Glass Bed for Sovol 06

Sovol SV06 Fully Open Source 3D Printer
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Hello,

I bought a Creality glass bed which is 4mm thick, when I tried the “Auto Align Z” the first part of the bed levelling process the nozzle went straight into the new bed. Thankfully I was able to turn the printer off before any damage was done.

Should I be able to use a 4mm glass bed on the Sovol 06 and if so how do I carry out the bed levelling process with out damaging the printer or the glass bed?

Thanks

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No, the probe on the SV06 is an inductive probe. It requires your bed to be metal. Glass and other non-metal print surfaces won’t work. It effectively can’t “see” the bed when it’s not metal, so it can’t figure out where to stop.

There isn’t really a workaround short of changing out the probe for a mechanical end stop/probe or maybe a capacitive probe (I’ve never used those - but my understanding is they can sense non-metallic objects including glass).

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AHH,

Thanks for the reply, that will be the problem, good to know.

I thought the probe was laser or ultra sound didn’t even cross my mind that it would be inductive.

Thanks again.