Welcome! Log In Create A New Profile

Advanced

Bed leveling

Posted by printer_man58 
Bed leveling
December 12, 2013 03:49PM
I was able to level my bed and I have made sure that t is level using many leveling tools, but when all the axis home and then move to the center to print the extruder rides. Also my z axis rods aren't perfectly leveled, they are parallel though. Any help?
Re: Bed leveling
December 12, 2013 04:24PM
What do you mean "the extruder rides"?
Also, what do you mean "Z axis rods are not perfectly levelled"? - the Z axis rods are vertical.


_______________________________________
Waitaki 3D Printer
Re: Bed leveling
December 13, 2013 02:37PM
When we talk about leveling a bed, we are not talking about making it perfectly horizontal. The idea is to make the distance from the print head to the bed exactly the same at all points on the bed. The whole thing could be tipped 30 degrees and it still would be "level" in printing terms.

When you level, you have a piece of glass on the printer. If it's to thin or a really cheap piece of glass it will not be flat. That is going to make leveling the bed impossible. You need a better / thicker piece of glass in that case. If you have some sort of aluminum bed and it's bent, that's a different issue, but you need to fix it just the same.
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.

Click here to login