How I tune 3D Printers

In this Video, I want to give you a brief overview how I tune my 3D Printers to improve speed and quality! In this first part we will focus on the "must have's" every 3D Printer diy or bought should be calibrated.

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[bez]

good videos, fast info, don't feel like I'm loosing brain cells watching (like other instructional videos) thank you! building my 100 soon!! will report back!

[serhiyshkolyarenko]

Thank you for this overview of calibration. It's very clear and inspiring!

[techjensen]

Thank you for a great video.
I am at the moment building the 100 printer.
There is one part in the calibration video I don't get.
After you have leveled the bed you move to the midle, do the paper ting, and move the bed further down and save it as the zero position.
But now every print you make will be that distance to high.
If you measure the Z height on the calibration cube, I think it would be around 0.3mm to high.

[crabbee]

I Like to mark the bed screws into 1/4 or 1/8th markings and make sure you know where your zero is to make things super precise. This might also tell you if something isnt level or is bent/warped.

[bhbane]

Where is Part 2? especially getting rid of the round edges

[philipjensen]

great video! One thing that has plagued me is once the printer is tuned and you use a different type of filament what are the steps you should take to calibrate that with the filament, or is it doing this all over again for that scenario?

[jphalip]

Thanks for sharing! One question, what type of filament did you print with for this calibration? 240mm/s for outer wall is impressive. I assume you've got a great part cooling design. Would love to hear more (maybe in a future video) about how you designed that :)

[ddscll]

Hi Matt! Thanks for your great work, I'm definitely thinking of building this printer!
Just one question: do you plan in adding a probe for auto bed leveling?

[profproc_com]

Could your printers run on fused filaments in the form of pellets or shreds?

[zeroxx]

all this time i been calibrating wrong. i never thought to squeeze till the paper no longer moves.

[hapsti]

I have t he same vertical lines, that isnt from ringing and it isnt from belts (non 2mm spacing) they look like yours, what can I do? they are mostly on the Y axis