12. manual control

If required, it is possible to control the movement and heating of the printer manually.

1  

Open the menu Manual controlby pressing the manual control button (1).

 

2

 

Use the arrows (1) to move the print head in the working area.

 

Press the home button in the centre (1) to move all axes to their "home" position (zero).

 

Move the print bed up and down using the Z-axis arrows (2).

 

Extrude or retract the filament using the print head control arrows (3). (Note that these buttons are disabled when the print head temperature (5) is lower than the target temperature (6))

Start manual heating with the

temperatures (5 and 6). When manual heating is started (the printer maintains or reaches a certain temperature), the button
a red border. If no manual heating is activated, the border is green.

 

 

3

 

Set the target temperature by pressing the down arrow (1) and the up arrow (4).

 

To confirm the target temperature and start heating, press the confirmation button (7).

 

The status of the heating controller is shown on the display (6), which shows IDLE when not heating and HEATING when heating.

In addition, the lighting in the printer is white when the heating control is switched off and purple when the control is switched on.

To stop heating, either go back to the main menu or reduce the target temperature (3) below 30 °C. oC ("-" is displayed) and click on Confirm (7)

 

Press the Back button (5) to return to the Manual control to return.

Press the Back button (5) again to go to the main menu.