User`s manual

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Chapter 5
La nostra prima stampa 3D
If you have followed the instructions in this manual, you’ve already developed your Sharebot NG by
placing it on a table with door-coils, you connected the power supply, and you have turned on the
printer, then the second extruder, scarrellato done the calibration plot and plan you have also up-
loaded the plot strand. Now you can proceed to your rst print. If you have instead skipped some of
the steps just listed, please go back and reread it before continuing.
SD card
In the box you nd the plastic container with your SD memory card. On this tab you can write les
into G-Code (see Chapter 2) that you want to print. Preloaded at the factory were some sample le,
ready for printing, so you can make your rst print knowing that the le has already been controlled
with optimal parameters to get the best result.
Printing proles
Theoretically every G-Code requires a specic material, determined by the values set by the tem-
perature of the nozzle, heated oor temperature and fan speeds. To print the same object in dierent
materials should then create separate les.
To work around this limitation, Sharebot NG allows you to select, before printing, the outline of the
material that we use. In this way we can create generic G-Code to be printed with the chosen material
simply by choosing the corresponding prole. In other words: we can not insert the various tempera-
ture parameters in slicing because they’re set correctly when we choose the desired material prole.
Starting the print
Press the knob again to enter the menu, then choose “SD card menu”. Now we have the opportunity
to choose how the print launch prole: choosing “Normal” will print with the values set by us “up-
stream” slicing soware; choosing the PLA will print prole with standard parameters of PLA and
similar (extruder temperature: 220°, printing plate temperature 50°, 255 fans); choosing ABS prole
we will launch the print with standard parameters of this material (extruder temperature: 230°, 90°