One painful firmware update later and the z-offset bug that has plagued me since getting the Neptune 4 Pro is finally resolved and first layers are good again just like that. I just had to share the thrilling end result.
It’s not a little squished?
I've finally done it, a perfect first layer in progress
Submitted 2 months ago by atocci@lemmy.world to 3dprinting@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d97a5eb7-f5c0-4392-911b-630bc56b7630.jpeg
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The perimeter does seem a little squished, but the lines making up the fill look pretty good. It could just be the lighting.
Too much squish = ripples and I don’t see any of those.
atocci@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t think it was squished, it came out without any of those ripples and the perimeter didn’t have any elephant’s foot.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hella tight! Congratulations 🎉
Stowaway@midwest.social 2 months ago
Don’t forget to swap the springs out too. At least for me my Neptune had trash springs that couldn’t hold tension to save its life. I bought a cheap set on amazon and i stopped banging my head against the wall. Mind you i have the plus, so maybe not an issue for the pro.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Silicone “springs”, plus printed thumbwheels without a ton of clearance for the leveling screws, really helped my i3 clone a lot. I could go multiple prints without having to relevel! It was like a dream.
atocci@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I printed some locks for the leveling knobs to keep them in place, would new springs do the same thing?
Stowaway@midwest.social 2 months ago
Doesn’t prevent the screw from turning necessarily. What you need is better tension.
normonator@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Z offset bug? Is this why I’ve been having problems for months? I had it working ok but it didn’t last too long
atocci@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might be! Depends on how long you’ve had the printer because more recent orders will have shipped with the allegedly fixed firmware. Basically, you want to never set the z-offset in the web UI without having the fixed firmware, otherwise things will get weird and my build plate has the scar to prove it.
normonator@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Damn, mine is from December last year and I did not update the firmware because it was working ok out of the box after only adjusting the z-offset and leveling.
Recently I’ve had some first layer issues that a nozzle swap didn’t fix, so thanks for sharing, I’ve got some playing to do I guess.
Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Have to say, that is a pretty clean first layer, kudos!
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can’t know if it is perfect, when it still is in progress
DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 months ago
Why be like that? Why be the person that has to piss on someone’s parade, when all they want to do is share a small, personal win?
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was indeed a joke, partly on the unforseeability of 3D printing, but also partly at celebrating too early. You don’t celebrate a champions league win, when you have a lead at the half time.
atocci@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Haha thankfully then first layer really was flawless, but I had to cancel this print for unrelated reasons pretty soon after posting anyways. Turns out I was so excited to finally get printing again, I forgot to re-enable supports in the slicer after the last thing I printed a while ago didn’t need them.