User's Manual Part 1

CHAPTER 1. GET CONNECTED TO THE POLAR CLOUD 12

through it to the Polar Cloud; upon success, the LED lights on

the side of the printer will go through a progression of colors

ending as blue over white: POLAR3D .

If th e connection attempt does not succeed, check that you

properly entered the loca l WiFi password (see Figure 1.6), and

attempt connection again. If the connection attempt still does

not succeed, then at your site local networking may require some

additional conﬁguration work, such as conﬁguring static IP ad-

dress information rather than use of DHCP,andpossiblyas-

sistance from your local IT admin ist r at or t o permit your 3D

printer onto the local network and permit it access to outgoing

HTTP ports: see Section 1.3.

8. Once the printer is connected through your

local network to the Polar Cloud, its POLAR3D

LED lights will be blue over white.

You may now close the browser window that

had been used to connect to the printer’s local

web interface (the browser window connected to

192.168.0.1,openedinstep 6).

9. Creating a Polar Cloud account is a ﬁrst step

in establishing your Polar 3D environment, as the

Polar Cloud is the central hub and command center

of the environment.

For Polar Cloud, you will need a Google account,

aFacebookaccount,oraMicrosoftLiveaccount. If

you do not already have any such account, you will

need to make one. (For instance, a Google account