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Advanced Cartesian printer calibration

Advanced Cartesian printer calibration

- [Instructor] If you're making your own printer or recalibrating one, after a significant hardware upgrade, you may need to alter some of the values in your firmware or your slicer. In this movie, we'll walk you through how to calculate some of the key values you'll need to change in your firmware or slicer settings. If you're buying a prebuilt printer, most of the calibration should be done for you. Even kit printers should come with pre-configured firmware on the controller, unless you're building a printer from scratch. You'll likely only need to modify some filament specific settings in your slicer. If you're modifying your printer hardware, though, some other settings may need to change. You may also need to reconstruct or alter them while upgrading your printer's controller or firmware. Your printers firmware has a steps per millimeter value for each of its axes, including the extruder. Before trying to adjust these…

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