Welcome Makers.
Today I am introducing you to a calibration print that I put together.
Now, calibration prints I know are not terribly exciting, but
I think there's a lot of benefit and use to this one
and why I'm making a video about it.
So like many of you, I have used a test cube
to calibrate the basics of a printer, but then use the gold standard
of a banshee and I have a ton of benchys there.
This is just one bag of them.
I have a couple more of these laying around the shop.
There are a lot of different benchys out there,
and I don't have a good use for these benchys once I'm done printing with them.
Sometimes I'll write something on the bottom
and leave the filament sample, which is really the important part here.
Leave a filament sample and
see how the particular bent you print it on a particular printer.
I think it's a gold standard and there are a lot of great videos.
Michael put one from teaching tech together.
It really goes through all of the Benji tests now.
That's great, but a lot of times, like you, I'm in a hurry.
I don't know if,
you know, 45 minutes of print of Benji and yes, I've seen speed tests,
but that's really kind of defeating the purpose of getting a good quality
Benji together.
So what I did is I bought some worrisome filaments, some punishment here.
This is a black galaxy versus filament.
And then here is atomic filaments.
It's like a space gray.
So they're very similar colors.
And then I've got a copper color.
It's for a project that I'm working on here.
But when I started, I was like, you know, would be really cool is a test print
that really just allow me to screw the test prints together.
And then it clicked in my head a beyond a filament sample.
This could be used as a calibration tool.
So that's where the process kind of started.
I did this because benchys have to go in a bag
and sort of gluing them to something.
I don't know what good use they they are once they're done.
Not that these have much better use, but
maybe it's a little more entertaining being able to screw these together.
Now I can see how big of a filament sample stick
I can make, and I think that's kind of cool.
The other nice thing is too, is that I can right on the bottom here
how the particular filament tested in a printer
and then from there know if I have to adjust settings
and I could keep that a spreadsheet or I can put it in slicer settings.
But either way having this is a really good diagnostic
tool in my opinion, for knowing how a filament performs.
So I try to think of this as more of a filament testing tool than anything else.
So let's talk about the, the tool itself.
So it started out simply round and I just wanted to screw together
a bunch of filament
but then I decided we could test a few things while we're doing it.
Now, these test prints all print without infill, you don't want to have any infill.
They print relatively fast depending on your nozzle width and printer speed.
You can probably knock one of these out in about 10 minutes.
The cool thing is,
is that the screw part all by itself test tolerances.
So if you can't screw this together, you already know that your printer needs
some help.
It you've got to either adjust your flow.
I've got a video on flow compensation.
You can correct your e steps.
There's lots of good videos on how to do all of these different calibrations,
but this allows you to test a lot of different basic calibration.
So tolerance test right here, you can measure these points
or these side points and you would have a 30 by 30 cube
and that gives you the ability to test whether or not your e steps are correct
on your printer.
Now, another cool thing you can do with it as well is you can test
all of your bridging at a wider area here too.
So you get to test that.
And if you have cooling issues, it's
going to tell you that you've got a cooling issue.
So the other cool thing here is that of course
these work great as calibration cubes or calibration cylinders.
Now here I've got some of the atomic filament.
This is fusion filaments so I don't know if I had this one a little bit hot
or if I was just over extruding, but this one
definitely has a tighter fit going into here.
It's a little bit more difficult and I don't know if you can hear it,
but it squeaks a little bit.
And that's just basically because there's not enough room to easily get this in
and you can hear kind of clicking there as well.
So hoping that comes across the mic.
But that's a really good test to me.
That means either I've got a temperature problem with this and I can reprint this
quickly and I can test out the filament and then once I've got the.