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Leveling bed on taz 5

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 2:19 pm
by printer123
Hi there I am new to this program and I tried to use the bed leveling wizard to level my bed on the taz 5,I figured it would give me the option to level with the z axis(print head)but it does not seem to,it seems to want me to level the bed itself which I don't feel is as easy to do with the taz 5.my bed level setting work fine with cura but cura has its problems but I would hate to have to level the bed itself and mess with the setting in cura as well.is there any way to set the bed leveling though the print head itself ?

Also my single extruder taz 5 with 0.05 nozzle is not listed in the database,how long to update that?

Also when I do try to print the pla filament comes out very slow if hardly at all,tried to adjust extrusion speed in printer control panel with no effect.also when I do try to manually extrude the filament it comes out with a quite larger diameter than cura?

Any help or guidance would be appreciated

Thank you all for your time and have a great day/night

Re: Leveling bed on taz 5

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:28 am
by CompoundCarl
Yes, the bed leveling wizard is for adjusting the bed. But if you have a TAZ printer with the auto-leveling probe, then the auto-leveling mechanism is already used before every print, so you don't need to manually level it.

If you have a different nozzle diameter, just set the extrusion width to auto and then enter the new nozzle diameter. I do this all the time when I install different nozzle sizes on my printer and it works fine. It automatically makes all the adjustments for extrusion size and flow rate.

For your PLA extrusion question, I would make sure the nozzle is primed before starting the print. Just extrude some plastic manually using the machine control panel before you begin, or try adding a few more skirt outlines to do this automatically.