CREALITY BLouch Auto Bed Leveling Sensor for 3D Printer User Manual

June 3, 2024
Creality

CREALITY BLouch Auto Bed Leveling Sensor for 3D Printer

Packing List

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Circuit Principle

Application:
Ender-3 Series | Ender-5/5S/5Pro | CR-10| Ender-6 (No rack)

Update Firmware

  1. Right-click the mouse to format SD card. (To make surethe firmware can be flashed successfully, please format the SD card before flashing the firmware)

  2. Firmware download (before downloading firmware, please confirm your printer model, motherboard version, and hard-ware configuration-whether it comes with filament sensor or not). Each printer model corresponds to the BL Touch firmware, please check appendix 1.
    Note : Every machine has different firmware files.
    File download website: https: www.creality.com/download/

  3. Copy the firmware to the SD card.
    Note : the SD card can only hold one firmware file.

  4. Insert SD card.

  5. Insert the power cord and press the switch.

  6. Wait for the firmware to complete upgrade. (about 10 seconds.

Install BL Touch

  1. Insert connectors into 5 Pin Port.
  2. Install BL Touch on the rack with 2 M3*6 screws.
  3. Loosen all fan cover screws, install the BL Touch rack on the corresponding position with 2 M3*8 screws.
  4. Tie the BL Touch cable together with other printer cables like the above picture shown.

Circuit Wiring

Steps

To get the Z offset Value
Operation: Prepare–Auto HomeMove Axis Move Z-Please stop to move Z axis when the distance between the nozzle and the printer bed is about 0.1mm (the height of a sheet of A4 paper). Ihis value shows Z offset value.

SHENZHEN CREALITY 3D TECHNOLOGY Co., LTD.
Add : 18F, JinXiuHong Du Building, Meilong Blvd., Longhua Dist., Shenzhen, China 518131 Official Website : www.creality.com Tel : +86 755-8523 4565 E-mail : info@creality.com cs@creality.comInput the Z-axis compensation value(Z offset value) Record the Z offset value, then follow below steps and save settings:
Prepare Auto home Control Bed Leveling Probe Z offset Input the Z offset value Store Settings
Select Bed Leveling, then choose Level Bed.
Operation: Control-Bed Leveling-Level Bed. (Different 3D printers may have different numbers of touching points for automatic leveling. The picture here shows that Ender-3 has 9 points for leveling.)
Model Printing
After the automatic leveling, user can do a trial print to verify the leveling. Operation: Print from SD CardModel Test (Name and file of the testing model shall be prepared by user.)

Example:

Test passed: leveling is completed and you can print now;
Test failed: If model printing fails, please fine-tune Probe Z Offset again and save settings until the print- ing effect is good.
If leveling fails, please reset Z-offset value as “0” and restart leveling. Otherwise, the nozzle may hit printing platform.

Note : Every machine has its own operation interface.

Software Settings

  1. Open Slicer.
  2. Settings Printer Manage Printers.Creality-Ender-3-3D-Printer-fig-21
  3. Machine Settings.Creality-Ender-3-3D-Printer-fig-22
  4. Change “G28” to “G28G29”

Appendix 1

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