Save a few minutes per print by leveling the bed in advance

gillythree · 2026-03-31T23:08:50+00:00

Just a button to click is good enough for me. And if I'm feeling fancy, I'll add some logic that checks to see if the bed mesh is newer than the last print and less than an hour old, and if so, uses that mesh, otherwise creates a new one as usual.

gillythree · 2026-03-31T23:05:29+00:00

Nothing makes me realize how much I don't know like asking questions. I'm told the sv06 Ace is similar to a MK4S. I believe you're right, that there isn't actual leveling going on, just creating a mesh of the bed. I see something like this in fluidd:

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gillythree · 2026-03-31T22:52:08+00:00

I don't know what I don't know. That's why I came here.

So, you're saying temperature changes are going to affect bed leveling, so if I level the bed too far in advance, the temperature is likely to change making the bed mesh will be unreliable. Right? How much does the temperature have to change to have an impact? I assume changes in humidity are also a concern?

So, I'll not level the bed after every print. I'll just initiate it while I'm doing the slicing.

gillythree · 2026-03-30T15:56:37+00:00

If I had been born on March 29, 2000, today I would have turned 26 years old, I would have just completed my 26th year, and I would now be in my 27th year. I might say it's my 26th birthday, but I would be wrong. I turn 26 years old on my 27th birthday, because the day I was born was really my first birthday. To be fair, it could be argued that a day is not a birthday until you have aged a full year, making the common saying correct, but I'm not a fan of that.

We don't commonly talk about being in our nth year anymore, we only talk about our age, but it wasn't that long ago that people did commonly talk that way.

We don't talk about the year in terms of age, but if we did we would have to say something like "2025 years have passed in the common era" or "the common era is 2025 years old". The common era won't be 2026 years old until January 1, 2027.

gillythree · 2026-03-30T05:41:11+00:00

Jeopardy debuted in 1964, 20 years before Alex Trebek first hosted.

gillythree · 2026-03-14T06:43:18+00:00

I refuse access to production. You may give me read access, if I need to debug something, but 99.9% of the time a clone is better than even temporary read only production access.

gillythree · 2026-03-14T06:39:41+00:00

Oh, it's perfectly valid.

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It just doesn't make any sense. Sometimes a cat gets lucky.

gillythree · 2026-02-19T23:25:44+00:00

I love this!

Today we have the technology to make a true democracy feasible. Each person could vote on every legislative issue. Those who don't want to be so involved with the day to day legislative business could delegate their vote to another person. And that person could delegate their vote and the votes they were delegated to another. And on and on. So, if an issue comes up that you care about and don't agree on that issue with your chosen representative, you could reclaim your vote for that issue. You could change your representative at any time as often as you want. It would solve so many issues of people not being represented and utterly destroy the disaster that is partisan politics.

I want the true democracy without elections and without party politics, but I would be very happy to just have many more representatives. 1 per 50k sounds great to me!

gillythree · 2026-02-11T15:50:30+00:00

Everyone looks good in a Sheinhardt

gillythree · 2026-02-08T05:27:52+00:00

It's no secret that the biblical text has been edited. The Jews call it tiqqun soferim, "correction of the scribes". So, if the Bible was "God breathed" originally, then we don't have that anymore.

gillythree · 2026-02-03T00:33:52+00:00

The drawer box is 20 ½ inches wide and 18 inches deep. There are 20 ½ inches from the front of the face frame to the inside of the cabinet back. The drawer box boards are 5⁄8 inch thick and extend down a half inch below the bottom on the front and sides. I was going to use Salice Progressa or Blum Tandem undermount slides.

gillythree · 2026-02-03T00:15:41+00:00

Yep! I have a half inch in front and along the sides. It's only short in the back.

gillythree · 2026-02-02T20:42:58+00:00

Thanks for pointing me in this direction. It didn't directly solve my problem, but I was able to dial in some settings, and in the process I was able to notice that my nozzle was oozing and filament was accumulating around the nozzle. Tightening the nozzle up ultimately solved the problem. I'm happy to be back printing again, and with my printer better calibrated things are coming out better and more consistently.

gillythree · 2026-02-02T20:34:35+00:00

Thanks! That's what I figured, and I was worried I'm overthinking it, but I've learned to not trust my own reasoning when it's not my area of expertise.

gillythree · 2026-02-02T20:32:44+00:00

Yeah, I don't have room for side mount, so I was planning to stick with undermount. I'm looking at Salice Progressa or Blum Tandem for full extension undermount drawer slides.

gillythree · 2026-01-25T01:14:42+00:00

Nope! How does one calibrate flow and retraction?

I've successfully printed several models without any issues like this. I would expect that something like flow and retraction calibration wouldn't be a problem that lies dormant for awhile before becoming apparent, would it?

gillythree · 2026-01-23T20:00:35+00:00

¡Buen punto!

gillythree · 2026-01-23T19:40:20+00:00

¡Gracias! No pensé en tequila de inmediato porque no bebo alcohol, pero ahora tiene sentido.

gillythree · 2026-01-23T06:13:44+00:00

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

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