<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:
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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:
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<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>

[{'answer_id': 15396, 'author': 'Trish', 'author_id': 8884, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/8884', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<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\xa0mm 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>\n'}, {'answer_id': 16581, 'author': 'Zeiss Ikon', 'author_id': 28508, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/28508', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<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>\n<p>Don't forget, even though your actual bed is 235\xa0mm square, the <em>usable</em> build volume is rated as only 200\xa0mm square (by 225\xa0mm high).</p>\n"}]
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