Printing on different beds/thick acrylic sheet
Hello! I am attempting to print some letters/symbols on an acrylic sheet about 1/8 inch thick. So far I have been able to get a very rough base layer by deleting the following from the Gcode:
G28 W ; home all without mesh bed level
G80 ; mesh bed leveling
G1 Y-3.0 F1000.0 ; go outside pritn area
G1 X60.0 E9.0 F1000.0 ; intro line
G1 X100.0 E12.5 F1000.0 ; intro line
And doing the following:
- Set the extruder to 0,0 on the xy
- Set the the z axis to something slightly above the acrylic sheet (I can't figure out how to use bed leveling on something like this though)
- Perform a light reset to lock these settings as the origin
And then printing.
PLA sticks very nicely to the acrylic but as the surface can be slightly uneven the quality varies across the sheet.
Does anyone have a better way to utilize some of the awesome bed leveling settings while printing on top of other prints or acrylic sheets?
I think it would be cool if there was a way to manually calibrate 9 points on a bed that may not be the original heatbed with the magnetic rings, and not having to use the pinda probe.