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Great tool for Delta / Kossel Style printers... Tower Correction.

Discussion in '3D Printing' started by Archie, Oct 11, 2016.

  1. Archie

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    If you have a Delta (X,Y,Z tower) printer, then getting them to print "perfectly square" is quite a challenge.

    The reason being that the three towers should be at exact right angles to each other, but variations in the Rod lengths and the general tolerances of the build process can make your towers slightly warped. You'll never see it with the naked eye, but any print's with a large height (Z axis) will reveal the slight warping.

    If you follow this guide: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1274733 then you can work out the Tower Angle Corrections for each tower, X, Y and Z.

    Once you work out the values your prints will be almost perfect. As an example on my Delta printer, I went from printing a 20mm cube out at around 21.450 mm final result, to 20.024 mm final result with no variation on the sides.

    It's as close as I can get to "what you see is what you get" now.
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    Archie, Oct 11, 2016
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