Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations

[Phaedrux]

Now you're cooking with gas!

[mwolter]

@Kolbi

Since you're delving into conditional gcode you could look at something like this which only continues probing if necessary. Apologize for the length of this post but I included all sub macros for completeness. homexy.g also uses a virtual tool to indicate homing is in progress to avoid unnecessary Z axis movement. In case you're wondering, the sub macros are used to reduce duplicate code and unnecessarily updating several macros.

if !move.axes[0].homed || !move.axes[1].homed	; If the printer hasn't been homed, home it
 M98 P"0:/sys/homeyx.g"	; home y and x
;
M98 P"0:/sys/homez.g"			; always home z
;
M561					; clear any bed transform
M558 P9 H5 F120 T24000			; increase dive height incase bed is severely out of alignment
M98 P"bed_threeScrews.g"		; perform bed tramming
echo "Bed Tramming Cycle: 1 - Difference was " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm"
;
M98 P"0:/macros/Utilities/Config/bltouch_config"	; Apply default BLTouch config
;
while move.calibration.initial.deviation >= 0.01	; perform additional tramming if previous deviation was over 0.01mm
 if iterations = 5
  abort "Too many auto tramming attempts"
 M98 P"bed_threeScrews.g"				; perform bed tramming
 echo "Bed Tramming Cycle: " ^ iterations + 2 ^ " - Difference was " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm"
 continue
;
G28 Z							; home z

bltouch_config

M558 P9 C"^io7.in" H2 F120 T24000 	; set Z probe type to bltouch and the dive height + speeds
;
M98 P"0:/macros/Utilities/Config/bltouch_offset_config"

bltouch_offset_config

;
; G31 - +Z Nozzle closer to bed, -Z Nozzle further from bed
;
G31 X0 Y-20.23 Z2.1 P500		; 200710 mosquito liquid

bed_threeScrews.g

G30 P0 X10 Y18 Z-99999			; probe near a front left leadscrew
G30 P1 X10 Y300 Z-99999			; probe near a back left leadscrew
G30 P2 X320 Y166 Z-99999 S3		; probe near a right leadscrew and level

homexy.g

; homeyx.g
; called to home x and y axes
;
; Warning: do not home individual axes by calling G28 X or G28 Y. It will cause errors. Instead run the macro file directly. IE M98 P"0:/sys/homex.g"
;
M563 P9 S"HomeAll"		; create tool 9 to indicate homeall is in progress
;
G91              		; relative positioning
G1 Z5 F6000 H2   		; lift Z relative to current position
M98 P"0:/sys/homey.g"		; home y
M98 P"0:/sys/homex.g"		; home x
G90             		; absolute positioning
;
M563 P9 D-1 H-1			; delete tool 9 to indicate homeall is done

homex.g

if #tools != 10	; not homeall?
  G91              ; relative positioning
  G1 Z5 F6000 H2   ; lift Z relative to current position
;
G1 H1 X357 F6000 ; move quickly to X axis endstop and stop there (first pass)
G1 X-5 F3600     ; go back a few mm
G1 H1 X357 F360  ; move slowly to X axis endstop once more (second pass)
;
if #tools != 10	; not homeall?
  G1 Z-5 F6000 H2  ; lower Z again
  G90              ; absolute positioning

homez.g

if #tools != 10	; not homeall?
  G91			; relative positioning
  G1 Z5 F6000 H2	; lift Z relative to current position
  G90			; absolute positioning
;
; Home Z - inline with autolevel axis
G1 X165 Y193 F24000	; go to middle of the bed probe point and home Z. BLTouch on right
M558 F1200		; Set probing at faster feed rate
G30			; quickly home Z by probing the bed
M400			; clear buffer
M98 P"0:/macros/Utilities/Config/bltouch_config"	; Return bltouch to defaults
G30			; slowly home Z by probing the bed
M400			; clear buffer

[Phaedrux]

@mwolter Beautiful.

[Kolbi]

@mwolter Nice, thanks for that.

Being away from my printer at the moment, but I would guess the following would be a correct implementation for my dual Z setup:
!!! Please see my final code, this is not correct !!!

; bed.g
M561                                                    ; clear any bed transform
G28                                                     ; home
while move.calibration.initial.deviation >= 0.01	; perform additional tramming if previous deviation was over 0.01mm
 
 if iterations = 5                                      ; perform 5 checks
  abort "!!!Failed to achieve < 0.01 deviation within 5 movements. Current deviation is " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm."
 
    G30 P0 X25 Y100 Z-99999                             ; probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
    G30 P1 X235 Y100 Z-99999 S2                         ; probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
    G90                                                 ; back to absolute mode
 
 echo "Bed Tramming Cycle: " ^ iterations + 2 ^ " - Difference was " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm"
 continue
 
;
 

[fcwilt]

@mwolter said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:

G1 Z{move.axes[2].userPosition+20} F1200

Hi,

Why that command as opposed to G91 G1 Z20?

And why did you implement homing such that you could not safely use G28 X or G28 Y?

It would not be hard to structure it so you could.

Thanks.

Frederick

[mwolter]

@fcwilt Using that command I can be sure it raised 20mm from the previous height. Probably overkill It was a quick add before posting this and thought it would help with changing the magnetic bed but it makes for an odd extra movement of the bed between performing the homez and bed leveling. I'll rework the macros to utilize the virtual homeall tool to skip the unnecessary bed movement and update the macros above.

[mwolter]

@Kolbi There are too many spaces before the G30 commands and it would cause issues. Would recommend doing one leveling pass before the while command. I haven't tested the following code but it should be close.

M561                                         ; clear any bed transform
G28                                          ; home
G30 P0 X25 Y100 Z-99999                      ; probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
G30 P1 X235 Y100 Z-99999 S2                  ; probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
echo "Bed Tramming Cycle: 1 - Difference was " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm"
 
while move.calibration.initial.deviation >= 0.01	; perform additional tramming if previous deviation was over 0.01mm
 if iterations = 5
  abort "Too many auto tramming attempts"
 G30 P0 X25 Y100 Z-99999                      ; probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
 G30 P1 X235 Y100 Z-99999 S2                  ; probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
 echo "Bed Tramming Cycle: " ^ iterations + 2 ^ " - Difference was " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm"
 continue
G28 Z					; home z

[Kolbi]

@mwolter Thanks for covering my 6, I just caught that and was typing this:
!!! Please see my final code, this is not correct !!!

; bed.g
; Called to perform automatic bed compensation via G32
M561                                                    ; clear any bed transform
G28                                                     ; home
 
G30 P0 X25 Y100 Z-99999                                 ; probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
G30 P1 X235 Y100 Z-99999 S2                             ; probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
 
while move.calibration.initial.deviation >= 0.01	; perform additional tramming if previous deviation was over 0.01mm
 
 if iterations = 5                                      ; perform 5 checks
  abort "!!!Failed to achieve < 0.01 deviation within 5 movements. Current deviation is " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm."
 
 G30 P0 X25 Y100 Z-99999                                ; probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
 G30 P1 X235 Y100 Z-99999 S2                            ; probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
 G90                                                    ; back to absolute mode
 
 echo "Gantry deviation of " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm obtained within " ^ iterations + 2 ^ " tramming cycles."
 continue
 
;
 

[Kolbi]

@mwolter I guess the trailing code is not a hard requirement? By trailing code I'm referring to this:

 continue
 
 
;
 

[mwolter]

@Kolbi nope

[mwolter]

Removed the following and added it to homeall.g since I typically do a home all before changing the bed.

G1 Z{move.axes[2].userPosition+20} F1200		; move z up 20mm for magnetic bed replacement

homeall.g

; homeall.g
; called to home all axes (G28)
;
; Warning: do not home individual axes by calling G28 X or G28 Y. It will cause errors. Instead run the macro file directly. IE M98 P"0:/sys/homex.g"
;
M563 P9 S"HomeAll"		; create tool 9 to indicate homeall is in progress
;
G91              		; relative positioning
G1 Z5 F6000 H2   		; lift Z relative to current position
M98 P"0:/sys/homey.g"	; home y
M98 P"0:/sys/homex.g"	; home x
G90             		; absolute positioning
;
M98 P"0:/sys/homez.g"	; home z
;
M563 P9 D-1 H-1			; delete tool 9 to indicate homeall is done
;
G1 Z{move.axes[2].userPosition+50} F1200		; move z up 50mm for magnetic bed replacement

[Kolbi]

Thanks @mwolter!

For brevity, here is my final working version:

; bed.g
; Called to perform automatic bed compensation via G32
 
M561                                                      ; Clear any bed transform
G28                                                       ; Home
 
while iterations <=1                                      ; Do minimum of 2 passes
   G30 P0 X25 Y100 Z-99999                                ; Probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
   G30 P1 X235 Y100 Z-99999 S2                            ; Probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
   G90
 
while move.calibration.initial.deviation >= 0.002         ; perform additional tramming if previous deviation was over 0.002mm 
   if iterations = 5                                      ; Perform 5 checks
      M300 S3000 P500                                     ; Sound alert, required deviation could not be achieved
      abort "!!! ABORTED !!! Failed to achieve < 0.002 deviation within 5 movements. Current deviation is " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm."
   G30 P0 X25 Y100 Z-99999                                ; Probe near a leadscrew, half way along Y axis
   G30 P1 X235 Y100 Z-99999 S2                            ; Probe near a leadscrew and calibrate 2 motors
   G90                                                    ; Back to absolute mode
 
echo "Gantry deviation of " ^ move.calibration.initial.deviation ^ "mm obtained."
G1 H2 Z8 F2600                                            ; Raise head 8mm to ensure it is above the Z probe trigger height
G1 X104 Y100 F6000                                        ; Put head over the centre of the bed, or wherever you want to probe
G30 

[fcwilt]

@mwolter said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:

@fcwilt Using that command I can be sure it raised 20mm from the previous height.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Why do you think G91 G1 Z20 doesn't do that same thing?

Frederick

[mwolter]

@fcwilt
It’s just a different way of doing it and like I mentioned, this way I can be sure it’s raised 20mm from its current position. The G30 command actually sets Z to about 3m. So G1 Z20 will only raise Z by 17mm.

[Kolbi]

@Phaedrux said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:

Now you're cooking with gas!

Definitely cooking with gas now!

[fcwilt]

@mwolter said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:
The G30 command actually sets Z to about 3m. So G1 Z20 will only raise Z by 17mm.

I think you will find that a G91 G1 Z20 will raise Z by 20 unless it doesn't have that much room left on the axis.

If a G30 sets Z to 3 then a G91 G1 Z20 will take Z to 23.

At least that is my experience.

Good luck.

Frederick

[mwolter]

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[Phaedrux]

@fcwilt said in Automatic Bed Leveling with Conditional Gcode Iterations:

I think you will find that a G91 G1 Z20 will raise Z by 20 unless it doesn't have that much room left of the axis.

Correct. G90 moves to an absolute point, G91 is relative to the current position.

https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Gcode#Section_G90_Set_to_Absolute_Positioning

[mwolter]

@Phaedrux If the command G90 G1 Z20 is used in one line, does G91 have to be used to return to absolute mode?

[Phaedrux]

@mwolter That's a good question, and I'm not sure off the top of my head. Would have to test to see if it sticks in that format or not.