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- Page 1 Platte tekst Version Full manual available in EN / NL / DE / FR from creatrhs.lpfrg.com...
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- Page 3 You are now officially part of The Ecosystem: the place where all Leapfrog 3D printer users gather to help each other and to interact with the Leapfrog 3D Printers support team. Here are a few valu- able tips on what you are able to find there.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
Table of content Making your very first 3D print – Quick Print Guide Unpacking your Creatr HS and finding the right place for it Getting to know your printer Plugging in your Creatr HS Preheating the printer Loading filament Checking and adjusting the bed... -
Page 6: Making Your Very First 3D Print - Quick Print Guide
(although in some cases decalibration might occur during transport). These steps you only have to follow when your brand new Creatr HS arrives at your doorstep for the first time. Before you start, make sure that you have cleared a spot where you want to place the printer. We advise you to find a place at room temperature, where there is no draft (for example next to a win- dow) and where the printer cannot get wet. - Page 7 STEP 2: Pull off the tape from the plastic bag wrap on the top of the printer and push the plastic down and away from the printer. NOTE: Do not grab the Creatr HS by the top cover as this can damage it.
- Page 8 USB-A cable with the built in FTDI chip that is included in the box. Any other USB might interfere with the communication. STEP 5: Plug the power cord in the outlet and turn on your Creatr HS. 1.4. Preheating the printer Before you start loading your filament, it is necessary to preheat your printer.
- Page 9 STEP 13: To go back to the main menu turn the button counter-clockwise. 1.6. Checking and adjusting the bed Each Creatr HS is carefully calibrated before it leaves Leapfrog 3D Printers’ headquarters. How- ever, during transport, calibration might get shifted. Calibration means that your extruder is at the correct distance from the bed to print smoothly, and that your bed is exactly levelled.
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Page 10: Printing
In the next paragraph you are going to start printing. During this print you can manually adjust the bed while printing. Check if the bed is levelled during the first 2 or 3 layers of the print and verify if the filament is adhering well to the bed. -
Page 11: Preparing For Your Next Print
2.1 Removing your print and replacing your print sticker The print bed of the Creatr HS is made out of glass to ensure that it is as flat as possible. However, it is sometimes difficult to keep your print stuck to it. To make sure that your print sticks to the bed, you need to apply a print sticker. - Page 12 STEP 4: Apply the new sticker 2.2 Changing filament If you are ready to use a different role of filament for your next print, follow these steps to remove your current role of filament. STEP 1: Preheat your printer by selecting the preheat icon in your screen and pushing the button.
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Page 13: Creating Your Own Printable File: From Stl To Gcode
STL to print. 3.2 Installing Materialise Creatr The preferred software for your Leapfrog 3D printer is Materialise Creatr. This software package prepares your 3D part into machine instructions for your 3D printer. Materialise Creatr is not sold separately but bundled together with your 3D-Printer. - Page 14 4. Approve the end-user license agreement. 5. Enter the voucher code that you have received with the Leapfrog 3D printer and press validate. 6. The software will be registered and you will get notified of the validity period of the voucher.
- Page 15 (internet is required) If you don’t have access to the inter- net you can load a default profile by clicking here: STEP 4: The latest Leapfrog profiles are loaded in the software Creating your own printable file: from STL to gcode...
- Page 16 3.5 Materialise Creatr Workflow STEP 1: New Project In the top left corner you can find the ‘new project’ button. This function will remove all parts and scenes from the current project and generates a new, empty project. The user is asked to save the current project (parts and scenes) before closing.
- Page 17 The Transform tools by pressing on the transform button in the flow toolbar. The trans- form tools will appear in the function toolbars on the right-hand side of the screen. Autoplacement This command will automatically place parts on the build platform. The part interval will define the space between the parts when placing the parts automatically.
- Page 18 Lay flat The Bottom/Top function allows easy ori- entation of the selected part by indicating a plane as the bottom/top plane. This plane will automatically be oriented parallel to the platform (i.e. the XY-plane). Click the Indicate Plane button to select you reference plane (the selected plane is indicated in green).
- Page 19 3.6.1 Export to file The export to file functions creates a machine instruction file (.gcode) for your 3D printer. To generate a file that is appropriate for your print job you will have to choose the right profiles and a print mode. The original manufacturer profiles (OEM) are set as default, but customized profiles can be selected for:...
- Page 20 3.6.2 Send to printer The send to printer functions makes it possible to directly send your print job to the 3D printer via USB. In this functions we have 3 big sections: • Connecting to a 3D printer • Print settings: preparing a print job •...
- Page 21 • Part – Part: the printer will use both noz- zles to print parts. You can assign a nozzle to a part by changing the color in the part list. • Part – Support: the nozzle that is in part- mode will print the actual part, the other nozzle will be in support mode and will print the support material.
- Page 22 Printer control tab menu In the manual control tab menu you are able to control the hardware of your 3D printer directly. At the top you see the printer temperature status Note: You are also able to The extruder and print bed blocks allow it to change the temperature change the temperature.
- Page 23 3.7 Profile Editor The profile editor allows the user to setup and manage the print and printer parameters. These parameters are grouped into logical sections called profiles. Each profile has a parameter list attached to it that allow to make settings to the way the build processor behaves.
- Page 24 • Material density: here the user can set the density of the filament in order to calculate the consumed material during a print In the section below we will discuss the materials that Leapfrog 3D Printers offer and give you a general idea on how to use them.
- Page 25 Hybrid ‘Hybrid’ is high in strength and toughness, extremely suitable for printing moving parts since it has an improved temperature resistance. This also means Hybrid has to be printed on a higher temperature to reach the right viscosity. It is a high strength engineering plastic which is also food safe (FDA approved).
- Page 26 It will be difficult to remove if your print is small. Soluble support is only possible if you have two extruders (with your Creatr HS you are the lucky owner of a dual extrusion 3D printer). The advantage of soluble support is that you can dissolve your support structure after printing, and it hardly leaves any marks on the surface of your print.
- Page 27 Support options • Enabled: here the user can activate the support generation function • Add border: here the user can activate the generation of a border around the support structure. • Z-offset: here the user can set an additional offset on the layer height used to print the support structure.
- Page 28 3.8 Calibrate printer This wizard consists out of two tabs: • calibrate platform • calibrate heads. Calibrate platform For a successful print it is important that the table is properly calibrated. The dis- tance between the nozzle and table should be the same at every x,y position.
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Page 29: Frequently Asked Questions
4. Frequently Asked Questions Although our instructions in this manual are of course highly brilliant ;-) we can imagine that you run into some questions while you are printing. This section of the manual is devoted to that. Note that you can find much more help and support in The Ecosystem, which you can access through creatrhs.lpfrg.com/. -
Page 30: What Should I Do When I Cannot Get My Filament To Go Through The Filament
4.5 Where do I go with my other questions? As a Leapfrog 3D printer owner, you are now officially part of The Ecosystem: the place where all Leapfrog 3D printer users gather to help each other and to interact with the Leapfrog 3D Printers support team. -
Page 31: Glossary Of 3D Printing Vocabulary
Extruding is the term for the process during which filament feeds through the nozzle. It is the op- posite of retracting. Extruder handle The extruder handles are the two parts at the back of your Creatr HS that you pull out to feed the filament through. FDM or FFF Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) or Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is the 3D printing tech- nique that is used in your Creatr HS. - Page 32 The nozzle is the part of the extruder where the filaments exits from: The default nozzle orifice diameter of the Creatr HS is 0.35mm, but this part can be replaced with different sizes to create a larger or smaller flow of filament.
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Page 33: Getting To Know Your Printer
5.2 Getting to know your printer The Creatr HS positioned at the back of the printer Glossary of 3D printing vocabulary... - Page 34 1. Printing head and extruders 2. Filament guiding tubes 3. Filament drive unit 5. Print bed 6. Print bed levelling knobs 4. Axes 7. Display 8. Quick release knob 9. USB port for USB stick (front) 10. USB port for computer (back) 11.
- Page 35 Leapfrog 3D Printers H. Kamerlingh Onnesweg 10 PO Box 252 2408 AW Alphen aan den Rijn The Netherlands T +31 (0)172 503 625 W www.lpfrg.com E info@lpfrg.com Making your very first 3D print – Quick Print Guide © Leapfrog 3D Printers...