Wow after 2 years of dealing with the headache of getting this printer right and even putting it down for a year this video just helped me out tremendously. Thanks man 🙏
This is by far the simplest and most effective tutorial I’ve come across yet for calibrating e-steps. I’ll have to pick up a calliper soon, as I only had a metric ruler to try this with. Endless thanks for your clear instructions!
from the bottom of my heart thank you. I have been struggling to get this printer to work for two years now, even switching out the buildplate twice as well as swapping the drive motor and switching to a dual drive gear, which probably only execerbated the issue of a lack of calibration in the first place. For the first time in two years the printer has put out a well made first layer as well as actually printed without cracks between layers.
This was such a huge help, I've watched it a few times. I goofed and FORGOT to SAVE it when I was done. Once I adjusted and then saved it was a huge difference, thank you and your assistant!
Thank you for this helpful tutorial👍 I totally forgot to re-calibrate the e-steps for my Ender-3 after switching to a 32bit motherboard. Took some time for me to figure out where the underextrusion problems came from, but now all the problems are solved. And it was so super easy to set the new e-steps with the 4.2.7 board, it's unbelievable.
I just got a new extruder for my printer and was wondering why it was printing so poorly. After a couple google searches I ended up here and it turns out my e steps needed to go from 93 all the way to 414.7. Quite the change, definitely explains the under extrusion with the new extruder! Thanks so much for this video it was concise and easy enough for us 3d printing noobs to understand.
wow, this way is SOOOO much easier. for the last 6 years ive been doing the method of marking the filament before the extruder and half of the time youd start out with it sucking more than the line in which would require you to lower the value, mark again, and run it again. thank you for this!!!!
First time e-stepper here, I’ve never seen those parts of the menu! Great tutorial, glad I don’t have to hook up a computer, you made it look easy, thank you
Seriously, best video on this, so easy and uncomplicated, and your daughter adds some humanity to the usual boring technical explanations. I fixed my ESteps after replacing the extruder and am getting great prints again! Thnak you!!
Thank you so so so so so so much. I have no idea why all the other videos had to be so complicated, i have been so overwhelmed with them. Tried doing the pronterface and had so much anxiety just trying to download it for me to now be stuck because i need to orderer a newer cable. Started looking into octoprint which then had me having to buy the raspberry pie thing and that's over my head. i just want to print a whole slew of flexi octopi without the small failure in the body/leg joint. thank you!
Appreciate the video. I am just getting into 3D printing and have much to learn. I can tell a huge difference in just getting this extruder calibrated. Thanks again.
Excellent video, and by far a lot quicker than sending GCode. Also helps to disconnect the bowden tube and elimate the nozzle from the calibration. Thank you!
Someone down below noted this but it bears repeating, as I was aware of the "SAVE" setting but nevertheless totally forgot you need to SAVE your new setting before shutting down or (I believe) it reverts to the prior setting you had before calibrating. GREAT VIDEO BTW !
WOW! that was so easy! Now I have to do all my machines. You can also do it on the back end also. I have a filament detector so I just measured backwards and see where it ended up, subtracted that from 100 and I proceeded with the calculation from there. Put me right on the mark.
I have this off brand SUNLU S8 and this worked well. My number went from 96 to 139. Huge change, but I also upgraded my extruder to an ender 3 dual extruder with steel gears, so I think that has something to do with the big jump. No broken parts or anything. I was having to print at 25% speed just to get the plastic to come out fast enough. Hope this helps someone as clueless as me!
this helped me out so much!!! i did it twice and on the second one it was right at 100!! thank you! ive been under extrusion now it should be perfect!!!!
🤘🤘new printer here, (5 mo) was coasting on the rare occurrence of receiving a printer that performed well out of the box until it didn’t. This saved me. Followed.
Thanks for the video! We've gotten a few Ender 3 V2s and I feel like some calibrations are off when 1 works perfectly and the other 3 do not. This ought to prove useful. I like not having to connect to a PC!
Thank you for this vid bud. This got mine working perfect. But every time I turned my printer off it would go back to factory setting. 🤷🏼♂️ so I had to alter in the g-code in cura. But this did help me figure out what my printer was not doing. I tested it at 100mms and it was only putting out 65.5mms way off. I’m able to print things again yaaaaa🫶🏼👍🏼😁 thank you.
Never bothered with it as my ender 3 was working pretty well out of the box. Recently was noticing issues with walls and layer adhesion. Changed to a dual gear metal extruder and did the above, it was extruding 84 instead of 100! Dual gear feels too stiff even at loosest... Thanks for the quick and easy tutorial!
Something is clearly wrong with my Creality cr 10s5's extruder motor, I did the test and 4cm came out when I asked for 10cm . UGHHHHHH I had to jack up my steps from 93 to 233. I think the motor is F'd so I'm ordering a new one for all of $10 and some minor upgrades for a total of $30 bucks off Amz. Still thinking of ditching this unit, I've had it for over a year and it's never been perfect, thinking of changing to a Prusa. Hey thank you for a good and simple video, it really helped me and I like not having to plug my computer into the thing, I watched that video, I think was a little silly.
thankyou! This is so easy! The amount of times they are like, oh measure out 100mm... from where? or they have direct drive, I don't where do I measure from?? So thank you for explaining it fully and where to measure from.
im running sun pla+ is the best temp 200? I calibrated like in the video calculator gave me 96.07 i put that in setting stll my filament coming out all stringy and hard not making anything but ramen noodle like string what do i do next'?
quick question i am new to this but when i go to set my esteps my z axis just makes grinding noise while moving into the bed instead of the extruder moving but used your setting and its putting a much better bead down now running test
Turning your own filming session into a learning experience for your kid was awesome. What a guy
Not really all the noise in the back made it hard to follow at the end
100000% loved this too! I’m not a kids person but love seeing when they are involved in learning.
I thought that was sweet! Way to involve them, they love it 😊
I love how you do this compared to some of the others. It’s easier to understand. I subscribed to you just because of that. Thank you
ditto
Wow after 2 years of dealing with the headache of getting this printer right and even putting it down for a year this video just helped me out tremendously. Thanks man 🙏
9 months ago and still by far the fastest explained and easy to follow instructions for estep calibration on the web
This is by far the simplest and most effective tutorial I’ve come across yet for calibrating e-steps. I’ll have to pick up a calliper soon, as I only had a metric ruler to try this with. Endless thanks for your clear instructions!
Others explain much complicated but this guy explain simple and very easy to follow and to understand, thank you T-Dub
you and your kids have shown me more that other videos, awesome
from the bottom of my heart thank you. I have been struggling to get this printer to work for two years now, even switching out the buildplate twice as well as swapping the drive motor and switching to a dual drive gear, which probably only execerbated the issue of a lack of calibration in the first place. For the first time in two years the printer has put out a well made first layer as well as actually printed without cracks between layers.
Was your extruder constantly clicking?
Thanks so much for this! My prints would fail more than 75% of the time but now they almost all print perfectly.
This was such a huge help, I've watched it a few times.
I goofed and FORGOT to SAVE it when I was done.
Once I adjusted and then saved it was a huge difference, thank you and your assistant!
Thank you for this helpful tutorial👍
I totally forgot to re-calibrate the e-steps for my Ender-3 after switching to a 32bit motherboard. Took some time for me to figure out where the underextrusion problems came from, but now all the problems are solved.
And it was so super easy to set the new e-steps with the 4.2.7 board, it's unbelievable.
Thank you for doing this. It's fascinating how much a pain needing to shift 93.0 to 97.6 can cause.
I just got a new extruder for my printer and was wondering why it was printing so poorly. After a couple google searches I ended up here and it turns out my e steps needed to go from 93 all the way to 414.7.
Quite the change, definitely explains the under extrusion with the new extruder!
Thanks so much for this video it was concise and easy enough for us 3d printing noobs to understand.
wow, this way is SOOOO much easier. for the last 6 years ive been doing the method of marking the filament before the extruder and half of the time youd start out with it sucking more than the line in which would require you to lower the value, mark again, and run it again. thank you for this!!!!
I am keen to this types of videos where they go straight to the point. Thanks for the video!
First time e-stepper here, I’ve never seen those parts of the menu! Great tutorial, glad I don’t have to hook up a computer, you made it look easy, thank you
Seriously, best video on this, so easy and uncomplicated, and your daughter adds some humanity to the usual boring technical explanations. I fixed my ESteps after replacing the extruder and am getting great prints again! Thnak you!!
Thank you so so so so so so much. I have no idea why all the other videos had to be so complicated, i have been so overwhelmed with them. Tried doing the pronterface and had so much anxiety just trying to download it for me to now be stuck because i need to orderer a newer cable. Started looking into octoprint which then had me having to buy the raspberry pie thing and that's over my head. i just want to print a whole slew of flexi octopi without the small failure in the body/leg joint.
thank you!
Appreciate the video. I am just getting into 3D printing and have much to learn. I can tell a huge difference in just getting this extruder calibrated. Thanks again.
thanks a bunch i love your steps since it seems more accurate without the melted filament!
I just got an Ender 3 pro and was having some serious under extrusion issues. I followed this video and my prints got soooo much better. Thank you!
Excellent video, and by far a lot quicker than sending GCode. Also helps to disconnect the bowden tube and elimate the nozzle from the calibration. Thank you!
So easy a kid could do it, literally! Great video and easy to follow instructions.
You have no idea how appreciative I am! You guys are awesome!!!!
Dude! Very nice! Thank you!! And I’m so glad your child got to help as well!
i like how you take out the tube I didnt want to waste filament doing this. Great video !
This is dope! I didn’t want to turn my laptop on, find a cable, setup pronter face and remember calculations! Thank you!
Thanks for posting this. After fighting with my ender 3 forever the under extrusion issues are fixed. Great video thanks again.
Wow thats so much easier than what some other people are doing ! This is great. Thanks !
This was way easier then using a program. Thanks for the easy tutorial.
Very impessive parenting skills, and an awesome instruction video for ender 3 pro e-steps. Thank You.
Thanks. This is exactly what I needed. Clear and concise.
Fantastic instructions, you made it very easy to understand
This is my go to video for esteps. Excellent.
Someone down below noted this but it bears repeating, as I was aware of the "SAVE" setting but nevertheless totally forgot you need to SAVE your new setting before shutting down or (I believe)
it reverts to the prior setting you had before calibrating. GREAT VIDEO BTW !
WOW! that was so easy! Now I have to do all my machines. You can also do it on the back end also. I have a filament detector so I just measured backwards and see where it ended up, subtracted that from 100 and I proceeded with the calculation from there. Put me right on the mark.
Wholesome video with the info I needed 10/10 would recommend
Ok, i have always had an issue with crappy prints until today that is thanks a ton! This video was a life saver! :)
Great video! Easy to follow and to the point.
Solid bro!! Thanks. Thought I was gonna lose my mind.
I have this off brand SUNLU S8 and this worked well. My number went from 96 to 139. Huge change, but I also upgraded my extruder to an ender 3 dual extruder with steel gears, so I think that has something to do with the big jump. No broken parts or anything. I was having to print at 25% speed just to get the plastic to come out fast enough. Hope this helps someone as clueless as me!
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou. Finally someone who I could understand and instantly fix my problem
Great video, thanks for the step by step... hopefully you remembered to store your settings after entering the new value!!
i was suprised to find mine only 1mm out first time adjusting Esteps. thanks forr the video
this helped me out so much!!! i did it twice and on the second one it was right at 100!! thank you! ive been under extrusion now it should be perfect!!!!
Dude, thanks for this video. This is much easier and accurate compared to measuring how much goes into it lmao.
🤘🤘new printer here, (5 mo) was coasting on the rare occurrence of receiving a printer that performed well out of the box until it didn’t. This saved me. Followed.
Mine was at 65mm (upgraded metal extruder) 🤦🏼♂️ had to adjust to 143.8 thanks for this video, printing alot better!!
I bet! Glad it worked!
Thanks for the video, it helped a lot . I keep coming back to it
Thanks for the video! We've gotten a few Ender 3 V2s and I feel like some calibrations are off when 1 works perfectly and the other 3 do not. This ought to prove useful. I like not having to connect to a PC!
This is the far superior way to do this, thank you
Helped me so much just now, thank you!
Thanks alot.
My ender 3 pro had wrong E steps settings and this video helped me to fix it.
Started with 97.4mm, and am now on 100mm, perfect! Thanks
Thank you for this vid bud. This got mine working perfect. But every time I turned my printer off it would go back to factory setting. 🤷🏼♂️ so I had to alter in the g-code in cura. But this did help me figure out what my printer was not doing. I tested it at 100mms and it was only putting out 65.5mms way off. I’m able to print things again yaaaaa🫶🏼👍🏼😁 thank you.
Thanks again Sir for the excellent tutorial 👍
Thank you very much, this has been very helpful.
Genius! This is so much easier 👍🏻
Thanks this tutorial was simple and effective!
This is a great video that made me smile, sadly I figured out that you can't do this on just a normal ender 3 lol.
You made it so easy! Thanks!
Thank you for making this really easy.
Helps yes. And bonus points for how graceful you were with your kiddo. I probably would have flipped out and cut the video. 🙂
This did help me a lot. Thank you.
Never bothered with it as my ender 3 was working pretty well out of the box. Recently was noticing issues with walls and layer adhesion. Changed to a dual gear metal extruder and did the above, it was extruding 84 instead of 100! Dual gear feels too stiff even at loosest... Thanks for the quick and easy tutorial!
Thank you so much!!! Awesome video!!!
thats simple and just awsome thanks for that!!
Thank you this simple advice👍👍
dude thanks! made this much easier.
You REALLY helped me! Thanks! It was WAYYY off!
thanks for not making it too complicated. Im glad i didnt need a phd in mathematical fusion of geometry pi x 45=Q
Outstanding! Thank you.
Thanks for the help, this really helped!
A lot simpler than other videos. Thank you.
Something is clearly wrong with my Creality cr 10s5's extruder motor, I did the test and 4cm came out when I asked for 10cm . UGHHHHHH I had to jack up my steps from 93 to 233. I think the motor is F'd so I'm ordering a new one for all of $10 and some minor upgrades for a total of $30 bucks off Amz. Still thinking of ditching this unit, I've had it for over a year and it's never been perfect, thinking of changing to a Prusa. Hey thank you for a good and simple video, it really helped me and I like not having to plug my computer into the thing, I watched that video, I think was a little silly.
Very, very useful. Thank you.
this helped me so much thank you
My extrusion was 58mm under, this fixed a lot of mystery problems all at once
amazing video! thank you
thank you! this helped lots!
Great video! I love how you told your kid you don't want them to go too far but you did anyway hahahaha
Thank you soo much easy to understand
perfect .. great explanation
Thats weird, my ender 3 was also extruding 96.6mm. Thanks for the video!
Super helpful. Thanks!!
Thank you so much for this.
thankyou! This is so easy! The amount of times they are like, oh measure out 100mm... from where? or they have direct drive, I don't where do I measure from?? So thank you for explaining it fully and where to measure from.
im running sun pla+ is the best temp 200? I calibrated like in the video calculator gave me 96.07 i put that in setting stll my filament coming out all stringy and hard not making anything but ramen noodle like string what do i do next'?
When you said "of course your value is different" I was confused for a second.
I had mine come out at exactly 96,6mm too. 😅
Lol awesome!
great video. thanks
Thank you very much!
Very informative video. My calculations were different. My value, using your example was 93.3... my bad, the caliper measurement was upside down ;^)
Thanks Bro!
for the tutorial...
Thank! From malaysia!
Well that was easy. Thanks!!
quick question i am new to this but when i go to set my esteps my z axis just makes grinding noise while moving into the bed instead of the extruder moving but used your setting and its putting a much better bead down now running test
It sounds like your wires are crossed, but if it prints, idk. Good luck!
Lol was lazy and just copied your value and it ended up helping out alot thanks
haha. I'm not above some trial and error myself!
My Ender 3 won’t feed anything when I attempt this, but prints normally. Any suggestions? Maybe a bug in the software?
Thank you so much!
thank you! i dont have a cord to hook it up to the pc so this will help!!!