In an ideal world, your FDM 3D printer’s bed would be perfectly parallel with the print head’s plane of movement. We usually say that means the bed is “level”, but really it doesn’t matter if it is ...

Manually leveling your 3D printer’s bed can sometimes be confusing, especially if you rely on vague instructions. Many people ...

In 3D printing, we often talk about leveling the print bed, although that’s not an accurate term. A bed that is level in our terms presents a flat surface that is parallel to the path of the print ...

On a high level, 3D printing is a layer-by-layer additive manufacturing process, meaning it builds objects one layer at a time -- the opposite of subtractive manufacturing, in which a solid block of ...