Afinia H479 3D - Manual (Page 16)

Afinia H-Series 3D Printer User’s Manual
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Loading the Print Material Filament
This process will be the same on both Mac and
Windows.
A. Launch the Afinia H-Series 3D Software (refer
to the software install procedure if you have
not
already installed it), and select
Maintenance from the 3D Print menu. Click
the Extrude button. After the printer nozzle
has warmed up to 260° C, the printer will beep;
you can also monitor the nozzle temperature in
the Maintenance window under the 3D Print
menu.
B. Be sure the filament is running
through the filament tube between
the spool holder and extruder!
C. Once the nozzle is heated, push the end
of the filament into the hole at the top of
the extruder head and hold it there with
gentle pressure until the extruder motor
starts pulling it through the extrusion
head. The extruder will extrude a thin
filament of material for a short period of
time.
Other Maintenance Options
The Extrude button is used to load material into the nozzle. Click this button, and the nozzle will
begin to heat. When the temperature is high enough (260° C), the material is squeezed out of the
nozzle. The system beeps before material starts extruding, and it beeps again when finished.
When changing the material (see page 29), use this function to load the new material to the nozzle.
It can also be used to test whether the nozzle is working correctly.
Use the Withdraw button to clear the filament from the nozzle when you change the filament or if
the nozzle needs to be cleaned. Once the nozzle is up to temperature (260°C) and the printer
beeps, gently pull out the material.
The New Spool button is used by the software to keep track of how much material has been used,
and warn you if you don’t have enough material left to print your model.
Click the button and enter the grams of material you have on the current spool. If it is a new spool,
the weight should be set to the filament weight of the spool in grams. You can also specify
whether the material you are printing with is ABS or PLA.
Mac version Windows version