Creality Ender 3, setup, mods/improvements and how-tos [serious]

Quick and easy way:

  1. Preheat hot end to your normal printing temp.

  2. Mark 120mm away from the entrance to the extruder on your filament.

  3. Go in your printer settings to prepare → motion → move axis → 1mm (10mm if it’s an option) → extruder.

  4. Move this up to 100mm exactly. Don’t go past it, don’t make the knob go in reverse. 100mm is key.

  5. It will slowly extrude what it thinks is 100mm. It likely will be a bit off.

  6. Measure from the extruder entrance to your mark. Ideally it should be 20mm (120mm marked - 100mm extruded). Let’s say you measure 25mm instead for example.

  7. Your actual extrusion is 120mm minus whatever you measured in step 6 (my example was 25mm remember). In this case, actual extrusion would be 95mm.

  8. (desired extrusion) / (actual extrusion) = correction factor.
    (100mm) / (95mm) = 1.0526

  9. Go into your printer settings again and find control → motion → and find the default esteps/mm value your printer is set to. I think the default is 92.6 esteps/mm.

  10. Multiply your machine’s esteps/mm by the correction factor from step 8.

  11. MAKE SURE YOU HIT STORE MEMORY

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