![]() ![]() When leveling the bed on an Ender 3 you use four wheels that tighten down spring loaded threads that control the height of the bed. Push right to slacken and let spring raise bed. Push wheel to the left to tighten down and lower bed. Push the front of the wheel to the left to lower the bed here’s the thread on the screw that controls the bed height. (there is another one as well that deals specifically with the CR Touch and the 32 bit processor issue in This Post). If you can’t figure out if your Ender 3 is 8 bit or 32 bit then maybe this This Post or This Post will help. If you have a 32 bit board then you can use the more sophisticated CR Touch here on Amazon. For 8 bit machines (and I assume 32 bit as well) there’s this BL Touch on Amazon. I still use the manual process.īut if you want to just go straight to the gizmo’s here they are on Amazon. There are some great gizmo’s you can use instead that take most of the grief and suffering out of it but I’ll come to those later. I expect most folk use a similar process but here it is anyway. I do it by a mixture of eye, feel and repetition. Here’s how I go about leveling the bed on my Ender 3. The rest of my Freecad posts are Here Posted in 3D Printing Leaving the simple copy as the finished inverted item!Īs I said I expect there is a better way without needing the two step process but I am darned if I can find it. Now you can select the originals and the first mirrored copy and delete them. It duplicates the items you have selected BUT the new items will not be dependent on the original. ![]() ![]() The trick is that after the mirroring stage, before you delete anything, you select the mirrored items then under “create a copy” in the Part menu, select “create a simple copy”. The problem is is that the original is still there and the parts in the original are used to build the mirrored design which means you cannot delete them without risking breaking the design. This will build you an exact mirror of the original. use ctrl mouse-click to select each part) Then in the part menu select mirroring…. Select all of the parts of the design (i.e. So I needed to mirror the design in Freecad. One of them needed to be mirrored to become the left hand end. The only problem then was that they were both right handed. So rather than design the thing twice I copied the plug end then changed the plug to a socket. But of course other than the socket and plug they are exactly the same – but mirrored. They are in essence the same part but one with a socket and the other a plug. I had a design which was a seat in two halves that I wants to 3-D print on my Ender 3. By mirroring I mean making an inverse copy, like a mold from a die or in my case the left hand end of a symmetric object from a design for the other half or one end. This is not about simply mirroring a single object but mirroring a completed design. There is probably a better way of doing this but I haven’t found it yet. So I needed to mirror a design in Freecad. I wanted to create a separate 3D print that was the mirror image of one I had already had. You need to build a new one with a slicer from the STL files if you are using a different 3D printer. (One for “Merry” the other “Christmas”), and the Gcode file that I used to print them both on my Ender 3, so if you have an Ender 3 then you should be able to just use the Gcode file straight out of the zip. I’ve included a Zip file (below) to two STL files. I really must tidy up before taking these images in future! (I discarded the dot on the “i” as it was not joined to the rest of “Christmas”.) Yes – It reads “Christmas Merry” but I’ll leave you to rearrange as you wish after printing. Here she is on the build plate caught en-flagrant so to speak. Printing this “Merry Christmas” on an Ender3 took 2hr 37 m. The “Christmas” is approximately 11inches (28cms) long and 3 inches (8cm) high and the “Merry” is 7.5 inches (19cm) long and also 3 inches (8cm) high. For obvious reasons this makes mounting the whole word on a wall or gate much, much easier. It’s a nice cursive font for giving the look of joined up writing. The font I used was PacificoRegular and you can find this font Here on Google Fonts. It actually prints the “Merry” below “Christmas” but as they are separate words that doesn’t matter. I used the biggest font I could while still fitting both words onto the Ender 3 build plate. Photographed on the black glass of our hob (which obviously was turned off!) The STL and Gcode files are below in a zip. I’ve been meaning to add a few Ender 3 projects here for some time. As it’s nearing Christmas I thought I’d print a 3D “Merry Christmas” banner on my Ender 3 so it could then be stuck to my/your gate/house/fence/door or whatever. ![]()
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