Afinia H480 3D Users Manual - Manual (Page 33)

Afinia H480 3D Printer User’s Manual
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Maintenance
Changing the Material
First withdraw the leftover material from the printer. Initialize the printer and choose Maintenance
from the 3D Print menu. Click the Withdraw button and the nozzle will start to heat. When the
nozzle reaches the correct temperature, the printer will beep and you can gently withdraw the
material.
Once the old filament has been removed, place a new spool of material on the spool holder and
pull the filament through the slot in the top of the holder. Feed the filament through the filament
tube until the material is about 10cm out of the tube. Insert the end of the filament into the hole at
the top of the extruder head.
Before extruding the new filament, use the New
Spool function to set the nozzle and platform
temperatures to the selected filament type and to
help the printer keep track of the amount of
filament that is available using the Material and
Weight settings, respectively.
Click the Extrude button. After the printer nozzle has warmed up to the correct temperature, the
printer will beep. Gently push the filament into the hole at the top of the extruder head with a little
downward pressure until the extruder mechanism starts to feed the filament through on its own.
TIP: If you are loading a different color filament than the last spool, run the Extrude function a few
times immediately after the new spool is in place. This will help extrude out any remaining
filament material of the previous color.
CAUTION: If the nozzle is blocked, remove the nozzle and clean it.
GLOVES: The extruder and platform are hot. Use gloves when working in
this area of printer.
Vertical Calibration
The Vertical calibration procedure allows you to ensure that the printer
platform is perfectly horizontal and that the printer prints consistently in
the X, Y, and Z directions.
First, print the supplied Calibration model on your printer at the scale of
the part when initially opened. The calibration file is in C:\Program
Files\Afinia\Example on PCs and in the Afinia directory off the root of
the main drive on Macs.
After the calibration model is printed, remove the platform without removing the parts.