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Check out Ian's blog on leveling the bed with his dial indicator mount. You don't need the dial indicator to get it close enough, but instead can skid a piece of paper underneath the nozzle and it is adjusted to the right Z height and level when it barely grabs the paper at all 4 corners of the bed.

http://solidoodletips.wordpress.com/

Start by getting the front level and then the back should just need to go up and down to finish leveling. You can make life much easier by printing out these thumbscrews to attach to the leveling screws and adjust from underneath the bed.

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/242/thum … m-beneath/

Your problem sounds exactly like a bed leveling and z height adjustment issue. You should be good to go after these fixes.

Let me know how the adapter goes. I have a ssd on the way and thought about trying to print one too. If it works well, can you share your stl?

Can you rotate it 45 degrees an make it fit better?

I think if you are slicing with sf you need to use Replicator G to reorient it... If you use Slic3r you can orient it there... I'm pretty sure netfabb may have an option to do it as well...

Is there anything a bit more detailed showing what to do here? do i raise the bed all the way up to the extruder then put the extruder to each corner and slide a piece of paper under it till it barely touches? i feel like im missing something heh

right i think ive leveled it all out, did a test cube again which came out better than the first

now i tried using slic3r formy hdd caddy, gone through and set it all upto what seems correct (and comparing it with ians blog)

in pronterface it shows the print in the centre (saw one of the posts that said what to change to do that)

now the print is basically full length of the bed so i turned off skirt in slic3r, now when i hit print, the extruder homed but when it came to print i started in the wrong position and started printing outside of the bed and seem to have the bed higher that the test cube and just...printed all wrong,

ive set the bed size to 150x150 and the print centre is 0x0 with 0 in the z offset...but what am i doing wrong with this? i can run it through skienforge but it does take alot of time

Aha thats more than likely where the issue is then, i will give it ago and hopefully it will sort my issue out

I was looking at using repetier but it doesnt load on my xp machine for some reason which is why i didnt persue that route

What direction did it shift?  Sometimes turning off the motors and sliding it by hand a few times will work out the kink.  If not, your belt tension might need to be adjusted if it is too tight or uneven.

Well taking the same model and running it through skeinforge results in a completed print

so im guessing its something to do with slic3r, there was someone in the irc chat yesterday (forgot the name ) who had exactly the same issue from using slic3r

I dont know where i need to look to get that sorted but i'll have to stick with skeinforge for now, just need to improve the print

so "problems" could be the cause of the layer shift

i will try Ian's method that he put in his blog of download, clean with netfabb,orient it in Replicator G and maybe ill try slic3r again

I do not think it does. It may be an option on later versions of skeinforge.

Should work. We haven't officially upgraded to the new skeinforge because of some "strange" issues with its functionality. Generally, our staff prefers older versions.

So you like it? We really ought to upgrade, I suppose.