HICTOP Ender 3 v2 Upgrades Flexible Build Plate PEI Steel Sheet 235x235mm Works for Ender 3/Ender 3 Pro/Ender 5 3D Printers

Crispy clean prints. Material comes right off on a cold bed no needing a scraper. Leaves a nice matte finish on bottom of prints. I’ll be ordering three more after I finish writing this. I’ve not been paid or prompted for this review. Stop reading this and get this metal print bed. Skip the Plastic ones!

Ive printed on practically every possible surface: glass, PEI, G10, painters tape, etc... This however is my first flexible build surface, and its awesome! As some other reviews here have noted, this build surface will leave a texture on the bottom of your prints. I personally love this. I print a lot of ornamental objects where I need a really clean, line-free top surface. Forget about ironing and other methods, they still always look 3D printed. In the past I would print such items facing down on painters tape or glass, allowing the squish to blend the lines together and give a much cleaner look. But painters tape was hit or miss for consistent surface and glass is just a paint without using hairspray or glue stick, both of which change the texture of the surface. Not a problem with this build surface, it just works and looks great. The magnet is strong enough to hold the surface but weak enough to easily remove the top portion when you need to flex a print off. The top piece is thick enough to feel solid but thin enough to allow for easily bending and releasing your printed part. Mine came with the word HICTOP on the front flap piece, and the textured surface color is slightly darker / deeper than in the pics. But it looks AWESOME on my printer and performs really well. Overall, I love this and would highly recommend it.

I went from not being able to get past the first layer, with the print pulling off the glass bed. I added this, re-leveled and was able to have a very successful first print!! The print and skirt came off perfect, after cooling.

It was a little tricky dialing everything in, but once done, there are fewer problems with adhesion, and in most cases, the object printed comes off after simply cooling in place. The effect of plate temperature on adhesion seems a little more sensitive than other types of beds, but once dialed in there are few issues.

Besides the additional thickness, I have to calibrate my bed temperature using a contact less thermometer (theres a lot of surplus of them these days) but after that, works like a charm for me. As advertised.

I bought for my Ender 3, this bed is the best !! I just ordered a second for my Anycubic mega pro. im going to remove the Glass bed and replace it with yours. thank you

Update 2-7-2022 On 2-6-2022 The company wrote back saying that the pictures I submitted does not help troubleshoot the problem, the pictures here are the same I sent them, you can clearly see the PEI flakes stuck in the print, it is obvious the PEI is flaking off from being stuck to the prints as it releases, and they do not come off. On 2-7-2022 they wrote back asking me if I had checked bed level or adjusted the nozzle? You can clearly see in the pictures that the print itself is perfect, no scraping the bed from too small of a gap and no line separation or deformities from the bed level leaving too large of a gap. I own a business; we have 6 printers, and we are not new to them. Three printers have a different brand of textured PEI plates and they do not do this. Update 2-2-2022 I have been back and forth in contact with the seller asking them if they would please exchange the two plates that were only a few days out of the Amazon 30 day return window and I have received nothing but excuses, on 1/30/2022 they replied they would give an answer the following day and they did not so I wrote them again at the end of the day on 1-31-2022 and they replied wanting video of the issue and wanted me to send it to an email outside of Amazons message system which is against Amazon rules for the seller. I wrote them back and told them I would not reply to any outside communication from Amazon and I attached several pictures of the issue. 2/1/2022 They wrote back and said they sent the pictures to their engineer and would give me an answer later, I wrote them back asking if they realized I am a business, and that the situation has my printers tied up and losing money? 2/2/2022 they write back saying (but we are in spring holiday now, we will wait for the engineer, please understand) Needless to say they do not care and are giving every excuse they can, not a way to do proper business. At this point I will order different brand PEI plates and call it a loss. If you have issues with their products you now know what to expect. UPDATE 1-28-2022 At first I could not praise these bed plates enough but now after some time I just noticed that the PEI on the rough sides in flaking off and getting into my prints, I have their brand on three of my 6 printers and unfortunately did not notice the issue until I had 18 prints printed in black with the issue. Again did not notice at first because the light has to hit it right to see it so I am 18 prints deep at 11 hours per two prints at a time that I cannot use nor sell. Thats 99 hours of print time and two spools of filament at 25 bucks each. This REALLY puts my company behind on sales and cost us a lot of money. These are lids for machine die organizers we sell for 19.99 each and are one of our best sellers so were out basically 360.00 due to a faulty product. Now compound that by how long it takes to remedy the issue and another 99 hours of print time...not a good situation. At this time I can no longer condone telling people this is a good product. See my pictures and you will see they were absolutely great at first, then you will see the picture of the product stacked up with the PEI flakes embedded in them. These print top side down so it shows horribly on the tops when the light hits just right and are not usable. *Origional Feedback before issues: I cannot say enough good about these PEI plates, the textured finish leaves a great effect on my prints that we sell as a company. One of our tool & Die holders we print the lid upside down, so we get the texture in the top of the lid and it looks fantastic. The plates let PLA stick extremely well with the bed at 60 degrees C and as they cool right around the 36 degree C range I can be across the work area and hear my parts actually release. Our plates have hundreds of prints on them now with zero issues, every 10 prints we pull them off and wash them with Dawn dish detergent and hot water then dry them with a towel...do not use a microfiber cloth as they leave a residue and do not use alcohol...Dawn and hot water is all that is needed and it removes any residue. Watch the video with sound up, right about the 24-25 second mark you will clearly hear the parts release from the plate once it has cooled to 36 degrees C ...love it!

Im just amazed people are complaining about the rough surface it produces, HELLO... YOU ARE BASICALLY PRINTING ON SANDPAPER NOT GLASS.. This stuff really adheres, and the magnet is thin, light and holds the bed really well. At the price and performance, no complains from me.

Being new to 3D printing, I researched several different printers before deciding on the Ender-3V2 and this base plate add-on was highly recommended. It makes for great adhesion without having to use glue or anything else.

I installed it and ran pid and re-calibrated the z axis with bl touch it works wonderful, prints pop right off after cooling for just a little bit