Level your bed live! Levelling squares + Tutorial

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Like? :-D If this tutorial helped you, please click the Like button above. Thank you! Feel free to PM me if you have any feedback or questions. ============================================== I designed this method and model when I was doing high-production printing with a farm of Flashforge Creator Pros. It's super reliable and very rewarding. Start-to-finish should take you less than 20 minutes the first time. I do it in under 5 now. Features More than just levelling Makes your top and bottom surface finish beautiful Guarantees bed adhesion and layer-to-layer adhesion across your bed Level can last 3 weeks and longer (depending on how you treat your bed) Gives you the perfect balance of great bed adhesion and easy part removal 50 x 50 x 0.6 mm squares Squares are centered over the levelling screws Concepts work for any number of extruder heads See my recommendations for print settings way at the bottom! Designed for 0.40mm nozzle, 0.2mm layer height, and it prints at 40mm/s Recommended Tools toothbrush 0.10 mm feeler gauge flashlight 2" chisel (use it upside-down, and be gentle!) How to Level This file is specifically designed for 3-point levelling on a FF Creator Pro, but if it helps you then that's awesome! 1. Clean the nozzles Preheat both extruders above the melting points of your filaments Turn off the extruder heaters. As they cool, brush them off with the toothbrush. This prevents blobs from remaining and confusing your level. 2. "Rough" level Home the bed Lower your bed so there is a visible gap under the nozzles Jog the carriage to align the right nozzle over the back-right screw Use the feeler gauge to bring the bed up to the nozzle. You'll feel the gauge vibrate and possibly get stuck, so back off the screw until the moment you don't feel the gauge vibrate Repeat for the left extruder over the left screw. Jog the carriage to align it's middle over the front screw Bring up the bed slowly, checking both nozzles If one nozzle touches first, jog to the back screws and re-level them A couple of iterations should get your bed printable 3. Fine tuning AKA tuning on-the-fly! Load the model into Simplify3D (or skip ahead and just use the .x3g) Left extruder, 0.2mm: level squares L0.2.x3g Right extruder, 0.2mm: level squares R0.2.x3g If you have a dual-extrusion printer, load both models into Simplify3D. 4. Print Set your print settings as desired and start the print job. CAUTION Roughly handling your bed - such as pushing down on it, forcefully removing parts, or yanking on it in any way - will ruin your level. Be gentle! Treat the bed as a delicate piece of china, a precision system. That's what will make your level last. Material-Specific Recommendations These settings just work. This is for medium-quality printing, not high-res or super-fast. PLA Bed: 55C, preheat to 55C Ext: 220C, preheat to 225C Speed: 50mm/s (3000mm/min) Active fan: 100% @ layer 1, if you have one ABS Bed: 100C, preheat to 100C Ext: 235C, preheat to 238C Speed: 50mm/s (3000mm/min) Active fan: Not necessary, hasn't helped me General Filament Recommendations Applies to plastic like PLA and ABS Layer Height: 0.200mm Multiplier: 1.00, if you're changing this value you are doing something else wrong Speeds: Outline: 60% Solid Infill: 80% Support: 60% X/Y: 100mm/s (6000mm/min) Z: 20mm/s (1800mm/min) Bridging: 130% extrusion, 75% speed Print Settings Printer: Flashforge Creator Pro Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: 0.200 mm Infill: 18