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Tuning and Calibration


Ender-3 V3 SE is similar to other Creality cartesian
("bed-slinger") filament Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printers;
  Creality has a decent overview.

Bed leveling
Ender-3 V3 SE automates that, using its CR-Touch probe
Sonic Pad and Orca slicer enable high resolution bed leveling
of area actually used for printing a design.
Z offset
Ender-3 V3 SE load sensor nominally automates this, but final calibration depends on extruder calibration and printing samples
Extruder steps AKA rotational distance
removing hot end avoids wasting filament,
but involves first removing extruder
Temperature PID
Bed and hot end
Ultimate filament calibration
Temperature tower
Pressure Advance
Klipper Pressure Advance Tuning
Extrusion Multiplier
filament-specific
Retraction
Pressure Advance and probably flow rate should precede
Speed
Determining Maximum Volumetric Flow Rate
Dimensions
cube?

Suggested in Creality discord

Teaching tech have a great set of tutorials for beginners!
Start on 'Frame Check' and work your way though the tabs in the order they're shown,
 until you've done 'slicer flow calibration'
You might have to go back to the 'first layer' tab
 and do that once more after doing slicer flow calibration.
Once slicer flow calibration is done,
 you should be getting reasonable looking prints
 and have a little bit more understanding of how your printer works

After that, you can move into the rest of the calibration routines,
 temperature and retraction tuning,
 speed & max flow tuning
 and finish up on acceleration tuning

Once those are all done,
 you should have a machine that prints well
 and have a really good grounding
 on how your machine, the firmware and software all interact with each other 🙂

do bear in mind that calibration is an ongoing thing
 and some of these calibration routines
 should be folded into your 'general maintenance routines'
 such as slicer first layer, flow calibration, temperature and retraction tuning
 (usually when you change to a new roll of filament for those)
maintained by blekenbleu