SeeMeCNC Delta Manual de usuario
SeeMeCNC Delta 3D Printer Manual
First Edition
v1.00 – January 13th, 201
Cura v3.1.0
Copyright 201 By Gene Buckle – [email protected]
Licensed as Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
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0 – Introduction – Read Me First!
This document is your instruction manual for your new SeeMeCNC® 3D printer machine.
Before using your new 3D printer thoroughly read and understand this manual for safe and
effective operation of the machine.
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Warning
Adult supervision required. Children under 18 years of age require supervision.
Risk of Fire. Do not leave machine unattended.
Use genuine parts manufactured or designated y SeeMeCNC.
Keep a copy of this manual near the machine, easily accessi le to all operators.
Use of this machine is at your own risk.
Personal property damage, serious injury or death can result from not following
instructions or warning in the manual or misuse of the machine.
Automatic machine can start unexpectedly. Pay close attention and keep clear
while power is connected to the machine
The machine power supply is connected to AC voltage
and can e hazardous. Disconnect power efore
servicing this machine.
The hot end of the machine can reach very high
temperatures of 700F and can cause serious urns.
The heated print surfaces (heated ed) can also reach
temperatures high enough to cause severe urns. Allow
oth to cool for 20 minutes after turning off power.
Use caution near moving parts of the machine. Keep
ody and loose articles clear.
Poisonous gas, smoke, or fumes could e emitted y some materials you could
use with the machine. In such case, you should install ventilation.
Choking Hazard. This machine contains small parts and
can produce small parts which can e a choking hazard
to children.
Visit http://www.seemecnc.com to contact us if you have any questions.
IMPORTANT
This manual was written with the assumption that you’ve already gone through the Cura
Quick Setup Guide. That guide will show you how to add your printer to Cura and how to import
the pre-built slicing profiles that SeeMeCNC has developed. If you haven’t yet had the
opportunity to go through that guide please do so now.
Tasks involving controlling your printer will be discussed from the point of view of the
Duet 3D printer controller interface. If your printer has a different controller the steps shown in
this guide won’t apply.
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Table of Contents
0 – Introduction – Read Me First!.................................................................................................2
1 – The Cura Interface.................................................................................................................5
2 – Printing with Cura.................................................................................................................13
3 – Introduction to the Custom Options......................................................................................18
4 – The Cura Material and Profile Managers..............................................................................24
5 – Print Setup – Advanced Options..........................................................................................28
6 – A Strategy for Successful (and Great!) Prints.......................................................................34
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1 – The Cura Interface
The Cura interface is very straightforward and easy to understand. Let’s take a few
minutes to get familiar with it!
1. Open File. This is the button you’ll click when you want to load an object into Cura.
2. Adjustment Controls. These buttons control the size orientation and position of the model
on the build plate. We’ll cover them in detail later.
3. These are the view orientation controls. They allow you to change the viewing position of the
model on the build plate with the click of a button. To the right of the orientation controls is a
drop-down that will allow you to select the type of view that the model will be presented in. The
choices are “Solid view” “X-Ray view” and “Layer view”. Like the adjustment controls we’ll
cover these views in detail later.
4. This gray area is the non-printable area of the bed.
5. The printable area of the bed.
6. Information on the currently loaded model. It includes the filename of the model as well as
the amount of space it occupies on the printed bed.
7. Print job information. It includes estimates on the amount of time the job will take to print and
how much the printed part will weigh. If there’s enough information in the material description it
may also include the cost of the material needed to print the part.
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. Save to File – this allows you to save the generated gcode to your local computer or an SD
card if you’ve got one inserted.
9. Printer and material settings panel.
Now that you’ve got an idea of what’s going on with the Cura interface let’s download a
model so we can explore Cura more fully.
Open a browser and go to https://repables.com/r/118/. This is a tiny medallion with the
SeeMeCNC “blinky” eyes logo on it.
Once you’ve got the file downloaded and un-zipped click on the Open icon
to load the model into Cura. You’ll notice that it doesn’t appear that Cura loaded
anything at all but it really did! Click on the “top down view” icon highlighted below.
You’ll notice that there’s a tiny yellow dot in the center of the build plate.
That’s actually the medallion! Because of how Cura interprets the size of the
model this makes for an excellent demonstration model. We’re going to need to resize the
model in order to make it large enough to make a good first print example.
Adjustment Tools
In order to make the model easy to click on we’ll have to zoom in a bit on the build plate.
You can zoom in either by using the scroll wheel on your mouse or you can hold down the
space bar while you move your mouse vertically. Once you can easily see the medallion model
click on it. If the Scale tool doesn’t open automatically click on it.
As you can see Cura thinks the medallion model as being a minuscule 2.8mm wide and
only 0.5mm tall! Since we’re not printing ant medallions we’ve got to scale this thing up!
Click in the box next to the red “X” and type in “25.4”. This will scale the whole model up
so that it’s around 1 inch in diameter and can be more easily printed. If you want to make it
bigger than that go for it! Make sure you’ve got Uniform Scaling checked. This ensures that
the other parameters are scaled to the same percentage as the axis you’re changing – thus
“uniform” scaling.
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Scaling tool selected.
Here’s what the scaled up medallion looks like in Cura:
There’s three other adjustment tools in Cura that will allow you to move a model around
the build plate rotate the model or mirror the model.
Moving the model is easy just click on the model to select it and then click & drag to
move it where you like. You can also click on the red green or blue axis arrows to move the
model only in one axis.
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Medallion scaled up!
Move Model
The rotation tool will allow you to change the orientation of the model on the build plate.
This comes in very handy if the model you load isn’t oriented in a “printable” position.
When you select the rotation tool and then your model you’ll see three “axis rings”
appear around your part. These rings can be “grabbed” (click & hold) by your mouse cursor in
order to rotate the model how you need it. As you rotate the model you’ll notice a little tool-tip
that appears and will show the angle in degrees that your rotation is currently at.
If you’ve got Snap Rotation checked the
rotation will “snap” every 5 degrees. If you
uncheck it movement is at 1 degree increments.
The rotation tool includes two special
buttons. Reset and Lay Flat. The Reset button
will return your model’s orientation to whatever it
was
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Rotation tool
Axis of rotation rings.
Showing 15 degrees of rotation in the X
axis.
Reset & La Flat.
The last adjustment tool we’ll take a look at is Mirror. When you select your model and
click the Mirror tool mirror axis control points will appear around the selected model similar to
those shown on the right.
These control points allow you mirror your model
along the X (red) Y (green) or Z (blue) axes.
View Orientation & Type Controls
In the upper right area of the model view window you’ll see five block shaped icons like
those below.
These icons are basically “view presets” and will adjust the view of the
model based on which is clicked. From left to right they are: Isometric
Front Top Left and Right. Click on each one to see how they affect
the display of your currently loaded model.
In addition to the view presets you can use your mouse to move your viewpoint. Hold
down your right mouse button and move the mouse around. You’ll notice that the “horizontal”
motion of the mouse controls the rotation of the view and the “vertical” motion of the mouse
controls the tilt of the view. Your mouse wheel controls the zoom. If you hold down your shift
key then right click & move you’ll see that you can move the build volume around without tilting
or rotating it. This will allow you to visually center your model in the screen when you zoom in.
The View Type control allows you to specify how you want to see your model drawn in
the work space. Your choices are Solid view X-Ray view and Layer view. The default is
Solid view. Solid view will show a shaded representation of
the currently loaded or selected model. If your model is
positioned outside the printable area for your printer the
model will be drawn with stripes going through it as shown in
the lower right.
The X-Ray view can be used to check to see if there’s
any errors in the internal geometry of the model. Any errors
that Cura detects will be shown in red.
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Mirror control points.
Invalid model location.
The Layer view gives you the ability to examine each layer of your model as it would be
printed. This allows you the opportunity to see how changes you make to the print settings
panel will effect how the model prints. Below is an example of the layer view showing layers 1
through 32.
The example above is typical of the standard Cura Layer view. It includes a color key
that shows you each element that makes up a layer. The slider on the right is set up to show
you layers 1 through 32. If you only wanted to view a single layer you could click and drag the
black marker up so that it’s right below the blue layer marker. Note that clicking on a marker will
make it “active’ and change its color to blue.
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La er displa
Showing a single la er.
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