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Automatic Bed Leveling and Baby Z Stepping
3D Printing requires a very flat bed and surface for large, successful prints.
Because of this, we have included two forms of bed leveling for your
machine. This section of the guide is to inform you of what these two bed
leveling options do.
Inductive Probe: This durable and extremely accurate German
designed sensor is responsible for detecting the metal print plate to
allow for the following functions to be run. This sensor can be found on
the hotend with the circular green cap at the bottom where it senses.
Tilt Compensation: Prior to every print, the ICARUS will automatically
perform a Tilt Compensation which probes each corner of the print
bed. The software will automatically calculate the deviations of the
bed and independently adjust all four Z motor ballscrews to level the
bed to ensure your print bed is flat every time.
Mesh Bed Leveling: Changes in bed temperatures from printing with
different filaments will slightly affect the levelness of the bed. A Mesh
Bed Compensation is a 5 minute Macro that will probe the bed at
numerous points, twice, and create a virtual height map of the bed. It
is found under:
Macros > Bed Compensation > "Mesh Bed Leveling".
Run this macro every time you load a new filament to ensure a proper
print surface. There are presets from 50C through 100C bed
temperature, choose the temperature that best suits your printing
needs. Our ICARUS units come pre-calibrated with a mesh variance
under 300 microns.
Baby Step: To ensure you get the perfect first layer every print, the Duet
system allows you to move the print bed up or down at the beginning
of a print to account for small variations in bed leveling from normal
use. When a print is started, a button on the lower right of the
touchscreen called "Baby Step" will allow you to adjust the spacing of
the print head to the print bed in 0.02mm increments. The two arrows
pointing together will raise the print bed to the nozzle. The two arrows
pointing away will lower the print bed from the nozzle.
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