Questions tagged [creality-ender-3]
For questions about the Creality Ender 3 family of 3D printers
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Printing more heat resistant materials or increasing melting point
I use an Ender-3 3D printer with no additional modifications, due to a specific project I require printing of material that is more heat resistant than the usual PLA by at least 40 - 50 °C. A method ...
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Why is my printer overextruding at one end of one layer?
My Ender 3 v2 pushes extra filament for about half a second at the end of each layer, which makes it extrude a tiny bit of filament. After more layers, that bump becomes bigger and bigger. I've tried: ...
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Marlin suddenly ignoring all endstops?
My Ender 3 Pro running the below firmware has suddenly started to ignore all endstops, causing stepper motors to skip and causing damage.
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What would cause my 3D printer to start printing badly from one day to the other?
I started to 3D print a week and a half ago more or less, and I have been doing it with a decent quality, not perfect but decent, while trying to tweak the machine to improve the quality but have ...
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Why is my Ender 3 nozzle z-axis raising before printing?
I just finished building my Ender 3 printer but the nozzle randomly goes up on the z-axis but won't go back down. Because of this, the filament isn't sticking to the bed and is just being dragged ...
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Optimal settings for accurate and fast printing?
So, I'm new to the 3D printing scene, I'm a 3D artist by trade. I'm freelancing for a guy who's got a Creality Ender 3 with a nozzle size of 0.8 mm. I need to 3D print a lampshade of 2 mm thick all ...
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Ender 3 V2 screen overlaying print temps and words
I have tried multiple different things and can't seem to fix it. I am using an 8GB SD card formatted for FAT32 with 4096 allocation. I have tried redoing my firmware on the printer and still get the ...
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Accidentally bumped the head and it is now offset mid-print; how can I save the print?
I tried to fix a very minor stringing during print and I accidentally bumped the head. As a result, it's now offset and printing spaghetti. I want to save the print but I'm new to this and I'm not ...
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Device reports readiness to read but returned no data
I'm suddenly unable to connect to my Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D printer (CrealityV4.2.2) via the USB/serial port using Octoprint. Here are some of the logs from Octoprint:
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Custom G-code Routine: Ender 3 Hotend Shutting Off
I'm trying to use some handwritten G-code to cut a shape from a styrofoam sheet, for which I've fused a small copper protrusion to the nozzle of an Ender 3. This seems to work magnificently, save for ...
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Ender 3 print head doesn't rise when printing
I'm stuck with this one and can't find an answer online, so here it is.
I've had an Ender 3 for coming up to two years now, it's generally been running fine, the occasional head clogging but nothing I ...
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Why is my Ender 3 v2 Neo bed overheating without any interaction?
I have just purchased my third Ender 3 V2, this time a Neo. After unpacking and assembling it, then switching it on, without any prompt from me the bed starts heating, and carries on heating until it ...
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Ender 3 Pro Not Using the Whole Bed
My Ender 3-Pro has a printing area of about 24x24 square centimeters. However, when I move the nozzle around either the x or y axes, it only goes up to 21 centimeters. Printing something that requires ...
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Ender 3 S1 3D printer stops and does not respond when the nozzle heats up to 51 °C
At first I turned on the 3D printer and everything worked fine, but when the nozzle heated up to 51 degrees centigrade, the 3D printer stopped, all I could do was disconnect the printer from the ...
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Prints finish before they actually are finished
The printer is finishing prints early. The printer notifies the print is finished but, in fact, it is not.
It is probably not a slicer error because I used the same settings for our other Ender 3 ...
