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The Creality CR6-SE is one of Crealitys latest printer offerings, and it has the smaller footprint of the Ender 3 but with many new advanced features like the removal of bed levelling screws and only auto bed levelling capability. I would like to thank Banggood for sending me this printer for review.

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Why did you choose to review this printer?
Creality is one of the biggest names in the 3D printer market, and so far I've had a generally positive experience with their products. I noticed that this printer had no bed levelling screws and relied on only auto bed levelling and this really intrigued and worried me. I chose to review this printer specifically because I wanted to test out and let you guys know if this only automatic bed levelling was really a good idea. *Spoiler: it seems to work fine.

Initial packaging thoughts/ unboxing
Another standard printer box, but I must say it came in relatively unscathed in comparison to some other parcels I've received recently. I really like that we are seeing pictures of the printer printed on the side of the box now, it's a nice touch..... Although could be risky if a delivery was left on your porch just advertising that you had a 3D printer sitting there...




The printer appears to be well packed




Here's everything unpacked laid out on the bench. It was nice to see an AU power cord included in the box, and the printer clearly doesn't require much assembly at all.


I really love the look of this toolkit draw, so I took some pictures of it to show you. This really doesn't add value to the quality of the printer but it's a really nice touch.






Instruction Manual
I have taken photos below of the important sections of the instruction manual. This manual is very similar to all of the other Creality Manuals I have seen recently, mostly telling the story with pictures and having a very limited amount of english words.














Printer Assembly
Here I have detailled each of the main parts of assembly of this printer.

Attaching the gantry to the base



Printer standing back up with gantry attached.


The screen mounted with the 2 screws


Cable plugged into the screen


Handle fitted to the top of the printer. This handle feels really nice and is solid aluminium... but again I feel it doesnt really add to the usable quality of the printer, just makes it nice to carry around.


Spool holder attached. This was quite hard to clip on, but gave a firm clip and seems to hold on tight. I do like this new take at spool holders but they do take up considerably more desk space so that's something to consider.


Here I plugged in all of the cables, and peeled off the protective layer on the bed.


Further Printing Experience

I set this printer up in CURA as a standard Ender 3 with no issues, although I did make some settings adjustments to what I normally run on my Ender 3. The printer went well like this.

If you would like to see more prints off of this machine and see it in action, please check out the Live stream I did of it printing below:



Final Thoughts
At a price point of $380USD this is right in the middle of the price range for Prusa i3 form factor printers. The CR6-SE has an incredibly different feature set from its competitors making it suitable for a slightly different market. I found the auto bed level to work fine, but I would have set the bed level slightly different personally. I think this printer is ideal for people who want to do 3D printing but not really get involved in the technical side too much or do too much maintenance and are happy to pay a premium to do so. The portrait touchscreen is nice and easy to use, and overall the nice to have features make the printer look and feel more polished when in use.

I can now happily confirm that while not completely perfect, the auto ONLY bed levelling printer does work just fine.


If you would like to see more 3D printing live streams I would love for you guys to respond with some printing ideas that i can do Live, and request which printer you want me to do it on also 

Hy bffigjam,
thanx for the time and effort that you put into a post of this magnitude.
I've been researching 3D printers for a week now and decided to get this one.
I have NO experience whatsoever in using 3D printers
Is this printer still OK?
I wanted a printer that
1. was easy to use.
2. have auto-levelling
3. quiet
4. have a variety of different filament's

Any other comparable brands/models that I should look at?

It's a shame it doesn't have WiFi but it seems to fit my needs.

Is it worth building a cabinet around this?
any modifications/addons that would help?
Will this print carbon?

I was going to order but thought I'd wait for response's/advice first!

(05-Aug-2021, 06:17 AM)Titanv11 Wrote: Hy bffigjam,
thanx for the time and effort that you put into a post of this magnitude.
I've been researching 3D printers for a week now and decided to get this one.
I have NO experience whatsoever in using 3D printers
Is this printer still OK?
I wanted a printer that
1. was easy to use.
2. have auto-levelling
3. quiet
4. have a variety of different filament's

Any other comparable brands/models that I should look at?

It's a shame it doesn't have WiFi but it seems to fit my needs.

Is it worth building a cabinet around this?
any modifications/addons that would help?
Will this print carbon?

I was going to order but thought I'd wait for response's/advice first!

This is definitely a great option for you based off of the things you have listed here!

Some things though;

Q: Will it print Carbon?
A: unfortunately printing carbon containing materials is very abrasive, and while you may be able to print them for a bit with this printer you will need to upgrade the hotend and nozzle pretty quickly or it will wear out in only a few hours of printing.

Q: is it worth building a cabinet around?
A: only if you intend on printing materials like ABS, but you need to make other considerations to make this worthwhile. Although if you are going to use it in an air conditioned environment than a cabinet is a great idea regardless and I would consider one of the creality soft enclosures too.

Q: What modifications?
A: Steer clear of mods for the first month or so until you get it working well, changing things will only hinder you at the start until you learn all about the printer.


I hope this helps, Feel free to get in touch when you get your printer as I'd love to help

Cheers,
Dave

Thanx for the speedy reply...
Is there a website/forum that specifically deals with this shit that you can recommend so as to learn and minimise the amount of silly questions I'm likely to ask?

(05-Aug-2021, 09:54 AM)Titanv11 Wrote: Thanx for the speedy reply...
Is there a website/forum that specifically deals with this shit that you can recommend so as to learn and minimise the amount of silly questions I'm likely to ask?

I have started a forum that's basically a sister forum of intoFPV which is https://into3dp.com/

Unfortunately it is yet to take off but I will answer any questions you have and there are a few other helpful resources on there!

(05-Aug-2021, 10:16 AM)bffigjam Wrote: I have started a forum that's basically a sister forum of intoFPV which is https://into3dp.com/

Unfortunately it is yet to take off but I will answer any questions you have and there are a few other helpful resources on there!

Perfect 
I saw this site posted further up in this post (obviously by you)
I tried becoming a member a couple of days ago but I was flagged as a 'spammer'
with instructions to contact an Admin...
Couldn't find anywhere on site to do so.
Same username. 
Can you correct it?

BTW I ordered it along with 2 x 1kg rolls of PLA

I've been a spammer every time I've tried to join as well.

(05-Aug-2021, 10:44 PM)EVILsteve Wrote: I've been a spammer every time I've tried to join as well.

I'm glad it wasn't just me...lol
I think that page needs to have a link to contact an administrator...
I was unable to find any details about how or where to contact one...

(05-Aug-2021, 10:44 PM)EVILsteve Wrote: I've been a spammer every time I've tried to join as well.

(06-Aug-2021, 04:18 AM)Titanv11 Wrote: I'm glad it wasn't just me...lol
I think that page needs to have a link to contact an administrator...
I was unable to find any details about how or where to  contact one...

Sorry guys, I really had to power up the spammer defences since we were getting 40-80 spammer accounts per day!

If you have trouble with it just PM me on here and I will activate your user manually. There are just a few special questions in the login fiels that you need to get right or it'll mark you as a spammer.

I finally was able to register in the 3d forum...
I found out that registering on the mobile a critical question doesn't appear (at least on mine).
The question where you type in the word "YES".
Worked straight away, first shot on a PC.

(09-Aug-2021, 02:29 PM)Titanv11 Wrote: I finally was able to register in the 3d forum...
I found out that registering on the mobile a critical question doesn't appear (at least on mine).
The question where you type in the word "YES".
Worked straight away, first shot on a PC.

Wow thank you for making this discovery!

I will investigate the mobile theme to see if I can rectify this issue.

We have also had login issues on the mobile theme at times.