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Questions tagged [automatic-bed-leveling]

Use this tag for questions regarding the automatic leveling of the build platform.

The automation of the process of bed leveling is frequently used with some sort of a sensor to sense the distance to the platform; such a process is referred to as Auto Bed Leveling (ABL). These sensors scan the build surface to compensate for local or global surface deficiencies.

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Automatic Bed Leveling (ABL) with a sensor (BLTouch, inductive, capacitive), how does it work?

A frequently discussed update to a 3D printer is the so-called leveling sensor; this sensor can be inductive, capacitive, optical or mechanical (i.e pressure or physically touching, like a BLTouch). It is supposed to level your bed, providing …
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Weird bed movement when doing ABL (G29)

My printer recently started lowering the bed an additional step for every measurement on the G29 procedure. The only change I did, at least purposely is, adjusting the nozzle offset and MIN/MAX positions for X and Y because I installed the "Hero Me"…
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Is Marlin 2.0 actually needed for Automatic Bed Leveling using FreeABL?

I need Automatic Bed Leveling (ABL). I have seen this: FreeABL - the ultra cheap (free) ABL for Ender 3. However, after reading the description, I found out that I need to flash the firmware. I had a lot of problems with this, so is it actually…
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How can a force sensor automatically determine the Z-offset?

The Creality Ender 3 V3 SE, apart from auto bed leveling (ABL), also has a way to calculate the Z-offset automatically. A feature I didn't hear about before. According to a Maker's Muse video it's based on a force sensor. How does this concept work?…
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Anet A8 Auto Bed Levelling - Auto home not centring with new Marlin 1.1.9 config

Recently added a probe to my Anet A8 for auto bed levelling, calculations have been added based on position of probe to hotend as required. I'm using Marlin 1.1.9. When I go into 'Prepare' in the printer settings to select auto home, it doesn't…
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Ender 3v2 nozzle plunging into bed after finishing mesh (only changed springs)

Yesterday I was printing just fine. Today I put the new springs that I bought from Amazon. Swapped them out, went to level things and my Z-offset was of course way off. I have the Ender3V2-422-BLTUBL-MPC-20230904.bin firmware from mriscoc I homed…
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Absolute Z values not 0 at print surface after auto homing with CR-Touch

I recently installed the CR-Touch onto my CR10-V3 printer. I updated my firmware to Marlin 2.1.2M and set my probe offsets and selected level bed which checked 81 points on the print bed and it said bed leveling was complete. I tried printing…
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Levelling Data Exception on Ender 3 V2 Neo

I was having problems where the nozzle was shaking on my Ender 3 V2 neo, so I tightened the screws holding to where the nozzle was mounted (which were quite loose), but then when I tried to print something, I got the error: "Leveling data exception,…
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Monoprice MP Mini Delta adding glass bed

The bed adhesion is going from already mediocre to unusable. So I got my glass plate. With my previous printer I really liked printing PLA on a 60 °C alcohol-cleaned bed. The problem that I am having, is that the auto-leveling procedure fails. The…
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CURA prints some primer lines, but they don't seem to respect bed automatic bed leveling

So, the G-code preppended to my slicer output (by Cura itself) looks like this: ; Ender 3 Custom Start G-code G92 E0 ; Reset Extruder G28 ; Home all axes M104 S{material_standby_temperature} ; Start heating up the nozzle most of the way M190…
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How does Adaptive Mesh Leveling (AML) actually work?

I recently started using the new mriscoc firmware for my Creality Ender 3 V2 and it is truly performing above expectations. Even considering that Jyers UI was already a step up from the original Creality firmware. I'm trying to understand how the…
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First layer disaster: auto-leveling the bed. Need guidance

I have been printing on and off for years. Generally, I have had no issues until recently. Upon thinking back I don't think I used the Z-offset at any point and only manually leveled my Ender 3 S1 Pro. I'm not sure if it's material or me, or both. I…
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Why is the Z probe offset easily adjustable in the printer UI, but not the X/Y probe offset?

I should mention that this is my experience with Marlin. I can adjust the Z offset all I want in the UI, but not the X/Y offset. If you reinstall the probe, I've heard you may need to adjust the Z offset (makes sense, you might not mount in the…
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Ender 3 S1 Pro Probe Failed when auto-levelling even after manual level

When I first bought the Ender 3 S1 Pro, everything worked fine, but at some point, the auto-leveling stopped working. I used to manually level it every dozen or so prints (sheet of paper method) just to make sure things were close, then auto-level…
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Anycubic Vyper autoleveling not starting

Strange problem: I start atoleveling process and see this message: I touch nozzle and red lamp is on But nothing happens. Since one or two minutes I get message How to solve this issue? Anycubic support tells that is cable problem, but I need to…
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