Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time
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Hello,
I'm coming from MKS Gen L running Marlin 2.0. I have successfully got my Duet2WiFi running on my Artillery Sidewinder X1. I can run G29's and managed a print but i noticed it didn't center the part on the build plate. I was wondering how to make this happen?
The first issue i ran into was that with my mount for my Bltouch. It is X=58 and Y=-36,
So I modified config.g --> G31 P500 X58 Y-36 Z0.5 (See attached files) versus X0 & Y0
Then i ran into trouble when i tried to home Z probe. It was too far forward of build plate.
So i modified:
homeall.g & homez.g: modified G1 X15 Y15 F6000 to G1 X15 Y50 so probe would touch from of build plate
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config.g: Added M206 Y50 at bottom of file to allow build plate to move for z-probeHere is the starting G-code on my slicer (S3D or Prusa Slicer):
G28 ; home
M561 ; clear bed transform
G1 X92 Y186 ; move to middle of bed for probe
G29 ; Do a mesh bed probe
G1 Z20 F6000 ; move z up to 20mm
G1 X20 Y25 F3000 ; avoids any binder clips
G1 Z0.4 F3000 ; get ready to prime
G1 Y120 E15 F800 ; prime nozzle
G1 Y200 F800 ; quick wipeAll i really need is for the machine to move the forward 30-50mm when homing with z-probe, the nozzle can still reach everywhere it did before conversion but my firmware & or slicer have gone askew on me.
I will put copies of all my modified files with this post for you to dissect if needed.
config.g
homeall.g
homez.gOne Last question, regarding fans, i can't seem to override them to confirm i wired them to match firmware? Is there a good guide to verify / command these fans? I have 1 thermo controlled (hotend cool) and 1 always on for CPU cool, and the part cooling fan that i want Gcode to control
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@jallen810 Just to make sure your probe offset is correct, your BLTouch is 58mm to the right, and 36mm in front of your nozzle? Looks about that from the render of your mount.
Usually, the way to set up the bed is with M208. Currently you have yours set to:
M208 X0 Y0 Z0 S1 ; set axis minima M208 X300 Y300 Z400 S0 ; set axis maxima What you want is to home the X and Y axis, setting X0 and Y0 at the point it triggers each endstop. Then jog the nozzle to where you want the origin, which may be X20 Y30 for example. You can then set the axis minima to M208 X-20 Y-30 Z0 S1. This tells the firmware where the bed is from the endstops, and also how far off the bed the nozzle can move. This is important when you use an offset probe; when you run G30 P[n] X[n] Y[n] Z-9999 S[n] commands, it uses the probe offset to put the probe, not the hot end, at the XY coordinates.
Setting the axis maxima is less important, as the probe is to the right of the nozzle, so it can reach anywhere on the high side of X. But if the nozzle can go off the back of the bed, so the probe can cover the back edge of the bed, it would be worth adding a bit to the Y maxima.
Doing the above defines the full range of axis movement for the firmware, and where the bed is within that range. You don't need to use M206, which, though not deprecated, will add confusion if you add more tools, and has been superseded by using the above method.
When homing Z, just move the nozzle to where you want it to probe, and send G30. Ideally the centre of the bed.
For more details, see https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Centering_the_bed_or_setting_the_bed_origin
Regarding your probe:
M558 P5 H5 F250 T16000
Use P9, which is specifically for BLTouch. F250 is too fast to reliably probe; start at F50, check accuracy/repeatability, and increase speed if possible.Regarding fans:
M106 P0 C"MAINBOARD_ALWAYONFAN0" S1 I0 F500 H-1 ; set fan 0 name, value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off M106 P1 C"HE0_FAN0" S1 I0 F500 H1 T45 ; set fan 1 name, value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned on M106 P2 C"PARTCOOL_FAN1" S0 I0 F500 H-1 ; set fan 2 name, value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off Swap the part cooling fan from P2 to P0; most slicers send plain M106 S[nn] commands, which usually go straight to the P0 fan. Part cooling fan should be visible then. The tool fan will not be visible as it's thermostatic. The MCU fan should be able to be made visible, but you don't really need to see it.
Hope that helps.
Ian
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@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
config.g: Added M206 Y50 at bottom of file to allow build plate to move for z-probe
Don't do that. https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_M206_Offset_axes
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Okay so yes, if you're sitting in front of m/c, my probe is 58mm right and 36mm forward of the nozzle.
To make sure I understand, you're saying the M206 command will muddle the waters and that I should modify my config.g to read:
M208 X0 Y45 Z0 S1 (for axis minima)? Won't that make me lose 45mm of print bed?Next, finding the center of the bed. I feel a fool for this bc my machine is 300x x 300y x 400z and that means nozzle center is 150x150. If we take into account a +58x and a -36y that means my new center should be
X=92 and y=186 but when I put probe there it doesn't look centered. It looks more centered around y=250... am I crazy or am I just too focused on this and my math is bad?EDIT: Would it just be easier to set my origin to make the nozzle go to the middle of bed (x=150, y=150?) but then how do I make the offset happen for the probe? This part still confuses me.... or should that just be part of my starting script?
EDIT2 What about the offset's I setup in my Homall.g and Homez.g, are those legit? Or a hokey workaround?Why P9 mode? I changed it to that originally but the probe doesn't like it and won't home correctly.
Probe Speed: I check a F-rate of 50, 100, 120, and 250 and I saw very little in the difference but I am still tweaking that. Thank you for a reference point though**EDIT3- I got the fan's working, thank you for the advice. Now I can put my enclosure on
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Lastly, When you say I should "swap" the part cooling fan from P2 to P0, you mean I should change the code right? Not the physical wiring? (P.S. this box of code you put in:M106 P0 C"MAINBOARD_ALWAYONFAN0" S1 I0 F500 H-1 ; set fan 0 name, value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off M106 P1 C"HE0_FAN0" S1 I0 F500 H1 T45 ; set fan 1 name, value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned on M106 P2 C"PARTCOOL_FAN1" S0 I0 F500 H-1 ; set fan 2 name, value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off Is that your modified code that I should just copy and paste in? How did you do that? lol Sorry newbie here. Still learning all of the syntax
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The part cooling fan is typically on the Fan0 header and the hotend fan is on Fan1. This is because slicers typically don't send commands that target a specific fan, they just send M106 S1 to turn the first fan on or off. You can get around that by using the tool definition to to assign a different fan as the tool fan, so it's not critical.
The hotend fan is Fan1 because the firmware will start that fan spinning briefly at power on just incase the printer lost power or was reset when the hotend was hot to help prevent jams from heat creep.
The BLTouch should be using P9. That's the probe mode specifically made for the BLTouch. It helps the firmware control the deploy and retract of the pin and a few other tweaks. Is the BLTouch a clone or a really old version or something? What exactly didn't work with P9? How do you have it wired up? Is it wired to the Z probe in pin or an endstop?
The BLtouch works best with a slow probe speed. You can use a double probing technique in your homeall to use a fast probe first to get it to the bed, and then a slower one second for better accuracy. Like this:
M558 A1 F400 ; Set single probing at faster feed rate G30 ; Do a single probe to home our Z axis M558 A10 F100 ; Set multi probing at slower feed rate G30 ; Probe again to get a more accurate position The G31 probe offsets should be measured like this: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Test_and_calibrate_the_Z_probe#Section_Measuring_Probe_X_Y_Offset
Don't use M206. Not appropriate for this situation.
M208 defines the size of the reachable area of the nozzle. Sometimes the nozzle can go outside of the bed area. If this is the case in the negative sides of the bed, you set 0,0 to be the front left corner of the bed, and if the nozzle leaves the edge of the bed when the print head is moving to the endstop, you can use that negative value in the M208 minima. That will keep the slicer center matched to the bed center. Make sense?
When homing the Z axis, you must move the nozzle to the point where the probe is at the center. In other words, you must take the G31 offset into account yourself when positioning the nozzle. This may be a bit different from how repetier and marlin do it.
Does that make sense?
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I followed the link you suggested but then found BeTru3D’s guide more intuitive. My plan was to the Z-probe bird inputs to power my BLtouch 3.1 and wire it accordingly. But I couldn’t get the probe to do it’s startup self-test when I had the yellow wire plugged into the z_probe_mod pin and P9 selected. I tried both 3.3v and 5v. So I ended up following BeTrue’s wiring for the yellow wire and P5. And it’s working.. if you can shed some light as to why I’d love to do it correctly.
As for offsets, I think what ur saying is G31 is for nozzle reach capability and I need to use some other command, ex. What I did with homeall.g and homez.g to tackle homing z-probe on bed. Is that correct?
So if my nozzle reach capability hasn’t changed then:
G31 X0 Y0 Z0 S1 should be correct vs G31 X58 Y-36 Z0 S1
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@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
I had the yellow wire plugged into the z_probe_mod pin and P9 selected.
Follow this wiring setup for the Duet Wifi
G31 X58 Y-36 sounds correct for your offset (58mm to the right, and 36mm in front of the nozzle). There is no S1 for G31. The Z offset must be measured as described in the previous link.
@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
What I did with homeall.g and homez.g to tackle homing z-probe on bed. Is that correct?
G90 ; absolute positioning G1 X15 Y50 F6000 ; go to first bed probe point and home Z (modified Y=15 to Y=50 so Z-axis will home on build plate) G30 ; home Z by probing the bed I would change the
G1 X15 Y50to whatever coordinates are needed to move the nozzle such that the probe is in the center of the bed. For example, if the bed is 300x300 then 150,150 would be the center, and if the probe offset is x58 Y-36, then you'd have to take that into account. so if you moved the nozzle toG1 X92 Y186that should move the probe to the center point. -
Okay that clears that up, i will try running the wiring that way and modifying my G31.
Will i need to tell my slicer's that "Home" is now in the center of the bed?
For example,
S3D, see screen shot, is that done by changing Homing Direction from X=Max and Y=Min to X=Center Y=Center, and using the same S3D Origin Offsets in S3D as i use in G31 X=92, Y=186? -
No no, 0,0 isn't the center of the bed. That's not what I was getting at. 0,0 is still the front left corner. What the homeall is doing is just moving the probe to the center of the bed, since that's the best place to measure the Z height.
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@Phaedrux I see so G31 sets bed capability, and Homeall.g just tells m/c to go "here" and say i'm there and ready to do stuff.
I am assuming the same would be true for the HomeZ.g file as well?
Sorry for the laymans terms but that sounds like what i am after. -
Yes, homeall and homez are generally quite similar when using a probe because the probe must be placed in X and Y for probing, unlike a Z endstop which is in a fixed location, so even in homez you usually will be homing X and Y. If you don't do that, and you try and homez without the X and Y axis being homed first, the homez will fail.
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@Phaedrux said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
M558 A1 F400 ; Set single probing at faster feed rate G30 ; Do a single probe to home our Z axis M558 A10 F100 ; Set multi probing at slower feed rate G30 ; Probe again to get a more accurate position Phaedruex,
Where do I call these 4 lines of code you mentioned? in my config.g or in the start of my Starting Code for slicer?
Also, you and @droftarts both refer to G30 alot rather than G29 or G32, which BeTrue3D did in his setup guide for BLtouch, am I missing something? I thought G30 is just to calibrate BLtouch, not for using to do a mesh bed level.
G29's take a long time at F50-150 for a 300x300 bed. Can I get solid, consistent results with a G30 pair with a "historical" G29 mapping or a simple G32? -
Those lines go in your homeall to replace the single G30 that's already in there.
G30 is used to call the probe and use it to find Z0.
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_G30_Single_Z_Probe
Mesh bed leveling is done by calling G29.
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_G29_Mesh_bed_probe
G32 just calls the macro bed.g in the /sys/ folder. It doesn't do anything on it's own anymore. Inside bed.g you can script up some more advanced things like independent motor tramming of the bed.
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_G32_Probe_Z_and_calculate_Z_plane
If G29 takes a long time to run, you can either reduce the spacing of the points probed to reduce the detail in case your bed is very flat. Or you can simply load the saved heightmap at print time rather than probing the whole thing over again. G29 S1 loads the saved map. G29 will save the heightmap automatically.
It's all laid out in the Mesh compensation link: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Using_mesh_bed_compensation
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@Phaedrux Okay I've update my config.g and the G31 X0 Y0 Z(offset value)
I think has worked.I am pulling ground (both black and brown) from the z-probe ground like you see [here] (https://d17kynu4zpq5hy.cloudfront.net/igi/duet3d/BJKPq1sdZcJNUmP4.full)
and I have wired the yellow wire like you suggested to the #8 pin labeled "Heater3" on Duet Pinout sheet like you see here
I made these changes to my config.g so they now read:
M307 H3 A-1 C-1 D-1
M558 P9 H5 F120 T16000I also adjust Homeall and HomeZ to X=92 and Y=186, that worked now like it should
Lastly, adjusted my Deploy/Retract probes to:
M280 P3 S10
and I also tried M280 P64 S10 I1Here is where I run into the same problem I had originally, when I home my Z the probe doesn't deploy and it gives me an error about the servo not being called or correct... something to that effect.
I have also tried hooking up the yellow cable to the Z_probe_mod pin on Duet Board and change M280 to P64/65 and neither of those work either...
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@Phaedrux said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
Those lines go in your homeall to replace the single G30 that's already in there.
G30 is used to call the probe and use it to find Z0.
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_G30_Single_Z_Probe
Mesh bed leveling is done by calling G29.
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_G29_Mesh_bed_probe
G32 just calls the macro bed.g in the /sys/ folder. It doesn't do anything on it's own anymore. Inside bed.g you can script up some more advanced things like independent motor tramming of the bed.
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_G32_Probe_Z_and_calculate_Z_plane
If G29 takes a long time to run, you can either reduce the spacing of the points probed to reduce the detail in case your bed is very flat. Or you can simply load the saved heightmap at print time rather than probing the whole thing over again. G29 S1 loads the saved map. G29 will save the heightmap automatically.
It's all laid out in the Mesh compensation link: https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Using_mesh_bed_compensation
THIS^ YOU NEED TO PUBLISH THIS on these two pages, so poor saps like me don't run around in circles like chickens minus heads!!!
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@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
I am pulling ground (both black and brown) from the z-probe ground like you see [here] (https://d17kynu4zpq5hy.cloudfront.net/igi/duet3d/BJKPq1sdZcJNUmP4.full)
This is the diagram for the Maestro board. Don't use this one.
@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
and I have wired the yellow wire like you suggested to the #8 pin labeled "Heater3" on Duet Pinout sheet like you see here
This is the Duet Wifi diagram, which you said you had, so use this one as shown.
@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
and I also tried M280 P64 S10 I1
That's for the maestro, don't use that one.
If you are using reprapfirmware 2 and the wifi, you should use
M280 P3 S10 I1. P3 for the heater pin 3, and I1 to invert it. -
@Phaedrux Yes I have a Duet2 WiFi model, but power is power and ground is ground as long as all the grounds lead to a main ground somewhere on the board. So where I get power and ground from should not matter?
I just tried M280 P3 S10 I1 and that doesn't work still. I will swap the wiring and try again..
EDIT I just wired like this as you said, and now my BLtouch powers on but doesn't do it's startup sequence of 2 self-test cycles. This is what was happening when I originally tried to wire it this way
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@Phaedrux any ideas why the Duet3D method Of wiring would not work?
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@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
I followed the link you suggested but then found BeTru3D’s guide more intuitive.
Unfortunately, that guide is out of date.
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@jallen810 said in Another BL touch config question: Y-offset this time:
Lastly, adjusted my Deploy/Retract probes to:
M280 P3 S10
and I also tried M280 P64 S10 I1The correct command for a Duet WiFi or Duet Ethernet running RRF2 without an attached DueX board is: M280 P3 S10 I1
(that's uppercase-letter-i followed by digit-1 at the end). M280 P64 S10 I1 is for the Duet Maestro.
Can you provide a photo showing how you have connected the BLTouch to the Duet?
If you have a config-override.g file in your /sys folder, check that there is no M307 H3 command in it.
