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thickness of a business card) from the nozzle. As each printer is slightly different, this
distance needs to be calibrated before starting to print. The correct distance between
the nozzle and platform is recorded in the “Nozzle” box of the “Setup” screen (found
under the “3D Print” menu, but we use the “Maintain” dialogue box to figure out what
this distance should be.
In the above example, this tells the printer that, after being initialized, the platform is
142.1mm away from the nozzle.
To figure out the correct nozzle distance, please follow these steps:
1 - Open the “Maintain” dialogue box from the “3D Print” menu.
2 - In the text box, type in the height to which you want the platform to move to, and
click the “To” button. In the above example, the platform would move to 128mm
above the platform’s origin.
3 - Check the distance between the nozzle and the platform. If, for example, the
platform appears to be about 4mm away from the nozzle, increase the number in
the text box to 131 and click the “To” button. Note that we have only increased the
