PrusaSlicer With Automatic Bed Mesh Visualization  

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Forgot to add that this will work with any Prusa printer that supports G29 Bed Leveling. So Mk3, MK4, Core One and XL. However I've only tested this on a Core One. 

RE: PrusaSlicer With Automatic Bed Mesh Visualization

Hi Hyiger.

As always, excellent work!

I'll test this on the Prusa XL.

I'll be in touch.

RE: PrusaSlicer With Automatic Bed Mesh Visualization

Posted by: @jan-d-slay

Hi Hyiger.

As always, excellent work!

I'll test this on the Prusa XL.

I'll be in touch.

Thanks for testing it for me as always! I'll be adding a guide for tramming the bed later this week. 

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Thanks for testing it for me as always! I'll be adding a guide for tramming the bed later this week. 

Hi, Hyiger.

Everything went smoothly, and it's working as it should.

When the last waypoint has been reached, this is what I see.

Are the recorded waypoints significantly higher than the actual waypoints? It’s probably just a minor error.

I have another suggestion that might make more sense for the Prusa XL, at least for me.

• I would attach the calibration pin with the print plate removed.
• Then place the Nextruder there several times to establish a good offset, so to speak.
• Then remove the pin, put the print plate back on, and start measuring.

Why am I describing it this way? I don’t think the homing point at the front left is ideal. It should be a point that’s truly outside the print bed—that’s my opinion.I can adjust all 16 tiles individually with 4 screws each. So I have 64 adjustment points that I can fine-tune.

Good job!!! 😎 

RE: PrusaSlicer With Automatic Bed Mesh Visualization

Posted by: @jan-d-slay

When the last waypoint has been reached, this is what I see.

Are the recorded waypoints significantly higher than the actual waypoints? It’s probably just a minor error.

It's definitely a bug. "49" is hard-coded which is only relevant for a MK4 bed. The XL does 144 probes and the Core One L does something in-between. I'll fix up the code and create a patch release. 

RE: PrusaSlicer With Automatic Bed Mesh Visualization

@jan-d-slay the patch is here: https://github.com/hyiger/PrusaSlicer/releases/tag/v1.2.1-filament-edition it'll be probably another 30 minutes or so for the builds to show up so check back in 45m-60m. 

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New version 1.3.0 available here: https://github.com/hyiger/PrusaSlicer/releases/tag/v1.3.0-filament-edition

What's new

This release is a top-to-bottom upgrade of the bed mesh feature.

• Bed heating before probing — the bed warms to operating temperature (default 60 °C) before probing, so the resulting mesh matches what your prints actually experience. A cold-probed bed misrepresents the first layer because the PEI sheet flexes when heated.
• Configurable probe settings — nozzle temperature, bed temperature, and (on XL) probe-all-tools are now editable before each run, instead of being hardcoded.
• Accurate progress bar on every Prusa printer — the probe progress now reads percent directly from the printer firmware, so it's correct on the XL, iX, MK3.5, and MINI (these were previously wrong or missing).
• Save bed mesh to CSV — keep a record of your current mesh on disk.
• Load bed mesh from CSV — display a previously saved mesh without re-probing.
• Compare bed meshes — load a baseline mesh and see the difference between it and your current one. Great for answering questions like "did my bed get worse after shipping?" or "did re-tightening the screws actually help?"
• Warp report — the legend now shows bed tilt (in arc-minutes), how much true warp remains after the tilt is removed, the worst single point, and a color-coded Excellent / Good / Marginal / Bad quality grade against an editable threshold.
• Iso-height contour lines — optional smooth contour lines drawn over the heatmap at adjustable height intervals. Helps you read the bed's topography at a glance.
• Per-cell value labels — optional toggle to show each probe point's height value directly on the heatmap.
• XL per-tool probing — optionally probe all extruders in a single cycle. Switch between T0, T1, T2... in the legend to view each tool's mesh; the warp report and save/compare work on whichever tool is selected.
• Smarter cancel — the first cancel click waits for the current probe phase to finish (since G29 can't be cleanly interrupted mid-probe), and a second click offers an emergency stop for when you really need to halt the printer immediately.
• Clearer error messages — when another application has the printer's USB port open (PrusaConnect, OctoPrint, Pronterface, etc.), the error now says so by name instead of showing a generic "Permission denied".
• Smoother heatmap — the rendered mesh is finely tessellated and the contour lines are anti-aliased, so curves read as smooth rather than segmented.

RE: PrusaSlicer With Automatic Bed Mesh Visualization

Nice 👍👍 i will test it again.

RE: PrusaSlicer With Automatic Bed Mesh Visualization

A very nice tool! v1.3.0 works as expected on the XL, 1 and 5 head modes.