 Leveling the bed on a 3D printer can be tricky, but with this video, hopefully it makes it a little bit easier. My name's Jim and this is The Edge of Tech. So one of my very first videos was about leveling the bed on a Creality Ender 3. That video has got a ton of views, but I still continue to get questions almost every day about how to level the bed or what's the best way to level the bed. So I'm going to bring that back with the Ender 3 V2. I'm just going to go over the process, maybe a little bit smoother than I did the first time, but still it'll be based on Luke Hatfield's help guide like I did in the original video. Leveling the bed, in my opinion, is the most important part before you start printing anything. It can really mean the difference between a print succeeding and a print failing pretty quick. So it's very important that you get this right. We're going to walk through it quick today. I'm going to make it as easy as I can and hopefully when I'm done, you'll know how to level your bed on a printer similar to this like a pro. Let's do it. So the first thing we need to do is tighten our springs down. So I'm going to take these wheels at the same time and I'm going to turn them until they're all the way tight and you have to do this in pairs. I'm going to do the front pair first and then the back pair. So the front pair, as you can see, they're actually already tight like that. I'm going to reach to the back and I'm just going to turn them. So one of the cool things about these wheels is they have the directions right on them. And if you look at the wheels, it tells you that if you're turning this way, you're tightening and if you're turning this way, you're loosening. So tighten this way, loosen this way. So I have all of them all the way tight right now. So now that we're all tight, I need to go ahead and back these out four turns and I'm actually just going to do turns like this. So I'm going to do one, two, three, four and you want to make them as close as possible so it stays the same. I'm going to do that for the back here. One, two, three, four. I have a feeling that this is actually a little bit higher still but we can fix that just shortly. This just gets us in a very good starting point. Now what we want to do is come to the side and I put us on the side shot here. This is our Z-motor here. Our Z-rod goes all the way up through the back here and this is our Z-end stop. So I'm going to loosen our Z-end stop and let it go down. If it can go down any, in my case I can, I'm going to bring it down like that. Now what I want to do is take and pull my bed forward just a little bit and push my nozzle over right onto the bed like this. Take a piece of paper and slide it under there. Now using the Z-coupler back here, right here, I'm going to twist that down just so it comes down and grabs that piece of paper like that. See how it's pretty taut? I can't pull it out. I'm going to back it off maybe just a half a turn so it's pretty loose there but it's catching pretty good right there. So this is exactly where we want this right here. We don't want it to buckle real tight under there but we want to feel just a little bit of drag. Now grab your Z-end stop and push it up until it clicks. If it's loose, there we go. So you'll hear it click in there and in this little switch here will engage. And what that's going to do is lock that position right there as where we want the Z-end stop to stop the Z-axis when it comes down. So it's right just above the bed, just like that. For the next step, I want to auto-home the printer again. So I'm going to let it auto-home and just make sure it does not hit that bed when it comes down and it does not. Then what I want to do is preheat to PLA on the printer. So currently on the Creality Ender 2, you go to prepare, scroll down, preheat PLA and what that'll do is set the bed at 60 and the nozzle at 200. Now that we're heated up, we want to hit prepare and disable steppers one more time. That'll disable the steppers so you should be able to move your bed back and forth. Now be careful this will be hot. So you want to be very careful with that. That's 60 degrees Celsius and the nozzle here is going to be 200 degrees Celsius. I like to bring it off the corner about that far and about an inch off the corner and an inch back roughly. Then I'm going to take a piece of paper and slide it under here just like this and with your paper under there, you're going to move the wheels. Now we're going to turn the wheels this way to let the bed come up. So we started turning the wheels and we got to the point where the paper, you can feel it dragging on the nozzle. So I just turn it just a little bit more and you can feel it a little bit more. And you don't want it to be able to buckle the paper so like this. You want to be able to hold that paper and push it all the way through. So if it buckles that's too tight but if it's really loose that's too loose. Now we're going to go to the next corner. I'm going to keep my paper underneath the nozzle at all times because you don't want to damage anything. Slide it right over to that corner. Do the same thing. So I'm going to loosen this up until I feel the drag and about the same amount of drag as the other side I'd say about right there. Now what I want to do is go to the back. So to do that keep your paper underneath, pull the bed towards you and go to about the same spot in the back. Put an inch over an inch off right around there. And we're going to do the same thing. All in all when you're done this should take you roughly five minutes. Tops. I mean it's much faster than that normally but this whole process is pretty quick. This one's a little tricky because you have the piece back here that keeps the hot end wires from getting hurt. That's strain relief. So I'm going to do the same thing. There we go. Just like that. Again really nicely. So we went around one time. I'm going to go around two more times just to make sure we're good and I'm going to check the middle and the end when we're done. Okay I went around three different times and now I'm in the center. The center's just a little bit looser than the rest but we can fix that with a little bit of adjustment on the fly when it's printing. Now the reason why we go around three times is because every time you change a corner the other corners will change. And by the time you get around the third time if you're very careful and only turn the wheels a little bit like you have to it all should equal out and they all should be the same. So now I just did an auto home and I just wanted to make sure that we're not hitting. So I went to auto home. It did its thing. It came back and we're not hitting the bed which is great. And from this point you can start your first print. Your bed should be leveled. But there is something I want to show you. So what you may need to do is something called baby stepping to get this dialed in exactly right. So what you do is just start a print. Any print will work. When it actually starts printing you'll see this tune button right here. You want to click the tune button. Scroll down and you'll see something called Z offset right here. Click on that and if you scroll this way and make it a positive number it goes up. If you scroll backwards and make it a negative number it goes down. So when the printer is actually printing you'll want to dial that in just so you get the perfect first layer. That when you're in the tune and the Z offset menu you want to make sure that when you dial this down either higher or lower you click the button to actually make it work. If I needed to go up to back to zero I can go to zero but I have to click that button for anything to move. If you don't click that button nothing actually moves when you're trying to dial in your Z offset. Once you dial in your Z offset that'll give you guys a perfect first layer and you're on to printing. So that's it. We've manually leveled or trammed your bed on the Ender 3 V2. Now you can start printing. Now you may have to adjust the Z offset just a little bit up or down to get that perfect first layer but I tell you what you are on the road to success now. It was a pretty easy process and you can do it in under five minutes just like we did. Well I hope you learned something today and as always keep printing. Hey everybody I hope you liked the video today. If you did give me that thumbs up. 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