How to lower the bed?

Bambu Lab P1 Series Troubleshooting
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I feel dumb asking this, but i cannot figure out how to lower the bed when not printing! Generally its not an issue as once the print finishes it lowers itself, but when a print gets cancelled, the head and the bed just stay where they are. I can home them, and the head goes to the center, but the bed stays just below the printhead, which makes it difficult to get the magnetic plate off.

I have tried using the bed lowering in bambu studio software, and have also tried to lower it directly from the controls on the printer, but i cannot get it to lower manually?

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Unfortunately, I believe you have to home the bed before it will let you go up or down more than one move. Once the bed is homed, on the control panel you can move the cursor off the symbol, then back on, then press the centre select button until the picture turns white, then press down as many times as you want. IMO, bambu still has a way to go with programming their controls and safety lockouts. For example, from the same screen, you can select the extruder and attempt to move the filament in and out - all with a cold hotend, something it shouldn’t allow you to do.

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You can lower the bed from the control panel on the printer. You select the second page (below home) and then use select and right arrow to get to the bed icon with the up and down arrows.

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When the Bed starts flashing you push select. Then the up and down arrows move the bed.

In some cases the printer will think it needs to home and ask you if you want to home. If you are in a situati8on where homing is bad, you can cancel that, but it then takes a few steps to get back to where you can move the bed with the arrows. (Don’t ask me why I know that, or how painful the process is.)

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OK, thanks for the replies. I will give that another try when i get home. I thought i had tried that, but maybe i hadnt homed it first in that instance (i know i homed it first when trying through the studio software, but i was having some other issues as well, so must have missed it on the panel).

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You can also lower the bed by manually turning the pulleys on the bottom of the X1C. When you restart, the auto calibration will raise the bed and reinitialize the settings.

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I have the same problem and it forces me to home but the problem is homing is not necessary. I had to move my bed up. So I could view my print from the app. It forced me to home and all of a sudden it moved the bed up so much, the head started to home and then Smacked into my print a bunch of times cracking all of the legs right off of it. It doesn’t make any sense I thought there were sensors in place for this not to happen.

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My screen looks nothing like yours on the X1 Carbon

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Did you ever get a correct answer? Just set mine up and it’s all the way up. Would like to know a way to lower it, and not by twisting the screws.

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Found it. Under Temperature/Axis. Looks like you can move incrementally, or Home it.

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Also in Bambu Studio under the device tab. You can do many things with your printer. Bed moves. Temperature changes just to name a couple.

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Thanks! This didn’t work the first 10+ tries. I kept getting “axis z has not been homed” and it would keep shaking. But after another try then it let me lower it. My printer has been extremely buggy all day (just got it today)