I just got my first Creality 3D Printer. A Creality CR-10S5. I have been a Makerbot customer for years and mostly used their printers. But after thousands of hours of printing my Makerbot finally crapped out. So it was time for a change.
One of the things I am noticing on the Creality CR-10S5 (likely all dual Z-Axis Creality printers) is that the Z-Axis is constantly off by 1-2 mm after the steppers lose power. I have been leveling them out to the print bed before starting a print and constantly measuring them at the start of a print. So I decided to make a simple set of spacers that I can place on the print bed and lower the Z-Axis onto them before engaging a print.
Place these under your Z-Axis, lower the Z-Axis onto them. (make sure your print bed is stable). My print-bed is hard mounted as I use a BL Touch for Auto Leveling. Before starting your print engage the Move Axis function and move your Z-Axis at least 10 mm up so that you can remove the spacers. Your Z-Axis should now remain level for the entire print pending you do not have any other issues going on.
I intend to use a z-axis stepper sync thing from Thingiverse but until them this should suffice.
This has not been printed and tested yet as the printer is busy with another print. I will share an image of this in place once I print it and test. Marking this as a Work-In-Progress until I can test.
UPDATE 1: Uploaded version 2 of the STL as I forgot about the belt in the extrusion, I decreased the top part where it inserts into the extrusion by 2mm to account for the belt.
This article was first featured at https://ift.tt/2EKAfOR on December 20, 2019 at 02:37PM by dayotte
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