Printing onto a wood base
Suppose you wanted to print your name in PLA onto a wooden plaque. How do you convince the MK4 to use the top of the board. Will the automatic leveling work? Does the PLA stick tightly enough?
RE: Printing onto a wood base
not tried it but look at this YouTube video on Prusa 3D
RE: Printing onto a wood base
Looks interesting but wondering two things here:
1- do I need to tell the printer the approximate height of the substrate? During the z-calibration the Nextruder goes down rapidly to adout plate level and from there goes slowly seeking the plate. Letting it bang down full speed on a concrete tile does not strike as a good idea.
2- can I set the area to calibrate the z axis on? The automatic bed levelling takes a number of locations to test, but what if it chooses a location just outside my my brick-tile-masterpiece-in-the-making to do its bed levelling on?