Delta Calibration Wizard

Special thanks to Dave Crocker (DC42) for permission to use his code for this calibration wizard.  The wizard and code have been modified to work specifically with Repetier Firwmare modified for our machines.  If you are NOT using our firmware/hardware please visit www.escher3d.com and take a look at the original wizard to see if it will work non-stock SeeMeCNC 3D printer.

This leveling software tool is no longer under active development. The current state of this calibration wizard is "working", however please read the following paragraph caresfully. 

This wizard will help you calibrate your SeeMeCNC 3D printer using the HE280 accelerometer probe to detect and identify deviations and calculate the corrections needed.  The majority of our 3D printer kits have no issues with first layer calibration using just the probe itself.  However there can be variations in the assembly of the kits as well as other factors can mean that getting that perfect .1mm or less deviation on the first layer is harder to achieve.  That's where this calibration tool will help get your first layer calibration better than ever.  If your machine has a firmware date OLDER than  20161209 you will have to download the firmware from our Github page then upload the new firmware***.  Make sure you edit the configuration.h file and select your printer model and board type.  Once you've got the new firmware loaded (if you needed it) you're all set to run through this calibration wizard.

***  IF you have an Eris® we have a quick instructional page for updating firmware easily using a simple program called XLoader.  You don't have to download arduino or configure firmware etc...  It's much easier especially for beginners.  Click HERE to go to the Eris Firmware Update Instructions

INSTRUCTIONS

Please read the instructions fist then start the calibration process

1. Connect your machine to MatterControl via the USB cable
2. Go to Settings & Controls>Options and click on Show Terminal
3. Make sure the Filter Output and Auto Uppercase boxes are checked at the top of the terminal window
4. Verify your firmware date is 20161209 or later by either turning the LCD control knob to view the printer status screen or in the terminal screen type M115 and look for "FIRMWARE_DATE:xxxxxxxx"
5. Home your printer by typing G28 and press Send or hit the enter key
6. Now make sure the nozzle and bed are clean and ready to start the calibration.  Remember to always calibrate your machine with the hotend and bed heats turned off and cool
7. Now type and send G29 to the printer.  This will run through the on-board calibration process and set initial endstop offsets, horizontal radius and your Z height
8. Once your printer has finished this calibration routine click on CONFIGURE to the right of EEProm in the MatterControl Options window where you opened the terminal.  Don't close the terminal window though as you'll need it open later
9. Make sure you select your correct printer model at the top of the configuration here on this screen
10. Back in the EEProm window on MatterControl scroll down and find the "Tower X/Y/Z endstop offset" boxes and copy those numbers into the initial boxes below
11. Next scroll up and and copy the Diagonal rod length from your eeprom window to the box below
12. Copy the value in Horizontal rod radius from eeprom to the initial box below
13. Copy your z max length from eeprom to the initial box below
14. Copy your eeprom Alpha (A/B/C) values to the initial box below.  
15. Now close the eeprom window
16. Now download the GCode for Probing from this wizard screen and load it into MatterControl but don't run it just yet
17. Here's where you'll want to have a piece of paper and a pen handy.  The gcode file you just loaded will go around to 10 different points on your printer and probe the print surface.  You need to have the terminal window open so you can write down the PROBE-ZOFFSET value it sends after each probe point.  There is a 5 second delay between each point to allow you to read and write this number down.        
18. Now go ahead and click the run/print button in MatterControl to run the gcode file.  It may prompt you to warn you that the file was generated outside of MatterControl.  Click Ok/Continue and get ready to write down the PROBE-ZOFFSET numbers.  They may be positive (0.12) or ay be a negative (-0.02) so make sure you pay close attention 
19. Once it has probed all 10 points and homes out, you're ready to enter these values into the wizard.  Starting in order enter the probe offset numbers into the POINT 0/1/2/etc... Probe Offset boxes below
20. After entering all 10 offset points click on the Calculate button.  This uses the data from the initial eeprom values you copied as well as the probe offset points to map out and generate the corrections to fine tune your machine.  You'll see the green status message and it tells you the accuracy before and after the calibration wizard
21. Now you can either manually enter the new values into your eeprom and save them or you can download a .gcode file and run that file to automatically set and update them.

If your status screen showed the after calibration deviation of less than .1mm then your machine is set and ready to go.  To run the wizard again click the Copy to Initial values button, run the probing gcode you downloaded form this wizard and enter the new probe offset values and re-calculate those values.  We've found that as long as your machine is under .1mm there's little to no noticeable gain in running the wizard more than twice.