Hi and Happy New Year,
Thanks for the forum it has helped a fair bit so far. Have had a challenging few days trying to get my Sons Ender-3 V3-SE to work.
After unboxing had the cat demo which came on the supplied as card printing within half an hour and thought easy pesy, everything went down hill from there. SD card then corrupted after saving a file to it from the Creality software. Had no luck getting a new card to format to Fat32 and 4096 size as stated in tech support chat. Eventually got a 32gb card which gave option to format as Fat32 .
Printed couple more things then on 4th or 5th item first layer would not stick to board.
Had speed 100, nozzle 190 and bed 60.
Z setting at -1.97 , from what I’ve read so far not ideal but been cleaning board with isopropyl 70% and then putting glue stick on the board. Have reduced the speed to 25% and now getting things to stick and hold and not failing as before.
What speed do you recommend ?
Is there another way to get all instructions as the ones l had were wiped on SD card ? I did download the ones on the site but there was not a lot of specific info like how do you use the splicing software . How do you know where and how thick to make supports? I have done the leveling and have all green boxes except front left 2 which are blue , is that ok ? Had to also manually adjust the z to -1.97 which sounds to low cause think l read others have theirs at 2.00 not -2.00 . Also the models l bought on the software when l transfer to sd card and go to print all the info for speed, nozzle heat and bed heat are blank so have to preheat bead and nozzle manually and then quickly press pause after going to print and manually adjust all them to the ones mentioned above. Thanks for any help.
A couple of blue boxes should be fine. Bed adhesion by adjusting z-offset takes some practice. Clean the bed with washing up liquid, let it dry then wipe down with isopropyl alcohol, wipe down for every print and try not to touch the print surface, finger grease proves havoc with adhesion. Do you still use the original PC print or upgraded it to PEI? Printing a brim is good, but not on articulated models. Don’t be afraid to use gluestick, it washes off prints easily, I use it on overnight prints and when printing TPU, acts as a release agent as TPU REALLY sticks well to the bed plate.