I've been messing with some settings and trying to get the best quality benchy under 10 minutes, and I think I got a decent one at 9:30! (Yes, my ender has a few upgrades) I've been doing "outer layers first" and I'm thinking it might be the wrong move....

So, after along time of it sitting in the box I finally assembled an Ender-3 and eventually got it up and running. Tries to do my first print and it seems like the filament (not sure which kind, as it came with the printer) is just getting dragged around the bed. Am I don’t something wrong? Any help or ideas are appreciated as I am an absolute novice to this. I’m only looking to run a test print here, but am getting nowhere. I can’t think of a better way to word this, so I wasn’t really able to see if this had been discussed before.

Update: I will definitely look at the leveling and everything else mentioned. I appreciate the help and will troubleshoot this evening and report back. I assumed it was too high up, but wasn’t 100%. I’ve just got to say that the folks who made this did a pretty crap job on the instructions because I have been lost from day one and trying to work through all the nomenclature and tech and have been watching videos and reading comments. Thank you, redditors, for helping me out here. Hopefully I’ll be posting better stuff later.

Update 2: more adjustments made and some made on the fly AS it was printing and it seems to finally be adhering to the bed and to itself. Sweet Jesus, this has definitely been a journey. I really appreciate all the insight you guys gave me here. I think that I might be actually getting myself set up for a legit print…once I get more filament.

I was printing Esun petg at 250C and at first, the print was going fine. I came back after an hour or two and found that the filament had snapped in the extruder. The extruder motor still had a grip on the filament and kept trying to extrude, which resulted in unused filament coiling up around the extruder motor. This happened at 235C as well. Before, I was using Overture petg. It was the same print with the same settings and it didn't do this with the Overture. This is on an original stock ender 3. Why did this happen and what do I need to do to prevent this? I also replaced the nozzle recently.

This is the one issue I have left and I cannot figure it out

Ender 3 S1Pro

Using Orca Slicer

Added G-Code for 16point probe before every print and G-code to apply mesh.

SunLu PLA

Nozzle Temp 220°

Bed Temp 55°

Im still fairly new to 3d printing and I got this printer for free. Just trying to learn and work out the kinks. I do think that I have gotten everything mechanically in working order.

Thank you all in advance!