I’m just getting my redesigned printer ready to print and I’m having an issue with my Z probe offset and need some help. For the time being my bed is a little short in the y axis as I don’t have a good place to put my endstop so the Y axis is only 135mm long but my X axis is a full 200mm. I have added a solenoid activated Z endstop to my x carriage and its location in relation to the nozzle is about 45mm to the back and 10mm to the right. If I leave the Z probe offset for the Y axis at 0 then when I home the printer, X and Y home normally and then when it goes to home Z the carriage moves so that the solenoid is in the middle of the bed on X and at the back of the bed on Y. Then when I print a test cube it prints in the middle of the bed on X and slightly back from middle on Y. Now here is where my issue is. If I change the Z probe offset for the y axis to 45mm then on homing when it homes Z the the probe is in the middle on X and about 45mm forward from the back edge on Y but when it goes to print the exact same job the nozzle goes to the far right side of the bed and off of the bed in the back on Y. Can anyone explain why it is doing this. Oh and I do a G29 after the G28 homing for auto bed leveling. My bed leveling is set up for 4 points and I’ve set them to be within the usable area of the bed. I’ve added pictures to show the comparative locations of the carriage with and without a probe offset in Y.
@Aydil_Wehbe There are a number of different places you can by a 3D printer from. Check out this wiki for a list
http://reprap.org/wiki/Prusa_i3_Buyers_Guide
Mine however is homebuilt. Istarted with a Prusa I2 design in which I sourced and purchased all the parts I needed to build it. My printer has since gone thru several upgrades to the one you see in this post https://plus.google.com/110582583008783614941/posts/fQjgGVbppAA
It has the same internal workings of a Prusa I3 just that I have designed a new frame that is also an enclosure so that I can print ABS more reliably.
3D Printers range in cost from $200-300 into the thousands depending on what printer you get. I have seen Will I Am’s printer which I believe he had a hand in designing. The printer I have if you build it yourself has a cost of about $500 compared to equivalent printers that cost a few thousand.
Yes my printer can print with the same material. If you read about that printer they don’t claim that you can take your used bottles and put them in the printer and print from them. What they are saying is that a roll/cartridge of their filament is made with 25% recycled material.
Not all printers are capable of printing with that material. The limiting factor is how hot the hotend can get and on some printers it can’t get hot enough to print with that material
Just about.just limited by the size of the print area which is different depending on the machine you have