Geeetech A10M (or at least started out that way), trying to print out the modi boxes and the spinners were visibly oval shaped, bought, printed and then input the numbers.
The oval is now a circle, as it should be.
I love the CaliFlower. The STL ist well designed and engineered, the manual is great and the Excel Sheet works totally fine.
Totally worth it.
Very clever design! The hardware kit is more than complete, mine also contained the hardware for v1. Instructions are well writen and very clear. Nice touch to use the tool itself, to finish the build. Weight calibration is very easy to do.
The VLMP v2 is a great tool in use. Highly recommended!
Love the flexibility this board gives me to separate the printer from my electronics.
I'm feeling much more confident on calibrating my machine now!
... but it's not the fastest test - it takes some print time and material usage, although less than the calilatern. However i think the calilatern should include this flower, as you could spare some resources if the z skew ist fine, but xy not.
Works perfectly, however I would like to see a Method 2 for Bambu Lab printers implemented where instead of using "M1005 Xn Yn" it would use "M1005 I-n". I see two benefits here no room for error of repeat commands so you can leave the command in the machine start g-code and does not require M500 command, hence it will always be applied end is easily reverted by just removing it since nothing is saved when.
I would change the excel myself but its password protected and hence not easily adjustable.
The M1005's I-Factor is heavily documented here in this post specifically (But the whole thread is related to Skewness with lots of information (YZ (K Factor) and XZ (J Factor) skewness does not work yet as would in M852 of marlin)): https://forum.bambulab.com/t/skew-compensation-in-the-bambu-x1c-firmware/67661/31
already print and calculate, after that i dont know how to apply the correction gcode
The method works great, however the steps to correct the skew are not described for bambu printers (for a1 mini you have to add a custom g code in your printers profile) and bambu does not support Z axis skew correction, so you might want to go for a califlower instead.
Instructions were well thought out, this took a lot of pain out of the calibration process. I could actually see improvements immediately in print accuracy.
The kit is incredible and easy to put together even with basic soldering skills. It works amazingly and hueforge detects it and adds your filament in seconds.
Fantastic addition to your 3d printing tool kit
Hi there,
so I bought the califlower stl a few days back and so far I am loving it. The convenience when using calipers ist great - good job so far!
Although when reviewing the excel file I found a small problem and wanted to share this. Maybe I am wrong, but hear me out.
Since I am using bambu studio my only way of compensating the shrinkage (or other size-problems) is scaling the part in the slicer itself. The problem I see with the excel-file is regarding the measured error and the necessary correction factor. While the measured error is calculated just fine there is a problem with the correction: it is exactly *(-1) the measured error. So let’s say I do measure 90mm where I was supposed to have 100mm. This is an error of -10% (100*0.90=90mm). But if I want to receive the necessary factor to scale 90mm to 100mm I need to calculate 100/90*90mm which equals 100mm. Basically I need to add 11,12% and not 10%, you know what I mean? Sure, if we are fiddling with 1 or 2 tenths of a millimeter this does not make a lot of difference, but as an engineer it hurts me somehow ;)
BR
THIS is what you need to calibrate your printer without any guesswork.
Happy with this build, easy and useful. Very fast and good support getting a needed custom part (Shorter arm for the TS101 soldering iron). Works like a charma nd looks slick. Suggestions: Black hardware kit, hatches for all storage bins (latchable somehow to keep items in during movement), fix some minor errors in manual. Not sure if I warmed my base somewhat, but I couldn't attach the middle two rubber feet or the whole thing would balance on them, removed them and now rock steady on the outer four feet.
