WillAdams
March 12, 2023, 1:59am
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This will vary depending on whether or no one has calibrated for belt stretch (which I recommend doing):
The typical technique for machine calibration:
https://my.carbide3d.com/faq/belt-stretch/
depends on precision measuring tools, and is limited by the reach of the tools in question.
EDIT:
It also depends on access to the MDI — if using Carbide Motion v6 it will be necessary to enable this in Settings | Options:
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It should be possible to cut strips from a suitable blank of material, one along each axis — so we set up a square file which matches an available blank of material:
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and what the Travel Dimensions are set to.
For more on this see:
Wrote up a bit on this here:
Filled in the numbers for an XL — if someone has an SO3 or XXL and is using CM4, I’d be glad of confirmation of the other values for it there (they were made by halving the steps on my XL and configuring it to be an XXL and if you have an XL, a comparison to how things map on your machine would be welcome).
Based on the above, I created a wasteboard level program for the XL:
Updated file based on further numbers/commentary:
SO3_XL_810x350.c2d (19.5 KB)
(please …
I think drawing up the physical structure of the machine and measuring things (after calibration as noted above) is a good exercise for familiarity w/ the machine and how it moves.