Finding my brims a little stuttery and inconsistant.

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Finding my brims a little stuttery and inconsistant. Signs of other problems in the setup?? Prints are going well but I’m a complete noob only had my china special (geeetech i3 X is the closest model I can find by looking at pictures of the frame and extruder etc) I haven’t made any changes to the settings using cura to slice and printing from prontface. 1.75 pla @ 185 end / 60 bed

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That usually happens when your nozzle is too close to the bed for your first layer

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Currently setting my bed by paper although I guess that depends on the thickness of the paper!

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Ha-ha paper should be okay… I personally use a feeler gauge (between .25-.30mm gauges) and then set the z- home to -0.28mm. There are a lot of ways to measure/calculate the initial z gap though…

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Ok that’s not a problem I can bring some home from work to set the height. One thing I have noticed is that when “home” my bed moves too far through the machine and comes off the bed a little. Not a big problem as I haven’t tried any big prints yet but the micro switch has no adjustment so will have to figure something out to correct that!

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You have manual leveling correct? With the four screws on each bed corner

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Correct

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What I would do is use a G92 offset in your start gcode. You can mess around with your starting height without the tedious paper method. You could use it temporarily or forever. Basically it keeps you from having to adjust all the screws. Just a suggestion.

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Ok cool thanks, I’m currently looking at the best autoleveling bed solution for my system:

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/351673924442

If you have any recommendations! Also want to get the bed to move to the front when complete too!

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*this is the printer that I have

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Want to move it to the front when done? Go to the start/end gcode in cura. Hit the one that says end gcode. Then where it says G28 X0 Y0, delete the Y0. Then add the line G1 Z200 right below it.

I would use an inductive sensor to level. You’re gonna need access to your firmware to set it up though. Check out my posts. I used to use an auto level system that had two aluminum tape strips just on my glass. It was super cheap and fairly easy to set up in your Marlin firmware. If you want to go this route I would happily help.

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Thanks, I’ll check that out!