Fast Scanning Bed Leveling
The bane of 3D printing is what people commonly call bed leveling. The name is a bit of a misnomer since you aren’t actually getting the bed level but making …read more Continue reading Fast Scanning Bed Leveling
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3D Printer Z Sensor Claims 0.01 mm Resolution
Early 3D printers usually had a microswitch that let you know when the Z axis was at the zero point. There was usually an adjustment screw so you could tune …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Z Sensor Claims 0.01 mm Resolution
Homemade Probe for 3D Printer: $3
You have a few choices if you want to use a probe to level your 3D printer bed. Rarely, you’ll see optical or capacitive probes. More commonly, though, your probe …read more Continue reading Homemade Probe for 3D Printer: $3
Manual Mesh Bed Levelling for 3D Printers
In 3D printing, we often talk about leveling the print bed, although that’s not an accurate term. A bed that is level in our terms presents a flat surface that is parallel to the path of the print head, but within reason we care little about that. Instead we care …read more
Sonic 3D Printer Auto Bed Leveling Makes Swoosh
3D Printering: the final frontier. These are the voyages of another 3D printer hack. Its mission: to explore strange new ways of leveling a print bed.
So far, we’ve had servo probes, Allen key probes, Z-sled probes, inductive and capacitive contactless switches, just to name a few. All of them allow a 3D printer to probe its print bed, calculate a correction plane or mesh, and compensate for its own inherent, time variant, inaccuracies.
These sensors are typically mounted somewhere on the print head and introduce their own sensor offset, which has to be precisely calibrated for the whole thing …read more
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