Printer Calibration Cubes

Printer Calibration Cubes is a downloadable 3D printable model for printer parts. Review the files, license, and creator attribution before printing.

Original creator description

After a couple failed attempts to print parts the are supposed to be mated together (they didn't fit), I realized that I don't fully understand how much error my printer has in each axis. So I designed these cubes which can be used to come up with an error profile for your printer. For each print setting you want to test (speed, number of shells, layer height, etc), print this out, and use a caliper to take 5 measurements on each of the 3 pieces and compare to the expected sizes. Measure: X-inner (hole) width X-outer (peg) width Y-inner (hole) width Y-outer (peg) width Z height I expect that if you tell the printer to print a cube with X-axis size S, the actual printed size, T, will have bo... This hosted file keeps creator credit and license details.

Topics and tags

Printer parts CC0Slotscalibrationcalipercubesmeasurepegspublic domainsize

Print details

  • Difficulty

    beginner

  • Materials

    PLA suggested; confirm scale and supports in your slicer before printing.

Download files

  • calibration_cubes.stl

    STL · 6.5 KB

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File metadata

  • calibration_cubes.stl

    SHA-256: f72d6c58e1dd9ca78ea70a046bd012dcbe18c9ed9cba5ab22595b78740a6a280

Attribution

Printer Calibration Cubes by etotheipi (the original source). License: Creative Commons CC0 1.0. Source: the original source