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Apr 2017

I own an Afinibot A3 3d printer (prusa i3 clone) and have a problem. I have the object set to the center in Cura, but the printer prints a couple inches to the left of the center. What is wrong with the printer?

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Hello. It would seem you don’t have the right build volume entered into Cura. That is my first guess. Cura will ask you about your origin as well, when entering a new machine. Origin at center, or origin at zero. I’d look over these two settings.

I agree the build platform is probably not set correctly. Check your x,y (x being your horizontal head movement, y being your vertical assuming you have a gantry style printer y is the direction your bed moves and x is the direction your head moves) values in cura and insure they are exactly the same as your printer it’s likely they are not and thus the printer believes your bed is either bigger or smaller then it’s actual size.