Is The Creality Ender 7 Right For You? (Not What I Expected)

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
  • Love the channel? Consider supporting me on Patreon:
    www.patreon.com/user?u=806627
    Find Out More Or Purchase The Ender 7 Here US (AFF):
    amzn.to/3GX7WL6
    Find Out More Or Purchase The Ender 7 Here CA:
    www.amazon.ca/dp/B09G6KK755?r...
    Find Out More Or Purchase The Ender 7 Here UK:
    www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09G6KS82...
    Find Out More Or Purchase The Ender 7 Here (Global):
    www.pergear.com/products/crea...
    In today's video we take a look at the Creality Ender 7. A 3d printer that I have been very excited for due to it having a CoreXY Motion System, Linear Rails, and advertised quick print speeds. I have had this printer for a couple of months and today we will go over its specs, what set up was like, how it prints, and I will give you my final conclusion on this printer.
    Subscribe to the ModBotArmy Channel for Weekly Livestreams!:
    / @modbotarmyy
    The 3d Print General's Review On The Ender 7:
    • Video
    Models Used In This Video:
    Onyx:
    thangs.com/ChaosCoreTech/Onix (Pokemon)- Print In Place Flexi-48323
    Heart Vase:
    thangs.com/3dprintbunny/Hearts Vase-49000
    Robert Planter:
    www.prusaprinters.org/prints/...
    (´∀`)♡ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases:
    Buy now on Amazon: amzn.to/2jQAOgV
    Subscribe To My 3d Printing Blog! :
    Lets Get Social!
    Facebook: / dopesoner930
    Twitter: / dopesoner930
    Instagram: / modbotarmy
    Twitch: / dopesoner930
    Music provided by Argofox:
    NEREUS - Lotus
    • NEREUS - Lotus [Argofo... ​

ความคิดเห็น • 156

  • @CNCKitchen
    @CNCKitchen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Great to hear that I'm not the only one who had issues with it. Nice review!

    • @ModBotArmy
      @ModBotArmy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh man, not at all. I was so optimistic as well. Thank you Stefan!

    • @ToddHoward.
      @ToddHoward. ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it worth buying? I'm having 2nd thoughts now 😕

    • @rouder9237
      @rouder9237 ปีที่แล้ว

      I found the printer for 350 Euro which seems to a great price, do you recommend it for my first 3d Printer? Does these issues go away if you print at 30-40% speed?

    • @Review-Kings
      @Review-Kings ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@rouder9237 he literally says it prints terrible so why even ask this

    • @Review-Kings
      @Review-Kings ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rouder9237 if you print at 30 or 40% you might aswell buy another printer

  • @marsgizmo
    @marsgizmo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for the insights! Great in-depth details.
    I feel this printers needs Joel's angle grinder touch...👀

  • @AndrewAHayes
    @AndrewAHayes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I had the same issue of the nozzle getting clsoer and closer to the print on My Ender5 Plus until it eventually knocked the part off the bed and I figured out it was the leadscrew nuts that had been tightened within an inch of their life to stop them coming off in shipping and it was also causing a screeching sound so I slackened off each screw on the leadscrew nuts a half turn and that solved both issues

  • @MikeC19100
    @MikeC19100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for the honest review. I was considering the Ender 7, but ended up getting the CR-10 Smart because it had the auto-level and large bed. So far I’m having no issues with the unit I got.

  • @avejst
    @avejst 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good points.
    Please follow up on those problems
    Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀

  • @247printing
    @247printing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome review! You covered everything I wanted to know 🤩👌 500mm/ss acceleration is a shame… omg

  • @ronm6585
    @ronm6585 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the review. 👍🏻

  • @arty7468
    @arty7468 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Honestly this feels really reminiscent of the issues I also had with the ender6. It took almost a year of upgrades to get it working along with custom Klipper firmware with a raspi, good review! Hope Creality gets good at the CoreXY game, bc mostly my ender6 has been a great motion system and not much more

  • @binarybrian
    @binarybrian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    That seems par for the course for Creality. They put together a list of quality ingredients and then for some bizarre reason substitute sand for sugar and you end up with a turd pie. Excellent review though. Look forward to hear if it can be salvaged in any way.

    • @twincast2005
      @twincast2005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      At least it's usually an easy fix, once people find out what the issue is, but customers simply shouldn't _have to_ tinker with "out of the box" products.

    • @binarybrian
      @binarybrian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@owowowdhxbxgakwlcybwxsimcwx Totally agree. They always go with ptfe lined hotends even on their new fancy direct drive extruder which pretty much eliminates any filament except pla and guarantees you will be replacing the burned up lining after a year. I'd rather just have the option to source my own hotend/extruder and be done with it. Less waste and less future maintenance and cost.

    • @twincast2005
      @twincast2005 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @link4566 Well, there's no real major blunder on that one, but it still has needless flaws: Ridiculously loud. Putting one 4010 blower fan and one 4010 heatsink fan in a fan housing made for two 4010 blower fans and one 3010 heatsink fan. Fiddly bed leveling wheel placement. No official replacement beds (yet). And there's simply nothing "Pro" about it (no ABL, no filament sensor, no all-metal hotend, not even an all-metal extruder, let alone anything actually fancy); honest name would've been "V2".

  • @lucbrodeur9193
    @lucbrodeur9193 ปีที่แล้ว

    hi. thank you for that great video. did you continu to try to get it to work great?? i did put the insanity firmware on it and i use superslicer. i do get way better print now. but what are your experiences since that video. thank you again for your video. they are great.

  • @pilotwordtoo
    @pilotwordtoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would like to suggest that you make sure that the stepper drivers on the board are adequately cooled. The lab in which I'm doing my PhD research has 3 old Taz Printers and one of them was consistently exhibiting a Z height issue after a rebuild which we couldn't figure out. Turned out to be a cooling issue in which the Z stepper driver wasn't adequately cooled. Once we put a beefy fan on the board, it came back to life. Maybe it would help with this one as well. who knows.

  • @petermeier3153
    @petermeier3153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Had all the same issues you described. Was a very steep learning curve for me as a novice two months ago. The issue is definitely the extruder and/or hotend. It cannot extrude enough for high speeds. Check the Creality Slicer flow settings, they "fixed" it by setting 125% (!) flow rate for infill at 250mm/s. Also it's very "spongy" and delayed, so it's impossible to get the right amount of extrusion, because you have to retract like half a kilometer before the corner. Also couldn't tune linear advance (Merlin) or pressure advance (Klipper) because of that. Went with a Mellow NF Sunrise direct extruder and wow. Totally different machine. Perfectly clean prints now, even with high speeds.

  • @aqhan
    @aqhan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's interesting to see, because I had exactly the same issues with noccle digging into the prints as it was going up the layers on my Ender 3 Max. I changed the surface to a thicker glass and installed BL Touch, but it never resolved the issue. Printer went through the service twice. It definitely got better, but the issue never really fully resolved.

  • @baalzevuv4509
    @baalzevuv4509 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, even with all notifications being turned on it's the first time I got one. "Turning off and on again" trick works! ;)

  • @maccooley70
    @maccooley70 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like your onest words and would like to see what you are going to make of the printer. I own a Ender 7 as my first Printer und learning.....
    At first I print slow to tweak the Cura settings and get the best quality. PID tuning, feeder stepper motor adjustment (was nearly perfect), PTFE Bowden tube, got rid of the head ring what's o ever housing to see my prints and printed a small housing for the cable exit. Installed a BL touch.

  • @rabenklang7
    @rabenklang7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi really nice review, thanks I would like a follow up. Have you testet it with klipper and direct drive and other hotend? The sale price is half now, so if it would be any good with upgrades, i might consider buing it..

  • @jeffharrison5265
    @jeffharrison5265 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Did you do a follow-up? I wonder if a direct drive and new hot end with the Sonic Pad with bring out this machines potential?

  • @drramtop1576
    @drramtop1576 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I've owned an Ender 7 for several months and this is the first review that actually seems to describe the machine accurately. I've had the same issue with random over and under extrusion. No combination of settings and filament will fix it, seems to be an inherent issue. Print quality is terrible for a printer that costs £500, my £300 Sovol SV01 is far superior in terms of both quality and consistency.
    The print bed is also deeply underwhelming. All my other printers have 'ultrabase' type glass beds, and this is by far the worst. PLA barely sticks to the textured side at all, and while the smooth side is a little better it's still bad. I fitted a BLTouch to make sure levelling wasn't the problem and it didn't help at all. Finally I bodged in a spare SV01 glass bed and that works much better, although I lose some print area because it's not the right shape and size.
    But it's not a total solution. The Ender 7 still randomly prints too high or too low on the first layer. I'm positive this is something to do with the bizarre bed mounting system, which supports the bed on only one side and is very shonky indeed.
    I could go on with a legion of complaints; the E7 is noisy with no silent board available for it, Creality haven't released the Marlin source code, and there's also a complete lack of spares for the printer. No beds, no hot ends, no replacement rails, no boards, etc. Creality seem to have abandoned it already. If something breaks, you're in trouble.
    tl;dr - the Ender 7 is a cargo cult Voron. Creality thought that building a rigid frame and fitting it with linear rails and a core XY movement system would give them a fast, good quality printer. It didn't, because they have no real idea what they're doing.

    • @Dietz933
      @Dietz933 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      100% agree with everything said, have you tried to replace the fans? The cheap china ones are way too loud and will eventually get louder... Got some new ones for my motherboard and extruder and its made a massive difference. Just double check the voltage matches. You probably already done it but just add this in there incase and for others.

    • @hman72y
      @hman72y 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Does those issues on Z appear because you use "Z Hop" ? On they are still there without z hop ?
      Did you try the trick where we put a ball bearing between the nema shaft and the Z screw to avoid the coupler to "compress" under constraint ?

    • @jclosed2516
      @jclosed2516 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well - I had some interest in that Ender 7, but seeing all the things that gone wrong, that interest is dissolved in thin air. It could be that a one-sided support of the bed is not optimal, but I own a Ender 5 Pro, that has also a one sided support, but prints perfectly. I highly suspect there's something wrong with the firmware, because that sort of irregularities point to a non-optimal configuration of stepper driver software. Sadly (opposite to the Ender 3, Ender 5 and some other models) the software is not open sourced, so there is nothing much the user can do to correct anything. You really have to rely on Creality to correct any misconfigurations and bugs that are in the firmware. And sadly Creality seems to slack off in that part. That's the reason I am not that impressed by the latest Creality models. It's fun if everything works, but good luck if it does not.

    • @princeofrandom6734
      @princeofrandom6734 ปีที่แล้ว

      do I go for QIDI TECH 3D Printer, X-Pro ?'
      ;'c

  • @highwaymen1237
    @highwaymen1237 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great review. In the future when you test a filament printer could you please test ninjaflex? Thanks. Anybody that does a review on a filament printer I'm asking for this. The caveat is it needs to print pla well before progressing to the next filament as you've pointed out in this review.

  • @truantray
    @truantray 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I've had this printer 5 months and I don't see any of these problems. The only tweak has been 210C for PLA and a set speed of 200mm/sec. Also, I set flow to 90%.
    The most reliable printer I have. The top layers are not as nice as they should be, but I think a logical upgrade is to an all metal hot end.
    The new Creality glass bed at 65C is outstanding.

    • @robb2465
      @robb2465 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you put on the ABL yet? I put a CR touch on my Ender 7 even though Creality said it wouldn't work. I used the bracket file and installed the firmware for the BR touch. Works great!!! Only thing I might do is use a stronger filament for the bracket as it is a little flimsy.

    • @monsterstorm78
      @monsterstorm78 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robb2465 u still use ur ender 7

  • @felipenavas
    @felipenavas 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would be nice see some build using differents things like Orbiter 2.0 extruder, Phaetus Dragonfly HIC, some custom using the new trianglelabs CHC heat element, volcomod or volcodragon hotend.

  • @tyson822
    @tyson822 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Howdy! Did you ever get the mods done you talked about in this video?
    I bought an Ender 7 on CL and would like to know if it can be improved with mods.
    Thanks

    • @Paul01
      @Paul01 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi, I have an Ender 7 and have made several changes to it (Klipper, BLTouch, Spider v3 hotend & PEI build plate) fire me a message if you need any help 🙂

  • @guidancebeats
    @guidancebeats 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’d love to see you do a review of the SV03.

  • @GovindCanada
    @GovindCanada 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for another great video. I am looking to buy one for my son. I am really very confused between Ender 3 S1 Pro, Ender 5 Pro and Ender CR10 V3... Can you pls advice?

  • @climatebreak
    @climatebreak 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks so much for the great review! was really hoping this would be the "ender 3" of core xy printers. could you recommend a core xy that performs well around the same price, or are we looking at $1k+ for both quality and speed out of the box?

    • @AndrewAHayes
      @AndrewAHayes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I spent £2000+ building the Pro 3D V-King 400 from the very best parts I could get my hands on, I self sourced them as although there is a BOM spreadsheet with suppliers where you can get 90% of the parts from many of them were the same parts in Voron kits which were only ever 80% in stock and the reports of people having to buy better quality parts to replace bad ones in the kits was what put me off building a Voron
      The result is I have a beast of a printer that puts out parts as good as the digital renders and is as fast as shit off a shovel.
      You can build a smaller one with cheaper parts around £1000-£1200 and still get a good printer but I wanted quality proven working well parts and to achieve this I had to shell out on a lot of shipping costs.
      I might add that this machine works for living doing 28 hour runs and has paid for itself many times over, I would like to tell you what it makes but I am gagged in a non disclosure agreement

  • @henrikgilda4969
    @henrikgilda4969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice review! I do have to admit I kept my fingers crossed when I watched it waiting for you to say "so here I klipperized it, did an input shaping calibration and now watch it print at 3000mm/s^2 acceleration" 😁 but when your Z problems appeared I knew that wouldn't happen in the rest of the video... 😕

  • @MrOscarjw
    @MrOscarjw 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hitting infill remind me of when my abs prints release from the bed and curl up.
    Maybe the bed or the z mount is 'tacoing' after being heat soaked causing a variation in z height. PID tune for the bed could help as well.

  • @michaelcottle2100
    @michaelcottle2100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A very good review of this printer. It is refreshing to see a frank evaluation of the product without glossing over the issues. You mentioned that you are currently reviewing the Ender-3 S1. I am also impressed with what this printer offers. However, I'm a little concerned with the amount of current that appears to flowing through the ribbon cable to the heat block heating element. How does this not burn up the ribbon cable given the light gage wires of this cable? The wires from the heating element to the breakout board look to be of appropriate gauge. How does this even work?

    • @jclosed2516
      @jclosed2516 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hmm.. I do not have the Ender-3 S1 (yet?), so I cannot see how thick that wires are, and how many are used for the heating element. If you use not-too-thin cores, and use enough in parallel, a ribbon cable can take a lot of energy before becoming overheated. If you touch that cable after a (relatively long) print session, does it feel very warm? Anything up to 40 degrees (Celsius) and maybe 50 degrees can be acceptable. That, of course, depends on the maximum operating temperature that cable is capable of. Most quality cables have their operating range printed on them, so you could use that as a reference.

  • @Nick_Something
    @Nick_Something 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to have similar issues when I swapped to a mosquito magnum + until I started to tune linear advance for each filament I use. Not sure if the ender 7 supports linear advance but if it does I would recommend trying that to see if it makes a difference in the print quality.

  • @norro21
    @norro21 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    were the z steps calibrated correctly?

  • @jeremyowens4176
    @jeremyowens4176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i have the ender 5 plus wich I upgraded withe the pei coated spring steel hot plate and microswiss dual gear direct drive extruder setup and I absolutely love it. I'm printing any material I want with great results once some minor adjustments are made from one material to another. Currently turning out amazing quality masks and helments in tpu. Basically what I'm saying is the ender 5 plus is so good I'm sad to hear that Creality dropped the ball so hard with the 7.

  • @denvermatt
    @denvermatt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please make the upgraded review of this printer :)

  • @crazytrutas
    @crazytrutas ปีที่แล้ว

    How are the Mods coming along? I would like to see this working.

  • @frits183
    @frits183 ปีที่แล้ว

    How are you going on the ender 7 with klipper etc. 🤔

  • @EricVanSchagen
    @EricVanSchagen ปีที่แล้ว

    i found using prusaslicer made a huge difference. not at 250mm/sec yet but i'm working at it.

  • @mikedezotell8344
    @mikedezotell8344 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I haven’t looked but, did you ever end up doing any mods to the ender 7?

  • @IIMTAII
    @IIMTAII ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks man

  • @sylvainlathuy2702
    @sylvainlathuy2702 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your issue could be over-extrusion. Did you check the extruder calibration ? (steps/mm). Then, unless expressly limited in the firmware, maximum acceleration values are easily modified (M201+M204). Eventually, you can compile and update the firmware yourself. Worth doing at least if the Linear Advance is not activated (M900). There is no reason you should not get a good print out of this printer... (I own an Ender-5)

  • @spudnickuk
    @spudnickuk ปีที่แล้ว

    The first think i do with new printers is go over all the screws and wiring
    some time the extruder gear wheels have been lose or out of alignment and the tension spring has been to weak, so i normally upgrade these and shorten the bowden tube to reduce the friction
    I have found many printers that i have had, is i have had to tune the Z height and E step calibration and also the heat of the bed and nozzle are out by about 5 -10 degrees, So I have not found a printer that does not have accurate calibration yet
    one thing i can think of, is the larger stepper motors could be drawing to much power from the main board and causing a surge, and that could be the reason the motors are making more noise,
    I normally see DM542 stepper drivers used for Small cnc machines where the noise does not matter as these are not quiet unlike the TMC2208 drivers that should of been used and have less noise/frequency problem than the DM542
    and they should be very well insulated and they are not, so this could also be causing issues like stepper motors being out of sync because the pulse to move the motors are not accurate.
    so i i buy a used Ender 7 i will change the drivers, and im sure that will solve the issue with it.

  • @bradmeekakasilvertopflyer
    @bradmeekakasilvertopflyer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been contemplating buying a 3D printer for a long time I am skilled with design my biggest want for a printer is resolution I don't care about speed I would like to hear what you think about the delta printers thank you

  • @WinterEC
    @WinterEC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this review! My next printer is going to be a CoreXY machine and for that reason I was considering the Ender 7. Definitely ruled out at this point (and thanks for saving me from that temptation!) So many people get such great results from the Ender3 printers, it's easy to assume those Creality folks have the 3D printer making game completely figured. Doesn't appear to be the case. Now to decide between Voron 2.4 vs Trident vs RatRig V3.

    • @hman72y
      @hman72y 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't forget VzBot also ;)

    • @robb2465
      @robb2465 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My ender 7 works awesome!!!

  • @bregbarega3717
    @bregbarega3717 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi! How did the mods go, if you did? My bud told me that the Z carriage is too flimsy and not very accurate

  • @swolath
    @swolath 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    maybe the design with a falling table. could have some sort of back lash where the table dosnt drop exactly the right measurement each time

  • @Insane98
    @Insane98 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have not even got to print anything.. the noise when it moves diagonal is awefull.. might return it.. :(

  • @ed1011
    @ed1011 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    can you state the price first thing in the spec section? the pricing is still the key factor when people decide what to buy. thanks

  • @jraiello
    @jraiello ปีที่แล้ว

    ModBot, did you ever do the upgrades? I have an Ender 7 and to be honest, a slightly modified Ender 3 V2 is more reliable...I got suckered in on the faster speed, but most things I do aren't much faster at all. What are good printers that can actually print faster than an Ender 3?

  • @Nitram_3d
    @Nitram_3d 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    a VolcoMosq LGX and Klipper would be a improvement

  • @randomname3894
    @randomname3894 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the modern technology in tmc drivers is way ahead of those oldschool drivers. I used this kind in CNC builds, but would never look at them for a printer and my newer CNC uses servos with integrated drivers. Feels like they had to get rid of old stock.

  • @iamthrutheframe
    @iamthrutheframe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You may want to try swapping out that red extruder with a bmg.

  • @rynnjacobs8601
    @rynnjacobs8601 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you sure, the layerheight is a multiple of the minimal steps the z-motor can do?
    Maybe the firmware is bad and does not compensate for loosing fractions of a step every layer?

  • @IndaLight1
    @IndaLight1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My boy dopestoner930 came a long ass way, I remember us trouble shooting the da Vinci. Good shit buddy.

  • @stevecade857
    @stevecade857 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Drivers and stepper motors, maybe even the control board. They're the biggest change I see from the Ender 6, excluding linear rails, which can produce much better prints. So many issues relating to movement of the bed and extruder that is where my focus for the issues would be. Any purchaser is Creality's beta tester.

  • @Anyone700
    @Anyone700 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    They might have some funky pressure advance baked into the firmware that they did not calibrate well or that only works well on some % of their machines

  • @francisgravel6593
    @francisgravel6593 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there any firmware upgrade that might resolve the problems?

  • @ericbommer2280
    @ericbommer2280 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wanted a core xy and took the chance since the price drop(paid $430) and was my cheapest option. I watched a bunch of review and they seemed mixed between hate and love. Guess I was lucky and I love mine, haven't pushed it really hard, but my prints are working well. My only complaint is the installed firmware is closed. I saw TH3D has a marlin version that works with a different display, Im also seeing Klipper config files coming out so I can configure one of my RPI.

    • @monsterstorm78
      @monsterstorm78 ปีที่แล้ว

      U still use ur ender 7

    • @ericbommer2280
      @ericbommer2280 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@monsterstorm78 Ya, Its been running really well for me. Still running stock firmware, have not had a chance to put the effort in to change it. I did add a BL Touch, super easy install, just used the connector on the top, no re-wring needed. I do have issues with the BL touch randomly erroring out when I map my table, but I had similar issues with my CR-10, it does eventually work. I have read post that some board have a capacitor installed that causes issues, not sure if the Ender 7 has these problems.

    • @monsterstorm78
      @monsterstorm78 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ericbommer2280 u think the ender 7 worth buying tho

  • @RamKumar-zn6vj
    @RamKumar-zn6vj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am using this Ender 7 machine for a month now. I was frustrated by the lack of any specs, source code or any details about its hardware. I couldn't change the stock limited functions with any custom firmware.
    I then installed Klipper and after a lot of tuning and experimentation, I finally got the perfect print at real 250mms. I can even bump it upto 300mms. But I am very happy with 180mms for normal prints.
    Capable hardware but poor software and support.

  • @ryangamble5131
    @ryangamble5131 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd love to see you throw an Eva carriage on there with a volcomosq or a rapido. Glad I opted to build a voron instead of buying the 7 when it was released!

  • @3dexperiments
    @3dexperiments 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I simply can't understand why Creality keeps changing to new controller boards and now stepper drivers. There are plenty of fast and great printers using TMC 2209s for example. Great review, looking forward to your progress with this one.

    • @shapshooter7769
      @shapshooter7769 ปีที่แล้ว

      Methinks the TMC2209 can't handle anything bigger than NEMA 17s

  • @MakerMeraki
    @MakerMeraki 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I went through two Ender 7's in November and December. Both had broken touch screens, limiting functionality a great deal. I never had a successful print. Creality airmaled a new screen for the replacement E7, but it too was cracked on arrival and running some weird firmware that wasn't a Creality interface. After all that toil, back it went. My modified Ender 6 is still less than a 7 and approaches the touted speeds. I think they probably just done a Ender 6 Pro with linear rails.
    As for the S1, my experience was great until tonight. 4 hours into an 10 hour print, I was woken up by the on-board alarm. Reset the printer to find that the hotend isn't heating, and the JST jack is broken. I got my start with Creality, but there are too many quality problems. Oh, interesting fact: the start gcode in the Creality Slicer profile for the Ender 3 S1 doesn't include any ABL gcode, just G28 and the same starting gcode for the other Ender 3s. That's extremely disappointing.

    • @willcarlton3906
      @willcarlton3906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here. Creality was my first but I will never buy another. My cheapo Kingroon and AnyCubic print way better than my E3V2 for the price.

  • @raffia16thblaze10
    @raffia16thblaze10 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i print with my ender 5 pro at 250 no issues. does like to make the whole table vibrate from time to time tho haha

  • @eazeh
    @eazeh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have the same problem on my Voron 0.1 on high speeds. Sooner or later the nozzle Digs in in the model. :(

  • @sosssego
    @sosssego 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you adjust z steps?

  • @philnelson2364
    @philnelson2364 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Try a different hot end-nozzle. Could be the problem.

  • @sputnikkorp
    @sputnikkorp 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I bought two in October and returned them

  • @andrewwoulfe6579
    @andrewwoulfe6579 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    not sure what happened to Creality. Had a few versions of the Ender 3 and loved them. Purchased a CR10S pro and had nothing but problems, even sending 2 back. Now have a Cr10 Smart and it is also pretty fiddly. I have a CR6 Se and pretty happy with it.
    Creality has just become to hit and miss for me to buy another machine from them

  • @swolath
    @swolath 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    maybe with a spring pulling it down

  • @georg6876
    @georg6876 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why didn't you just up the accels in cura?

  • @zbigniewwielgus1249
    @zbigniewwielgus1249 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maybe z-steps need calibrate?

  • @420247paul
    @420247paul 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    cr30 was first creality core xy

  • @securityranger773
    @securityranger773 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Machines that are priced in that range shouldn't need a complete overhaul to get them to work decently. For the same money, I'd opt for the Qidi Tech X-Plus. Bigger build volume, fully enclosed, capable of printing ABS as well as other high temp materials and ready out of the box. I'm not sure that the cantilever design of the platform on the Creality Ender 7 lends itself to using v-groove wheels with that build volume. If you take a look at the Qidi Tech X-Plus you'll notice they use dual linear guide rails on both sides of the build platform to assure uniform support. Nice honest review though on the Creality.

  • @xXKisskerXx
    @xXKisskerXx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sadly the E7 just seems half finished. . LIke they got all the main parts done, but didn't do any testing to get even close to Ender 3/5/6 quality, even at the same speeds (allowing the user to sacrifice quality for speed if desired)

  • @barral69
    @barral69 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:53 That's where my trouble started.... I used the printer for 4 days, it's been a paper weight for 4 months now.. Creality won't help me with it either. Their initial response was, I didn't know what I was doing, (not wrong but besides the point) and I just needed to learn how level it. They completely misunderstood that I was explaining a noise coming from the motors and the Z-axis stopped moving. I don't know, I will get it fixed, but right now I'm still too mad at it.

    • @Paul01
      @Paul01 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its the hotend, I've replaced mine with a Spider v3 and the issue has gone.

  • @nykscreations1483
    @nykscreations1483 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Had always wondered about it. Was just doing the microswiss extruder upgrade and saw the vid. Glad I didn’t buy one!!

  • @SeanTaffert
    @SeanTaffert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good review. Sad to see Creality dropping the ball like this. This is probably why Naomi parted ways with them from a quality point of view. I'd say mod the heck out of it. Klipper and LGX/Dragon combo should be good.

    • @SeanTaffert
      @SeanTaffert 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jason Smith Why?

  • @melangkoh4184
    @melangkoh4184 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    just a rugular sprite-Extruder from the Ender 3s1 would have been interesting...maybe thats the way to go. The Ender 7 is only 235eu here in Germany.

  • @monsterstorm78
    @monsterstorm78 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do ya still use the ender 7 or no

  • @danandrei96
    @danandrei96 ปีที่แล้ว

    surely they could've used some tmc5160s to drive those big steppers but still keep them quiet

  • @gilbertocolog
    @gilbertocolog 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I honestly don't see the problems reported here. 3 things are mandatory on ender 7 after assembly:
    1 the traction gear (sometimes without tightening)
    2 the strap holders (sometimes without tightening)
    3 extruder calibration (values very out of the correct)
    done that, and some tweaks to the slicer (cura 4.13.1) i got fantastic prints in 1/4 the time my ender 3 v2
    the machine is very good but the assembly and adjustments not so much

  • @Clickme1999
    @Clickme1999 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe the Steppers? Motors and drivers are new to this machine, they could be just not that accurate or something like the Vref not dialed in correctly.

  • @teddingtonbear3265
    @teddingtonbear3265 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    why make a fast printing machine and not have direct drive and a decent hot end?

  • @monsterstorm78
    @monsterstorm78 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    U still use the ender 7 ?

  • @BruteForceIt
    @BruteForceIt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    was your bed level ?

  • @reinholdu9909
    @reinholdu9909 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Top Vid. You've become one of my favorite reviewers! 👍 ELSE:Typical Creality. They hand out basically *untested* stuff with overblown "specs"🤥 _Community_ makes parts *"an Ender"* 🤬

  • @BigDogEnergy-69420
    @BigDogEnergy-69420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why was your first step not to calibrate the Z-steps..? If there's a mis-match in what the machine thinks the position of the bed is and where it actually is, that should be one of the first places to go to -_-

  • @Devnix95
    @Devnix95 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Isn't it creality's third core XY? (Ender 5) or am I misunderstanding something? 😅

    • @jclosed2516
      @jclosed2516 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Ender 5 is just a cartesian printer. I know because I own an Ender 5 Pro. The only difference with an Ender 3 is that the build plate moves in the Z axis, in stead of the X axis. The X and Y axis stepper motors are placed in the upper gentry.

  • @davethetaswegian
    @davethetaswegian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think if you are going to buy a linear rail, corexy printer to fix up, you might as well start with the cheaper Two Trees Sapphire or SP printers. The Ender 7 is way too expensive for such poor performance.

  • @josephocasio6182
    @josephocasio6182 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t have any of these problems. That sucks so many people are having bad experiences with this machine because mine works great.

  • @thiagosannafreiresilva4366
    @thiagosannafreiresilva4366 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    For that price you could buy two Sapphire core xy printers and still have some money left for mods...

  • @ForgottenHeathen
    @ForgottenHeathen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Creality quality at its finest.

  • @DamianReloaded
    @DamianReloaded 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you try with Cura? To me it'd look like the layer thickness in the slicing doesn't match the nozzle. If can't use Cura then leave the slicing configuration stationary and try different nozzle sizes 0.3, 0.5, 1.0 to see if at some point it stabilizes. my2c

    • @truantray
      @truantray 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The included slicer is Cura.

    • @DamianReloaded
      @DamianReloaded 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@truantray Seems like a different version for Creality. Just to rule out it doesn't come with a bug.

  • @DangaRanga
    @DangaRanga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ****quietly whistles in the corner with an E3v2 and E5+ on klipper and over 5000mm/s acceleration.

  • @princeofrandom6734
    @princeofrandom6734 ปีที่แล้ว

    okay but what can be the best for the 600 bucks ;'c ?

  • @fotomeinema-annemeinema3974
    @fotomeinema-annemeinema3974 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always say "up to" is not that it will do it or do it great, you also can say than it was a little bit of fake marketing.

  • @RamKumar-zn6vj
    @RamKumar-zn6vj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was very disappointed by the quality this machine was producing. As you said, the hotend is not a good one. The extruder is not good for this price tag. But replacing these two get you very good prints. But if you're planning to buy a new one, certainly not recommended.

  • @iano0100
    @iano0100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hmm, I wonder if updating the ender 7 wit marlin pressure advance will help.

  • @AndrewLeathers
    @AndrewLeathers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    so this is basically a voron. never seen a voron print nicely. only quickly.

  • @Laydeeworeblak
    @Laydeeworeblak 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just got the Ender 7 a couple of weeks ago. I'm ready to throw it out the window.

  • @randyr7725
    @randyr7725 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This behaves just like my Ender 6, which is now an expensive paperweight.

  • @meanman6992
    @meanman6992 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ender 5 is where the high value hitter is IMO.

  • @user-yg6nq9lw5g
    @user-yg6nq9lw5g 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You assumed that they sliced it at 250mm/s??? It ain't that hard to open the file and see for yourself