Oh, big problem... thought it was almost done.. in the firmware to set the "HOME" and start the bed leveling procedure How do I move the X axis over 20 CM to make sure the sensor is hitting he aluminum build plate.. Do I need to reprogram the control board? If you look at the video below, when their printer goes to home it goes to the center of the build plate.. How can I move my print head to X=30, Y=0 and Z=10 because the sensor will determine that that should be... Thanks for your help.. Richard
This is the link I am using to calibrate my TronXY...
I do not really underdstand what you are trying here. Which step of the video are you refering to? G1 can move your head where you want also it doe snot really matter where you calibrate distance.
Later for autoleveling you have the 3 points stored in eeprom that will be used and firmware will use them automatically.
For homing select an order with temperature preheat (which you set to 0). There you can set position to home z in config tool.
Ok let me look at that.. what happened is that I put the sensor on and when to calibrate... I should have seen it but the sensor hangs off the edge of the bed as a result the extruder hit the bed before I could power off.. I should have seen that.. Just late at night... Oh and I am looking at the first step.
Ok, that is bad with these sensors. So check for your positions that this does not happen. With manual G30 tests it is of course easy to happen, but for preprogrammed positions it should work. Also for homing you might want to pre raise z so it is always untriggered before going down.
is there a way to have the extruder move to the center of the bed to HOME is selected? This would solve a lot of problems.. as the sensor hangs off one side of the metal fan enclosure that is on the extruder.. and I loose bed space. Thanks for all the help... Richard (Note: finals are next week.. so I may not look at this for a few weeks.)
ok did that and that works for the most part.. but when i select HOME on the Repetier-Host software on my laptop it goes the the upper right had corner of the printer. Because the sensor is off the board at this point bad things happen to the printer bed! Is there a way in the printer code I can change to make it go to the center of the printer when HOME is selected on the Repetier-Host screen. Thanks for all the help. Also, I now can make change the the Melzi V2.0.5 board with out any problems.. Got that down. Thanks again. Richard
I should set the #define MIN_EXTRUDER_TEMP 150 to zero, 0 correct.. this is for a Melzi V2.0.5 controller board with one extruder on a TronXY 3S printer. just want to make sure.. and thanks...
Because you still have homing order on HOME_ORDER_YXZ which is one without T as I said! Use HOME_ORDER_XYTZ instead. Only these use homing position. And also
OK done... I used HOME_ORDER_ZXYTZ and then I used HOME_ORDER_XYTZ . Each time when I selected the HOME on the Repetire-Sever screen the exturder went to the upper corner of the print bed. Can I work on a video and upload it to Box.net for you to look at.. That may help a lot. Also, very interesting, when Z HOME is selected the extruder goes up and down twice. I will work on the video. A picture is worth a lot describing what is happening. Best to you. I will try to get it done my Monday.
These are used for bed leveling and are for a delta which is why they contain negative coordinates. You need them to span a rectangle in such a way that all points can be reached with enabled z probe. Cause of the z probe offset this is normally not your printing region but a smaller part of it.
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This is the link I am using to calibrate my TronXY...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDOZ9pUQIs&t=179s
Thanks again Richard
Later for autoleveling you have the 3 points stored in eeprom that will be used and firmware will use them automatically.
For homing select an order with temperature preheat (which you set to 0). There you can set position to home z in config tool.
G91
G1 Z10
is there a way to have the extruder move to the center of the bed to HOME is selected? This would solve a lot of problems.. as the sensor hangs off one side of the metal fan enclosure that is on the extruder.. and I loose bed space. Thanks for all the help... Richard (Note: finals are next week.. so I may not look at this for a few weeks.)
add before it new coordinates to start for x and y
startX = 100;
startY = 100;
and that will be you position after homing.
I should set the #define MIN_EXTRUDER_TEMP 150 to zero, 0 correct.. this is for a Melzi V2.0.5 controller board with one extruder on a TronXY 3S printer. just want to make sure.. and thanks...
Richard
That is the minimum temperature enforced when homing. Required if nozzle tip is part of sensor and ooze changes height.
but for some reason the extruder still tries to go to 0,0 and then Z axis zero..
If I change the #define ZHOME_X_POS and the #define ZHOME_Y_POS to 110 each and by bed is 220 will that work?
Thanks
Richard
which is the homing position for z is set to ignore at the moment.
with homing position.
Z will in deed test twice like any action so that sounds ok.