Hello Everyone,

I'm in the process of designing my own Reprap, and I've been pondering over whether or not implementing auto bed leveling is worth it. The idea of having an auto leveling feature is amazing, consistent print quality and bed adhesion, less preprint rituals, etc. In practice its another story. I tried auto leveling when it was implemented into Marlin a few updates ago, and it just didn't work for me. It was a manual process using paper as a spacer and frankly took much longer than just adjusting the Z-axis rods on the fly.

With this new design in the works, I thought I'd give it another shot. After some research I've come across some interesting ideas (some better and more practical than others). I wanted to ask the community if you had any experience with auto bed leveling and what your opinions are.

Are you currently using an auto bed leveling feature? Which one and what's your overall opinion of it? What's your opinion of some of the solutions out there (Commercial and Reprap)?

Thanks for your help,

Brian