5,625 point bed mesh via Beacon3D

Just what it says!

[@247printing]

That's impressive, thanks a lot for sharing!

[@JoshMurrah]

Thanks man, any time!

[@KeithSachs]

Very nice, that's a huge mesh! Looks sweet and probably took less time than a 50 point dive probe mesh haha

[@beaconscanner]

yup

[@SkorghDk]

How is the bed mounted? Those three "peaks" looks suspiciously like they are from a 3-point mounting system. It's super cool to see a high resolution bed profile though.

[@beaconscanner]

@Russell Phelan what Russell said ;)

[@lukesmith9059]

Thanks for sharing this demo! I need to get one of these for my 2.4. Not sure if I actually need it as my bed is already extremely flat, but it's so cool...

[@beaconscanner]

well you think it's flat...and then you scan it.

[@lukesmith9059]

@@beaconscanner The docs say beds with integrated magnets won't work, is there any plans to adjust the software to avoid magnets? I have a magbed from mandala roseworks, I would love to try beacon but I do not want to give up that bed, it's beautifully machined.

[@DEtchells]

Damn, what wonderful, geeky excess! (Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, I always say.) That’s crazy how fast it works, do you know what its vertical resolution/accuracy is? It was interesting that there are such localized “bumps” in the surface profile, I wouldn’t have expected that! (New subscriber, a lot of great stuff here!)

[@TsukiShimizu]

Beacon has an resolution of around 0.5um. I've attached one to my printer recently and honestly it's just insane watching it do a full 20x20 bed-mesh on an Ender 3 in like a minute and a half.

[@akro9777]

dude.. that printer is fucking rad.... beacon aside

[@Shinobubu]

The eddie currents would be generated by the outermost metallic surface . if the underlying bed is what it is scanning it's useless since the surface of your carriage is nowhere the same as the spring steel print bed.

[@PYROWORKSTV]

Lmao, I thought it'd probe each point like a normal printer :D Like 3 seconds per probing point xD

[@beaconscanner]

no its 1000 points in 1 second.

[@doa_form]

Keep us posted how it works! Wonder if it remains accurate after the chamber gets toasty

[@KeyanMobli]

It does. I use one when printing PEKK.

[@beaconscanner]

You can try it out yourself! Join the Beacon side ;)

[@Tedlasman]

that's awesome, thanks for showing

[@MrBaskins2010]

spooky sounds but very cool

[@henryglends]

Sounds like now it’s time to try a 10K point bed mesh!

[@beaconscanner]

yessssssssss

[@bob_mosavo]

Thanks 😁

[@DJBillyQ]

bruh... my BLTouch diving for a 5x5 = 25 point system takes about as long as yours does to scan 11,250 points! Cool stuff! 😅

[@beaconscanner]

lol

[@ajshell2]

My main tips to speed it up for you are to set "stow_on_each_sample: False" in the bltouch section, and to increase the "speed" value in the BLTouch section too.

[@of.course]

so cool

[@geauxracerx]

Want Also that was faster than my 5x5 with BLtouch takes once

[@vladmirputin7139]

Great for metal build plates. Useless for glass. A Lidar module would be great.

[@beaconscanner]

yup. totally useless for non metal surfaces. But printing on metal is like spreading jelly on toast. It's wonderful. You should join us!

[@vladmirputin7139]

@@beaconscanner Can't/won't. Bed temperatures are too high for magnets, and I can't print my materials on PEI. Glass with gluestick is IMO, the best.

[@Titan3DAZ]

Wait, what probe allows you to go that fast on that many points?

[@KeyanMobli]

Beacon!

[@Tedlasman]

flex sheet!

[@houstongaragepro8343]

Amazing

[@alexchulzhanov]

Very interesting kinematics on that printer, never seen the linear rails just by themselves

[@TheCoffeeSquirel]

I imagine it must flex somewhat

[@TeslasTechnology]

​@@TheCoffeeSquirel you would be surprised. this is annex engineering k2 (?) and it is an absolute monster of a machine imo - the kinematics style is called crossed xy or croxy for short.

[@efboiz5302]

Voron tap users punching the air rn

[@JonS]

Rubbish! Less than 5,626 points is a waste of time 😂