Contents 1. Introduction ..........................1 2. Specifications ..........................2 3. Product Overview ........................3 3.1 The 3D printer description ....................3 3.2 The accessory box ......................4 4. Active Your 3D Printer ......................4 5 Touch Screen Description ......................5 5.1 Main Menu ........................5 5.2 File ...........................
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Important Notice 1. Make sure there is no model under building plate or in the resin tank by a paper card before each printing and leveling. Otherwise, it will cause damage to the printer. 2. Do not remove the TF card during printing. 3.
1. Introduction This user manual is provided to the operator with necessary and detailed instructions for safe and correct operation, software, maintenance, troubleshooting of Orange10 LCD 3D printer. This manual document must be read carefully before installation and operation of the printer.
3. Product Overview 3.1 The 3D printer description Hood Z aix Building platform fixed screw Leveling fixed screw Building platform Vat fixed screw Touch screen TF card Thermal via Power port Switch www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com...
3.2 The accessory box TF Card1 Power Adapter1 Filtering Funnel2 Latex Gloves2 Photopolymer Scraper1 Card5 Release Film1 Resin 250mL1 Hexagon Wrench 1.5mm Hexagon Wrench Tape1 Card Reader1 Clean Wiper1 Hexagon Wrench 2.5mm 4. Active Your 3D Printer Put the printer on a flat platform. Make sure that the printer is stable.
5 Touch Screen Description 5.1 Main Menu Home: enter into tools interface which contains “File” and “Setting”. File: the list of printing files, and selection of file to print. Setting: move the Z axis; check LCD and LED; information of the printer.
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error! And it shows “This folder is empty” if there is no printing job file in the TF card root directory. Previous page. Next page. Start to print the selected file. Back to main menu. Confirm the start printing. Cancel the printing operation. Select the file to print from the list, the selected file’s name will change to orange color.
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Do not pull out the TF card during printing, it will cause printing failure. Elapsed time from start printing. Remaining time to printing completion. Printing process of current layer and total layers. Real-time temperature of LED PCB. Real-time status, such as printing, pausing, paused. Pause the printing job.
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Confirm the stop printing. Cancel the stop operation. If the printing file’s name contains unsupported characters file corrupted, it shows a tip as shown in the left picture, then touch anywhere on the screen to back to file list. The temperature of LED is between room temperature to 50℃, and it will show a tip as shown in the left picture if it is abnormal before printing , then it...
5.4 Setting 1) Move: move the Z axis. Move up the Z axis. Move down the Z axis. Move the Z axis by 1mm (change move distance by clicking the button). Move the Z axis by 10mm. www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com...
Move the Z axis by 50mm. Move the Z axis to the home position for leveling. Make sure there is model below the build plate or in the resin tank before leveling, or else it will cause damage to the printer.
Printer Model: the model number of the printer. Serial Number: the ID of the printer. Firmware Version: the version of printer’s firmware. 5.6 Leveling 1) Turn on the printer, move up the Z axis, take out the building plate, install it as the picture as shown below. 2) Loosen the four leveling fixed screws with hexagon wrench 4mm to make the building plate can move along Z axis freely.
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3) Loosen the “vat fixed screw”, take down the resin vat, and put a pieces of A4 paper on the LCD screen. Move down the building platform to home position, press and hold it, then fasten the leveling fixed screws diagonally. 4) Drag the A4 paper and feel the force of dragging the paper.
Pull Pull 5) Move up the building platform when the adjustment of home position is finished. Then, install the resin vat, tighten the vat fixed screw, pour into the resin. It needs to add resin manually if the volume of model is bigger than resin left in the vat during printing.
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Choose install location, click “Install” (the default location is C:\Program File (86)\longerware), the installation will begin. If there is an anti-virus software blocking program installed, please select the option of allowing all the operations of the software installed. To complete the installation by clicking “Finish”, the slice software will run and create a shortcut on the desktop.
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And run the software as an administrator if it cannot be opened by double click, or select “Run this program as an administrator” in compatibility of software properties. If the window of the software is black after running, please update the graphics card driver to latest version according to the following guidelines, and restart the computer.
2) Download and install the appropriate graphics driver on the official website of Intel, the website is : https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/80939/Graphics -Drivers. Download and install third-party graphics driver detection and installation software. 6.4 Printing Procedure 1) Open the stl model. 2) Edit the model, such as translate, rotate, scale and clone. 3) Fix the error.
6.5 main menu After software installation, click printer setting button to select Orange10 printer model from the list, then click OK. Menu Bar Tools Bar ● Open View Bar ● Open ● Delete ● Edit ● Fix ● Support Building Volume ●...
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Fix: check and fix the model error. Support: generate and edit the support. Slice: slice the model. Print: set the printing parameter, generate and save the printing job. Top view Bottom view Left view Right view View Isometric view Printer Setting: select the kind of printer.
6.6 Open translate rotate scale ② ③ ① Click Open icon to load stl model. It needs to open files separately to load different models. Select the model, three submenus appear under the open icon, such as translate, rotate, scale, and an edit dialog shows in the left bottom (The model presents blue when selected, otherwise presents grey).
frame of submenu appears red if it is selected. Translate: select the model and translate icon, one way to adjust the position is to click up and down arrow or input the desired number directly, the other way is holding down the left mouse and drag.
6.9 Support ② ③ ① Support: Select the model, click support icon, edit the parameters, click Generate icon. Generate: generate support for the selected model. Edit: edit the support parameters, the support positions are showed by purple point. Add support by left click at desired position of the model;...
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point. It can rotate the model by holding down the right mouse, and drag the model by holding down the mouse wheel. Delete: delete the support of selected model. Density: the density of generating support, the bigger value, more support will be generated. The suggested value is between about 1.0.
platform is lifted by generating support. The suggested value is between 0 to 3mm. Default: recover support parameters to original values. Make a copy of supported model: select the model with support, click Edit icon, then click clone icon. 6.10 Slice ②...
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is between 20 to 100μm. Advanced Setting: set the layer number of base plate to strong the adhesion between model and building platform, the height of base is about 0.3mm, so the layer number is set to when the layer thickness is 50μm;...
But it needs to add the exposure time, such as 8000 to 12000ms, for the model with fine size. Burn-in time: the exposure time for the bottom layers. The longer the exposure time, the greater the adhesion between www.longer3d.com info@longer3d.com...
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the model and building platform. The default time is 80000ms. Stable Time: the time between stop motion of Z axis and LCD projection. The default time is 1000ms Burn-in range: the height that is over cured for increasing the adhesion between the models and building platform. The default value is 0.3mm.
thickness which cannot be edit and deleted. Click save job button to generate a printing job file with a file suffix of lgs. The software generates and saves the printing job file to a folder with the same name and directory with the model. And there is a prompt of “saving slice file”...
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Put the building platform on a plastic paper to prevent resin from sprinkling on the desktop. Remove the model by metal scrapper with attention. Pour the ethanol with 95vol% concentration into a container, immerse the model into ethanol and shake it gently, then swash the model with clear ethanol for better cleaning.
7. FAQ the graphics driver is old update the graphics driver to the latest version The screen of slice the graphics card of computer change to a high performance graphics card, such as discrete graphics software is black is too old card building platform loosen tighten the building platform...
8. Attentions and Maintenance 1) Must wear latex gloves each operation. 2) The photopolymer resin must be kept out reach of children. 3) Before each printing, make sure that there is no solid residue on the platform or in the resin vat. 4) Do not use sharp object to scrape the release film of resin vat.
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