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Safety Instructions Please carefully read the safety instructions before get started. ANYcUBIC 3D printer generates high temperature. Do not reach inside of the printer during operation. Allow time for the printer to cool down after printing. Contact with extruded materials may cause burns. Wait for printed objects to cool before removing them from the build platform. ANYcUBIC 3D printer includes moving parts that can cause injury. Vapors or fumes may be irritating at operating temperature.
Contents 1. Product overview......................................................................................................... 1 2. Part list ............................................................................................................................ 4 3. Assembly instruction .................................................................................................. 5 4. Leveling ...................................................................................................
Technical Specification Printing Technology: FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) Build Size: 210×210×205 (mm3) Layer Resolution: 0.05-0.3 mm Positioning Accuracy: X/Y 0.0125mm，Z Extruder Quantity: Single Nozzle/Filament Diameter: 0.4 mm/1.75mm Print Speed: 20~100mm/s (suggested 60mm/s) Travel Speed: 100mm/s Supported Materials: PLA, ABS, HIPS, Wood 0.
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Menu Directory Home Menu Print Setup Tools Home menu Print: enter the print list Setup: enter the setup menu Tools: enter the tools menu (Other information: ①nozzle temperature ②heated bed temperature ③printer status) Print Print: print the selected files in SD card Resume: Resume from outage (only valid for offline print via SD card) (Other information: ①Page up and down ②Refresh the list ③Return to the home menu) Setup En/中: Change language (English/Chinese) 2
Temp: Enter the menu to adjust ① E0 (hotend) Temp (170-260°C) ②Bed Temp (0-120°C) Motor: Disable all motors (only valid when machine is not printing) Status: Enter the sub-menu with Print/Pause/Resume icon (only valid for offline print) (Other information: ①Files ②Print Rate ③Time ④Progress ⑤E0 Temp ⑥Bed Temp ⑦ coordinates for X/Y/Z axis ⑧Return to previous menu) Speed: Enter the menu to adjust ①Fan speed (0-100) ②Print Rate (50-999) Return: Return to Home Menu Tools Home: ①Home X ②Home Y ③Home Z ④H
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3. Assembly instruction Step 1. Unpack and take out the printer and accessories. Wear gloves because the smooth rods and lead screw may be greased in factory. Step 2. Follow ① ② ③ in Fig. 1. Carefully lift the base to fit into the frame and fix them by 8 pieces of M5*8mm hex cap screws. The screw locations are indicated by red squares in ③. The screws can be installed in diagonal order and can be tightened after all screws installed in place.
Step 3. Wiring (1) Fig.2, select the correct voltage mode according to your local voltage ratings (110V/220V). The switch is inside the bottom left of the base and 220V is default. Allan keys can be used to move the switch inside. (Figure 2) (2) There are 3 ports with different color (Red/Green/Black) at the bottom right side of the base, and there are 3 different color cable connectors respectively. Accordingly, insert those connectors to the ports by the same color, as shown in Fig. 3.
(3) Fig. 4, customers may notice there is a ring of zip tie attached just below the plastic ring of the quick connector. Do not cut it off. Only cut this zip tie when swapping or repairing the hotend. (Figure 4) Plastic ring Zip tie Do not cut Step 4. Spool holder and filament sensor (1) Assemble the spool holder as shown in Fig. 5, and tighten 4 pairs of screw and nuts at the lower 4 corner.
(2) As shown in Fig.6, manually install the filament spool to the spool holder. Pass the filament through the filament sensor. Insert the filament into the extruder and Teflon tubing, but do not fully reach it into the hotend (until preheat the hotend later). Turn this holder out and hook the filament sensor on by magnets on the holder by magnets Press ① ② Filament sensor Extruder Insert filament in Figure 6 > Only insert filament into the hotend after “Preheat” it later.
4. Leveling It is essential to level the platform for 3D printer. Please follow procedures below: Step 1. Check and ensure all wirings are OK. Connect the machine to the power outlet by power cord. Switch on the machine. Step 2. As shown in Fig. 7, on Home Menu, click “Tools”-->“Home”-->“Home All”. (Figure 7) Step 3. As shown in Fig. 8, return to the “Home Menu”, click “Setup”-->“Motor” to disable the motors so the motors/axis could be moved freely.
Step 4. Put a piece of paper onto the print platform, and then manually move the print head and platform back and forth to let the print head travel to the 4 corners and center one by one （①→②→③→④→⑤）, as shown in Fig.9. (Avoid nozzle rub against the platform directly without the paper in-between) Nozzle A4 paper ③ ④ ① ② Nut ⑤ (Figure 9) Step 5. When nozzle has been moved to corner ①, manually adjust (tighten or loose) the corresponding nut underneath the print platform.
Step 6. Ideally, after the 4 corners are leveled, the center should be spontaneously leveled, and you may proceed to do a test print on the platform. (see details in Step 7) However, please be mindful that in some cases, the platform may not be perfectly flat (concave or convex) due to many factors in manufacture and usage. ANYCUBIC promise that the flatness of the print platform is in the range of 0~0.2mm variation, means every piece of the platforms has been tested by a 0.
Customers may use tweezers to carefully remove the extruded filament at the nozzle tip before printing. Step 8. There might be 3 kinds of results for the first layer of the test prints (Fig. 11). A Nozzle too close Lack of extrusion x B Proper nozzle height Good extrusion and adhesion √ C Nozzle too high Poor adhesion x (Figure 11) In case of “nozzle too close” or “nozzle too high”(Fig.
“Stop” on the screen, raise the nozzle (click “Tools”-->“Axis”-->“10”on +Z column), and manually fine tune the corresponding nuts under the platform. Particularly, when “nozzle too high” slowly loosen the corresponding nuts underneath the platform by half circle, while “nozzle too close”， slowly tighten the corresponding nuts underneath by half circle. After that, clean the platform with scraper, and run test file again to verify. It may need adjustment for few times until satisfying results such as Fig.
‘tell’ the machine Z axis is getting to zero and stop moving. (Figure 13) Z adjustable nut (3) Therefore, tighten Z adjustable nut by X mm if nozzle is lower than the platform (X is defined by how much the nozzle is under the platform), while loosen it by Y mm if nozzle is too high from the platform (Y is defined by how much the nozzle is above the platform). It may need adjustment for few times. Tighten or loosen it (Figure 14) (4) Click “Tools”-->“Home”-->“Home all” to verify the results.
5. Software installation There are two operation mode for ANYCUBIC Mega 3D printer, print offline (via SD card) and print online (controlled by PC via USB). Print offline: After leveling the platform, insert SD card, click “Print” at the Home menu and select a file (gcode file) to print. Print online: Install CP2102 driver to bridging PC and machine, and install Cura to control the machine via USB. Generally, it is suggested to use Print offline to minimize the noisy signal via USB.
then follow the steps in Fig. 15 below. ② ① Not installed Right click and choose update ③ ④ Find the directory of CP2102 Click \Desktop\Mega\ Files_Engish_Mega\Driver_CP2102\win ⑤ ⑥ COM3 appears in Ports (Figure 15) After successfully installation, a COMx would appear in the Ports of Device Manager, x is random (as here is COM3), customers will have their own COMx depends on their PC. This COMx port will be used for communication between the printer and PC later.
If the PC has been installed CP2102 driver before, then there should be a COMx in Ports of Device manager already. Sometimes, even the driver is not installed properly, it may still show an abnormal COMx in Ports, please just uninstall the COMx and try to install the driver again. 5.2 Cura Installation ANYCUBIC Mega 3D printer reads Gcode file and prints. It is necessary to convert 3D files (such as stl file) into Gcode files for machine to recognize.
Next, before start Cura for the first time, there will be more settings about the language and machine types, as show in Fig. 17. ② ① ④ ③ (Figure 17) Upon finish, open Cura for the first time, there might be a default robot model appears, customers may click “File”--->“Clear platform” to delete it.
5.2.1 Load 3D model into Cura (1) Clear the platform by clicking “File”--->“Clear platform” (2) Load 3D files onto the platform by“File”--->“Load model file…”. Files with extension such as “STL”, “OBJ”, “DAE” and “AMF” can be loaded. Model in grey means it is outside of the printable area and needs to be moved or scaled to fit in. 5.2.
(5) Scale: to uniformly scale the model along X/Y/Z dimensions. To disable uniform scaling, click the lock in the lower section of the scaling window. (Fig. 19) (Figure 19) (6) View mode (Fig. 20): to view the model in different ways and helps to spotting issues before print starts. Such as “Layers” mode: to view the toolpath of the print head to check if there are skipped layers or gaps.
5.2.3 Cura settings (1) Machine settings Refer to Fig. 21, click “Machine”--->“Machine settings” to input those suggested parameters into the corresponding column. Please choose the Serial Port (COM) as shown in your PC→Device Manager→Port (refer to Fig. 15 ⑥, customers may have a different COMx other than the example COM3), and set the Baudrate to 250000. Those two parameters are essential for Cura to connect to the printer.
(Figure 22) (3) Plugins *It is recommended for new user to leave the plugins as default (i.e. no plugins enabled). Plugins are custom settings which will active at specific point during printing. There are two pre-loaded plugins with Cura: Pause at height and Tweak At Z. More plugins can be found via: http://wiki.ultimaker.com/Category:CuraPlugin As shown in Fig. 23, to enable one of the plugins, such as Pause at height, first click it and then click the drop-down arrow to enter the setting interface.
“Tweak at Z” would allow custom changes at specified Z height. Customers may decide the Z height or layer counts at which to make a change. Then there are more settings for how you would like to change, such as temperature, fan speed and print speed. Fine tune those for specific model would produce better results. If wish to delete the plugins, stay mouse at the edge, hold the left button and drag mouse to show the Delete icon.
(Figure 24) 5.2.4 Print online by Cura After parameter settings, customer can print online by Cura with USB connection. Click “File”--->“Print…” enter the printing popup window (Fig. 25). (If a simplified version of printing window appears, please click “File” --->“Preferences…” to choose the ‘Pronterface UI’ in the “Printing window type” drop-down menu) Click “Print” icon when it is available after auto connect with the printer.
Use tweezers to carefully get rid of the pre-extruded filament. Note: If it fails to connect the printer in the popup “Printing window” (in a case that the “Print” icon is gray and unavailable), check with the COMx or Baudrate in “Machine settings”, and re-open the printing window to proceed. Approx printing time (Figure 25) 5.2.5 Save GCode in Cura In Cura, click “File”--->“Save GCode…” to save the file to a desired directory.
6. Printing Here shows the steps of printing offline (via SD card), print online please refer to 5.2.4. 1. Click “Tools”-->“Preheat”-->“Preheat PLA (for example)”, Fig. 26. (Figure 26) 2. After the pre-heat is finished, please click on Home screen “Tools”-->“Filament”--> “Filament in”(Fig. 27). The extruder motor will start to feed the filament into the hotend.
4. Upon finishing, the print head and heated bed will be automatically cooling down. Only remove the printed object from the heated bed when it is cooled completely. Pull the print platform to the front side, and use scraper to carefully remove the object as shown in Fig. 29. Never direct scarper to your hands. Please be mindful that the nozzle and heated bed are still hot after operation. (Figure 29) 5.
7. Manual filament change 1. Feed the filament: click via the Home menu: “Tools”-->“Preheat”-->“Preheat PLA (for example)”. After it reaches to the target temperature, press down the handle at the extruder as shown in Fig. 30, and manually push the filament through the Teflon tubing till the hotend and there should be filament melt through the nozzle. Make sure the filament passes through the filament sensor first before reaching into the extruder.
8. Resume from outage ANYCUBIC Mega 3D printer allows resume print job after accidently power loss. *This function only valid when print offline (via SD card only). 1. As shown in Fig. 31, in slicing software (i.e. Cura), it is required to place the model at the rear of platform. Because during “Resume from outage”, machine will home first and could touch/interfere with the unfinished object if the model was placed in the front area (Fig. 32).
2. For the first time of using this function, customers are required to add “G5” to the start.gcode, as shown in Fig. 33. Then, save the model as Gcode file to the SD card by “File”--->“Save GCode…”. Highlight (Figure 33) Type G5 3. Insert the SD card (back side facing up) into the SD card slot at base. Print the just saved file (i.e.“owl_pair”). The machine will automatically heating on and print. During this printing, if there is an accident power loss, the print will stop immediately.
Note: In order to get smooth surface, use tweezers to carefully remove the excessive filament at nozzle before continuing print upon the last point. Do not move Z axis after power off otherwise resume will be invalid. ANYCUBIC Mega 3D printer supports resume from outage only when print offline This function is developed based on Cura. We could not guarantee this function compatible with other slicing software.
9. Trouble shooting 1. Motor shaking or abnormal sound ① The corresponding end stop could not be triggered when Home, check the wirings, and inspect any obstacles by manually moving the corresponding axis ② The motor cable are not connected properly, check each connection and then inspect the cable routing for any faults 2. File not printing or SD card failure ① Remove the SD card and insert into PC. Open the Gcode files using text editor (eg. Notepad), and inspect if Gcode is readable or not.
③ Check if the bed is proper leveled ④ add a brim or raft to the model in slicing software ⑤ Check the bed temperature matches the filament 6. Warping/curling of the printed object ① Check the bed temperature matches the filament ② Check the infill % of the Gcode. The higher the infill, the more likely to warp ③ add a brim or raft to the model in slicing software. 7. Layer shifting ① Print head moving too fast, slow down the print speed.
