Bed level perfection
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How to use: Scale it in your slicer for print area size and then adjust the Z axis dimension until you get one layer at whatever layer height you want to print How to understand the resulting print: You will be able to see how uneven your bed is and find out how flat your print surface truly is, after you have started to level your bed with your regular first layer height you can start adjusting the first layer height until you find the best performing height which compensates the best for irregularities in your print surface, after you have found the best layer height then start adjusting your print speed until you find the optimal first layer printing speed for your printer, after this you can then start adjusting extrusion width if you wish to find the extrusion width capabilities of your printer. Why did I make this simple test? This test has allowed me to optimise my first layer leading to much better prints, it can even be used with a BL Touch if you wish to fine tune further errors that can be encountered from your printer (The BL touch isn't perfect and will not solve errors that this test will find, this simple test has allowed me to find weaknesses in my printer associated with resonance produced by the Ender 5 bed only being supported at one end. How has it helped me? I used to print at 0.2mm first layer height at 60mm/s and after using this test I have found that my first layer prints best with a 0.3mm layer height at 30mm/s, I also fine tuned my jerk settings from 15mm/s to 20mm/s which provided me with much squarer corners, as a result of the adjustments that I made using this test the walls on my prints are now near flawless and the quality of my prints has improved drastically, I discovered that my glass plate was not at all flat and was producing many of the problems I was having.
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