Comment on 3D Printing Bed Levelling (Traming) - Simple Concept
buzzalejo@lemmy.world 1 month agoHi,
Thank you for sharing your techniques and thoughts.
I have two printers.
- Ender 3 V2 neo (without klipper, default software)
- Elegoo Neptune 4 Plus (with klipper)
I found on my Neptune 4 Plus that it had alot of distortions, maybe of how big the print bed surface areas is.
When doing the levelling, the printer saves the levelling points as a mesh which I can view via the fluid UI where I can see all calibration and control.
The mesh gives you a good illustration where the distortions are before refining it. That’s how I determine where to place spacers.
Ill do another auto leveling to see how it improved the distortions. When the mesh shows to a close level, then I refine it in the fluid UI.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Yeah I think there’s some good ideas that have been built up with the ABL devices over the years, and that mesh leveling seems great. However I also feel like more people should take the time to get their beds physically as flat as possible first, because otherwise your printer spends a lot of time micro-stepping the Z, and I’ve seen some mesh maps that looked absolutely horrible.
Playing around with arduino devices, I have some laser rangefinders that seem like they could work well for an ABL. That might also be a good way to map out the idea I mentioned about creating a thin full-bed shim to get a truly flat bed, and after that perhaps you would only need to do a fast four-corner calibration with the ABL to make sure nothing has changed.
buzzalejo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I totally agree everyone should take the time to do things manually. Mesh UI is just for fine tuning from my point of view