i have leveled the bed many many times now, however every time i start a print the head is way too far away from the build plate. i level by putting a piece of paper between the head and build plate, which has worked perfectly in the past. i tried leveling it to be closer and it “worked” alright but after building up like 1.5 mm it seems the head re-leveled or something because the head was lower then the previous layer. i have no idea what to do now, at this point i have spent almost all day trying to fix this and have had no luck. can anyone help? note: i have only been trying to print wirelessly fusing the astrobox.
Leveling isn’t usually astrobox/astroprint thing but I’m curious. What kind of printer do you have. I have a home built delta and have had to deal with many issues so if you have a delta I might be able to help figure it out.
Note: over row weekend I tried printing with curra and an SD card and it worked almost perfectly.
I think the built in slicer is doing something funny causing it to start the first layer way to high.
I have a hictop pursa i3 although any suggestions would help at this point
@jordan by “built-in slicer” did you mean the astroprint cloud slicer? Also which printer profile did you pick when doing your first slice? or did you create a custom printer?
yes i meant the astroprint cloud slicer. i created a custom printer, i have a hictop prusa i3 printer, which does not appear in the profiles menu.
The problem might be your start gcode. What did you use ?
I haven’t changed anything with the start gcode it’s just G28
Are you by chance using the cloud version of Slic3r (configured in the printer setup) could there be a Z offset set in the slice profile…I know the is possible in the Slic3r profiles…have not seen it in the cura setup but haven’t really looked either.
Then your bed is not calibrated or it need other custom start GCODE sequence. Are you able to print successfully with other software? Cura? what start GCODE do you use there?
i dont use slic3r i use cura in the profiles menu
ya i have had successful prints using cura , and again i have not changed any start gcode
It’s possible that Cura’s start GCODE does something else. Could you send the start GCODE in Cura or even the first few lines of a successful print in Cura?
Another thing to try is to Slice with Cura offline, upload the GCODE to the AstroBox and try printing that one.
unfortunately i have multiple exams to study for so i have no more time to be tinkering around trying to fix stuff, i will have to open this back up and start trying to fix things next Monday when im finished. see you then 
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Good Luck with those exams