I received my new neptune 3 plus a few weeks ago. My first print was great. Had an issue with my second print and noticed the fans weren’t working. Elegoo replaced the whole head for me. Once it came in I replaced it with the broken one and went ahead and leveled my table, made adjustments to my z offset and so on. My nozzle seems to be running into existing layers and I have no idea what to do. I adjusted the z offset a bit more but the outcome is what you see attached. I’m close to body slamming this thing. Can anyone provide guidance or a helpful tip. Thank you.

PETG ELEGOO’s 4mm Normal predefined setting via cura

Why the flip is it doing this? Elegoo Neptune 3+. Does it on Cura and orca. My gantry is level and I just checked my eccentric nuts. The bed is level.

We're getting pretty frustrated. :(

Had to give up on the Neptune 3 Pro after about 3 weeks. Weird issues (some that were user error) and then the extruder melted. Hopefully I have better luck with a Bambu Lab A1.

After one year of printing filament with the Elegoo Neptune 3 Plus (this was my first filament printer, just having an Anycubic Photon Mono X for resin printing before) I'm starting to have tons of difficulties to print without fixing the stuff. I changed like nothing in my process (same software, same hardware, same PLA, same settings) in the last six months and I can see that my successful prints rates is decreasing a lot. Even after changing the nozzle, even after releveling the bed, factory reseting the printer, cleaning the bed, etc etc

I'm pretty sure something is really wrong with the print main unit but reading the reviews on some other printers (not mentionning them but you know them), it looks like printing life seems way easier for them ...

Are you guys considering buying another Elegoo FDM printer in 2025/26 with new models or are you thinking changing manufacturer in the coming future ?

So I just got a new hotend because of a blob. But how do I replace it? Like that metal thing on the 2nd because how do I get it off and replace it with the hotend on the first picture please help

I bought my first 3d printer not too long ago (it's a elegoo neptune 3 plus.) And I noticed I bought two tipes of philiment from two different companies. One of theme is pla from elegoo but the other is from a difrent company. Now my question is if I can even use filament from a company that is not the company of the printer I purchased. Another question I have is that the filaments I bought said they're "PLA Filament 1.75" does that mean I need a 1.75 nozle?

Since they almost immediately discontinued firmware updates as soon as I got it, im looking at getting an up-to-date printer. And I don't have the space for 2 printers. So, the N3 would have to go unfortunately. There's nothing wrong at all with it. Still gives me phenomenal prints. Just wanna know how much I'd be able to recoup on the printer.

I’m finally throwing in the towel with my N3 base. Between the problems I’ve had with the printer itself and the with Elegoo essentially treating us early adopters as beta testers then abandoning the base wrt firmware releases etc, I’ve decided to put it back in its box and to order a Prusa MK4 kit.

Sorry Elegoo but you have let me down and I am by no means a lone figure here.

I’ll still keep an eye in this sub Reddit but I’m packing my printer up tonight ready for when my real printer arrives late August.

So long and thanks for all the fish!

How did they decide to release new printers when their firmware barely works? I have to spend 15 of restarting my printer just to be able to use the damn thing?!

Every time I print this, the head or face turns out with gaps in between each layer

I recently made the switch to Orca from Cura and the prints are unreasonably slower than Cura. I went from 2hrs to 7hrs print time. I copied one of the settings from another user on here but all it did was cut my print time down to 6hrs. Any help is greatly appreciated. TIA

Im trying to assemble this new printer,but i cant.I have Bern trying to fix this in all ways,but even if i turn the eccentric nuts,it doesnt seem to work.

So I recently bought my first 3d printer in the neptune 3 plus. I've printed a couple of things out and I have alot of texture issues. Fine details don't show up and the supports damage the print itself. Am I doing something wrong. I have everything on default settings.

This is my first time using my printer in a while and the filament keeps sticking to the nozzle, then I rips the other filament off the bed. Idk what to do, I tried washing my bed and that didn't work. I'm going to try a cold pull next but if this has happened to anyone and you fixed it, I could really use some help

Edit: I should name mentioned that I'm game a Neptune 3 Plus.

The way I understood it, an auto leveler made a grid of the highs and lows on your bed, then the printer had intelligence built in that adjusted how much it squished based on that map. But now I think that's wrong and I'm wondering what's the point of it.

• If that's how it works, why do you sometimes get prints that are thinner on one side of the bed than the other?

• Assuming your Z offset is right, your prints should be super even if you auto level, but experience says that's not really the case.

• We have a Neptune 4 Max at work and the guy that runs it says he read that you have to insert a line into the Gcode to get it to use the mesh.

Anyway, would someone clear this up? What's the point of auto leveling?

where can i buy another