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I had a lot of success using MatterControl rather than Repetier with my Simple Metal. I found it easier to use and the default settings gave me better prints out of the box. It's free as well so it's worth giving a try:

http://www.mattercontrol.com/

A few of them will have a manual levelling wizard that can guide you through the process of turning some screws but I don't know if they store anything in terms of software levelling. I know simplify 3d has such a wizard and I think Matter Control does but I've never used either of them.

http://www.mattercontrol.com/articles/mattercontrol-guide-to-automatic-print-leveling Looks like mattercontrol might do software levelling.

> Traditional desktop FDM where supports are printed with the same material as the model will ALWAYS at least somewhat look like that since there must be a gap between the supports and the model to ensure a clean break-away.

It's true that the bottom will not be perfect, but with well tuned and well written slicing software it does pretty damn good.

This part was sliced with Matterslice (the slicer for Mattercontrol) using their default support settings, other than turning off the perimeters for the support (which makes the support harder to remove). It's not perfect, but it is certainly good enough for most purposes. It's been a long time since I used Slic3r, but MC does a lot better than it did at least the last time I used it.

(Ignore the black blob, I apparently left a little black ABS residue on the bed after my last print job.)

FWIW, Matterslice, which is integrated into Mattercontrol would also give you a much better lower surface than that, and it is free. It lacks some of the other useful support tools of Simplify3d, but for just basic print quality, I like MatterSlice a lot.

Yeah, 3D printing isn't "Enterprise" ready (for less than $10K). It's still a hobby tool that requires a lot of tweaking.
I like the kits because I know how it's put together and can take it apart. I've got the Printrbot Simple 1405 and I just built a Rostock MAX v2 last week.
I've only used the self leveling probe on my Simple, but the Rostock MAX has the XYZ-0 manually calibrated and saved in the EEPROM. I think you could do the same. Try MatterControl and see if you can find a manual for configuring a Cartesian printer.
If you can find a better automatic bed detection that doesn't interfere with the print, you'll be rich.

Cool! Didn't know that, so basically if you use the software that comes with the Davinci, (does it come with one?) you can't use other filaments but you can use other software without issues and the printer would work fine? I thought they might have stopped other software packages to be used, I was wrong.

By the way, try this software, http://www.mattercontrol.com , in my opinion is the best interface

>Turn down your extrusion multiplier by 20-30 % during the first few calibrations, and also use a bigger calibration part to really fine tune.

I turned it down by 5% previously with no affect, but I can try using a larger percentage.

>Maybe try matter control http://www.mattercontrol.com/ & reviewing http://reprap.org/wiki/G-code - note that some of these commands are not for the simple.... just use the m501 & m500 command to get started with the calibration values. Look at what the console says with the m501.

I've never heard of Matter Control, but I'll look into it! Thanks!

>You maybe having problems with the stepper motors overheating & skipping. Check that the current is properly set and the motors are not hot after hours of running.

I don't think that's the issue, I had that problem with my CNC machine, so I know what to look for there. My steppers are a nice warm (not hot), and don't seem to be skipping steps.

It should be .4 mm, and I highly recommend using matter controller to avoid the learning curve of Repetier Host. When in doubt start with 20% less material, and make sure all of the axis are calibrated. I've gone though almost two spools of plastic before realizing 90% of failures were caused by over extruding.