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Objet500 User Guide 6 Operating and Maintaining the Objet500 3DPrinter
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Built-in Tests
Theprinterapplicationcontainsasuiteoftestsforregularlycheckingthe
hardwareandsoftware,andfortroubleshooting.Youcanconfigurebasic
communicationsandenvironmentteststorunautomatically,whenthe
Objet500softwareopens.Inaddition,youcanrunamorecomprehensiveset
oftestsbeforeprocessingaprintjob,asasystemcheck,toensureoptimum
printingresults.
Becauserunningthetestsaffectstheoperationoftheprinter,youcanonly
opentheBuilt-inTestsinterfacewhenthesystemisnotprinting.
Thetestsuitefeatures:
•Theorganizationofprinting-relatedtasksincategories:
❒ Communications
❒ Datacards
❒ Temperatures
❒ Voltages
❒ Encoderrepeatability
❒ Print-headheating
❒ Print-headfilling
•Acleardisplayoftestresultsandthesourceofanyfailures,enablingyou
todetermineifprintingispossibleorworthwhile.
•Theabilitytomonitortestresultsforspecificcomponents.
•Troubleshootingtips.
Runningthesetestscanhelpidentifyproblemsintheprinterhardwareand
software.Alargenumberofhardwaredefects(ornear-defects)warnsyouof
possibleprintingproblems,eitherforcurrentorfuturejobs.
Stratasysrecommendsrunningthebuilt-intestsinthefollowingcases:
l asaroutinetest,onceeverytwoweeks
l asasystemcheck,beforemajor(long)jobs
l asneeded,fortroubleshooting