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| Bed Leveling vs the Bed Mesh articles Do not conflate functions of bed leveling with the bed mesh, they are two distinct and unrelated concepts. The bed is level when its Z plane is orthogonal to the X and Y planes. The bed screws control and define the position of the plane. You will recall from basic geometry that three or more points form a plane, and moving the bed screws align each of the points of the bed to be of equal distance from the print head. | |
| Cleaning the Bed Plate articles about The bed plate must be kept clean to assure good adherence of the filament for your first layer. Clean your bed plate by washing with dish soap (Dawn with its grease cutters works exceptionally well) and hot water and let air dry before returning to the bed. An occasional scrub using a clean ScotchBrite pad can help remove surface build up and oxidation of the PEI textured coating. | |
| Setting Up Your Neptune 4 Printer For The First Time ... or if you'd like to walk back through the process articles Before anything familiarize yourself with these Resources * Unbox and assemble your printer * Connect your printer to your local network * A word about printer.cfg * Tune Z Probe configuration to improve accuracy and speed * Tune stepper motor configurations for accuracy & noise * Tune the extruder rotational distance * Level the gantry * A word about bed_leve… | |
| What are Klipper Macros? faq about articles ...work in progress... Macros are small programs or functions written in Klipper gcode. They're defined in printer.cfg (or files that it includes) and are loaded when Klipper performs a soft or hard restart (RESTART or FIRMWARE_RESTART respectively), which reads printer.cfg. | |
| What causes parts to be knocked off or shift on the bed plate? faq articles Normally this is caused by a combination of the following issues: Bad gcode Z Offset A poor gcode z offset results in poor bed and layer adhesion and can cause the part to separate or move on the plate, resulting in the part shifting to getting knocked off the plate. | |
| Print Start Workflows articles setup about One way (slicer side and slicer machine start print gcode), or another (Klipper side and PRINT_START macro), there's certain steps we need to take to start printing the gcode that's slice from an object. There's reasons and rationale for why you'd place certain actions where. | |
| How to run a Bed Mesh faq articles setup Defining the Bed Mesh We have to have the bed mesh parameter's defined before running a bed mesh. They are stored in printer.cfg Example for Neptune 4 and Neptune 4 Pro: [bed_mesh] mesh_min:10,21 mesh_max:210,211 probe_count: 9,9 algorithm:bicubic bicubic_tension:0.2 mesh_pps: 4, 4 split_delta_z: 0.020 fade_start: 4 fade_end: 12 | |
| Tips for better first layers articles faq It is critically important to get the first layer of the print right, When the first layer is not the best it can be then it can lead to complete failure, parts detaching, and warping. There are several techniques and recommendations one can heed in order to minimize the chance of this happening. | |
| Tuning the Z Probe configuration setup articles The default parameters from Klipper, as well as the Elegoo distributed settings, allow for a lot of error and inaccuracy from the z probe. We can improve on this in terms of performance and accuracy. Tune your z probe stanza in printer.cfg to improve probe accuracy by decreasing samples_tolerance. Its Klipper default is 0.100mm meaning you’re accepting probe results that are off by hundreds of microns while the probe is precise with readings be… | |
| Understanding the gcode Z offset ...currently a work in progress... articles z_offset Good Further Reading * Ellis's Print Tuning Guide on First Layer "Squish" Related wholly to non-tangential squish General concepts of squish and non-tangential shape (wip) Generally speaking an otherwise uninfluenced extrusion from the nozzle will have a circular cross section. If an extruded line is placed next to another extruded line which each have a circular cross section they only tangentially… |