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Unanswered NOOB questions on first layers/leveling

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  1. charlie13

    charlie13 New Member

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    So I'm working on calibrating and adjusting my bed/z axis/z-offset.I noticed that the filament gets swished down (head being too low from what I've read) on the southwest corner of the bed but not anywhere else. I'm assuming this is a leveling issue. Can anyone chime in on this? How can I adjust this if it is only on one part of the bed?
     
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    The squished down will actually produce a better adhesion depending on you filament and bed type, but this is what autobedleveling is for. You can increase the number of sample points in firmware if the section is specific enough but this is no guarantee its going to be accurate.
     
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    If the bed is to far out of whack youll beed to shim the side of your bed thats funky. I used adhesive shim stock and an indicator to measure
     
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    The other thing is to make certain the nozzle is clean when it does the auto level dance
     

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