I balanced and home-set my printer; however, whenever I print, the nozzle just doesnt print on the base. Instead it prints like 5-9mm above it. My printer is Flashforge pro dual head.
When using makerbot sw, it doesnt allow me to offset the z-axis. I also tried to offet it using Replica G but it says something like deprecated offset in firmware 7.7.
Does anyone knows how to fix this?
May sound like a stupid response, but level your bed.
Looks like your leveling screws are tightened all the way down. Loose them up so the print heads are touching the build plate…
Prozix
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Did you change or upgrade your firmware recently? I was thinking maybe your bed is not leveled. However, when I see your setup, I assume you are an experienced printer. Unless you bought this printer from someone else. Therefore, it is a very small chance that you didn’t level your bed properly.
In my opinion, possibly that this is due to firmware issues. I assume you are using sailfish. If yes, then Makerbot software would not let you open the onboard preferences. Try replicator g sailfish version. Go to the onboard references and try to vary the z home offset to see if any change, but be careful not to let the nozzle hit the build plate.
Prozix
I would say it’s a firmware issue as well. No way that an unlevel bed is going to cause an offset of almost a centimeter. I see you’re running a glass bed plate, are you utilizing a z axis shim to contact the z switch to account for the bed thickness? Could be that the shim is much thicker than the glass bed for some reason.
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Check the spacer at the back of your build plate, it might be thicker than your glass, if not then check z offset settings in slicer settings or firmware. Hope this helps.
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I did level my bed. I played around with the z-offset in the firmware(using replicaG software) and able to fix the issue. Thx all.
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