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USE OF THE DISPLAY
The display at the front side of the Ultimaker 2 Extended shows you all necessary information for setting up and using
your Ultimaker 2 Extended. You can navigate through the menu by rotating and/or pushing the button at the right side
of the display. By rotating you can select or control an action; by pushing you can confirm an action. When pushing the
button you hear a “beep” sound to confirm the action. A blinking button means the Ultimaker 2 Extended is waiting for
user input.
BED LEVELING
After the “Welcome” screen, the Ultimaker 2 Extended will guide you through some steps in order to calibrate the build
plate. For printing it is very important that the first layer is nicely squished into the glass plate and sticks well to it. If the
distance between the nozzle and build plate is too big, your print won’t stick properly to the glass plate. On the other
hand, if the nozzle is too close to the build plate it can prevent the filament from extruding from the nozzle.
Before the bed leveling can be done, the Ultimaker 2 Extended will first do the “homing”. This means that it will move
the print head to the left back corner and the build plate towards the bottom, in order to set the origin point. After this,
you can follow the steps below for leveling the build plate.
1. The first step is to roughly level the build plate by rotating the button at the front of your Ultimaker 2 Extended until
there is approximately 1 mm distance between the nozzle and build plate. The measurement here is not critical, just
make sure that the nozzle is close to the build plate without touching it.
2. Next, further adjustment will be done by turning the left and right build plate screws. Turning the build plate screws
to the left means that the build plate will get closer to the nozzle.
3. The last step will be fine-tuning of the build plate. With regular piece of A4 paper calibration on all 3 points will be
checked and further adjustment will be done by turning the build plate screws. Place the piece of paper in between
the nozzle and build plate on each point and adjust the build plate screws until you feel slight friction when moving
the piece of paper.
NOTE: If you don’t see the configuration wizard, navigate to MAINTENANCE > ADVANCED and confirm for a Factory
reset. You can use this function at any time.
NOTE: After transportation you might want to level your build plate to ensure your 3D prints stick well to the build
plate. You can access the bed leveling menu at any time by going to MAINTENANCE > BUILDPLATE.
CONFIGURATION WIZARD
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