IamPAllen2

I managed to print perfectly from both of my laptops now. The setting back to 5.6.0 from a previuous date (the date I installed it) worked. The second setting was the date of the updated 5.7.0. I think as it was a newer version, when I uninstalled and reinstalled 5.6.0, it chose ht e newer version. All is running good now and I will not be updating any more in the future incase something else fails.

Well, something went wrong and altered my Cura 5.6.0 settings when 5.7.0 was in stalled. I looked through my computer and found a settingh to 'turn back 5.6.0 back to when it was fgirst installed. There are 2 settings of 5.6.0 so 5.7.0 must have altered one of them. When my printer has finished, I will trty cura on this laptop again to see if it prints properly andworks as it should. Ifg I could find a slicer that works better and simple gfor an old man like me, I would use that. But as it is, I like Cura as it is easy to follow, especially for the Ender printers and for me to use. But I would like to know how an update can ruin a perfectly useable running version when installing. Plus I dont sync with anything. I dont understand syncing. It is frustrating when a perfectly working printer is useless with an update.

My printer is printing perfect now while Cura 5.6.0 sliced and saved to external drive on my spare computer. Even though I uninstalled 5.6.0 on this laptop and reinstalled it, there must have been a setting on here still that kept the 5.7.0 setting. I will just have to get used to using two laptops unless I can find a way to completely uninstall 5.6.0 with everything pertaining to it on this laptop and do a fresh install. I have turned off auyo install updates on this cura 5.6.0 as the 5.7.0 was coming up telling me a new version was ready to download. Cura must be like ebay and going backwards in their upgrades or just making things worse. probably employing school kids to do their programming like ebay does.

I have cleaned the bed with IPA and also went through the settings to revert back to factory settings. I am still having problems. I have my other laptop that I set back to factory before I bought the V3 SE and I have installed Cura 5.6.0 on it. There is not much on the laptop as I was tryin g to sell it, but I have copied some of my cura prints I designed on Thingiverse on to an external drive and will be putting them on the laptop. I have also installed Thingiverse and Tinkercad. If it works out perfectly as before, I will be using one laptop for the printer and this main one for other stuff. Will update when tested.

I uninstalled v5.7.0 and tried 5.6.0 and it is not doing as good as it was. I have done a z reset and it still doesn't print properly. Since 5.7.0 screwed something up, even 5.6.0 isn't making it better. Things I try to print either does not stick to the bed or if it does manage to start to stick, it doesn't last long before it gets caught up in the hot end and just makes a mess.. The top wipe and first strip and top clean work great as it should. The rest is not and miss. I have uninstalled 5.6.0 and reinstalled it and it still happens. I am thinking I have to flash the printer firmware to reset the printer. Nothing went wrong before 5.7.0 was installed on my laptop.

I installed Cura 5.7.0 today and when I tried to print the PLA was not sticking to the bed plate. I have an Ender 3 V3 SE and it was working perfectly. Not it will not take any PLA on hte bed plate. I thought it was a settinbg on my printer so I done various bed and nozzle heat settings and also bed levellingh and Z off-set. I finally tried to print with Creality Print (even though I dont like it much) and the PLA was sticking to my bed plate. I thought hte update had something to do with it and I uninstalled 5.7.0 and reinstated 5.6.0 and I am back to printing. I have lost a fair bit of PLA with all of the failed prints from nopt sticking to the bed plate. I like Cura because it helped me learn how to 3d print.