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indicate platform to bed

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:33 pm
by rs50pilot
Is there any reason I couldn't put a indicator in the platform and set a zero in the center of the bed and then use the same zero to set the three points in a circle for each tower. Then put the hotend back in heat everything up and then set my center z zero with feeler gage? If the platform is truly parallel to the bed then this should work correct? And the z should be the same at any point on the bed. Limits being the flatness of the build surface.

Re: indicate platform to bed

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:48 pm
by foshon
For bed leveling, yes this is fine. You will need to alter your firmwares zero position or you will crash the indicator into the bed. I suppose you could just leave the indicator suspended at a certain level and maintain that level throughout the process.