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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
The extruder and print bed blocks allow it to
change the temperature. The temperature
can be set either by changing the value on
the right text field or by clicking on the up
and down arrows. If you change it in the text
field, you need to press return or leave the
field to set the value. By clicking the On/Off
button the extruder or the bed is deactivat-
ed or reactivated. In the first column you can
monitor the actual temperature nozzle and
bed temperature.
The extrude filament controls are designed
to let you manually extrude material out of
the nozzle. In the textbox you can adjust the
length of the filament you like to extrude
out of the nozzle. The out arrow will let the
material be extruded out of the nozzle on to
the bed, the in arrow will retract the materi-
al back in to the tube.\
The next block controls the positioning of
the extruder. With the arrow keys you move
the extruder relative in any direction. The
distance of one click on the arrows is speci-
fied in the text box before the arrows.
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Creating your own printable file: from STL to gcode
Note: You are also able to
change the temperature
while printing, but if a
temperature is set in the
machine control file this
will overwrite you manual
set temperature.
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