Slipshine wrote:since z offset has been a big topic lately. How often are people having to adjust the z offset. I have only had to adjust mine after working on it. About 5 times since I got it in 2012.
(I might not be the best person to answer this - I tend to want to try
everything out before deciding what works best for what.
)
I've had to set the
Z-stop 4 times now in almost a year of ownership - basically every time i switched to a different plate or surface. (Plain glass, Kapton on glass, Zebra plate, PEI on glass.) And I'll have to set it again when the MIC6 and Steel plates come in that I want to test.
So far, I like all of the surfaces really - but I tend to prefer the ones that don't require adhesive. And setting the
Z-stop is so much easier with the V-4 nozzles that it's not even a problem anymore.
In the beginning, I was calibrating the
Z-Offset for every spool of filament i own. (3 dozen at last count. Gobs of profiles saved. It took a while.
) But after switching to the dual, I realized that was overkill. You really just need one
Z-Offset number for each
type of filament, not each spool, because the different printing
temperatures of the filaments showed the greatest impact on what happened to the gap.
The
Z-Offset part I've literally done hundreds of times, through testing all of those spools on all of the different plates. (it was a good learning experience, but it's
soooooo not necessary.)
