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  • Thing-O-Matic: Platform Height Consistency vs. Build Plates

    After building a bunch of stuff (about which more later), the Skirt extrusions showed a consistent tilt of about 0.1 mm downward to the right and the Skirt along the that side was consistently around 0.42 mm thick. So I cranked the right side down by 0.10 mm (just over 1/6 turn) and changed the G92 setting to Z1.50 to move the plate up by 0.05 mm.

    Three test extrusions in quick succession gave these results (in multiples of 0.01 mm). I used the plates in reverse numerical sequence due to an accident of history:

    Plate 3 36 31
    38 34 35 31
    36 38 36 34
    33 37
    Plate 2 37 33
    40 36 41 34
    37 37 36 37
    34 36
    Plate 1 33 31
    35 32 35 33
    33 33 33 36
    31 34

    It just won’t get any better than that!