largely assembled it is a super quick process to get it unboxed and assembled and ready to print in the box you'll get all the assembly Hardware a quick start guide some stickers tools including a rod to unclog the nozzle some Flush Cutters for snipping your filament and cleaning up your prints as well as some grease for the rails it also includes a thumb drive with the full manual creality print slicer software as well as a Beni test print if you don't want to use the wireless function you can also use the USB to transfer your prints from your computer to the printer and they include a little bit of hyper white pla filament I'll link out to a step-by-step assembly process if you want to follow that three basic tips though when assembling this make sure that you are assembling it on a flat surface so that everything is aligned and comes together squarely one thing I like is this printer is relatively compact even though it is a bed Slinger design where we have the bed moving around it doesn't have a huge footprint though you do want to have enough space to keep the bed from knocking anything second very important tip make sure you set the right voltage there is a little slot on the side with a red switch that you can toggle to the left or the right to set the proper voltage for the US that's 115 elsewhere that's going to be 230 and then lastly this is somewhat of a loudish printer if you're putting it in a bedroom probably not the best for you running your prints overnight or you might not get very good sleep all right let's take a look at this printer and its features in more detail for the price tag it has really solid construction it doesn't feel cheap it has a solid metal Gantry here plastic base to keep cost down nice R feet on the bottom to keep it stable this is a beds Slinger model compared to core XY printers with this one the print head moves along our x axis the bed moves along the Y AIS and the Gantry is along our z-axis this has a decent build volume 220x 220 X 240 mm a little bit smaller than the build volume of my Ender 5 S1 but really will print most of the items that I'm interested in size-wise bed Slinger models tend to be a little bit cheaper they are harder to enclose though I have seen people make custom enclosures for these here is our hot end this is a component of the printer that melts the filament for Extrusion this printer is compatible with pla petg TPU and abs briefly different filaments have different properties including strength and melting temperature depending on the use case as a beginner I definitely start with pla I use petg for things that need to be strong and TPU is the filament you'd want to use for flexible things like this can hat we have our filament spool up top here the filament provided with the printer doesn't come with the spool so it definitely got all tangled up during my first test prints with the Beni however on a spool had no issues with it it has a filament run out sensor here I thought this had to be tightened but it actually moves around as the printer is moving so you don't want that to be tight kind of a weird design but it seems to work fine so far we have our heated bed down here it comes with a really nice Pei flexible build plate it's magnetic has these two little notches you can snap it right in place when you put it back on I haven't really had any adhesion problems the only time I had adhesion problems is when I didn't have my z-axis set properly otherwise prints stick really well to this this comes with auto bed leveling so there is a sensor it'll automatically detect how off your bed is and compensate for that in your printing another great thing that this has that my other printer doesn't have is auto Z offset so it has a pressure sensor and it's going to get your Z offset or how close the print head is to the print bed pretty spoton for you you might have to make a couple adjustments at the start of your print but it does a good job at getting it really really close over here we have a really nice color touchcreen this printer is using its own creality operating system which is based off the popular Clipper firmware people have been calling it Clipper light we'll talk a little bit about some of the challenges of this new operating system later on in the video one thing I love about this this comes with wireless printing capabilities out of the box so you can send your printers wirelessly from your computer to the printer we have two USB slots here on the side you can use them for your USB thumb drive for transferring your prints or connecting a camera and other sensors which can be purchased separately because this is connected to the internet you can also get your firmware updates wirelessly which is really nice this has a 500 mm/ second Max printing speed which is twice the speed of my Ender 5 S1 if you're wanting Max detail like I am you're probably not going to want to run your prints at 500 mm/ second but I've been getting really quality prints at faster printing speeds all right we talked about the main features of the printer now let's walk through getting our first prints first we're going to install our filament this printer has a neat autoload and unload feature so we're going to go into our settings and click on extrude retract here at the top that's basically going to help you load and unload your filament we're going to make sure our filament is cut at a 45° angle using the Flush Cutters provided from the printer we're going to feed it through the filament runout sensor pull down this tab here and then we're going to slot that in the autoloading feature will grab the fill and should be ready to go for you next on our thumb drive has a pre-sliced beny boat you don't have to do anything to this file all you have to do is pull it up on the printer this is a benchmark print that is dialed in for the printer that really showcases the Fast Printing speed so they have it set super high this one printed in 15 minutes pretty [Music] impressive [Music] Che so how did our Beni turn out I'd say this turned out pretty dang good the only thing that could use Improvement is our overhangs if you see these little dangly bits here those are a bit sloppy but we can definitely fix those by adjusting some of our print settings it's going to be a balance of print speed fan speed or cooling flow rate and temperature among other things you can do some calibration prints for overhangs and a lot of other things to D in your printer I'll link out to a video on calibrations we're not going to go through that here but definitely something you can adjust on your printer to dial it in pretty easy to print the pre-sliced Beni but now we want to print one of our own prints on our thumb drive is going to be the full detailed instructions manual for the printer it also has the creality print software on it which is creality slicer program you can install on your computer after installing creality print we're going to add our printer select the Ender line and add the Ender 3 V3 ke select add and click okay on the4 MM nozzle diameter next we're going to set up wireless printing click on over to the devices tab you can auto scan or add the device using an IP address you can find that over on your printer in the settings clicking on the wheel and then network type that in manually click add and you should be good to go with wireless printing for our object there's lots of different websites you can download free free and paid STL shape files or objects including thingiverse thanks Colts 3D my mini Factory and lots more we're going to print this thumb steer adapter we found on thingiverse for my Traxxas tqi RC transmitter after downloading and unzipping the file we're going to open the object in creality print or your slicer software of choice we're not going to go into a ton of detail on the software but briefly using the tools tab here on the left you can move the object around you can resize it you can select the plane that you want on the build plate typically you want the nice surface facing up next before we print we're going to want to add supports to this object the printer can't print in midair and you see that there's overhangs here so we're going to need to add supports by clicking over here on the left this program Auto add supports you can Define the overhang angle typically 45° is a safe number there's a lot you can modify about supports we're not going to cover that here we're just going to keep the standard one and set the degrees to 45 on on the right we're going to select the high quality which does thinner layers more detailed prints you can also go into the backend settings and modify a lot of different things like printing temperature speed infill Etc this is going to be based on your filament and the object that you're trying to print as you learn what each of these do and analyze how your prints are coming out you're definitely going to want to go in and play around with all of these settings people have a lot of different presets available online so just do a little research now we're ready to click slice up on the top here we can click the middle preview Tab and use the slider to observe how the printer will lay down each layer lastly we'll send this to the printer clicking the land button down here on the [Music] bottom we can then pull up that print on our printer and we're ready to print our object with getting the best 3D print from your printer it's going to be a lot of print analysis seeing how your prints turned out and going back to the settings and adjusting things I do a lot of Googling and troubleshooting and you can figure out how to adjust your back-end settings to improve your prints first off our thumb steer this one the supports were a little bit too strong something we can adjust it's always a balance of being strong enough to support the print but light enough to remove them after getting them all off though this print looks really nice I'd say it could approve also on the overhangs looking at the bottom here I also tried this in black pla sliced in Kira with different supports and levels of detail printed in Black in 0.1 and also 2 mm layer Heights this print here actually I ran out of black filament halfway through and you can see when the printer stopped and when I had to reload the filament you can see that in the layers here but actually that part of the print is hidden so it doesn't really affect it too much next I switched filaments to a multicolored silk one of my favorite filaments to print in I printed this face for the first time really been wanting to do that I tried spiralize mode or vase mode where there's no layer change it just prints a single spiral all the way up pretty pretty [Music] [Music] cool it turned out seriously so perfect and this filament is beautiful I also printed a one0 scale surfboard which I saw these in my Etsy shop so I was really curious to see can this printer do sellable prints and this one turned out actually really nice only thing you can see is a seam here on the side it kind of alternates between the left and the right this is where the print head retracts to start another layer there's a way to get that line all in a row I'm going to have to figure that out and how to adjust that in our print settings but otherwise this looks super clean really really nice this could be a sellable print lastly I printed a few scale accessories the whole point of wanting to get this printer dialed is so I can print these really nice tiny scale accessories for my RC Crawlers I printed all these for my Traxxas TX 4 Blazer these Jerry cans here were from night Customs my minifactory store these fit together nicely I actually use tree supports in prussa kind of cool for the first time these turned out really clean this ladder I printed in 100% infill so I printed it solid turned out really amazing the roof rack here I had to print this actually a few times a few things going on here the first time the corners were peeling up and that is likely due to the colder room temperature or a draft while the print is cooling as the print cooled it warped the corners here that's why people like to enclose their printers because it can hold a more consistent temperature tried adding a brim to hold down the corners and it basically makes a single layer on the bottom of your print they're actually super easy to remove after and that solved our problem except I had a couple layers separating on the top of the roof rack here they actually cracked I think that was an adhesion issue our layers weren't binding properly so I upped the temperature by 5° for the filament and I think that solved our problem I also printed this in two parts because of the size our bed size is slightly slightly too small to print this in a single piece and then lastly I think one area where this PR struggled a little bit was on small intricate designs really delicate prints like this high lift Jack from night Customs I tried different surfaces face up but I still couldn't quite get it to print properly it looks really nice except for there's a little Notch here where you can attach it onto the roof rack and that just snaps every time so I might actually try printing this in petg which is a stronger filment that might solve our problem but all in all honestly I am super happy with how all these prints turned out I think you can definitely dial it in and get sellable prints from this printer if you're expanding your print Farm pretty low stress low frustration experience in learning how to use this printer again this is my second printer so I'm pretty new and I had a relatively easy time learning how to use this so after about a month testing out this printer what do I see as some of the major pros and cons first off the sub $300 price tag for all the features it comes with I haven't had any bed leveling or bed adhesion issues whatsoever with this printer less than 20 minutes to set up super easy assembly I also really like the auto Z offset I didn't have that on my Ender 5 S1 so I think for a beginner getting your Z offset is so important this makes it super easy it gets it really close if not spot- on most times really love the wireless printing capabilities a caveat there and I guess this would be a con is that currently the wireless printing capabilities only work with creality print so if you use something like Kira and prusa right now you can't use a wirel less printing capabilities depending on when you're watching this though they actively working on that so hopefully there is an integration soon a couple minor cons the fans are a little bit loud at least for me compared to the Ender 5 S1 another minor thing but you have to uncheck calibration each time you're starting a print it does move around a lot so you need a pretty stable base and lastly the print head homes very close to the bed so it's really hard to clean the nozzle before a print I think there's a way to modify the back and g code so that it'll home somewhere else something that I have to figure out not a big deal just something to be aware of I think that's it hopefully this video helped you out helped answer some questions get you on your journey to 3D printing if you were a beginner thank you again to better help for sponsoring this video I see you [Music] later

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Published: Fri Jan 26 2024