My jaw dropped when I heard the price. That's even less than what my E3V2 cost, with way more features, and looks more beginner friendly. If I didn't already have a decent printer (now, after countless upgrades and repairs) I'd be getting this one to start.

This has all the upgrades people were wanting and doing on their original ender 3s and ender 3 clones. At the same price! I'm so happy for newcomers to printing getting it so good. And I love the power switch on the side. Maybe one day we'll finally get it on the front

The wavy bits on the hotend is part of the heatsink, the wavy bits increase the surface area that the fan can blow cool air over to make sure the cold side of the hotend doesnt become too warm. If the cold size becomes tpp warm it causes a phenomenom known as heat creep, basically the plastics heats up sooner than it should and it becomes thick and sticky, this can cause jams.

The new x axis stepper position makes assembling the printer much easier as it allows you to rest it sideways. Also makes the machine look sleeker and neater. Good job from creality!

This has definitely become my main printer since I got it. The acceleration and max print speeds are far far higher than my SV06, Ender 3 V2 and my old Wanhao. Managed to print a 44 minute Benchy with only one flaw out of the box

I'm gonna wait for the Ender 3 Neo Max SE V4 S2 Smart

I bought this the other day before looking into reviews, just wanted to get into it all. I am glad it's meeting expectations. I love the two prints I have gotten done already, neat hobby

Defo bought my Ender 3 V2 at the wrong time, this got announced a month later and would've saved me some money upgrading mine to have BL-Touch and direct extrusion

0:14 got me good there with the vibration. i actually thought it was me who had a call 😂

The wavy bits increase the individual fin surface area to facilitate better convective heat transfer.

Good review. First released models STILL had the bed plate clipping. I removed the screws and changed they to flat top instead of button. Problem Solved.

'wavy bits' are just a way to pack more surface area into the same volume. more surface area heat sink = better heat dissipation

Very nice indeed. And for the price, is a no-brainer. I still prefer my E3 V2 Neo since I just flashed Professional Firmware and has basically the same functions as this V3 SE aside from the strain gauge under the bed. But BL touch works pretty nice for bed mesh and trimming. This one will be definitely one of Creality's best sellers.

Great review! I can tell Creality are trying to stay relevant in the budget printer market, this has a lot of features and impressive hardware for $200

I expect that this + a sonic pad will be an absolute BEAST as a budget speed demon.

The diagram you show at 0:13 in the video is very interesting. I'd love to see a video on the evolution of the Ender 3 series and the changes they made between them. There are so many.

Now I can finally throw my Ender 3 V1 out the effing window like I always threatened to do! 🤪🤪🤪

Hm. You can have the Sovol SV06 for around 209$ these days. The +10$ are a better deal with full metal hotend, pei bed, liniar rails and belt tensioners. Super easy asemply, printing in 10 min.

the strain gauge for automatic bed leveling under the bed can be used /installed also in other 3d printers?

awsome imma get one hopefully !

i seen on another video, those screws that crash against the bed carriage is an assembly mistake, some other people got flat head screws that are much lower than those

After several months with it, what do you think now of the SE ? I have heard a lot of complains about de Z offset and the Bed.

great video love your vids i got one 2 weeks ago and mine has a bent bed and i manged to get hold off support friday and they are sending a replament mine is that bad it will not auto leval

Why would they go with 4 bed mounting points instead of 3? I mean if you can't tram it and 3 points define a plane, wouldn't 4 points potentially warp the bad?

Which option is better ender v3 se for 242 CAD or bambulab a1 mini for 389 CAD?

Hi, has anybody connected successfully filament sensor in this printer?

3:34 Are the wavy bits not intended to dissipate heat, much like a CPU cooler.

The joke in the beginning was good 😂

3:34 those wavy bits are cooling fins. Other than straight fins like the standard mk8 hotend. This has wavy fins to increase the surface area. Thus increases the cooling efficiency.

Ferrite chokes like those on the stepper driver outputs are unusual, but are recommended for minimum electromagnetic emissions in TMC spec sheets. Didn't earlier models of ender 3 have some issues with interference messing with the screen? That's probably why creality care enough about it to add those 20c of parts

Great to see Creality is stepping up their game, and also great to see that automatic bed leveling and auto Z offset in a $200 printer, hopefully that will mean they will become standard features in this price range. Also noticed it's direct drive, maybe the days of bowden are now limited? Not that bowden on a bed slinger ever made a lot of sense anyways, since the weight of the bed is more limiting than the weight of the head. Also maybe it's time for them to drop the base Ender 3 model since the Ender 3 V3 SE is the same price.

About the extruder. What mods to print high temp filaments?

On the board there are 2 open 3 pin JST plugs side by side. One says LED not Neopixel🤔, does the other have a designation? Possibly for a laser like on previous machines?

I think they are simply diodes which we used be add additional board for every motor to remove reverse current from the motors. Nice thought.

6:00 Still an issue that Creality hasn't fixed yet, got mine about a week ago and had this problem, after uncrewing it once and putting it back in it became stuck, the screw spins around but doesnt come off. For a regular consumer that's just... awful. Thankfully I don't mind it too much as I can fix it but still worth noting that they havent fixed it after it came out, And unfortunately there's more: -SD card slot after a while gets loose (?? dunno how but it's a sporratic issue for me) and doesn't read the TF card included with the printer (or any SD card) -The bed leveling out of the box was ATROCIOUS ( had a deviation from the lowest point to the highest point of almost 4mm out of the box) -The 1.0.6 Firmware update is buggy if you follow their advise (the fix requires renaming the .bin file to "Firmware.bin" putting the .bin AND the TJC folder on the same card that you insert into the display and have it update it that way, after it's done, put the SD card on the mainboard SD card reader and turn the printer on, after that it should be in german (maybe because I'm EU that's the default but idk) and you should be on the 1.0.6 without any of the screen visual bugs -if you by a magnetic bed surface for it, get a 235mm x 235mm, I got a 220mm x 220mm and it's too small even though that's the advertised bed surface I feel like that's about all the issues I've come across, tho even after all of that I'm happy with it, def gonna mod it to the extreme to make it the best possible printer for it's money

I've been using MriscoC firmware (September 2023) on my V2 with Octopi. Do you recommend upgrading the firmware on the V3? Or sticking with the stock firmware?

the wavy bits are heat sinks, which cool down parts that shouldn’t heat up and keep the heat from going beyond the extruder tip.

PTFE-Tube is no showstopper for high temps imo, you still can drop an all metal heatbreak in there, shorten the ptfe a bit and voilà! The long distance from extruder to hotend is a bit of a problem for printing flexibles though.

Got one a week ago for my 67th birthday. Pretty good out of the box experience and because this is my first foray into 3D printing, I was able to print some very satisfactory models. Now, a week later, I have what I'm sure are a metric tonne of beginner questions. Where is the best place to get these snwered? There are a lot of high powered 3D printing KZfaq channels but they cater to folks who are way beyond my level. Have questions about nozzle and bed temps, threading/stringing and way some prints are excellent until the last few minutes when they totally screw up. I'm pretty excited about this, but haven't found the right resource(s). Does anyone have suggestions?

Isnt dangerous to print tpu on an open printer ?

What are your thoughts on this vs the Neptune 3 Pro? I'm tempted for this but the reported Customer Service at Creality seems to be very lacking when compared to Elegoo

what is the no se v3 again?

is this printer easy to use for someone who never had a 3d printer before nor the experience? is it entry level?

The PTFE tube inside the extruder can be changed with a capricorn? I need to print in ABS

The wavy bits just increase the surface area of the fins while fitting in a smaller volume.

I'd love to know more about its real speed... not the advertised one. I mean... how fast can you gow hile still maintaining an appropriate quality?

You tell it how it is, without actually having to say how it is 😂❤

I would appreciate if someone tells me how it goes with the ender3v3se, I just bought it with my savings and I read several comments from amazon and other pages where they say it is a bad printer and I am scared of having made a bad purchase

I'm yet to buy a 3D printer. I'll wait to see what Creatlity brings, i don't have much expectations so i'll just wait until reviews come around.

I Just purchased a ender 3 pro on Amazon for 220. Am I misunderstanding something, the ender 3 v3 SE is also 220. Is there any advantage of having the ender 3 pro over the V3 SE?

Finally a good sub $200 ender

Apparently im not the only one who has trouble setting the extruder back on that ptfe tubing 😂.

With the piece of ptfe going to the hot end, surely it would be easy enough the replace it with a metal one?

All I want to know is how to upgrade it to print PETG. (Tube right into the hotens sucks).

Is this recommended over the Sovol SV06 for beginners?

The “wavy bits” increase surface area and aid cooling.

I bought it and this is not a scam. It works so well.

Can ender v3 se use abs filament ? Have u tried it

Did it come unassembled? If so is it hard to put together?

can you do any upgrades to this ie the hot end?

5:46 - Who is "Steve" and where is the user interface he designed??

I still use my ender3 from 2018

The diagram is neat, but should show the CR series before the Ender. The CR-10 was the printer to blew up Creality. I realize the Ender has sold more and now completely overshadowed the CR series, but the Ender is the the big break for Creality.

How will this work with a glass bed? I swear to them with all my ASA parts

I really should have put my V2 away instead of trying to fix my issues and do upgrades and I should have bought this instead. It has everything that I want for a fraction of the price and more. Only thing lacking is mriscoc firmware.

What highend features does it not have?

@0:10 My CR10s-Pro now feels even _more_ left out. 😥 😄

0:12 CR-10 mini!

Ender 3 V2. With del axis. New bed. Cr touch and a million mods. Now sitting in the corner of my office being ignored while the SE just does what it's supposed to. HAPPY DAYS.

just take a file to the head of that screw a few times and should fix that right up

Nice cactus, i tired to do the moon Cactus but failed

This or Sovol SV06 is the question ❓

I can't wait until the spare parts are available to upgrade existing Ender 3's

Damn. I wanted to upgrade my e3 pro to sprite extruder + dual Z and silent board, BUT It's cheaper to get a v3 se (or spend a bit more fore a KE )

jajaja the phone call

0:13 you missed the cr-10 mini (which i have)

This is going to be so confusing if they actually do bring out the "Ender-3 V3" after the SE version already exists. What do they claim SE stands for?

And now we have the Ender 3 V3 KE!? I can't even tell the difference

can it handle TPU?

So many Enders. When will it end :D

I think you should have emphasised that it is now a direct drive printer, that has huge flow rate and is 3x faster. just sayin.

The waves slightly increase surface area

Crazy good printer for the price. Wish i could trade my ender 3 and ender 3 pro for this.

You guys must change the plate. The plate is too bad for this printer. Otherwise, I've just been using it for a month, and I love it already. I ordered a Cobra 2 recently, and I will compare them as long as possible.

"He's got this sticky out bit here" "with these wavy bits" What do you mean you're not an engineer? You talk just like the ones I know!!! ;-)

Just put mine together, this thing is so under priced it makes me think it was subsidized. If you're thinking, that's not possible, the world is more complex than you think.

Aren't the 'wavy bits' just a stylized heat sink?

I don't get why they don't spend 2$ more and put a bimetal heat breaker and a 300" (as in 315 for overshot) rated thermistor, that puny bowden tube is gonna burn even with PETg.

I shall be launching my qqs pro out the window when this one lands ...

Bed is fine. I have this bed on several printers. After 10 prints it sticks to the perfect point. Don't bother with the pei

wtf are the subtitles at 5:00 LOL

the price is amazing, but I reccomand the ke if you want more then minimum

Can I fit a glass bed onto this?

That CR Touch is not even close to perpendicular to the bed. 2:40

I am not impressed that after all this time they still haven't put some kind of metal choke in their printer. Its basically the first upgrade I would make for mine. Still bang for the buck but that relegates it to PLA only which is a no go for anyone who wants to make serious functional parts for bikes, mechanical stuff etc that lasts.

people thinking this is the best printer dont know there are other companies than creality. Checkout sovol sv06 , a very solid machine better than ender 3 v3 se in a lot of aspects ( at least in all the aspects that matter) for about the same price ( maybe sv06 has slightly more cost , but its totally justified given its capabilities )

*ENDER V3 KE ENTERED THE GAME*

I will never buy a bed slinger again. I currently have 3 I'm trying to get rid of.

thought this was the v3, your intro made me laugh and showed creality wont spend the $1,500 to hire a western consultant to help simplify their lineup

So i have this printer first print went fine then all the issues started belt started stripping away also sounds like sand inbetween the belts and when i started my 2nd print the it completely froze and killed my z stepper motor so thats gonna be a refund do not buy this