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Calibrate: This menu allows you to calibrate the Sigma
R19 printing surface glass and extruders. This process
should be performed when components are replaced,
and during standard printer maintenance (described in
this manual).
–Printing Surface Calibration: This option allows
you to level the printing surface. The process is per-
formed by an onscreen self-test run by the printer,
followed by instructions to correct the position. The
screen displays how many turns (in eighths of a turn)
each of the levelling screws should be turned, and in
which direction.
–Printer Calibration: This option allows you to
perform a full calibration, where the heated bed and the
relative positions of the extruders are calibrated. You
will be guided by onscreen instructions, and the aim is
to select the best of the different test prints performed
by the printer.
–Manual Fine Calibration: This option lets you to
manually modify the calibration values found in the
Printer Calibration process. On the left menu, select
the axis to adjust and press the arrows to correct the
calibration value.
Maintenance
–Move Printing Surface: This option lets you to
move the platform up and down.
–Hotend Cleaning Assistant: Perform this opera-
tion to clean the hotend. Just follow the instructions
of the screen. This operation is recommended when
you notice any sign of underextrusion, when switching
materials and after printing with soluble or special
materials.
–Autotune hotends: Select this operation every time
you change the hotend. The internal routine will check
the thermal behaviour of the hotends installed and will
allow the printer to have a better temperature control.
Printer Setup
- Change hotend: Start a guided process step by
step to change and calibrate a hotend.
- Printing Components Setup: Manually set up the
nozzle sizes installed in the printer and the use of the
Filament Runout Sensor.
- Light intensity: Use a toggle to adjust the Light
Intensity.
- Run Setup Assistant: A step by step process to
calibrate the printer, as it was straight out of the box.
Temperatures
Placed on the right-hand side of the main menu, lets
you to preheat or cooldown the hotends and the heated
bed. The preheat temperatures will be set depending on
the filaments loaded.
Functionalities
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