Step 02.16 — Fix the printer's orientation in your head¶
Step 16 of 44 with a helper · Chapter 02 — Z drives, Z idlers, Z rails, deck panel
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Parts: none.
Do: Put a strip of masking tape on the front bottom frame rail, the one the front ends of the two bed extrusions run into, and write "FRONT" on it.
Check
Front face marked, and you can restate the Z0–Z3 map from Step 02.02 with the printer inverted.
Helper Writes FRONT on the tape strip and sticks it on the front bottom rail.
What you're looking at
Manual p.30: the orientation cube the manual prints on every graphic from here on. With the printer inverted, front and back stop being obvious, and every "which corner" callout for the rest of the chapter is read against that marker.
Good stopping point · ~30 min since the last one
the printer is inverted and stable, the deck panel is in with its notch to the back and captured by eight support clips of the measured thickness, the four M5 T-nuts sit under the deck holes, and the FRONT tape is on. Leave the deck unbolted: those four bolts belong to Ch 09 Step 09.5.
Source: Voron manual p.30