Irish_Steve Wrote:
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> Am I barking up the wrong tree here, or is this
> the best way to get perfect bed alignment that can
> also compensate for bed thickness variances with
> temperature?
Sounds ok. Make sure you probe z-height at abot the same place where hotend tip will (few mm difference should not matter though). Once you have correct tower postions and diagonal rod length, then these parameters are correct till you do not chane carriages, rods, or platfrom (hardware wise).
Printer z-height can change with different hot ends and different temperature (both hotend and heatbed). And if you change bed (different bed for different materials) then this will have impact on z-height and possibly endstop adjustements. These things can be fixed easily without the math in the maxima notebook.
Read comments in the maxima notebook. I believe they are exhustive. I'm not sure I can add anything which is not written there. Any SW we used is in the github repository [github.com]
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> Am I barking up the wrong tree here, or is this
> the best way to get perfect bed alignment that can
> also compensate for bed thickness variances with
> temperature?
Sounds ok. Make sure you probe z-height at abot the same place where hotend tip will (few mm difference should not matter though). Once you have correct tower postions and diagonal rod length, then these parameters are correct till you do not chane carriages, rods, or platfrom (hardware wise).
Printer z-height can change with different hot ends and different temperature (both hotend and heatbed). And if you change bed (different bed for different materials) then this will have impact on z-height and possibly endstop adjustements. These things can be fixed easily without the math in the maxima notebook.
Read comments in the maxima notebook. I believe they are exhustive. I'm not sure I can add anything which is not written there. Any SW we used is in the github repository [github.com]