10-12-2020, 04:26 PM
I fault Elegoo for not adequately (or for that matter--at all) documenting the largely uneccessary "Z=0" function. As much as I can determine based of email exchanges with Elegoo support, it exists only as a way to avoid--over a long term--doing the mechanical alignment. Their referencing it in a maintenance video for the "Pro" series--with no explanation of it's purpose--just added to the end-user's overall confusion.
It does nothing to alter anything under the control of 99.44% of users and is for them completely unnecessary if a proper mechanical alignment has been routinely performed. Other than investigating it's function I have never used or felt I needed it, nor can I envision ever needing it. I suppose it may add something for those 0.66% of technically advanced users, or perhaps in a production line environment (though I cannot easily envision the Mar's printers being production line tools).
It does nothing to alter anything under the control of 99.44% of users and is for them completely unnecessary if a proper mechanical alignment has been routinely performed. Other than investigating it's function I have never used or felt I needed it, nor can I envision ever needing it. I suppose it may add something for those 0.66% of technically advanced users, or perhaps in a production line environment (though I cannot easily envision the Mar's printers being production line tools).