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3DMakerWorld Artifex User Manual
3DMakerWorld Artifex User Guide
3DMakerWorld Artifex Online Manual

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  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.21: Printer Settings: Connection • Configure the settings on the “Printer” page (Figure 2.22). Depending on your printing materials, the default temperature of extruder and heated bed can be set to either 180C/70C (PLA), or 220C/95C (ABS). http: // 3dmakerworld. com 23

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.7: COM port used by the electronics board 2.1.2 Uploading firmware (Kit package only) The firmware of your 3D printer is like the operating system of your computer. The Artifex 3D Printer uses a customized Marlin-based firmware. • For a fully assembled Artifex 3D Printer, its firmware is already loaded before the shipment. You can skip this section. In the future, if you need to update the firmware for your Artifex 3D Printer, please follow steps listed in this section. • For an Artifex 3D Printer kit, after you install the electronics, you need to upload its firmware. 1

  • 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.45: The Repetier-Host interface with loaded G-code 5. Click the “Run Job” button on the top menu bar (Figure 2.46). The printer will follow the instructions in the G-code to initialize its position and heat up the extruder and HBP. Once both the extruder and HBP reach their target temperature, the printer will start the print job. Figure 2.46: Running print job

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 1 INTRODUCTION • Never leave flammable materials near printer. • Place the printer in a well-ventilated area for printing with ABS filaments. 1.3 Acknowledgements As an open-source 3D printer, the 3DMakerWorld Artifex was designed with the inspiration from many others’ work in the open source 3D printing community. We would like to address our sincere acknowledgement to the following folks/groups for their great work, which has inspired us in our design process: • Makers Tool Works for the design of MendelMax 2.0 • kludgineer for the design of MendelMax 1.5: thingiverse.com/thing:20355 • MakerGear for the hot-end and extruder design • Ul

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED 2.2.1 Checking mechanical motion (kit package only) The mechanical movement has been checked in a fully assembled Artifex 3D printer. The process listed in this section is only needed if you are assembling your own Artifex 3D printer from a kit package, although information provided here can help you gain better understanding of your Artifex 3D printer even you start with a fully assembled Artifex. Figure 2.29 shows the X/Y/Z-axis definition of your Artifex 3D Printer. The extruder moves along the X- and Z-axis, and the heated build platform (HBP) moves along the Y-axis. The extruder’s X/Y/Z position is defined re

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 3 WORKING WITH 3D MODELS Figure 3.2: Slicer page on the Repetier-Host interface • Click the “Configure” button in the “Slic3r” section, and a window will pop up showing the Slic3r program (Figure 3.3). Figure 3.3: Slic3r program window http: // 3dmakerworld. com 46

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED that the 3-point leveling thumb screws will have enough up/down adjusting room for HBP leveling. Figure 2.33: The bottom of thumb screw being flush with the bottom of hex screw Step 2 Zeroing Z-axis • Manually move the extruder to the middle of X-axis and the HBP to the middle of Y-axis so the extruder’s nozzle tip points towards the center of HBP. • Use the “-Z” arrow commands to carefully lower the extruder to get it close to the HBP. • Adjust the Z-axis endstop trigger screw in the back of right X-end (Fi

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED tube (Figure 2.37), and push it through the tube until it reaches the filament drive in the front end of filament guide tube. Figure 2.37: Feeding filament through the filament guide tube Step 2 Heating up extruder On the “Manual Control” page of Repetier-Host, there is an “Extruder” section (Figure 2.38). After the Repetier-Host is connected with your Artifex 3D printer, the extruder target temperature shows 180 ◦ C as we set in Chapter 2. Click the “Heat Extruder” button to heat up the extruder to the target. Fig

  • 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.27: Voltage selection of PSU Insert the power cord into the AC input receptacle on the back of your Artifex 3D Printer. Plug the power cord into an electrical outlet, and turn on the power switch next to the AC input receptacle. (Figure 2.28) Figure 2.28: Power connection and switch http: // 3dmakerworld. com 27

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED 4. Open the Device Manager under ”Control Panel → System and Security → System”. Under ”Other devices”, you will find the RAMBo device, right click and select ”Update Driver Software...”. (Figure 2.2) Figure 2.2: Update driver software 5. A window will pop up, asking whether to ”Search automatically...” or ”Browse my computer...”. Select ”Browse my computer...” (Figure 2.3) http: // 3dmakerworld. com 9

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 4 PRINTING WITH ABS FILAMENTS 4 Printing with ABS Filaments Printing with ABS filaments is very similar to printing with PLA filaments. The major differences for printing with ABS are: • It requires higher temperature for both extruder and HBP, and • The print surface needs to be covered by print tapes for the print to better stick to the HBP. 4.1 Configuring printing settings Two configurations in Repetier-Host need to be changed to work with ABS filaments: the printer settings, and the slicing settings. 4.1.1 The printer settings The printer settings for pr

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 3 WORKING WITH 3D MODELS 3.2 Generating G-code from 3D models After you get a 3D model, you need to slice it into horizontal layers for your Artifex 3D Printer to print it out layer by layer. The instructions which command your Artifex 3D Printer to do the layer-by-layer printing are saved in a G-code file. The translation from a digital 3D model into a G-code file is processed by a slicing program called slicer. Slic3r (http://www.slic3r.org) is the slicer recommended for your Artifex 3D Printer, and it has been integrated in the Repetier-Host interface. This section will guide you through the process to use Slic3r to generate the G-code file from a 3D model of your choice in the Rep

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.6: Installation completed successfully 9. Now, the RAMBo electronics will appear under the ”Ports (COM & LPT)”. Write down the COM port which the electronics uses. We will need this information later when setting up the printing software. In our case, it is COM3. (Figure 2.7) http: // 3dmakerworld. com 12

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.17: Upload the Artifex firmware • If the uploading is successful, you will see the message of “Done uploading” in the bottom status window (Figure 2.18). If the compiling or uploading is not successful, the error message will be shown in the status window as well. Common causes of uploading failure include: wrong Arduino board type, wrong serial port, or serial port conflict (e.g., the same serial port is used by your printing software, which will be covered later in this section). For other error message, please refer to the Arduino manual or contact our technical support. http: // 3dmakerwo

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 4 PRINTING WITH ABS FILAMENTS Figure 4.2: Releasing glass plate from the HBP 2. Applying PET tape on glass plate There are many online tutorials on how to apply PET or Kapton tapes on glass plates without bubbles. An often mentioned method is a “wet” method, where a thin layer of water or soap water is applied before applying the tape to the glass plate. In our process, we prefer a “dry” method for less clean-up afterwards. The main steps in our process are similar to what introduced by Josef Prusa in his video, How to prepare heatbed surface, although we do not use the sanding and applying “ABS juice” steps shown in

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.30: Manual control commands for checking X/Y/Z-axis motion Step 1 Checking moving directions Use the X/Y/Z arrow commands to test the moving direction of extruder and HBP. If either one moves in a wrong direction along X/Y/Z-axis, open the electronics case by taking off its top cover to check the connection of motor cables on the electronics board. The red wire of motor cable should face towards the front of printer (Figure 2.31). Caution: 1. Make sure there is enough distance for the extruder/HBP to move freely without bumping onto the fr

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.3: Select “Browse my computer...” 6. In the popped up window, select the folder where you unzipped the archive file. In our case, the location is ”C:\Desktop\RAMBo USBdriver”. Then, click ”Next”. (Fig- ure 2.4) http: // 3dmakerworld. com 10

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.43: 91% alcohol for cleaning print surface 2. Download a G-code file, for example “CuteOcto PLA.gcode”, from our website, and save it to your computer’s Desktop or a location of your choice. 3. On the Repetier-Host interface, click the “Load” button on the top menu bar (Figure 2.44). Locate the downloaded file “CuteOcto PLA.gcode” and open it. Figure 2.44: Loading file from the Repetier-Host interface 4. The Repetier-Host interface with the loaded file is shown in Figure 2.45. http: // 3dmakerworld. com 40

  • 2 GETTING STARTED http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software. The following steps are based on the current Arduino 1.0.5 released version for Windows. • Download the Zip file of Arduino software (arduino-1.0.5-windows.zip), and save it to your computer’s Desktop or a location of your choice. • Unzip the file using 7-Zip or other archive software (Figure 2.8). The unzipped files will appear in a f

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.35: Position of nozzle tip after HBP leveling Note: 1. Do not be confused with the 3-point thumb screws in the middle of Y-axis mount plate and the bed tightening screws in the four corners of HBP. (Figure 2.36) Figure 2.36: HBP thumb screws 2. When adjusting the 3-point thumb screws, you may feel it is very tight to turn the screws. This is normal. The Artifex 3D Printer uses quite strong wave springs for bed leveling to prevent the screw to get loose during printing. 2.2.3 Loading filaments Step 1 Feeding filament th

  • 2 GETTING STARTED Figure 2.25: Connecting with Artifex 3D Printer Figure 2.26: The Repetier-Host connected with Artifex 3D Printer 2.2 Setting up printer hardware Caution: Before powering up your Artifex 3D Printer, check the voltage selection of the Power Supply Unit (PSU) on the bottom left of your Artifex 3D Printer, and make sure it matches the voltage supply in your area. (Figure 2.27) http

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 5 SUPPORT 5 Support If you experience any difficulty when operating the Artifex 3D Printer, please contact us at: • Email: [email protected] • Phone: (913)897-8359 • Submit your questions: http://www.3dmakerworld.com/contacts For updates of software/documents and other technical support topics, please visit us at http://www.3dmakerworld.com/support. Please review the Build Instructions (Figure 5.1) if you are building the Artifex 3D Printer from a DIY kit. Figure 5.1: The Build Instructions o

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 4 PRINTING WITH ABS FILAMENTS 4.1.2 The slicing settings Download the slicing configuration file, Artifex ABS.ini, from our website. Then, follow the steps in Sections 3.2.2 to update slicing settings for printing with ABS filaments. The main difference from the settings for printing with PLA filaments are: Print settings A brim of 2mm width is added for the print to better stick to the print surface. (Note: The brim needs to be cut or teared off from the print after it is finished and removed from the print surface. After removing the brim,

  • 3DMakerWorld Artifex, 1 INTRODUCTION Heated bed – 24V 200W heated bed up to 120C Cool fans – Three 24V cooling fans for filament drive, print surface, and electronics Mechanical Overall dimension – W × D × H: 484 × 482 × 480mm (19 × 19 × 19in) Weight – 11Kg (24lb) Frame – Aluminum extrusions Motion – X and Y axis: linear rails and GT2 belts – Z axis: precision linear shafting and ACME leadscrews Printed parts – Black ABS 1.2 Safety WARNING: The 3DMakerWorld Artifex 3D Printer generates high temperature and contains fast moving mechanic

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