Step 03.18 — Verify the plate floats level¶
Step 18 of 20 with a helper · Chapter 03 — Build plate
Gather for this segment — steps 03.18–03.20 (~20 min)
Build Plate box (carton 2)
- Spring Steel Flex Plate 2.4-350 ×1
Tools and consumables
- caliper
- a sheet of cardboard
Parts:
- caliper · tool
Do:
- Measure the gap between extrusion top and plate underside at each bolt.
- Sight along the plate at eye level, front and side.
- A short corner means an unrolled T-nut, a tipped thumb nut or a tight bolt.
Check
All four gaps equal to the thumb-nut height and to each other. Press each corner in turn: no rock, no click.
Helper Reads the caliper at each corner and writes the four gaps down.
What you're looking at
The four corners and a caliper. The plate rides on four bolts above the two bed extrusions; the gap under each bolt is what you measure, and all four should match. A short corner is a permanent tilt every bed mesh has to fight.
Tip
do not level the plate to the gantry mechanically. Quad gantry level does that in software in Ch 13; this step only proves the plate floats evenly.
Tip
The CAD bed is the 10 in (254 mm) MIC6 plate on 370 mm bed extrusions (250). Yours is the 350 plate on the 350 frame: four bolts, four gaps.
Source: Voron manual p.59 · Voron manual p.58 · CAD: Voron 2.4r2 STEP @ de7e89d