On Saturday, 26 March 2022 00:56:20 EDT Chris Albertson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 7:19 PM gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:59:37 EDT Thaddeus Waldner wrote: > > > I would suggest that you calibrate the xy shrinkage, and z > > > shrinkage in your printer slicer, instead of compensating for it > > > in your design.> > > Cura doesn't make that obvious as how to do that, > > I think the only way is "M92" g-code. > https://marlinfw.org/docs/gcode/M092.html > > Place this is the boilerplate that goes before each print. > > One thing I've been meaning to do is place a dial indicator on the > print head and very the steps per mm on x, y, and z. The problem > might not be shrinking but cheap belts made with a tiny error in > pitch. > Or the frame isn't square, I've an ender 5 with a top frame thats a full 1/4" out of square. No way in hell to print something thats actually round.
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