What is the best 3d printer for beginners

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Posted by Howi on 17/06/2022 09:23:47:

Oh! and one final thing, you may have heard of automatic bed leveling, there is no such thing, it is nothing more than a software fudge – bed leveling is the ONE thing you have to get right (manually).

Actually, in my experience, automatic bed levelling works really well and is definitely not a software fudge.

Perhaps it is the term levelling that causes some confusion. Levelling the bed, like when levelling a lathe, does not actually level it with reference to the earth, but instead merely ensures a constant distance between the bed and the extruder.

Automatic bed levelling constantly monitors the position of the extruder over the bed and adjusts the distance between them. Whether this is done by raising or lowering the bed by means of stepper motors or whether it is done by adjusting the vertical position of the extruder is immaterial, the net effect is the same.

As mentioned in an earlier post one of the best, and actually the only change, that I have made to my printer is the installation of Crealty's CR Touch auto bed levelling probe along with the firmware to support it.

At the start of a print, this probes the bed at various points to determine what offset if any needs to be applied in order to keep the relative distance between extruder and bed constant while printing.

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