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Topic: X and Y layer offsets (including sample parts)

Hello,

I've looked all over the forums to see if anyone has had this problem, but I haven't had any luck finding a post about it.

Anyway, I've had my Da Vinci 1.0 for a few months now using firmware 1.1.J and XYZWare 1.1.29.4. I use reset cartridges, but this problem appeared before I began doing that (although much less frequently).

What happens is the printer will sometimes offset the very first layer, including the bead it first lays down to start getting the filament out. It will offset it about 1 inch to the left and 2 inches back. Other times it will begin to build a part correctly on the first layer, but then the second layer will be offset in the x and y direction. The only solution I've had to get this to work is trying to print the same thing over and over, and eventually, for some reason, it works. However, it will NOT print multiple parts at a time. The extruder goes crazy and ends up hitting the screws and aluminum corner caps on the glass bed. I even had the extruder move to the OPPOSITE corner for its home position (as in the left corner) when I canceled a print that was messing up.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

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Re: X and Y layer offsets (including sample parts)

I've been doing some more experimentation with the printer. It looks like, for the most part, that the printer will print the part correctly if it is sufficiently small and does not extend within 3 inches of the print bed outside edge. I have no idea what's going on at this point.

Also, this is definitely not a belt tension issue. The print shifts my several issues on the first layer for large parts always to the same spot. Sometimes it will magically place the first layer where it should be for larger parts, but then the second layer is offset by several inches in the x and y direction.

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Re: X and Y layer offsets (including sample parts)

Here is the fix:

Downgrade from J to G.

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Re: X and Y layer offsets (including sample parts)

fritzlaun1 wrote:

Here is the fix:

Downgrade from J to G.

This only fixed it for one print. It's back to being a non-functional printer. Even sample parts are offset in the x and y direction (including the bead it lays down to get the filament running smoothly) by 1 inch to the left and 2 inches back. It will then also try to build the second layer offset on thin air.