User's Manual Part 1

Chapter 1

Get connected to the Polar

Cloud

When you open up your printer shipping box, you will see con-

tents such as sh own in Figure 1.1:theprinterframe(withprint

head mounted), a spool of (blue) PLA ﬁlament, a power adapter

and cord, a can of Aqua Net hair spray, a build plate,andasam-

ple object test-printed on this printer at the factory (namely, a

yellow boat).

There are two ways to setup your Polar3D printer to connect

through a local network to the Polar Cloud:

1. Wireless (WiFi): see Secti o n 1.1.

2. Ethernet cable: see Section 1.2

Setting up your Polar3D printer as a network printer con-

nected to the Polar Cloud is strongly r ec om m en d e d , a s it per-

mits full access to the power of the Polar Cloud interface and

features. However, for times when you don’t have an Inter-

net connection (or even access to a local network), the Polar3D