Issues after installing IR Probe Z Printing in the air?
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Hi guys,
Hoping someone can help me here, I have been at this all day and now I am starting to go crazy...
After disabling soft end-stops, setting Z=0 and running G30 S-1 I got a very good average of 1.63 which I added to my config.g:
; Z-Probe
M558 P1 H5 F300 T6000 A5 S0.015 ; set Z probe type to unmodulated and the dive height + speeds
G31 P500 X-45 Y-10 Z1.63 ; set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger heightAfter running the bed compensation, all looked well. (I just started with 4 points to test, image attached)
However now I put a print on and the Z starts at 1.75
It has me baffled!
It also appears that when I use the baby-stepping to get the nozzle on the bed, the Z-Axis auto-corrects when it changes a corner.
It does not appear to be S3D as my GCode preview shows printing from Z=0.25 for the correct layer height.
HELP!
Config.g below
0:/sys/config.g
; Configuration file for Duet WiFi (firmware version 2.03)
; executed by the firmware on start-up
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; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool v2.1.8 on Tue Apr 28 2020 16:27:26 GMT+1000 (Australian Eastern Standard Time); General preferences
G90 ; send absolute coordinates...
M83 ; ...but relative extruder moves
M550 P"HTHE" ; set printer name; Network
M552 S1 ; enable network
M586 P0 S1 ; enable HTTP
M586 P1 S0 ; disable FTP
M586 P2 S0 ; disable Telnet; Drives
M569 P0 S0 ; physical drive 0 goes backwards
M569 P1 S1 ; physical drive 1 goes forwards
M569 P2 S1 ; physical drive 2 goes forwards
M569 P4 S0 ; physical drive 4 goes backwards
M584 X0 Y1 Z2 E4 ; set drive mapping
M350 X16 Y16 Z16 E16 I1 ; configure microstepping with interpolation
M92 X88.89 Y88.89 Z400.00 E578.00 ; set steps per mm
M566 X900.00 Y900.00 Z30.00 E120.00 ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 X9000.00 Y9000.00 Z600.00 E1200.00 ; set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 X500.00 Y500.00 Z20.00 E250.00 ; set accelerations (mm/s^2)
M906 X800 Y800 Z400 E1000 I30 ; set motor currents (mA) and motor idle factor in per cent
M84 S30 ; Set idle timeout; Axis Limits
M208 X0 Y0 Z0 S1 ; set axis minima
M208 X230 Y140 Z150 S0 ; set axis maxima; Endstops
M574 X2 Y2 S0 ; set active low and disabled endstops
M574 Z1 S2 ; set endstops controlled by probe; Z-Probe
M558 P1 H5 F300 T6000 A5 S0.015 ; set Z probe type to unmodulated and the dive height + speeds
G31 P500 X-45 Y-10 Z1.63 ; set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger height
M557 X0:185 Y0:130 S40 ; define mesh grid; Heaters
M307 H0 B0 S1.00 ; disable bang-bang mode for the bed heater and set PWM limit
M305 P0 T100000 B4138 R4700 ; set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 0
M143 H0 S180 ; set temperature limit for heater 0 to 180C
M305 P1 X200 ; configure PT100 for heater 1
M143 H1 S420 ; set temperature limit for heater 1 to 420C; Fans
M106 P0 S1 I0 F500 H-1 ; set fan 0 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off; Tools
M563 P0 S"HTHE Extruder" D0 H1 F0 ; define tool 0
G10 P0 X0 Y0 Z0 ; set tool 0 axis offsets
G10 P0 R0 S0 ; set initial tool 0 active and standby temperatures to 0C; Custom settings
M305 P1 X200 ; Enable PT100 DB Intergration; Miscellaneous
HTHE
Send code...
Status
Idle
Tool Position
X
0.0
Y
0.0
Z
0.00
Extruder Drives
Drive 0
0.0
Speeds
Requested Speed
0 mm/s
Top Speed
0 mm/s
Sensors
Vin
23.9 V
MCU Temperature
35.4 C
Fan RPM
0
Z-Probe
0
Tools
Extra
Control All
Tool Heater Current Active Standby
HTHE Extruder
T0 - Load Filament Heater 1
off 68.1 C
0
0
Bed Heater 0
off 43.5 C
0
Temperature Chart
System Directory -
What do you have in your homeall?
What do you have in your slicer start gcode?To allow the baby stepping to go down below what it thinks is Z0 you would need to modify your M208 minima to allow a slightly negative value like -1mm. But hopefully we can figure out why your prints are starting so high and that won't be necessary.
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Thanks for your help!
So my home all shows as:
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 H2 Z5 F2400 ; lift Z relative to current position
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F2400 ; move quickly to X and Y axis endstops and stop there (first pass)
G1 H2 X-5 Y-5 F2400 ; go back a few mm
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F300 ; move slowly to X and Y axis endstops once more (second pass)
G90 ; absolute positioning
G1 X100 Y40 F2400 ; go to first bed probe point and home Z
G30 ; home Z by probing the bedand my start script is:
M561 ; Clear any bed transform
G28 ; Home machine
G32 ; Run bed compensation
G29 S1 ; Enable mesh compensationIs there something obvious I am not skilled enough to see?
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@Phaedrux said in Issues after installing IR Probe Z Printing in the air?:
What do you have in your homeall?
What do you have in your slicer start gcode?To allow the baby stepping to go down below what it thinks is Z0 you would need to modify your M208 minima to allow a slightly negative value like -1mm. But hopefully we can figure out why your prints are starting so high and that won't be necessary.
Thanks for your help!
So my home all shows as:
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 H2 Z5 F2400 ; lift Z relative to current position
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F2400 ; move quickly to X and Y axis endstops and stop there (first pass)
G1 H2 X-5 Y-5 F2400 ; go back a few mm
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F300 ; move slowly to X and Y axis endstops once more (second pass)
G90 ; absolute positioning
G1 X100 Y40 F2400 ; go to first bed probe point and home Z
G30 ; home Z by probing the bedand my start script is:
M561 ; Clear any bed transform
G28 ; Home machine
G32 ; Run bed compensation
G29 S1 ; Enable mesh compensationIs there something obvious I am not skilled enough to see?
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what do you have in bed.g?
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@Phaedrux said in Issues after installing IR Probe Z Printing in the air?:
what do you have in bed.g?
M561 ; clear any bed transform
G29 ; probe the bed and enable compensation -
And your heightmap only has 4 points? Or are you using more now?
Expanding your gcode for the start of the print we get
M561 ; Clear any bed transform
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 H2 Z5 F2400 ; lift Z relative to current position
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F2400 ; move quickly to X and Y axis endstops and stop there (first pass)
G1 H2 X-5 Y-5 F2400 ; go back a few mm
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F300 ; move slowly to X and Y axis endstops once more (second pass)
G90 ; absolute positioning
G1 X100 Y40 F2400 ; go to first bed probe point and home Z
G30 ; home Z by probing the bed
M561 ; clear any bed transform
G29 ; probe the bed and enable compensation
G29 S1 ; Enable mesh compensationI don't think there's anything wrong in there.
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@Phaedrux said in Issues after installing IR Probe Z Printing in the air?:
And your heightmap only has 4 points? Or are you using more now?
Expanding your gcode for the start of the print we get
M561 ; Clear any bed transform
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 H2 Z5 F2400 ; lift Z relative to current position
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F2400 ; move quickly to X and Y axis endstops and stop there (first pass)
G1 H2 X-5 Y-5 F2400 ; go back a few mm
G1 H1 X235 Y145 F300 ; move slowly to X and Y axis endstops once more (second pass)
G90 ; absolute positioning
G1 X100 Y40 F2400 ; go to first bed probe point and home Z
G30 ; home Z by probing the bed
M561 ; clear any bed transform
G29 ; probe the bed and enable compensation
G29 S1 ; Enable mesh compensationI don't think there's anything wrong in there.
Thanks for you time reading.
The problem has been solved but rather frustratingly, I still don't know why.
I ended up opting for the nuclear solution and erasing the SD, installing a known config and changing everything I thought I had changed previously one-by-one.
So in short, I have no idea what was causing the in-air print at layer one... the G Code I was using previously is the same one so I am confident it was an error in my Duet code somewhere...
This will be chewing at my brain forever haha
