Auto-leveling using an Inductive Sensor

[curious aardvark]

Given how infrequently you need to calibrate a ff creator. Not sure anyone's added auto levelling to one.

Be interesting to see how hard it is though

so how does it work ? do you still have to mess with the levelling screws ? or somehow motorise them ?

[ejcruz]

Given how infrequently you need to calibrate a ff creator. Not sure anyone's added auto levelling to one.

Be interesting to see how hard it is though

so how does it work ? do you still have to mess with the levelling screws ? or somehow motorise them ?

Thank you for posting, my understanding so far on Auto-leveling (tramming) saves you from messing around with the leveling screws, you only level the bed one time using the leveling screws there after the Sailfish Firmware will use the inductive sensor to compensate the Z-Axis Min for any part of the bed which has gone out of alignment, which means you don't have to touch the leveling screws again. It looks straight forward implementing this with the Marlin Firmware because of easy access to it's configuration file (configuration.h) where you can enable the necessary parameters for Auto-leveling, and simply connecting the inductive sensor to the Z-Axis Min connector - this connector is also available on FFCP. Sailfish 7.7/4.7 say's Auto-leveling is available but does not say how to enable or access this function, note there is no configuration file for Sailfish 7.7/4.7, so maybe there is some G-Code available ?