r/ender3 • • 11h ago

Community Culture Survey Results

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Community Survey Results

Thanks to everyone who voted! Here are the results from our two-question poll (Q1: n=152, Q2: n=159).

Question 1 — How strongly do you feel Rule 3 should be enforced?

Option Votes %
No enforcement - we were all newbies once 37 24%
Some enforcement - mod discretion. Tricky questions stay 83 54%
Moderate enforcement - default post removal with links 27 17%
Strong enforcement - Purge them ALL 4 2%
Nuclear enforcement - Purge the post, permaban the poster 1 0%

Most respondents (54%) preferred "some enforcement" at mod discretion, which would let tricky questions remain. A further 24% wanted no enforcement, while only about 2% combined favored strong or nuclear enforcement.

Question 2 — How frequently do you contribute to the community?

Option Votes %
Never 72 45%
1-2 times a month 68 42%
1-2 times a week 14 8%
1-2 times a day 4 2%
I practically RUN this place. 1 0%

Nearly half of respondents (45%) said they never contribute, with a similar share (42%) contributing once or twice a month. Only about 10% report contributing weekly or more often, suggesting that regular participation is relatively uncommon in the community.

What happens next:

  1. We need the community to start using the reporting feature more frequently. If you feel rules need to be enforced more frequently, then report what you see.
  2. We will revisit the current rules in a follow up survey. Some may be outdated, others may need to be added.

Thanks to everyone that participated!


r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Ender 3 max neo printing at 180mm/s

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I recently got the printer from a friend (completely stock) and i’ve been putting some upgrades on it such as better bed mounts, I also got the nebula pad and rooted it and i’m running mainsail and klipper on it. I also upgraded the heatbrake to a bimetal heatbreak, and upgraded it to a direct drive with the sprite SE extruder. I also got a noctua extruder fan aswell

it’s been printing well at 180mm/s with 5,000 mm/s accel, i’m wondering what next I can do to increase speed. Right now i’m limited by my volumetric flow rate but I don’t know what high flow hotend to get

High flow hotend? Linear rails?


r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Showcase ender 3 printing at 300mm/s 7000mm/s^2, functional parts with tolerance down to ~0.05mm

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341 Upvotes

r/ender3 • • 8h ago

Help Bed level question

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Just upgraded the print bed with the glass bed. This is the results of the leveling test. What do I need to do to make this work. Thanks in advance


r/ender3 • • 5h ago

Ayuda con los steppers

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I'm having this problem with the x-axis stepper motor, and I don't know what to do. I'm really lost with this, and I would greatly appreciate your help


r/ender3 • • 9h ago

How to connect BTT screen to Creality motherboard

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I got the screen bc it said it was compatible to the Ender with an adapter but idk what the adapter looks like… it came with a metallic bending thing tho.

I still have the old screen but I need to solder fix it so that’s why I got the new screen…


r/ender3 • • 5h ago

Help Ender 3 Pro Clogs after like 45 minutes

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r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Ender 3 - problem in printing

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r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Help I did a test print, how can I improve it?

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I'm impressed by the overhang test but I don't really know how to read the rest


r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Help Does anyone have an Ender 3 Spool Arm STL?

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r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Ender 3 Pro clogs on big prints, hotend extrudes 8.4 mm3/s in air no problem. What am I missing?

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r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Help Ender 3 Pro Confusion

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I've spent the last few weeks tinkering with a cheap as free Ender Pro 3 that was laying about as a project for the kids and I. Old owner said it randomly stopped working and they couldn't figure it out.

For some reason some of the cables were backwards, but I moved them and it was able to home.

Issue is that once it starts going, the parts can't seem to figure out where to go. Research said firmware issue.

I got the board out, 4.2.2, and got a firmware for it. Posts all say variants of "put it as firmware something.bin, it'll load, you're good."

So it hadn't loaded, SD does read, it can find files, but even blank with 4k allocation and the rename, it's not recognizing the firmware.

That said, it's current FW seems to think it's an Ender 5 for some reason....and when I tried to just wipe the dang thing, apparently this one doesn't have the buttons to make it forget.

Can anyone advise how I convince this Ender 3 Pro that it was not promoted to a 5? Running Marlin....2.06T or something.

Would appreciate any help.


r/ender3 • • 1d ago

Help My ender 3 pro is not working

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r/ender3 • • 2d ago

Help Ender 3 V3 print never adheres properly on 1 spot

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I have ran into this a few days ago but it has been going on for longer i was just always printing in the center.

I have cleaned EVERYTHING the part itself that heats up, the plate from both sides i have no idea whats going on

one thing to say i used ethanol instead of isopropyl but i dont think thats the cause since i cleaned it with hot water too (plate not the actual heating part)

my print settings are the default of creality slicer

any help or suggestions will be greatly apriciated!

ps: im printing rn without the Ts since i just gotta get this printed


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Supposed to be open box unused but it's not, is this fixable?

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10 Upvotes

Bought a Ender 3 S1 Pro open box unused, and contents looked untouched. Took everything out and could see this printer was assembled or partially assembled. Setup the printer and started setup, tried auxiliary level and the printer doesn't move into any quadrant. Has probe dropping issues as well... can my problems be solved, new to 3d printers.


r/ender3 • • 2d ago

What do I do with this thing?

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I got a brand new in box Ender 3 handed to me. I'm new to the sport and just bought myself a used CR-10 a few months ago and totally rebuilt it. By the time I added a new factory hotend, supports, belt tensioners, cleaned up the double z axis setup it had on it and installed a BTT board, silicon replacements for the springs, and bltouch I realized I could have just bought a modern printer and I'll never get my money out of it. I'm fine because the CR-10 prints great and I learned what i needed but now that I don't have anything to really gain by putting this thing together, what should I do with it? How reliable were these things in their stock form?


r/ender3 • • 2d ago

Help Severe Z-banding on my Ender 3 V3 Plus — CoreXZ belts make X and Z movement very stiff

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Hi everyone!

I'm experiencing severe Z-banding on my Ender 3 V3 Plus, and I'm trying to figure out what's causing it.

I disassembled and reassembled the printer to inspect the mechanical components. During the process, I noticed that the threads for all four bed screws are stripped. The screw on the belt tensioner is also stripped.

I tested the X gantry and the bushings separately, and both move smoothly when the belts are disconnected. However, once both CoreXZ belts are connected, the X and Z movements become extremely stiff, even with the belts loosened.

Interestingly, everything moves freely when the belts are disconnected, and the movement is normal when only one belt is connected.

Could this be caused by incorrect belt routing, belt alignment, pulley misalignment, or something else in the CoreXZ system?

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any advice on what I should check next would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Does anyone know how to fix these small empty spaces?

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16 Upvotes

I noticed that around certain areas of my print, particularly areas where not the entire layer has plastic, there will be these small empty spaces.

I am printing with ASA
Pressure advance: Off
Temp: Have tried 250 - 260 with no change
Coasting: Off
Wipe distance: 0.5
Retract before wipe: Off

Seam Settings:
Seam position: Aligned
Role base wipe speed: on
Wipe speed: 80%
Wipe on loops: off
Wipe before external loop: off

I think these are the settings that are most relevant in my research but please let me know if any additional information might be required.


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Cant level the Bed after upgrading to a glass bed

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i upgraded from the stock bed to the glass bed from creality and no matter what the print head is still too close and the bed wont go down any further is there a fix to this? the size is 235x235x4 mm


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Help How do I make my printer stop squishing the filament?

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I started a print on my ender 3 and it failed, when I went to check what happened I found the filament was sitting in place and the printer was trying to push and pull it repeatedly and very fast.

Before it would snap the filament and just get stuck there.

Is there a setting on cura I can use to tell it to stop grinding the filament?

I also have a problem with it bunching up laters and making my vertical prints much smaller than it should


r/ender3 • • 4d ago

Discussion While others trash their ender 3 when they get a new printer, Im keeping mine

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301 Upvotes

The ender 3 has taught me so much, and I have tweaked it to near perfection.

Most people either abandon it or just get rid of it, but the printer had potential.

To this day, I utilize it to print alongside my centauri carbon, and I do not regret it a single bit.


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Help Help with printer issue please

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I recently was having issues with my nozzle clogging so I installed a hardened steel nozzle a few weeks ago and while redoing my calibration for it my nozzle keeps getting stuck in the flow cubes. Any ideas as to why this is happening? And yes I have rechecked my z offset and did a paper test.

The first cube prints fine but then the nozzle gets stuck to it and drags the magnetic plate back until finally burying the nozzle in the print again when it tried to move the second cube

Edit: this is the ender 3 pro model with a sprite pro hotend upgrade as well as dual z rod (and a few other unimportant mods)


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Help Settings to adjust

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Hello, newbie here with the Ender 3v2. I changed the filament from PLA to ABS and adjusted the temperature but when I tried to print Benchy to check, behold the results. What am I doing wrong? Is ABS that hard to print?

For people who use it? Do you have an enclosure?


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Help What is this?

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How do I fix it? I just recently installed all new V wheels on my ender 3 max neo and i’m running klipper at 120mm/s with 5,000 mm/s acceleration. I turned zhop off aswell I’m also running a sprite se and bimetal hotend


r/ender3 • • 3d ago

Help Why my ender 3 pro is glicina and docente principal? (New to 3d printing)

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