Bed leveling and first layer calibration tends to trip up novices because getting it right requires experience and judgment calls, and getting it wrong means failed prints.

Unless you have a fancy 3D printer, bed leveling is a tedious task. [Rupin] got tired of messing around with his printer, so he decided to make his very own bed leveling sensor.

Installing or enabling automatic bed leveling can vary depending on your printer. Some models ship with this feature pre-installed, while others require an aftermarket sensor.

Auto bed leveling, power interruption alerts and material runout sensors were the purview of the best 3D printers, not the lower-end machines, until Anycubic and Elegoo started their contest.

Bed leveling was long a kind of grueling rite of passage involving temperamental springs, counterintuitive Marlin menu-diving, and sliding cardstock of just the right thickness under your nozzle ...

During the show, the company will launch its new WaferSense ® Auto Vibration and Leveling Sensor™ (AVLS3) with CyberSpectrum software.