calibrating-steps-per-mm
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Calibrating Extruder Steps per mm
Written for JGAurora A5S, using custom firmware. Coped from post by DaHai Zhu.
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If your printer is over or under extruding, you may want to calibrate your steps per mm.
- Ok. So validate your M92 E415 is saved in EEPROM:
- Turn off the printer
- Turn on the printer
- Go to the Change Menu and check Esteps are still 415
- Or plug in Pronterface and do:
- M503
- Then, validate you get 100mm of filament when you SLOWLY extrude 100mm of filament through the extruder (with the bowden tube disconnected, as before)
- If not, then further refine your Esteps.
- Then you will need to change the Load/Unload length (don't change the Esteps as that will muck up your prints).
- There may be a menu item to do this. If not you can set it through Pronterface.
- Calculate how may extra mm you need to manually extrude after a Load Filament function. Then:
- M503
- And look for the M603 line which shows the (L)oad and (U)nload lengths. ie: M603 L460 U600
- Add the extra mm to both of those values and save them back to EEPROM, ie:
- M603 L490 U630
- M500
- Verify with M503
- Then test the Filament Load and Unload buttons again.
- Repeat until you get satisfactory results.
P.S. after all that, you should probably calibrate the Extrusion Multiplier, for each filament type (PLA, PETG, TPU, etc) so that when you request a 0.4mm line, you get a 0.4mm line.
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