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What does the bed mesh in Fluidd show? My prints are good, nothing to complain about, but I see the bed mesh doesn't look so good.
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Always consider the "range" of the mesh. Just looking at the shape or the pretty colours will seem like the bed is completely borked even though it isn't necessarily so in reality.
For example, look at your "range" value; it says that the difference between the highest and lowest point is 0.6004, which is in mm. Meaning: that difference is 0.6mm
That isn't that much and not really something to worry about. In some cases, where the corners are different to the rest of the mesh, it could be that the wheels on the underside of your bed can be adjusted to make the bed flatter. This would require that your bed actually has those things but I wouldn't necessarily bother with it since your range is already that low.
It's also only the 50mm closest to X-axis 0 (left edge of bed I guess) that have significantly higher values, the rest of the bed is fairly even. Depending on what models OP has printed, they might not even be using this part of the print area.
Makes sense, thank you