This Ender 3 is Completely Different.

today I'm going to be telling you about the allnew ender3 V3 from creality this is city's new flagship beds Slinger product and it has more in common with the high-speed corxy printers than it does with the old school Ender 3 products but first let's talk about why this printer even exists now you almost can't talk about the brand creality without talking about the Ender 3 that's definitely been one of their bestselling products over the past 5 years and it's really what put them on the map as one of the most instant recognizable and recommendable 3D printer brands on the market throughout the years we've had the Ender 3 the Ender 3 Pro the ender3 V2 the ender3 S1 the ender3 S1 Pro the Ender 3 V3 SE and K all of that brings us to the latest kind of future generation of creality products this creality K1 and Ender 3 V3 with no suffixes so this they just call it the Ender 3 V3 personally I think they should call it the Ender 3 K1 just from an exterior styling perspective these machines have a lot in common the print heads kind of look the same also they're both made out of these diecast aluminum frames let's take a closer look at this ender3 V3 and see what makes it special so first off this machine is fast I printed out this Beni in I think it was like 13 minutes I did it on live stream and you can see the print quality is quite good there's very minimal ringing despite this being printed at an extremely high speed and I also printed out this torture toaster I'm not sure what this model is all about but it was the most requested model when I asked people what I should print on this Ender 3 V3 so here it is apparently you're supposed to push this button and see if the toast pops out and that's a sign that you've got a good printer on your hands and I can see this toast wobbling and yeah there you go that's real easy Let's uh oh it doesn't launch all the way out all right and just doing that actually unstuck it from the bed so that's the nice thing about Pei sheets is they'll pop pop right off the bed when you're done printing I haven't done one of these before but I assume this is good it's all working apparently um we got our toast here the toast looks perfect there's the smallest bit of stringing in there but that could be cleaned up with a torch or a heat gun or a lighter so let's take a look inside of the torture toaster I guess these are like you know you're supposed to poke these and see which ones are free to move so here's the5 mm test 4 mm this one's a little stuck it looks like down here is where it's kind of fused together let me just break free that. 3 mm one I'm pretty sure that one yeah that one can be broken free so now I've got that one moving overall our toast looks good and then on this side we have some little overhang tests you can see all the way up to 80° we have really good print quality so really not a whole lot to complain about here um these print in place mechanisms and hinges and stuff are all working wonderfully so I think this is a pretty good result overall here's some text clock spring 3D hot makes really nice stuff here it looks like the ringing is well controlled let me lock this toaster up and set it aside then we've got our Beni which uh you know you can take a look at this up close this printed in somewhere between 12 and 14 minutes I forget what exactly it say but that's quite fast and print quality is quite good only thing is there's a little bit of evidence of undere Extrusion I mean that's understandable given that this is an extreme speed benchy we've got a textured pii Co spring steel sheet here it's a really nice build surface to come stock on a machine and it's one-sided so anyone hoping for a dual-sided sheet will be disappointed however the nice thing about having a different side on the back is that I could apply my 3D printer adhesive on this side and get like a nice smooth surface finish so at least that gives you options there I unded the screws for the print head so we can take a look at the insides there this is something that I really appreciate creality doing because on the previous designs I just felt like everything was too crammed in there here's my creality K1 this was the tool head board and this tiny little thing had everything you know it had the stepper motor driver for the extruder on the tool head it had the accelerometer it's got the little microprocessor and everything is basically on this chip but on this tool head board they've split it up into two pieces so there's this front half which you can see right here so this is the hot-end heater cartridge plug then we've got the hotend therm up there and something that's really nice about this is there's no hot glue creality has always been like hot gluing their connectors in place which kind of bothers me sometimes especially when I'm trying to do modifications or repairs on this one these are just nice little clicky connectors so you don't have to worry about undoing hot glue to get those parts changed out also we've got a couple components here including three LEDs those LEDs help backlight the creality logo here and it looks pretty slick when it's turned on because of that that's about it for what's up front right behind this board o wow this is interesting basically this whole Carriage that's holding on to the hot end and all the components up here this is a diecast aluminum piece as well so creality have really invested in their aluminum castings I guess they want to make everything like strong and robust so you know aluminum castings is a way to do that so yeah this whole Carriage is painted black but underneath the surface it's diecast aluminum it's cool to the touch and there's threads going directly into that aluminum part the extruder is tucked in here I'm kind of curious what's going on in this back cover because that's something that I was not expecting when I unbox this printer um basically you have this cooling fan in the front here that blows air kind of down and back onto the part as you're printing it but also if you look around back there's another part cooling fan back here and that's blowing air kind of down and forward into your part as you're printing it so to get a closer look at all this stuff I'm going to undo a couple couple more screws on the back here we have our part cooling fan in the back it looks like it's a 40/20 fan then we have the other half of all the electronics on the hot end so back here you can see there's like the trinamic stepper driver which is going to be driving the extruder motor we got a capacitor there probably for the stepper driver and then a bunch of test probe points overall I like this design a lot more than the old design which I felt was just too cramped I mean sure it does the same thing thing with this design they spaced everything out this is more of that aluminum diecast frame let's get this cover installed again I stripped some of the wiring there so yeah if you're putting this together just exercise a little Caution all right let's uh go back around to the front side here and take a look at some of these last little details so we already looked at the tool headboard right behind it we have the extruder and stepper motor and right below that we have our hotend heat sink and hotends this heat sink should be a lot better at well this ipating heat you know which is what a heat sink should be doing and since you've got this diecast aluminum base right beneath it it should be transferring a little bit of heat to it through that structural support there but overall this is a very sturdy print head assembly uh if we look in here the sock is a little difficult to remove I think it's using city's new unicorn style nozzle which I have one here to take a closer look at basically it's got a volcano length melt Zone and an integrated Heat heat brake and little copper block to transfer the heat from the heat brake into this aluminum heat sink overall seems like a nice design there now having this proprietary nozzle is a bit of a double-edged sword while it should be able to melt plastic quite fast and it should you know be relatively leak proof you have to buy these Replacements from creality however what I like about this design is because you can remove this whole heat sink and this whole assembly up to here you can actually replace this with a different hot end if you wanted to I imagine it wouldn't be that difficult to stick something like a Rapido or one of the bamboo lab hot ends or you know basically whatever you wanted into this assembly because all you have to do is remove a couple screws and then you pull all of this off so in a way it's paying respect to the previous Ender 3s in maintaining a little bit of modability so I'm really curious to see what people can come up with with this if you just remove this whole segment and replace it with something else you could replace it with a super long hot end so you could have like a super long melt Zone hot end that like goes down to here and since this uses load cell-based bed leveling it'll level just fine with an allnew hot end in there so yeah this thing retains a little bit of modability which I really appreciate it's not going to be as modable of your Ender 3S from years ago but it should be relatively easy to swap parts out of this thing and do some crazy stuff with it you can see our four belt ends leading into this print head which is what you need on a corxy or core XZ machine what's interesting is the top and bottom rails are different sizes the top one is 10 mm and the bottom one's 8 mm and another interesting little tidbit here is the top one is using a graphite lined brass bushing and the bottom one is using a linear bearing so I'm not sure what all went into that design process and why they decided to do it this way versus another way another interesting thing about this tool head is they've actually springloaded this top piece you can see when I pull it forward it moves forwards a little bit but it Springs back into a fixed position so I'm not sure what this is all about I've noticed the bamboo lab p1p tool head that I have does the same thing so I think it's some way to eliminate backlash or reduce vibrations or something in any case I thought it was kind of interesting so I wanted you to take a look so there you go that might also help with backlash as this top bushing wears down so you should have like a much longer service life maybe that It Anyways that's about all I wanted to show you on the hot end now you should be pretty familiar with the tool head and how that's all laid out let's take a look at the core XZ system which is probably the most interesting thing about this machine we can see all of these exposed belts and uh linear rods and all that kind of stuff so let's take a closer look up here you can see like some kind of complex assembly of different bearings and whatnot there's a little spring in there I know that on systems like this the belt tension is very important so getting these belts to be just the right level of tension and balanced across the different belt circuits is important and it seems like they're accomplishing that with those little Springs inside of that uh this kind of housing so you probably loosen it up let the spring tension it and then tighten it down but yeah you've got a complex bunch of idlers and pulleys and all that kind of stuff here's some limit switches so we've got I guess the XX limit switch and then the z-axis limit switch and these are both installed into this little 3D printed housing so it's kind of interesting I always like seeing 3D printed Parts on 3D printers this is not printed with fdm though this is printed with some kind of powder based process because it's got this sugar cube texture then if we look down a little ways we can follow these belts down uh some of them divert off to the side here and kind of go into this you know this print head for the core XZ motion system and we've got one belt loop that goes down to the bottom and into this stepper motor so it's got two stepper Motors at the base of the machine here one on the left side one on the right side and they're both the same size and those are what powers all the motion for your x and z axis the actual location where these stepper Motors are attached are nice and machined flat so that should be nice and precise and go together well now the bed Slinger part of this is probably the most familiar to anyone who's got an Ender 3 the bed just slides back and forth and it's got a stepper motor up front using this little pulley to pull this forwards and backwards we've got really wide linear rails down here these look like 10 mm linear rails so that should be a little bit more robust than the ender3 SE and the ender3 KE so you should have better print quality at high speed with this printer compared to those other two and we've got a nice beefy strain relief on the bed here so you don't have to worry about this getting damaged and posing a fire hazard or anything I mean it's possible but it seems like it's much better built than what you see on some of the competition sprinters The Idler pulley in the back here is using a large diameter pulley anytime you have highspeed equipment and you want to cut down on friction if you use a larger pulley gear you're flexing that belt less so there's less friction there but also the RPM for this pulley is a little bit lower which means you have less bearing losses so lots of interesting stuff going on there now this whole base of the machine is all dicast aluminum it looks like we've got a little screw for adjusting the tension of this belt here seems to be nicely tuned right now then you just plug it in in the back and turn it on and you're good to go now uh I took a look at the insides of the base of the machine on live stream basically you've got the power supply right here and the main board on this side and it's just really neat neat under there I think they did a great job with the cable management on this machine so any questions about this thing I think it's a really interesting design and they've done a pretty decent job with it on the side we've got a spot for a USB a port so you can plug in your flash drives or whatever you want if you want to run this machine offline it's a really nice and easy way to do it I think this thing should be able to work with a webcam don't quote me on that but it should be able to since it's running the same type of clipper that the K1 is running so you could probably plug a webcam in down here or somewhere on the main board and then attach it uh maybe to this Frame up here there's a couple unoccupied screw spots in the back where it would be a nice Vantage Point looking down at the printer to see what's going on as you're printing so now that we're familiar with the machine let's get this thing turned on and see how it operates I was using the textured pii sheet last time I was operating this machine and and it did a great job everything was sticking to it really nicely but I'm thinking I might want to just flip it over and try out this smooth side with some adhesive so I'm just going to put some of this sticky stuff on here and uh go ahead and print with it the Pei sheet works fine as well you can use either side of it I'm I'm just wanting to try something different all right let's turn this thing on and do some test prints I want to show you the effect that greases from your fingers can have on these print surfaces so you can see down here um if I zoom in on this the adhesive is kind of beating up over here as well as on this side it's beating up a little bit that has entirely to do with the grease for my fingers cuz that's where I touched this thing when I picked it up and was handling it so realistically whenever you're printing or applying some adhesive you should wipe your bed surface off with soapy water or uh rubbing alcohol to just get rid of any like oils and stuff that your hands get on it that's the main reason why parts will come detached on a well-tuned printer all right well let's get printing here it didn't take too long for this thing to boot up let's go to the pre-loaded models I guess I'll print out test Cube that only takes 14 minutes so it'll be a nice fast print and I can show you how this machine operates now a couple of fans just turned on now's a good time to do some sound test readings because I know you guys love the sound tests or at least I do right now we've got a couple fans on looks like the hotend fan is on cooling off the hotend heat sink and I believe the mainboard fan is on inside of the printer making a little bit of noise as well as the power supply fan so there's a lot of little sources of noise on this printer it's a little Annoying I might go in here and do a fan mod in fact you can count on me doing a fan mod on this machine just to make it run quieter in general it's not too loud this is it running without any of the partk cooling fans on so we'll get a nice um volume reading right now see what we're at so about 53 DB with that part cooling fan on that's a maximum fan noise situation right before that I don't know what it said on here it probably said something like 45 uh we'll check the footage and then I was also running some tests when this machine was at idle just with the power flipped on and nothing else running except for the uh the power supply fan which turns on when the machine's cold that was 37 DB so that's your sound floor then it only gets louder from there up to 53 DB and then when this machine's running it can have Peaks as high as 63 DB from the motion system which we'll hear in a minute but I really like this light up creality logo I think it looks awesome let me turn my uh overhead lights off you can see what that looks like illuminated very cool okay now it's going up to the top it's going to hit that limit switch now it's going back down to uh I guess do something else so as you can see it's quite fast I think this is maybe a little bit slower than its absolute maximum speed this is probably more going for print quality so this will show off kind of the the high quality that you can get this was printed using the creality k1s standard profile this uh torture toaster so this is a good indication of like the typical print quality that you'll get I mean overall I think it's very good and then this print right here this should be more of an indication of like the max print quality that you can get then of course you've got the speed Beni which is tuned to be completed as fast as possible making any sacrifices for print quality that you need to to get it done so this is kind of the low end of what you can expect in terms of print quality quality let's let this finish up maybe we'll throw in a longer print time lapse and then we'll get into the final thoughts about this creality K1 oh sorry this Ender 3 [Music] V3 [Music] you [Music] [Music] all right and let's pop this off oh there's a little tolerance tests built into this thing all of them down to 0.2 seem to be working all the way up to 15° also known as 75° the overhangs look decent oddly enough the overhangs for 20° look better than the overhangs for 30° not sure how that works but there you go um 45° looks fine yeah that's just a little bit of oddness here I'm surprised that one right there is having um any bits of ugliness maybe we' need to turn the temperature down a little bit or something what do you think about this glossy finish on the bottom of these parts super shiny that's what I like about non-textured surfaces is that you you get like really flat shiny parts that way and I think it looks pretty cool of course you can use the textured side of this you just get the textured bottom surface but I like this shininess super nice so I don't know this print adhesive seems to work pretty well you can pick some up at Luke's laab Link in the description down below but yeah let's see what do we have here look looks like there's a little bit of fuzz on this retraction Tower but that should come right off in terms of the side walls there's basically no ringing or issues there now keep in mind we're looking really closely at this thing it looks like in terms of bridging distance once you get to about maybe this is 50 mm then it's drooping a little bit with this particular filament but up to that point it looks pretty good bottom surface looks fine here's some more bridging nice result these uh little retraction towers are relatively strong too I don't print this model very often so I don't know what to tell you it looks okay might as well do some more close-ups of the torture toaster as well uh I think I'm just going to use this machine for a little while and do a longer term review once I've built up enough opinions about it but for now it seems to be just a really nice fast printer that works right out of the box this retraction test only took an hour and a half so very quick all right so after printing with this Ender 3v3 for a couple of days running a bunch of little test prints and each of them looking as good as any other printer on the market it's got me me wondering what's the point of this 3D printer why would you get this over other printers in the market basically it's an Ender 3 but it's also kind of like a K1 it's fast it's easy to set up and use and it looks cool is that enough of a reason to motivate you to buy this over some of the other printers on the market or maybe even some of City's other 3D printers well I think it really just comes down to ease of use this was one of the easiest printers for me to unbox and get printing from creality and I know people like to throw around the phrase it just works but for this printer for me it just worked I unboxed it put it together and started up some test prints even this torture toaster which I sliced using some random profile that I thought would be good enough to run on this machine worked fine I didn't have to do any tuning I didn't do any tweaking I just sliced this using some pre-made slicer settings that weren't even for this machine specifically and it worked great since this is an attuned profile there's probably a little bit of performance left on the table I probably could have had it printed a little bit faster or with a little bit better quality but in terms of something that just cranks out Parts when you need them I think this would be a good machine for the job when I first heard about this machine I thought oh man core XZ nobody needs that that's just marketing hype and to some extent that might be true I have some other benches from some other 3D printers and they look just as good as the one that came off of this Ender 3v3 so it's like what's the point of doing this corx kinematic design is it marketing hype maybe but it's got the performance to back it up so at the end of the day I don't think it really matters there are a couple of things that I'd like to see creality address with these designs one is the noise that this machine makes it's kind of loud I prefer my machines to be really quiet if I can get something that's under 50 DB that's like awesome for me cuz I can just leave that running and I won't even notice it but something like this that's unenclosed with relatively large part cooling fans to support high-speed printing that just kind of ends up being louder so if noise levels are your primary concern you might want to look at a printer that's more enclosed or maybe something that's a little bit slower just because you know the highp speed kind of necessitates that it makes a lot of noise one machine that immediately comes to mind in terms of being super fast and super quiet is the adventure 5m Pro so that might be something you'd want to check out if you're looking for the absolute quietest machine but this machine honestly wasn't too bad and if you're not in the room with it it's not loud enough to disturb you the next room over also I find that City's implementation of Clipper and the user interface that you get with this screen is really nice it's fast and responsive and allows you to do most things without issue the only thing that I wish they included was a way to do some of the fine-tuning adjustments like being able to adjust the flow percentage on some of these models like this Beni when it was trying to print as fast as possible I noticed a little bit of underextrusion and I'd like to maybe tweak the temperature up a little bit and turn up the flow ratio just a tiny bit but I was missing those options on the touch screen so pretty much the way that they want you to use this machine is just fire and forget just start up your print job and then you know come back when it's done and it does a relatively good job of that all of these prints I just kind of started them up and came back when they were done and they all turned out great but I think the best way to look at this machine is to put it in context with the rest of City's lineup it's basically an ender3 format printer but it has all the performance of a corxy machine so it's just as fast as the K1 it kind of is really similar in a lot of ways to this K1 but it's going to be a little bit less expensive because you don't have to pay for this whole enclosure and it's got some slightly updated Hardware all the stuff that I saw on the hot end I think is probably what's going to feed into City's next Generation eventually I assume they're going to come out with a K2 printer and I bet you're going to see a lot of the things that they installed on this printer on the next version of the K series also when the K1 first came out there was some issues with the extruder there was a couple issues with the hot-end that some people were experiencing on this machine everything's been like you know they've gone through a couple iterations and they actually delayed the release of this product for a little while while they like finished up the design and made sure that it was good to ship which is frankly it's kind of uncommon to see creality doing that um and any 3D printing company I feel like a lot of these products I rush to Market but instead of pushing this product out the door like creality could have done if they would have stuck to their November or October release date they took their time they fixed the things they needed to fix and they got this design right before they shipped it so I hope this is a new trend that we see from creality and other manufacturers I know um another major manufacturer just had a recall for the heated bed cables being insufficiently insulated or protected and they're kind of catching on fire you know that's a really bad thing to happen and it's something that you can sort out with sufficient testing and make sure you're not shipping customers potentially dangerous products so it's an Ender 3 with K1 levels of performance but the other thing that I really like about it is since the hotend and heatsink modules are kind of separated out from the rest of the tool head one complaint I had on the K1 is that it's all kind of a mono block where you can't really change Parts very easily on this one they're kind of separated out a little bit so I'm pretty sure you could do a full hotend replacement on this machine you might even be able to do a full uh extruder replacement without too much issues on this machine and also in general just the ease of use and the Aesthetics that they've included on this new design are just topnotch when you compare it to the rest of the printers in the end3 lineup it's faster it looks better and you know it's just kind of the top end machine but at the same time it's probably one of the least modable Ender 3s on a lot of other Ender 3s you use like typical belt and pulley setups use like standard stepper Motors and z-axis lead screws and aluminum Extrusion so you can pull parts off of printers and kind of mix and match on the previous Ender 3s which is great for people who like modifying their 3D printers but with this machine you're pretty much just going to buy this and use it as creality intended which is in this configuration again it should be more modable than the K1 but it's not going to be as modable as the previous generations of Ender 3 I think for the last 5 years creality hadn't really been taking the design of its 3D printers seriously enough like they haven't been investing enough into new products and when they came out with new products it was usually just their old product that was just kind of reskinned and rebranded into a new product you would see them carry over a lot of parts from the old design into the new design so it was always kind of constrained and it seemed like the the main goal was to minimize the amount of spending that they had to do to develop new products I mean just think about the Ender 3 to the Ender 3 Pro it's basically the same printer but they swapped out a couple of components then the Ender 3 Pro to the under3 V2 again very minimal changes it's basically the same frame with a different main board and I mean the extruder and the hot end and everything about it was virtually the same but they kind of touted it as a new model then you had the Ender 3 S1 which was a good step forward but they were still reusing a lot of the old components from their their 3D printers and it really feels like they were failing to make the next step into the Next Generation with this K1 and the end 3v3 I think they were getting some strong signals from the market that they really needed to reinvent themselves and they spent a lot of time and money in research and development for these products to hopefully come up with something that would LeapFrog the competition and get ahead of them instead of you know trying to play catchup and it's not just this printer that's really showing me that creality is taking their designs more seriously it's the entire Ender 3 lineup whether you're talking about the ender3 V3 SE which is bringing a bunch of ease of use features and like a higher level of build quality to their low-end lowcost machines or the ender3 V3 ke which is a clipp rized high-speed bed Slinger that's still relatively modable and built with inexpensive components or the full-on ender3 V3 that we just took a look at today I think all these machines are showing A Renewed interest in producing good 3D printer designs at creality with 's last generation of products that's the S1 lineup it was a nice Improvement to get all those additional features like automatic bed leveling and a direct drive extruder but I felt like it wasn't enough to stay competitive in today's market also they increased the price of their products which I wasn't a big fan of because I like saving money I don't like recommending products that are super expensive and if you're paying extra for a 3D printer I want to see a lot of extra build quality and reliability and just a better user experience fortunately this new generation of Ender 3s addresses that need but also comes in at a lower price than its predecessors so you know it's just good all around and I just really like where they're going with this new lineup of products there's only a couple of brands that are taking the ease of use of 3D printing to kind of the next level where it's like super easy to use those brands are creality with their automatic Z offset and fully automated calibration bamboo lab which has much of the same you know fully automated calibration procedures flash Forge with the adventure 5m line that does calibration all on its own and the anchor make printers which is the anchor make M5 and m5c those also use a load cell to you know fully automate the the setup process and also I can't forget about the prusa MK4 and prusa XL those printers are all making an ecosystem that just makes their printers easier to use they have their own slicers that lets you send files to them remotely really easily and they have load cell-based bed leveling to make make sure that uh you get the perfect first layer without having to do all this extra calibration manually so yeah I really like where creality is going with this stuff um I think the industry in general is heading in the right direction and it's getting easier and easier than ever and also less expensive than ever to get into 3D printing and get good results so I think that's a good thing for the industry and I'm really happy with the amount of competition that's going on with 3D printing companies constantly trying to outdo each other and producing better products for us the consumers and I think they've done a good job at that this is a very high performance machine um it was really easy to use the user experience has been awesome so far and I'm just looking forward to using it a little bit more over the next couple of weeks I plan on coming out with a longer term review for this machine that will kind of coincide with the product launch for this I'll just keep printing with it so far it's been really nice and easy to print with and it seems like a machine that I can just rely on to get my parts made so all my other creality machines I always viewed them as being like okay yeah it works um but the main reason I really like this printer is because I can mod it and mess around with the design on this machine that's not really going to be the case I'm just going to leave it stock and uh run plastic through it and use it to prototype my parts for my upcoming projects and just you know see how that goes so I hope you enjoyed this video it would got a little bit long with the history lesson and the philosophy of creality Zender 3 lineup but I feel like I've been following the ender3 lineup from the beginning I got into creality products with the Ender 3 Pro and the ender3 V2 and those were really Fun Machines uh they were fun yet frustrating but challenging and like that was part of the fun of owning them was fixing them and doing mods and all that kind of stuff I guess eventually I got fed up with them and I threw them off of a balcony and destroyed them like casting the ring into Mordor but um these new products they're just you know you buy them you plug them in and you start using them whether it's the ender3 V3 SE the ender3 V3 ke the cr10 SE or the ender3 V3 the one we have here they're all designed for you to just put them together Press Play and get printing I think this is a good setep for creality I just wish they maintained a little bit of that modder DNA because I do like having the ability to pull parts off of them and put new stuff in uh that I feel like is lost on a lot of other companies and Prin but hopefully if all goes according to plan we'll have something for the modders to use on their Ender 3v3 SE and Ender 3v3 KES so uh stay tuned for that anyways if you watch this far thanks for watching make sure to subscribe and like the video that really helps out my channel and I'll see you in the next episode

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