2.4. PRINTRUN
To turn on the hot end and/or printer surface click the respective
Set
button. The
Set
button will highlight orange when the temperature is set
to on for that component. When the hot end or print surface is set to on
you will see the temperature bar and graph display the set temperature and
the current temperature. When both components have reached the correct
temperature, the printer is ready for printing. Clicking the
Off
button will
turn off that component and highlight the Off button blue.
Below the temperature controls are the manual extrusion controls. There
you can manually extrude plastic through the hot end and retract the plastic
filament from the hot end. The
Extrude
button will feed the amount of
plastic, set to the right in mm, through the hot end. The rate at which the
plastic is fed is set below the extrusion length (mm/min). The
Reverse
button will perform the opposite of
Extrude
, pulling the plastic filament
back out of the hot end.
The large pattern of buttons above the temperature controls are the
axes manual controls. These functions allows you to manually move each
of the three axes of the printer. The circular pattern of four quadrants
controls the X and Y axes. The top and bottom quadrants move the Y axis;
the top in the positive direction (forward) and the bottom in the negative
direction (back). The left and right quadrants move the X axis; the left in
the negative direction (left) and the right in the positive direction (right).
Each quadrant is split into four sections that control the length of
movement of 0.1mm, 1mm, 10mm, or 100mm. The innermost section moves
the axis 0.1mm with each section outwards a larger movement with the
outside section moving the axis 100mm.
The linear control bar to the right controls the Z axis. The Z axis is also
separated into multiple movement lengths; 0.1mm, 1mm, and 10mm. The
upper three buttons move the Z axis up and away from the printer surface;
the three lower buttons move the Z axis closer to the print surface.
The four triangular buttons around the circular pattern are the axes
home buttons. Each home button will move that axis in the negative
direction until the end stop is activated. There is a home button for the X,
Y, and Z axes. There is also a white home all button that homes all of the
axes at once.
The
Motors off
button will deactivate all motors allowing all of the
axes to be moved by hand.
Caution: when homing, the axis will continue to move in the negative
direction until the end stop switch is activated. If the printer is ever
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