I have previously offered simple versions of this, Printer tests and calibration. These paid files will get you dialed in even further. It is up to you if it is worth the money to you or not.
Can recommend the Califlower download from Vector 3D. Used it to skew correct all my printers. You could design the stl yourself but the accompanying spreadsheet when you purchase the file is where the value is.
Appreciate these resources. Helpful guidance/doc content. Cheers!
Made quick calibration crown to test some things. Was my first print. In fact first ~10 prints until I got dimensions, skew, bed adhesion, probe offset, flow, speed and some other stuff good enough to be worth using more time and filament on…
So has anyone tried the tuning file from V3d yet? I ended up buying both of them. If you haven’t yet and are going to just get the Calilantern one. The first one is great but the Lantern is way better and gets all 3 axis in one print. Doesn’t take too long to print. Takes forever to measure it all out but gave some really good numbers in the end. I will see if I can find the screen shots I took and ill post them up if anyone is interested.
Been thinking, one way to quickly measure dimensions/skew without doing huge prints is to print a thin square that extends to most of the XY plate. Then jog print head to various locations, at each location use calipers to measure distance from nozzle to corners/features of the print. Then do some math to figure out estep and skew correction changes needed.
Trying to measure from the nozzle to somewhere on the print is going to be real tricky to keep accurate. The cone shape of the nozzle doesn’t give you anywhere good to place the calipers accurately. The Calilantern print only took 2 1/2 hrs and used 51.5 grams of filament. Thats not bad at all to me.
Ok so I started off with the smaller of the 2 models. I should have just went for the large one first and thats what I suggest for anyone else wanting to try this.
Here were the results from the small model…
Then after inputting the suggestions from the first model I purchased and ran the larger model…
You will see at the top where I told it what numbers I was already using. That helps it give an accurate adjustment.
After inputting the suggestions I ran the print again to see how the changes looked.
I decided to leave it alone here. Felt like going more was just going to be chasing zeros. If anyone has any questions I’ll do my best to answer
