Ender 3 V3 SE Bed Leveling
Intro: Ender 3 V3 SE Bed Leveling
Hi All,
In this instructable, I will be talking about the auto bed leveling issues with Ender3 v3 SE and my attempt to fix it.
There are no tutorials online to help fix it.
STEP 1: Back Story
I bought an Ender 3 V3 SE, 2 months back, at first I found it an amazing 3D printer for beginners.
It started with an adhesion issue. I would typically clean the bed with alcohol, and adjust Z offset.
It worked, Then as part of troubleshooting. I adjusted the X-axis gantry and made sure everything was tight
But as I printed more, I noticed that the auto bed leveling was not working
Based on a series of experiments, I came to the following issues
- The Printer does not consider leveling mesh data
- Gcode pre-scripts also do not use mesh data
- Adhesion to bed is not good
- Firmware 1.06 promises to fix this. but I am unable to update the same (Many others have reported to Creality)
Conclusion: I must fix this myself
STEP 2: Glass Bed
- I got a tinted glass(4mm thick) cut from a local glass store (235x235 mm)
- Yes, it works, you do not have to buy expensive branded glass beds
- I removed the build plate and 2 screws as shown
- I did not remove the magnetic bed, just placed the glass bed on it
- Secure it with some paper tape
- Clean with alcohol
- Auto level and test print, If the first layer test fails like mine. go to the next step
- As a reference, the first pic is data for the original bed and the last one is for the glass bed
STEP 3: Leveling Springs
- I bought a manual bed leveling kit that was compatible with any Ender 3
- We need to replace the existing screws and spacers with the longer m4 screws and springs
- Spacers on the left side of the bed were smaller (2mm or so)
- From the pic, you can see, that the bed level was bad, I thought I made a mistake
- Initially, I used a spirit level, tighten the screws that were +ve and loosen where -ve
- Post that I used the mesh data to adjust. and then running auto-leveling
- With at least 6 iterations, I got it to a good number (variation 0.1 mm)
STEP 4: Next Steps
- I managed to get the bed manually leveled
- Now able to print with a little adjustment of z-offset
- I will also wait for better firmware that can handle mesh data properly
Please feel free to share your suggestions or if have another method to get better results
7 Comments
hugopnabais 10 months ago
My prints stick to much to the bed! Even after raising z offset.
auto leveling works amazing... Everything is leveled even printing 1 layer sheet test.
i'm running 1.0.6 since I buy it.
The only problem I have is stringing! Every prints strings a lot!!!
Amit_Jain 10 months ago
I pray to printer gods.. for the first layer.
For stringing I lowered the speed to 120mm and temp 200 to 205
JasonM365 10 months ago
BugYourselfHard 10 months ago
Amit_Jain 10 months ago
Return and get a new box. If possibel
mcnallyjordan1818 10 months ago
Amit_Jain 10 months ago