im struggling to level my bed

[main thicket]

Or zoffset

[junior scroll]

AI Help

The Z offset is a setting in 3D printing that adjusts the distance between the printer's nozzle and the print bed. It is often used to fine-tune the initial layer adhesion and print quality. If you'd like more specific information or assistance with setting the Z offset on your printer, please provide more details about your setup.

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[main thicket]

And now I can't get the residue off my bed

then i set my thing to -1 and it made an extremely loud noise

[eager quartz]

Nozzle needs to be a bit further up.
(So less in the negative i think, but direction can vary by printer.
Bit too close.

Keep at it 👌

[main thicket]

how do i get residu off

[wintry loom]

Print over it and itll peel off with the next print

Your bed isnt physically leveled probably (or your X axis gantry is crooked)

[eager quartz]

Scream, yell,
Get a hair dryer or slightly warm the bed after it cooled and yeah ∆

[main thicket]

Oh how i hate leveling

ive done it so many times

i feel like im doing smth wrong

[wintry loom]

It runs klipper right?

[main thicket]

whats a klipper

[wintry loom]

You can view the bed mesh on the web interface

The firmware

If you put your printer's ip address into a browser

[main thicket]

Fluidd

[wintry loom]

Yeah, you can view the bed mesh in there

Do a full bed probe and post a picture

[main thicket]

how

[wintry loom]

Through

Fluidd

[main thicket]

i can't finnd probe

is it this

[wintry loom]

Yeah

[wintry loom]

Yeah thats not good

Thats almost a 2mm variance across the bed

[main thicket]

how does one fix that

[wintry loom]

With the bed knobs

[main thicket]

does that image show which side to change

[wintry loom]

Does it start probing at the front left?

If you stand in front of the printer

[main thicket]

it didn't move

at all

[wintry loom]

How did you probe the bed then

[main thicket]

I didn't

i just clicked probed matrix

like u said

[wintry loom]

Well when it does probe where does it start to probe first

[main thicket]

it doesn't probe

it doesn't move

[wintry loom]

It has to have probed to generate the mesh, I mean when you started the print earlier.

What corner did it probe first?

[main thicket]

it didn't

it hasn't moved since i turned it on

is there a probe button

[wintry loom]

Heat your bed up to 60c

Click on the house icon

Then calibrate

[main thicket]

how do i head the bed

got it

nvm

all good

it just made 2 loud noises while calibrating

like it had gotten stuck on something

[wintry loom]

Can you take a video of it doing the homing

[wintry loom]

Your X axis is... very crunchy

But yeah its probing the bed

[main thicket]

It wasn't like that before I started messing with it

its not letting me calibrate anymore

[wintry loom]

It should have generated a new mesh what does it look like

[main thicket]

so im trying leveling again and the back left dial doesn't seem to tighten

it completely fell off before and now doesn't seem to work

I got it

it fixed the leveling

@wintry loom how is this one

[wintry loom]

Still just as bad

[main thicket]

how does one fix

[wintry loom]

But the probe started in the front left right?

[main thicket]

I don't remember

[wintry loom]

Orient the mesh so it looks like this

[main thicket]

yes

front left

[wintry loom]

Once you orient the mesh like that, the knobs correspond to the corners of the mesh

Adjust the corners up and down, mesh again, and keep repeating

[main thicket]

is this worse

[wintry loom]

Is it orientated like my image?

With 0,0 being at the left

[wintry loom]

Rotate it

[main thicket]

which way

[wintry loom]

0,0 at the bottom left

[wintry loom]

Alright, your back right knob needs to be raised

The rest can be lowered a bit

[main thicket]

do i want it to be all flat

[wintry loom]

Did you do what I said?

[main thicket]

yes

do i want a flat square in the end

[wintry loom]

Youre not going to get perfectly flat

Youre aiming for reasonable flat

[main thicket]

but even

ok

gotcha

thx

[wintry loom]

Make sure your bed stays heated

Probe the mesh again

[main thicket]

im getting there

ok

yes

and this all will fix elephant foot

[wintry loom]

Its gonna fix your first layer

[main thicket]

hows this look

[wintry loom]

Whats the variance now

[main thicket]

whats a variance

[wintry loom]

The range between highest point to lowest point on the mesh

Its in the bed leveling section

[main thicket]

is there a way to make it calibrate faster

[wintry loom]

You can reduce the number of mesh points by modifying the config files

[main thicket]

how abbout this

[wintry loom]

Yeah alot better

It can improve more though

Keep playing with the knobs

[main thicket]

yeah im ngl the paper thing in the manual suggestions is just not it

this way is much better

@wintry loom how is this

[wintry loom]

Almost there

Youre aiming for ideally less than 0.5ish mm in variance

[main thicket]

@wintry loom i got it

so now for levelling

[wintry loom]

Whats the range now

[main thicket]

.25

[wintry loom]

Now go back to the first layer test

And you can figure out your z offset

[main thicket]

is there a trick to it

[wintry loom]

Just raise or lower it until you stop seeing gaps in the first layer.

[junior scroll]

?zoffset2 requested by: blankets.#0

[main thicket]

@wintry loom The printer is now super inaccurate and not seperating the build

[wintry loom]

Picture?

[main thicket]

Im taking a quick break as this has been frustrating

[wintry loom]

Gotcha, the bed is being probed before the print starts right?

It should heat up the bed, probe the bed, then start the print

[main thicket]

It is

The first layer of this print keeps conjoining

[wintry loom]

Z offset might be a bit low