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Batch B00Before you start

Before you start Batch B00

Before you start · Batch B00 — Calibration & jigs

One plate: the dimensional gate for the whole build, plus the rail-alignment jigs and the pulley jig. The gate is in two parts — Gate A (the cube) releases B02, B07 and the cosmetics B08–B10 the day this plate comes off; Gate B releases B01 and B03–B06 and runs in the same week, on a caliper across the printed bore and seven M3×H5 inserts out of the KADRICK kit already on the bench (verify on bench). Gate B's bearing press and its MGN12 rail row wait for the kit; nothing is bought to bring them forward.

Revali with a tray of screws
Jigs and one gate cube. The cube decides whether anything else prints. Hope is not a dimension.

Time: 4.0 h (1 plate) — PrusaSlicer 2.9.6 estimate, sliced from slicer/plates/B00-P1.3mf.

Sessions: ~15 min one-time slicer and filament setup, then Step B00.8's plate review (~25+20+35+20 min, four sessions, done with a helper) before B00-P1 starts, then 1 plate start (~5 min hands-on, then 4.0 h unattended) + ~15 min for Gate A + ~10 min sorting + ~15 min for Gate B, of which ~10 min (the bearing press and the rail row) waits for kit day.

Prerequisites: slicer set up per 00-slicer-setup.md — Step B00.0 below walks the one-time wizard, and runs first. Then the pre-B00 checks (index row 1) must pass — see Before B00: belt and hot-bed checks, right after Step B00.0; the hot check opens a project on the presets B00.0 installs. Step B00.8 — reviewing all 27 committed plates in PrusaSlicer together — runs before B00-P1 prints.

Printed parts

STL Repo path Qty Colour g ea Bin
Voron_Design_Cube_v7.stl Voron-2 STLs/Test_Prints/ 1 Black 16.2 00-jigs
Heatset_Practice.stl Voron-2 STLs/Test_Prints/ 1 Black 6.5 00-jigs
MGN12_rail_guide_x2.stl Voron-2 STLs/Tools/ 2 Black 3.2 00-jigs
MGN9_rail_guide_x2.stl Voron-2 STLs/Tools/ 2 Black 2.7 00-jigs
pulley_jig.stl Voron-2 STLs/Tools/ 1 Black 2.8 00-jigs
z_drive_retainer_a_x2.stl Voron-2 STLs/Z_Drive/ 1 (of the 2 needed — this is the bearing-fit coupon and a real part) Black 19.5 02-Z0

Hardware: none printed here. Gate B (Step B00.7) needs seven M3×H5 heat-set inserts (the coupon has seven pockets), which come from the KADRICK kit already on the bench (Ch 00 Step 00.9), plus a 625-2RS bearing and an MGN12 rail, which only the Voron kit supplies. So the insert row and the caliper row run months before the kit; the bearing press and the rail slide run on kit day, and the kit's own 153 inserts stay untouched.

Read first

  • The two-part gate in 00-slicer-setup.md. Gate A (cube X/Y, Z, first-layer-vs-mid delta, corner snap) is Step B00.5 and releases B02, B07 and B08–B10. Gate B (Heatset_Practice with real inserts and a caliper across z_drive_retainer_a's 625-2RS pocket now; the bearing press and MGN12_rail_guide on a real rail on kit day) is Step B00.7 and releases B01 and B03–B06.
  • A failed gate means reprints, and a reprint is marked: the new plate id with an R after it and the changed extrusion multiplier, on a hidden face, per README § Bins. Gate A and Gate B are the two places this build expects to reprint, so it is where the habit starts.
  • Most commonly reprinted here: the cube, until the profile is right.
  • z_drive_retainer_a on this plate is deliberate — it's your bearing-press-fit coupon and one of the two you need for B01, so nothing is wasted.
  • First layer: the Core One+ has no first-layer wizard. The loadcell sets Z before every print; you judge the result (Step B00.4) and nudge with Live Adjust Z only if you must.

helperHelper steps: 2 · B00.8, B00.5

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