Creality Ender 3 V3 KE Review: So cheap, what's the catch?! 

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One tip I want to give is to layer in 0.4mm increments. Your printer head prints in 0.4mm and stepper motors follow that (also 0.4mm). So don't use 1.0, but go with 0.4, 0.8, 1.2, 1.6 etc. It creates much better prints and increases the speed ;)

I bought this printer about a month back as my first printer. Am completely new to 3D printing. But for beginner on budget this printer takes the cake 🎂. Absolutely loved thus printer.

Love your enthusiasm for the hobbies. You have one of the most in-depth channels and a beautiful spirit! And cant wait to get my decals on my Scout ll. Best of luck on your journey.

Sorry you’re going through tough stuff. My wife’s a psychologist and I’m glad you are putting yourself out there to take some stigma out of getting mental health help. Best to you, I’m sure your move will be exciting and scary. Can’t wait to see where you’re going and what it’ll bring to the channel. You’re doing a great job. Hang in there. All the best! Now I’ve watched and what a great primer! I know nothing about 3D printing but definitely want to get into it soon.

Best wishes in your new adventure. Thank you for the work you put into these videos.

RC Girl! I love your videos and content! Your videos have helped me many times with build kits as well as items to buy or not buy! Appreciate your time and knowledge and excitement of the sport. Cheers from Alaska!!

You're so strong to share something like with us. You're a beast. Keep doing what makes u happy, and it's good to talk about this kind of stuff to clear your mind and soul

Thank you for the information about better help. I currently go to mental health myself and bring into FPV and 3D printing it keeps me happier in life when everything else seems to bring me down. But good therapy is what I do love going to and taking out my feelings. Thank you for this video you got my sub. I look forward to seeing more of what you have to offer. RC & FPV 4 LIFE

I have watched a ton of your awesome content but have never commented. I wanted to say i really appreciate you being vulnerable. Im impressed. Keep up the great RC content and good luck.

been looking to upgrade my ender 3 pro, thanks for your review!!

This is just cool my friend 🧡. I am thinking about getting one in the near future. Thank you for sharing this with us ❤❤

This presentation is probably the best demonstration of this model that I've seen. It "put me in the driver's seat" about assembly and operation as well as possible short of actually having the unit. I probably will be ordering one by mid May. I've been on and off using a tiny original Ender (150mm x 150mm) for years; the cheapest way in 2017 to see if 3D printing is a thing for me.

I got mine 2 months ago and it is a printing beast! I had it running non stop for the 1st 6 weeks and nice results and works great!

My V3 KE arrives on Monday. Helpful content for anyone getting a new printer especially this model! thanks!

You have our support, you got this, and I have also got me my first 3d printer making things for my rc cars

Looking at 3D printers and this was helpful. Thanks!

Sorry to hear that but i did it after 19 years and its hard but any bad situation we go through we come out the other end of it a stronger wiser person. You hot this girl i been a fan of the channel a long time now not to many beautiful ladies doing rc so caught my attention and im glad it did your channel is great and super informative so thank you for all you do

Sorry to hear of your situation, and hopefully you will move on and find happiness again, thanks for your channel and content, really appreciated!

Thank you for being brave and putting yourself out there. Enjoyed your video!

I'm sorry to hear of your current situation. Just dont think too much ok . We all love you , and love the video u make for us. Stay strong . And thanks for making this wonderful for us .

Great video and walkthrough ! Thank you for doing this. I think I might just take the plunge and try this as my first 3d Printer. I noticed that you hadn't pushed for a subscribe, and along with your honestly and integrity, I think you deserve it. So, I am now subscribed to your channel. Cheers .

Super cool...I have used my son's Ender printer that came out about 2 years ago and kinda got frustrated with things not turning out very well but this model seems to be able to cure all of that. Thanks too for sharing your life challenges. I am going to check out the link to see if it would be a good fit for my own challenges. Take care and stay busy, stay positive!

Rc girl you are amazing. Love your show thanks and keep it up. From Jacksonville Florida.

Great video,now I have a basic idea on how to 3D print

Thank you for making this video. I just got an E3 V3 KE and it is my first 3D printer. You answered all the questions i had and taught me a lot i didn't know i needed to know. I recently got out of an 8 year relationship too. IT SUCKED! If i could make a video to help you i would do that. I would probably have to watch another video to learn how to make a video though. :) Thanks again!

Wish u the best love your videos ❤ that is an awesome printer I'm amazed of their low cost.thanks for sharing 😊

Great video! Keep up the great content! Keep your head up an keep moving in a positive way! Just changed companys today because was not happy working their for the last two years! Let's all keep positive!!!!

so glad your looking for support . im in the same state of heart as well. i feel ya

My tip for 3D printing parts for RC is to try a slightly higher temperature and slower print feed. And when fixing holes print undersize, do not use a drill to make then bigger, use a reamer, because it doesn't stress the material nearly so much and won't snatch into the sides. If you only have a drill, hold the part firmly and spin the drill backwards as you slowly push it into the hole.

I’m sold on this printer thanks for the suggestion

So sorry to hear about you going through tough times. It so important to be able to talk to someone when in need. I grew up in a home where my mom (now retired) was a psychiatrist and psychologist and worked with many people over a long career. She always explained to me growing up about the importance of talking to someone close or to a professional when help is needed. We are all human and no one is perfect and the importance of being able to talk is so important. I really love your channel and I consider you one of the best RC reviewers on RU-vid. I've been following you on RU-vid for many years and really enjoy your content. I also just got into 3D printing as well and enjoying your 3D printing videos. I hope everything goes well, and remember to take time for yourself as well, and thank you so much for everything you do.

Thanks for being real! We will be praying for you and trusting that you will have brighter days ahead!! All the best on your move and may you find peace and joy in the transition!!💝😇🙏

Thanks for sharing even though you don’t need to. 9 years is a long time , it does get better , keep doing what you’re doing, keep up the great content !! 👍

love your content from nz, picked up one of these and it works perfect and Im tempted to try print a chassis or to just for fun 😂😂

The catch is that it is a Creality product, they release their printers when they are in the beta stage and rely on the community to fix the faults, or in their K series printers keep coming up with revisions of parts until one actually works correctly. With any newly released 3D printer I would advise potential purchasers to wait 3-6 months to enable the community to figure out what is wrong with the printer as there always is a problem somewhere

Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing a bit of yourself with us. You are a strong young lady. It will take some time to heal. Take one day at a time. I enjoy you and your channel and the RC hobby. Thank you for sharing some things regarding this 3D printer. Hugs 🤗.

Hoping better things are on the way for you. As for the 3D printer, I'm still using an original Ender 3 that I have fully upgraded. I've learned so much this way, though it has cost a lot more. I've had it for about 3 - 4 years now, and I still use it all the time for hobby stuff, etc. The feature list VS price point on this model looks pretty great ! As for software, etc. , someone will have more options out very quickly, as this is going to sell well.

Being older (55). I have found that we try to hold on. BUT we walk away from the bad and that is for the good! Don’t try to make it make sense, just know you changed for the better tomorrow and tomorrow is today’s yesterday! ❤ 😊

Thanks Hayley, this looks very cool. Life always has ups and downs, wishing good things for you moving forward. Your fans support you. And if you happen to scratch anything, well that okay with me! LOL!😁

Too funny to see you doing 3D printer now. My wife has one and loves it, she makes a lot but, she not yet done any for my RC cars stuff needed. I did not use my RC cars last year, I got into eBike. Now into indoor plants. That was good what you had done so far with 3D printing. Amazon what ones make now. Good to see you back from me doing RC. Thanks!

Sorry for what your going through those are life lessons you get stronger as you I hope you stay focused and keep rc alive

I bought my KE 3 weeks ago. Upgraded from a s1 pro. Liking it so far.

I use a elegoo resin printer for doing lost wax casting for jewelry.. never really tried Rc parts but I’ve done 2mm diamond mounts and it was great

Love all your videos

So glad you keep moving forward!! All of your content is so balanced between Professional and Real! Thank You ! Thank You ! Thank You !!

Mucha suerte con tu nueva vida RCgirl Una ruptura nunca es agradable y menos de 9 años de relación. El RC es un buen refugio, y darte vueltas con la mtb también. Saludos desde España!!

I don't think you'll have any problems finding someone else when you're ready. Enjoy this new adventure in your life. As far as 3D printing in concerned, I've been printing for about ten years and am still using my first 3D printer, a Creality Ender 3, first generation. I've made a few modifications to it since then but even from new it printed great with the only issue being a failed filament feeder due to it being made of plastic. Even though, it took a year before it broke. I now have 8 printers (FDM and resin) in addition to the Ender. I'm also a long time RCer and make lots of stuff for my crawlers and boats. I also made a much needed accessory for my Vitamix. Lol. Enjoy life.

Thank you for normalising therapy! It’s a basic human need to have good mental health. Thank you also for this great review, I’m about to order the KE as an upgrade from V2 Neo and I can’t wait for the slick prints and faster speeds! I haven’t seen anyone else show the set up, thank you for doing that. I’m so excited for full auto bed levelling and auto Z-height, that will save so many headaches! Some of your RC accessories don’t even look 3D printed. Love the video, thank you.

RC Girl Power! Really cool printer, thanks for posting. xoxo

Great video loved it

Thanks for the awesome review, I'm still new to 3d printing, what's the best filament to have when you're into rc crawling?thanks

Sorry you are feeling down. Love your chanel.

Sweet!...Grazi🤙💯...Thx For Keeping It Real...

Well done video. Very interesting for a guy with zero 3D printing knowledge. Good luck on your future.

Talking about your mental health really helps you get things off your chest and realize you're not alone. As someone who has constantly gone through dramatic life changes their whole life.... it took me years and I waited to the point where I'd had completely broken down and my health deteriorated dramatically to get help. I wished I would have gotten it sooner but I'm a bit hard headed. 😅 But I saved my most of my hair from falling off lmao! Keep your head up... Things will get better... Time heals all wounds.

Me and my daughter love your channel and you are 💯 awesome, take care of yourself first and everything else second, We will be waiting, and I'm sure all other viewers will be waiting also if you need some time!!! 👍👍💪

Best wishes, stay strong!! ❤

I'm sorry to hear of your current situation. You are a cheerful, radiant nature and I am sure things will get better. I'm an early millennial and in the last few years lots of peers "confessed" that they have issues, negative thoughts, unhealthy habits and so on. Which makes me feel better because I'm in the same boat lol. RC and 3d printsling saved my sanity quite often lol. And I'm even debating whether to buy the KE or bambulab A1. Thanks for this great video 🤗

Wishing you all the best as you move forward on your journey. Thanks for all the great content and for promoting BetterHelp. We’ll continue to support your channel, Fix products, scale goodies etc 🙂🫡 keep on tiny truckin’ !

Great video! I'm new in 3d printing and this video really help me to understand that world! With A.I. these will progress really fast for sure. I wish you the best for the year to come. Keep mountain biking with your crawlers and don't be too hard on yourself. Let your life find its flow.🚵‍♀️

All the best for your future endeavors, hope everything works out well. Marriage #3 going on 10 years now. When it ain't right, it ain't. Sucks but blue skies ahead, I hope. About the 3d printer, I read alot of problems online, have you had any with yours ?

Argh! Don't remind me about my Ender5 sitting over there that started failing every print! What it did prove to me is that I don't actually need a 3d printer, as I haven't touched it in almost 2 years.

I'm so sorry RC girl about your separation keep your head up, moving forward, and talk about things that bother you ❤

Not sure what slicer you're using but start learning Orca Slicer (its free and open source). I've been using Cura since getting my first printer 2 years ago. Just learned about Orca and there is so much you can do in the slicer for RC. Like taking 2 different model and mashing them together, adding more shapes, filiment profiles. Yes Cura has some of the features but I find Orca so much more intuitive...plus if you move away from Creality, it supports a ton of different printers.

Tip. You can drag and drop gcode file to Creality Print sliced in Cure and send via wifi to printer.

I enjoy your channel from time to time. Everything you post is entertaining just don’t have enough time to watch videos. I’m sorry to hear you’re going through a stressful time. Just know you’re strong and you can recover from this. And the 3-D printer is my next big RC purchase

Rc and 3d printing ❤❤❤❤❤ My favourite hobbies together ❤️

It is funny a few years ago, I had never heard of 3D printing, now I can not live without it.

You are just an awesome and interesting person. Love your work. Talented, smart AND pretty. Ya got the whole package.

Nice printer. Thanks for the good advice. Hope you do well. Vulnerability is sometimes mistaken for weakness. You are displaying bravery. Walking away is hard. Not looking back is harder. Be strong. ❤BTW, you're totally rocking that hair.

is there a way to print colorful objects using different filament colors with this printer?

I love mine. It's so fast, wireless, and easy to use.

Thats a huge commitment. You'll be ok with time, stay strong fall in love with a new beginning ❤

That rod was not to un clog the nozzle it was way to big in diameter mabey to push the fillement through the boden tube? Either way no worries great prints and amazing ideas you have with your machine.

Canada and Mexico are also 115-120 volts.. We share the same grid

Great video. Now you have two 3d printers, which one would you recommend? Which one is your preferred? Keep up the great work

I purchased my Ender 3 KE about 3 months ago. Has worked great for me. I have had some beautiful prints from this. My only down side is that the company is based out of China. Their support is in China. Communication with support is via e-mail on China time, which means they reply around 2:30AM Eastern Time. Should you need parts, they will need to be shipped from China. I started getting a key:2094 unknown error which is being caused by the auto leveler. I have been down for a couple weeks now and will remain down until the part arrives 2 weeks from now. Don't get me wrong, this has been a fantastic printer but support is also a factor.

I really had no idea how inexpensive these printers are. I'm impressed and might pick one up. For me, it would be RC accessories. For starters anyway lol BTW, I'd be willing to buy your misprints in the meantime, they look pretty damn good. Totolly love the jerrycan set up you made and rack. Find the ones for sale at the 1:10 scale small looking. Tough times now for you eh, (I'm Canadian). The sun will shine again for you kiddo, just takes a bit of time. Stay strong!

a good choice the KE is a beast of a printer for under 300 and you get 1.Klipper.2 speed 3 and most important (open sorce)

Guessing KE is in a competition with AtomStack Cambrian. Interesting shocked with TPU. Does KE work well with TPR? So awesome see this one

I just got into 3D printing a few months ago and already have two printers. I consider myself a professional now 😂. I'm not really a professional. But i am loving the 3d printing. Endless possibilities

The scraper tool you showed, is that metal or plastic blade?

Hi RC Girl, First time watcher here and fairly new to 3D printing (though I have been researching it for years). The KE is my first printer and while my experience is similar to yours, everyone has different quirks (I think yours is a later batch and has the least of those so far). My auto bed level works fine in the centre of the bed (with a minor lowering of the Z-offset), but on the edges it is out too far and sometimes my print fails if I use the whole bed or fill it to the edge with copies. I will probably need to use spacers and tape to get it right. A few pointers: 1 . I noticed that when you were on Creality Print, you had the setting of 100% infill density. But if you looked at the g-code breakdown in Preview, there was zero allocation to infill. This is due to the bizarre way that Creality treats infill. You are better off setting it to something like 30 but then pretend you didn't set it all. This is because to adjust the infill amount, you have to go to the setting below, infill distance. In order to increase the infill you make this setting lower and vice versa. It's right in Creality's Wiki, but it's completely non-intuitive. This is why I advise abandoning Creality Print and instead use Orca Slicer. It's a derivative of Prusa/Bambu. It has a lot of good presets, you can use wireless printing (though it's not perfectly integrated) and the support and infill settings are much easier to work with. 2. This leads to my 2nd point. You can use wireless printing without Creality Print, it's just one extra step. There is a webpage GUI that you can access through any browser (including mobile phone) by just typing in the IP address that your printer has been assigned via DHCP. To get from your slicer to the point of using the web gui, you just need to export the g-code. Then you go to the web gui, press import in the window with the list of files on your printer, then you can select that file and choose print. This is a touch buggy though, so sometimes you still have to go to your touchscreen and select the print from there. It works 8/10 times though and you shouldn't be too far away from your printer when starting a print anyways. 3. Orca Slicer actually has a tab for the web gui that you can use as soon as you've registered your IP with the software. So IMHO, it is currently the best slicer to use with the KE. 4. You can root the KE either with Creality's latest firmware or destinal of D3vil Design's patch. Then you can use the wireless print option from any slicer that works with Klipper. You can also change the config file from here, install Mainsail, Fluid, Kamp, KlipperScreen, Moonraker, Guppyscreen, etc. GuppyScreen works in landscape on the KE touchscreen (Nebula Pad) and has a lot more options than Creality's default interface. Happy Printing!

Change is sometimes really hard, but growth sometimes requires it. Here in the forests on the oregon coast and other locations south, fire sometimes is required for new growth to occur. Therapy is a good thing. That said oh no maybe i need a new bed slinger. Well need isnt the correct word i dont need 3d printers i want a new bed sling to co alomg woth my Core yx creality k1max which btw works awesome

The price always put me off picking up a printer.This one under $300 though I might have to pick one up.

What filament did you use on the vase? En where did you get the model from? Thanks for the review!

Did you use the ender 3 v3 se in cura, since the ke is not an option?

Do you do front bumpers for rock crawlers ? I need a custom one for my crawler....

You are not alone. There are a lot of us that are in the same position. I am a veteran from the army and a normally big, tough guy however, I have found comfort in counseling.

Dang, I hope everything works out. Good luck and God bless.

Now... I know what to use my gopro 10 black for HAHAHA 💥💥💥

Stay strong lady! You got this! Onwards and upwards! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Good for you to have the courage to prioritize yourself and put your personal life out there to get help. I’ve been following you for about a year now and find your mature approach to real life and RC refreshing. Keep going and chin up.

Best wishes, stay strong. 😊

Stay strong girlie,you have done more than most be proud of that.

Also - try tree supports next time, print really fast and super easy to remove!

RC Girl, was only looking for information on the KE version of the printer (and thanks for that information), but you talking about where you are and needing help was amazing. Good luck with your journey and mental health is SO IMPORTANT, and understanding how to deal with things is important. Thanks for the video!!!!

Can you do a regular model car kit black out of a box that you would get out of the store right a revel box kit

I'm winning, and I don't intend on losing again!