What are the rules of thumb with various calibration and 3D print settings in Luban?

I have generated a pair of macros for an 11 x 11 calibration routine with the heated bed on.

You can try this if you like, i cant say with certainty it is ideal at this time there is speculation about the heated bed affecting the sensors but i feel like it would be relatively consistant

First preheat your bed to the temp you want to run at. i need to edit the macro to add a wait for temperature. i have to test a little bit to make sure i put it in the right position but if you preheat before hand this will work for you

Execute Macro 1 (Begin heated 11 x 11 calibration) -

G1029P11 ; Define 11x11 mesh size
G1029A ; Run auto calibration
M140 S60 ;Bed Temperature (adjust as desired)

Then, use jogging from luban to set the z-offset, the display wont prompt you at all, do not move the X or Y at all. You will be able to have finer control via luban than the touch screen for this.

then execute Macro 2 (Finish heated 11 x 11 calibration):

G1029S ; Offset matrix by current Z position
G1029D0 ; Compute interpolations and enable bed leveling
M140 S0 ; Turn off heated bed
G28 ; Return Home

this will preform 121 points of measurement on your bed, heated to the temp you are running at.

ideally we will soon be turning the heater off and on between probes to keep it at temp but disable the heat while probed, but i think it is a good start.

not that this is some magic secret i came up with, i just gathered this info from the forum, but i did this last night and like the results. adjust the value for the heated bed to whatever temp you want in the first macro.

I think for best results youd want to be connected via USB, but i dont see why you couldnt do this over wifi. via usb you can actually watch the probe results and see how different each spot it, its very fascinating!

next time i want to do the calibration im going to sort out the wait for temp and confirm everything holds and then i will present these modifications to the macros.

you could simply add the following to the beginning of the first macro

M140 S60 ;Bed Temperature (adjust as desired)
M190 S60 ;Wait for bed temperature (adjust as desired)

but i want to see if i can figure out a way to only need to enter the temperature value once instead of 3 times.

I think I can see the logic behind the heater affecting the probe, because the heater is not going to be on constantly, its going to be turning on and off to maintain a temperature within a hysteresis. the current flowing through it could affect the sensing height (probably allowing it to sense from higher up). if it was going to be strictly on or strictly off the z offset would be able to compensate universally.

However, its better than nothing without doing a manual calibration.

Meanwhile, brent is working on some updates to the firmware to include an ON OFF for the heated bed during a calibration which is really just freaking awesome. i love this kind of shit.

ya’ll hacking new features and bug fixes into the machine and my contribution is a 3 line macro on par with mIRC scripting to halfass cheat the system and a replacement side plate for the 3dp module with a hole in the side for a wire… :roll_eyes: someday i hope to get more talent.

Edit: The reality is, the machine does NOT hold the temperature during this, the value from the thermistor freezes on luban to give the illustration it does.

The 11 x 11 calibration method is legit, although the z-offset adjustment is a pain, so you can do this whole thing as posted. Pre-heating your bed for about 15 minutes to the temp you want is what you really want to do more than anything.

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