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08-05-2016, 12:38 PM #21
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Hi
On a lot of the early machines, holding a "zero bed" was a real pain. Some of that was related to the materials being used in the printers themselves. Some of it was process induced. The "old way" to run a glass plate machine was to swap plates with each print. You let the part cool down on the plate while you printed on a new one. Turns out that the thickness and flatness of cheap glass isn't all that terrific. The "new way" is to just leave the same piece of glass in place all the time. Let the part cool down on the printer. Pop it off the glass and move on. It might add a couple of minutes to a print that takes a half hour to do. If you go back a couple of years, you will find a bunch of posts from a guy named Bob talking about the need for auto bed leveling. Obviously my view has changed as printers have gotten better and we've learned things.
BobLast edited by uncle_bob; 08-05-2016 at 12:58 PM.
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