Calibrating Your Printer
Calibrating Your Printer
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校准您的打印机
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2012
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Brian Evans
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现在，我们对3D打印机的各种组件如何协同工作以构建3D模型有了基本的理论了解，是时候使用我们的新3D打印机并将其投入使用了。不过请记住，我们还没有达到能够在我们的软件中点击打印按钮并让打印机构建模型的地步。如果您刚刚从套件中构建了3D打印机，情况尤其如此，如果您从头开始构建打印机，情况就更是如此。相反，我们需要通过一个过程来验证打印机的操作，以更好地准备它，以正确和准确地打印。该过程被称为调试，包括验证每个轴的运动;测试和复位端部止动器（如果配备）;加热挤出机;挤出塑料;以及测试加热的印刷床（如果配备）。然后，我们将需要校准我们的打印机，这可能包括对打印床或止动器进行机械调整，在固件中设置参数，并测试打印速度，温度和层高度等打印设置。即使你已经有了一台可以工作的3D打印机，花一些时间来更好地校准打印机也可以在未来的打印中获得巨大的回报。这一章将引导您完成所有步骤，以便您可以从最近构建的3D打印机移动到制作第一个3D打印。
Now that we have a basic theoretical understanding of how the diverse components of our 3D printer work together to build 3D models, it’s time to take our new 3D printer and put it to work. Remember though, we are not quite to the point of being able to hit a print button in our software and have the printer build a model. Th is is especially the case if you have just built your 3D printer from a kit—and even more so if you built the printer from the ground up. Instead, we need to go through a process to verify the operation of the printer to better prepare it to properly and accurately make prints. Th is process is known as commissioning and includes verifying the movement of each axis; testing and homing the endstops, if equipped; heating the extruder; extruding plastic; and testing the heated printbed, if equipped. Th en we will need to calibrate our printer, which might include making mechanical adjustments to the printbed or endstops, setting parameters in fi rmware, and testing print settings like print speed, temperature, and layer height. Even if you already have a working 3D printer, spending some time with it to better calibrate the printer can pay off big with future prints. Th is chapter walks you through all of the steps, so that you can move from your recently built 3D printer to making your first 3D prints.