It worked great! It printed a 138 mm x 131 mm rectangle with no sweat I also printed that object, just to make sure. The result: the maximum area my Cura Lulzbot Edition 3.2.23 accepts – without messing with the settings – is an X width of 138 mm, and Y depth of 131 mm. So it seems the Lulzbot Mini can print to its advertised area.Ĭurious what area object I can print without that size trick, I tried various width and length 1 mm high rectangles.
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Handily, that article also pointed to a video showing how to print the full 152 x 152 mm area (with a bit of messing around). Cura said “Nothing to slice because none of the models fit the build volume.” That is, my model was too big to print.ĭigging into the issue I found a ZDNet article on the print areas of various popular printers, which pointed out that, as I’d overlooked, the maximum print area is smaller than the print bed area because the slicer needs to allow space for the skirt – the thin line of filament outside the print. I then imported that shape into Cura Lulzbot Edition and… oops. I extruded this shape in the Z direction 1 mm, just to give the test print a little height. To test the maximum printable area, I created, in FreeCAD, a rectangle in the XY plane that was the same width and length as the specified print area of the Mini: 152 mm x 152 mm.
A simple test print answered both questions.
At the same time, I became curious about what size that Lulzbot Mini can print. As I adjusted my printer’s Z height, I began to wonder what the Z height calibration looked like on my older printer, a Lulzbot Mini. One of the last steps of assembling a Prusa i3 MK3 3d printer is to manually adjust the Z height.
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