/gcode-bed-measure-tool

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G-code Bed Measurement Tool

This tool was written in response to the amazing tool written by @npiegdon, so honestly credit goes to him.

Results from a 5x5 (25 total) probing:

Results from a 5x5 (25 total) probing

Results from a 21x21 (441 total) probing:

Results from a 21x21 (441 total) probing

Installation

Precompiled (recommended)

Check out the Releases page for the precompiled binaries.

From Source (here be dragons!)

Requires

  • python 2.7+
  • NodeJS 8+
  • Admin privileges (to install the build tools, not needed if you've already got the needed build tools)

Grab the source from github schme16/gcode-bed-measure-tool, git clone https://github.com/schme16/gcode-bed-measure-tool.git

Install node-gyp, and electron-rebuild npm i -g node-gyp electron-rebuild

Note: you may need to install: windows build-tools npm i --g windows-build-tools

Enter the directory and run npm i to install all the prerequisites *Note: you may need to run this as sudo/admin, depending on your setup. You may also need to run npm i then sudo npm run electron-rebuild to finalize the install.

Once installed, you can run it by running npm start in the git repo folder.