Hey,
I am very new to 3D printing and after receiving my Ender V3 KE I have fallen in love and done quite a few successful prints. However Last month I noticed an issue that put me off slightly and even again while giving it a Propper crack I have been unable to solve it.
Whenever I print, It just doesn’t stick. Sometimes this will screw up after the first few layers and start turning into a minefield of stringing. Though most recently I got 75% into a build and the whole thing literally just fell off onto my floor.
I have done a good bit of research into this and found a few fixes but nothing has worked which is why I am asking for help now.
What I’ve done:
- Cleaned the plate, using fair liquid.
- Tried -0.05 and -0.1 offsets
- Tried a glue stick
- Tried Liquid Glue
- Re did the auto levelling.
- Tried different prints to check.
Now I have ordered a new print bed from amazon. which arrives tomorrow but just in case this is not the issue any help would be super appreciated. I will also update this post if the new print bed works for other users who may experience the same issues.
I’d still be tuning that z-offset, on my V3KE -0.16 gives just about bed adhesion but there is no squish. -0.21 gives perfect adhesion. -0.26 gives great adhesion but wrinkles because it is too close. It is quite a fine line to tune it properly. Print a 100mm square 1 layer thick and tune it on that.
Hi mate,
Thank you for responding to this as I have just got the new plate and yeah same issues, just a strining mess. are you manually adjusting this on the device or doing it through creality print?
I read online to try this paper method, but following this it comes out at around -1.3 this seems way to low on the adjust z offset on the actual device. Am I maybe doing something wrong?
Thanks for getting back to me, driving me nuts 
I adjust it on the printer as it is printing, you can see it laying down the filament and adjust it. I only use the paper method on my Ender 5 plus, not needed on a V3KE. If it is still stringing at -1.3 then go down a little more. As I said the sweet spot on mine is -2.1. Think my V3SE goes to about -2.34 for best layer. Just need to practice until it comes out right. I have never adjusted it in Creality Print or Fluidd, the computer is situated a long way from the printer so couldn’t see the layer going down even with using the nebula camera. Attached is the squares as printed -0.16 on the left and -0.26 on the right.
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Okay, so
at the -1.3 I seemed to be able to print the famous Boat as well as a 100x100x10mm square.
Both have come out at I would say a pretty good result. In the middle it looks slightly different from the rest but you can really only spot the difference if you hit it at the correct light. Otherwise it looks very clean.
I did try with another model with supports but it just started going a little bit mental about 5 minutes through. I suppose this could be because I am useless with supports or the model isn’t the greatest. I’ll try a few more and update this post but for sure some progress
If you try 100x100x0.2mm thick it should just show the first layer only. Going mental a few minutes in, like the nozzle scraping? Just so long as you are not using grid infill, that could be something like flowrate being too high, I have a roll that needs to be dialled back to 90%.
