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3D printing guides: Calibration and why you might be doing it wrong

Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer)

Why people recommend it

Argues that X and Y steps should come from the hardware maths rather than test prints, while extruder steps do need calibrating; cited often in 3D printing answers.

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I've been watching this video 3D printing guides: Calibration and why you might be doing it wrong and at the start (at 0:30) three of the first Reprap printers are mentioned (and shown):

Greenonline on 3dprinting.stackexchange.com, Aug 2018. CC BY-SA.

See here for why you shouldn't calibrate your X/Y-steps.

Tom van der Zanden on 3dprinting.stackexchange.com, Jul 2016. CC BY-SA.

3D printing guides: Calibration and why you might be doing it wrong

Toon on 3dprinting.stackexchange.com, Jul 2018. CC BY-SA.

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