<p>The rated build space for the Ender 3 takes into account the few mm of inaccessible bed width at the Xmin side, along with a similar strip at the Xmax where the hotend carriage runs into the bracket that holds the wheels for that side's Z frame.  If your slicer has an Ender 3 profile, the space it allows you to use will print on the Ender 3 (unless you have bull clips holding a glass build surface in place; then they'll interfere, but mainly on the Ymin and Ymax edges).</p>
<p>Don't forget, even though your actual bed is 235 mm square, the <em>usable</em> build volume is rated as only 200 mm square (by 225 mm high).</p>

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2021-06-21T16:11:06.747Z
2021-06-21T16:11:06.747Z
Zeiss Ikon
<p>You do have hit the true home. You will have to physically move the endstop to alter that position. Your problem is, that the endstop-home is on the build area - and that is printer dependant. My Ender 3 has about 4 mm diagonal distance from the bed in its physical home, for which I accounted via a firmware swap, including a &quot;virtual&quot; firmware home.</p>

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2021-01-22T06:58:18.593Z
2021-01-22T06:58:18.593Z
Trish
<p>After a year of printing smaller models, I finally went to print something that would take up most of the build plate from left to right and realized that my nozzle cannot reach &quot;true&quot; X home.</p>
<p>As seen in this picture:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/h4oFv.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/h4oFv.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a>
the X-axis endstop does not allow a true X0, thus losing me precious mm of print space! I over-exaggerate, but truly is there any way to shift the X-axis more to the left or the Y axis/build plate more to the right to gain full bed usage?</p>
<p>Additional photo showing that the actual hotend plate is hitting the endstop:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/b5NRV.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/b5NRV.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>Is this an Ender 3 problem in general that I have missed in my internet searches on this or is it just a manufacturing lottery that I unfortunately lost?</p>

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2021-01-22T06:55:37.190Z
"True" home is where the endtops are.
Trish
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Ender 3 - X Axis Cannot Reach True Home
TylerD
# Ender 3 - X Axis Cannot Reach True Home

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-22)

After a year of printing smaller models, I finally went to print something that would take up most of the build plate from left to right and realized that my nozzle cannot reach "true" X home.

As seen in this picture:
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/h4oFv.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/h4oFv.jpg)
the X-axis endstop does not allow a true X0, thus losing me precious mm of print space! I over-exaggerate, but truly is there any way to shift the X-axis more to the left or the Y axis/build plate more to the right to gain full bed usage?

Additional photo showing that the actual hotend plate is hitting the endstop:
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/b5NRV.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/b5NRV.jpg)

Is this an Ender 3 problem in general that I have missed in my internet searches on this or is it just a manufacturing lottery that I unfortunately lost?

**Tags:** creality-ender-3, endstop, x-axis, print-axis-offset

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: "True" home is where the endtops are.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2021-06-21. Score: 1

The rated build space for the Ender 3 takes into account the few mm of inaccessible bed width at the Xmin side, along with a similar strip at the Xmax where the hotend carriage runs into the bracket that holds the wheels for that side's Z frame. If your slicer has an Ender 3 profile, the space it allows you to use will print on the Ender 3 (unless you have bull clips holding a glass build surface in place; then they'll interfere, but mainly on the Ymin and Ymax edges).

Don't forget, even though your actual bed is 235 mm square, the *usable* build volume is rated as only 200 mm square (by 225 mm high).


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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-01-22. Score: 0

You do have hit the true home. You will have to physically move the endstop to alter that position. Your problem is, that the endstop-home is on the build area - and that is printer dependant. My Ender 3 has about 4 mm diagonal distance from the bed in its physical home, for which I accounted via a firmware swap, including a "virtual" firmware home.


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