I’m new here to to the whole 3D printing world, I have a ender 3v3 ke that I got for Christmas. I printed a A benchy with the small roll of hyper pla that came with, I printed 1 other file. That was definitely a bigger footprint with the same hyper. And both of those came out good. So I ordered some more pla which is ender fast PLA series and I’ve had a ton of bed adhesion issues. I thought maybe it was because I didn’t have an enclosure or my bed wasn’t clean enough even though I’ve cleaned it multiple times. I ordered some glue that’s on the way but for the heck of it tonight I ran the benchy file again. And that printed perfect. And all of my prints that I’ve tried have had both bigger footprints and smaller footprints some with mouse ears, some without mouse ears, some with mouse ears and a brim and I always have problems with it adhering to the bed. Does anybody have any ideas of what I could do differently? Is there something specific in this benchy file that’s different than any of the creality print settings and I even tried orca slicer
You don’t need an enclosure for PLA, I have a couple of enclosed printers and have to remove the lids and open the printer doors to get maximum airflow to them, those printers also have extra fans for cooling, I digress. As we say many times on here, z-offset. Although the printer does a good job with autolevelling you often need to adjust the z-offset down by about 0.1mm. On your next print try it with a 5 wide skirt, you should be able to tune the z-offset on the skirt before the main print starts.
That would be something I do right on the printer right, not in the slicer settings? Also do I need to worry about the bed leveling, should I try to level it any more than it came stock or just adjust the z offset in the z home position? Once I change the z offset, do I still run the auto calibration before every print?
The 5 wide skirt is a slicer setting. You start the print then on the printer you can adjust the z-offset while it is printing that skirt, you can see how it changes the print. The printer should remember that setting. I tend not to run autocalibrate every print as it can reset the z-offset you have dialled in.