Update: Found a way to add the photo:
Intro: Hello all, this is AnAnne. I work with SAuger and took over troubleshooting the issues with our gMax 1.5XT Dual Extruder awhile back. For some reason my request for an account on the forum never came through so we're sharing one. It's the same printer, so I hope it's alright.
Anyway, we are using Simplify3D and printing in PLA (currently Hatchbox red) and it has the BLTouch Auto-leveler.
So, background: I just installed a brand-new glass heated bed after we had a major crash (the result of an un-named individual deciding the first thing we should do with our new printer was attempt a 16"x16" print and leave it unsupervised for the night). It left our aluminum heated bed really wavy, which meant we could only get a solid first layer in the very center of the bed. That said, everything was tuned to a point where that center section was start-and-walk-away. We figured when the glass bed came in, we could install it and finally print large-scale.
Problem: I installed the glass bed and prepped a file with five copies of an object. One in the center and four in the four corners of the bed. I am uncertain if the photo I tried to attach will work... {edit: it did not work} but if you cannot see it, the far left and near right corners are both printing so high that I cannot get them to print without driving the hotend into the other printing areas. Basically, my choice is two stringy piles of nothing and three decent prints, or three gouged unprinted areas and two decent prints. Really hope I am making some sense here.
Fixes attempted:
-Adjustment of the probe
-Shims under the problem corners
-Shims under the problem corners and above the good corners
-Switching the clips around
None of these fixes yielded any results. The next thing I am going to try is tricking the sensor by placing sheets of cardstock on the three reading spots that are printing low, but that's a pretty jenky fix. Any advice would be appreciated and please feel free to ask any questions that might provide greater clarity to the problem.
Thank you!
TLDR: Two opposite corners on glass bed are printing substantially lower than the rest of the print bed
Intro: Hello all, this is AnAnne. I work with SAuger and took over troubleshooting the issues with our gMax 1.5XT Dual Extruder awhile back. For some reason my request for an account on the forum never came through so we're sharing one. It's the same printer, so I hope it's alright.
Anyway, we are using Simplify3D and printing in PLA (currently Hatchbox red) and it has the BLTouch Auto-leveler.
So, background: I just installed a brand-new glass heated bed after we had a major crash (the result of an un-named individual deciding the first thing we should do with our new printer was attempt a 16"x16" print and leave it unsupervised for the night). It left our aluminum heated bed really wavy, which meant we could only get a solid first layer in the very center of the bed. That said, everything was tuned to a point where that center section was start-and-walk-away. We figured when the glass bed came in, we could install it and finally print large-scale.
Problem: I installed the glass bed and prepped a file with five copies of an object. One in the center and four in the four corners of the bed. I am uncertain if the photo I tried to attach will work... {edit: it did not work} but if you cannot see it, the far left and near right corners are both printing so high that I cannot get them to print without driving the hotend into the other printing areas. Basically, my choice is two stringy piles of nothing and three decent prints, or three gouged unprinted areas and two decent prints. Really hope I am making some sense here.
Fixes attempted:
-Adjustment of the probe
-Shims under the problem corners
-Shims under the problem corners and above the good corners
-Switching the clips around
None of these fixes yielded any results. The next thing I am going to try is tricking the sensor by placing sheets of cardstock on the three reading spots that are printing low, but that's a pretty jenky fix. Any advice would be appreciated and please feel free to ask any questions that might provide greater clarity to the problem.
Thank you!
TLDR: Two opposite corners on glass bed are printing substantially lower than the rest of the print bed
Will update after the morning's investigations!