VC4 500 IDEX - Need help for bed mesh during commissioning
Hey guys,
I have finished the mechanical and electronics build of my VC4 500mm IXED machine recently and started to get into commissioning in order to start printing asap.
Unfortunately, I've been dealing with some struggle with bed mesh and I can't get better results than this. My C and D points are as low as they can be without forcing too much on machine's structure. I did my best to make put them at the same level watching at the mesh. I still have this kind of taco shape that makes me think that my X and Y got some bending issues.
At the end of the day, this still represents a .4mm difference within 500x500, but I really don't know if this can be handled easily or not with klipper + beacon later on, knowing that this is based on the aluminum plate and not PEI plate which can also lead to some deviations probably.
I'm quite lost tbh and do not know what to do at this point as the guide is focusing more on twisted/tilted issues.
Do you guys suggest putting more effort into this to get better bed mesh? If so, would you have any tips on how to counter that taco shape?
Otherwise, if you think this is good enough, I guess I can go through the rest of the guide and then start printing first layers to see what it can do.
Thank you very much for your help 🙏
Eddy


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you seem to have the same curve along the X axxis for different Y position, this means that you X rail + 20mm extrusion is slightly bent,in this case to the top. you can press down a little bit the gantry and see it get flatter in the X direction.
Then you will have to do a tilt adjustment.
Hi,
Thanks for your reply and your help.
I was also thinking that X is bent a bit, but more like if the middle was lower that the sides which would have forced me to try to compensate that bending somehow (so, in the opposite side of what you suggested).
Anyway, I tried what you told me; pressing the X down a little bit but It actually got slightly worse than before (.05-.1) and didn't get any flatter.
Do you think that the printing quality will be bad with this ? Or can it get compensated with this shape/tolerance ?
Nevermind, I did it the other way. Pulling up the X axis. Got way better. BUT, I'm really not confident on how this could last ?!
Now 0.23mm, which is great I believe for 500 and IDEX.
Should I try going further in compensating Y deviation here?


Honestly? I would not bother too much as long as the bed is flat. It will depends also on the temperature of the frame which will expand. The plate will expand as well in the z direction.
Great, thank you very much for your feedback on this. I was really looking for some kind of validation before going into the next steps 😉 !
Thanks again
Eddy